I mean, I can take a shot at explaining the difference, if you really want to, and this is coming from a former Catholic. There are something like, what, 1.2 billion Catholics in the world? In the Western world, Catholics and Christians in general are not exactly a marginalized or maligned group, and generally occupy positions of respect and power. If you were a Catholic/Christian in Syria or somewhere like that, this would be a different story... Transgender individuals, on the other hand, make up an extremely small portion of the population wherever you go. They are largely maligned and misunderstood. Up until very, very recently, a transgender individual couldn't even "come out" as such. Even now, doing so puts them in extreme danger. In the United States, depending on where you live, discrimination against transgender individuals is even permissible under the law. So, no, it's not really the same. It's called "punching down." Now, I think OP is overreacting, but I also don't find anything funny about North's joke, nor jokes about transgender individuals in general.

I understand your point and the number you use for Catholics worldwide sounds about right but you and I both know that the number is truly about half that if you consider who is an active or practicing catholic. Remember, joe Biden and Nancy pelosi are both catholic but don't subscribe to the tenants of the church. That being said, even though the Catholics comprise the largest percentage of Christian denominations, they are often the most maligned Christian group, at least here in the states. The number of Catholics in Europe and the U.S. Is still higher percentage wise than other denominations, but have been an afterthought in our society to the point where we are considered a cancer to progress and all that. I would argue that a catholic person in our culture is considered, at least by more liberal sided folks, to be no different than an extremely conservative person would consider a transgender person. Maybe I'm wrong, but there doesn't seem to be a huge difference, and regardless the double standard that we ought to have a thicker skin than transgender folks and should just suck it up because there are so many of us is an unreasonable argument for people to make. The dignity of the human person remains, regardless of association.

Same thing for Muslims. Sure some of us deserve it, but I honestly, as a 13 year old kid who's lived in the us all his life, don't deserve to be called a terrorist. My mother is catholic an my dad is Muslim. Literally ask any non radical Muslim and you will see that no one considers Isis and all the other dumbasses real Muslims. So how come it's fair for hundreds of tweets to go up every day about my people being terrorist and one text makes you want to ruin a mans career. Explain that double standard

;) agreed

I'm sure most people do, keep this transphobia shit on Twitter

Lol, cameltities. Ironic?

There's a town in Southern England where they still burn an effigy of the pope on the 5th November and no one complains. Catholics seem to be a bit more laid back about these kind of things nowadays. Mind you, that's probably cos they're too busy getting pissed up and touching up kids to care what anyone else thinks about them.

Good stuff. Lemme guess, the inhabitants of that rural town fvck animals and their family trees' branches connect back to the trunk, if you catch my drift.

Lol not really, its just a tradition. Goes back to when lots of protestants from that part of the country were burnt alive by the Catholic queen at the time.