It’s not casual, it’s intentional vice-signaling. Also an attempt to make sure trans people feel unwelcome on HN and thereby appeal to the VC owners of this place.
Are we really damned lucky to have people suffering from an often crippling mental illness?
I'm all for the rights of trans people, but saying we're lucky to have trans people is not very different from saying we're lucky to have depressed or bipolar people. Perhaps we're also lucky to have quadriplegic people?
(And yeah, obviously not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria)
I'm calling out your celebration of suffering. I'm not hurting marginalised people.
>Did you actually just compare being transgendered to suffering from a spinal cord injury??
Both gender dysphoria and spinal cord injuries tend to be severely debilitating.
We're not lucky to have transgender people. Luck would be nobody suffering from gender dysphoria. The people who end up needing to correct their gender are absolutely not lucky. Why do you think their misfortune makes us lucky?
I'm all for trans rights, consequently I'm also disgusted by you making light of the suffering implied by gender dysphoria.
