Post #4676115 · Elektrine

2026-09-12 14:32 UTC

Read the comment cited against Rossman and judge for yourself: Rossman's supposedly 'transphobic' comment > I have my own idea of what a man or a woman is that I am going to guess is different from the politician in question. That being said, bringing this shit up all the time is absolutely counterproductive and useless. Especially when it has nothing to do with the topic at hand. > > Imagine if I was talking to a politician who weighed 400 pounds and agreed with me on an issue that mattered. And let’s say that person did not like being referred to as fat because they do not think they are overweight. Would it be incumbent upon me to point out that they are fat? What benefit does that do for me? If this person is trying to help me not get screwed over by companies that lie and cheat to get laws passed in their favor so they can rob us blind, it’s not really important in that moment that I point out that that person is in fact obese. What their personal belief of “obesity” is is a useless discussion that has nothing to do with my own actions and identity. > > What people choose to do in their own homes or what they choose to call themselves is their business and is not something I care to discuss. > > What matters more than that to me is what people tell me I am not allowed to do in my own home with the products that I bought and paid for. That is an issue that is much more important to me.

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@verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-12 16:00

I don’t think it’s possible to argue Rossman isn’t some degree of personally transphobic (for context, his video is about Brianna Titone, who is the first openly transgender state legislator elected in Colorado, and he is clearly referencing some degree of disagreement with her identity). That much being said, he’s highlighting, to conservatives in his own audience, the fact that he wants to be both respectful and actually look beyond those personal beliefs to affect positive change. And based on his larger corpus of work, I don’t think that’s dishonest in any way. Rossman doesn’t use his influence to lobby against trans rights. I don’t even think anybody would have known he had some personal issues until he mentioned them in a specific example that encourages people to set their own issues aside, for a positive cause.

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@OilyArena@lemmy.ml 2026-09-12 16:00

I read that as “I don’t accept trans peoples gender, but will act like I do if it benefits me or my cause”, is there another interpretation I’m missing?

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@kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2026-09-13 15:39

Yeah that’s pretty transphobic, and it’s weird that he felt the need to make that long of a statement when he could have just said the last bit.

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@Scrollone@feddit.it 2026-09-14 06:50

I don’t see how his comment is transphobic. It just seems reasonable to me. Maybe he’s really transphobic, but his comment just says that we should care about the matter we’re talking about, not the identity of the person who’s talking

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