It is known: 'Trans people simply exist'

Quote:

"Trans people simply exist. You can prove they exist by pointing to them.

The demand for a philosophical proof trans people exist isn't about what a man or a woman is, it's a demand for trans people to be repressed and silenced until we're invisible.

It's a demand we stop existing.

What's the Galileo quote?

"Nevertheless, it moves."

You can logically prove trans people do not exist, cannot exist, and woul be an affront to God if we did exist.

And yet, we do exist.

Any phlosophical theory that doesn't start from the observation that we do, in fact, exist has a flawed start.

We did exist. Your theory proving we logically should not exist is refuted by our continued existence.

So, the only question left is what to do about it.

Trans people want to be treated like fully equal human beings, and anti-trans extremists want us to be hounded and persecuted into silence.

That's it. That's the whole debate. Everything else is obfuscation."

— Evan Urquhart, Twitter, July 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/assignedmedia/status/1680724068914348032

Also:

"Parents don't 'transition their children.' Trans kids exist. In every type of family."

— Aidan Comerford, Twitter, July 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/AidanCTweets/status/1680458808437481472

"It is completely okay for everyone to know at any age that trans people exist, that people around you will be trans, that trans people are real and will always exist, and yes, it is possible that you yourself could be trans."

— Zinnia Jones, Twitter, July 16, 2023

https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/1680612511035293696

James Greig:

"It might sound like a trite, affirmative slogan to say that trans people exist, but it’s a fact which has important implications. Whatever happens at the level of government policy or what gets taught in schools, there will be people who transition, people who live at odds with the sex they were assigned at birth – just as there always have been. “Gender identity” becomes real the second it’s acted upon. As long as medical transition is even remotely possible, it’s a choice that some people will make, because they want to, no matter how difficult or inaccessible it becomes. Trans people are a (more or less) cohesive demographic, with civil society organisations, public representatives and political demands. These are not “contested facts” as the Tory government’s recent guidance – endorsed now by Starmer – claims, but undeniable and concrete realities.

The question is: what do we tell young children about this aspect of the society which they will one day enter? Do we teach them that the trans community, like any other group of people, deserves to be treated with dignity and respect? Do we tell them that it’s OK for them to grow up to be trans, that it’s OK if they already are? Or do we lie to them and tell them that transitioning is not an option (which it is)? It is of course “ideological” to tell young people that they have autonomy over their bodies, that they can choose to lead the life that they want. But the alternative is just as ideological, as well as being more limiting, dogmatic and cruel. What’s really at stake is how hellish we want to make life for people who will grow up to be trans regardless of what the government says or what they learned in Sex Ed. Plenty of people who went to school during the Section 28 era – when the “promotion of homosexuality” was against the law, and there was a strikingly similar moral panic about gay rights – still ended up being gay. Sorry, Mx Thatcher!"

— Keir Starmer celebrates Pride by promising to ban ‘gender ideology’: By embracing transphobic talking points, Starmer is shifting labour to the right on LGBTQ+ rights, James Greig, Dazed, June 24, 2024

In November 2024, Iker Seisdedos asked: "Does Trump’s victory mark some kind of end to identity politics?" His interviewee, Judith Butler, responded:

"Identity is, for me, a point of departure for alliances, which need to include all kinds of people... Identity is a great start for making connections and becoming part of larger communities. But you can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties."
— Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’, Iker Seisdedos, El Pais, December 14, 2024