And no one buys into the transwomem are women over here. On social issues euros are more conservative, more ethnocentral and more racist.
If you're an immigrant you can become an American but you will never become a German, just doesn't work like that.
A lot of the interactions what immigrants like me in western europe have to go through are considered racist in america, that was my point. Ask anyone who has been an immigrant in EU and US. America is far more welcoming.
Also in Spain where I live is welcoming to lgbt in general, the feminists are all what Americans would consider terf and it's mainstream, actually in power right now - women are women, no prostitution, no to surrogacy, no to porn production.
I am a child of immigrants. I'm sorry that our experiences differ on this point. It may be possible that the south is more conservative than the west, but be careful about falsely generalizing this to 'world standards'.
By the way, Spain is generally considered part of Southern Europe, not Western Europe. [1]
> the feminists are all what Americans would consider terf and it's mainstream, actually in power right now - women are women, no prostitution, no to surrogacy, no to porn production
This is excellent news for women - are they enacting / have they enacted laws to fulfil this?
The majority of Germans support self-id laws for trans people (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz). Both in parliament and society overall, a broad majority supports this.
South Africa has full legal protections for trans people, including permitting gender reassignment surgery without government interference and allowing them to apply to change the gender markers in their identity documents and the national population registry.
Discrimination against trans people for their gender identity is illegal, and the hate speech laws consider gender identity to be a protected category. [0]
It's true that a proportion of the population is conservative and does not agree with this or with LGBTQ rights in general, but that's true of any population.
Whose world standards? The US left is the European right.