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Hypernoia's avatar

Excellent points. As an "old-school" T*, I wholeheartedly agree. I see the marxist radical

"Trans Rights Activists" as creating nothing but public hostility against gender-nonconforming people. TRA's in my experience are weak minded, terminally insecure, and collectivist, and hence feel the need to force society to accept normalization, because that is the only way such insecure people can feel they will be able to accept themselves or feel confident. Their forcing it down people's throats however is a failure to acknowledge to sovereign domain of others (obviously, "normally gender sensed" individuals don't have any way to understand the experience. That is their RIGHT, every bit as much as the gender non conformer to make their way in life without suffering violence for being different. You want to create hostility and opposition, you are guaranteed to get that reaction if you try and force somebody to do/believe something against their will.

I have known far left and far left self-identified gays who always expressed strong hostility to Christian groups (out of resentment of non-acceptance), and I just see this as only having been further propagated, instilled, and actively encouraged amongst the TRAs. The extermity of TRA positions, such as undermining women's athletics, and the definition of biological women itself, as well as the promotion of transing of children who clearly are being manipulated by ideologically motivated adults (teachers, TRA's, left wing activists in general), as well as open sexualisation of children is all disgusting, reprehensible, and predictably polarizing. The political goal, is to create hostility against the LGBT* "community" (I hate to use that word, because I have never seen that in effect, it is more of a conformity cult), so that LGBT become politically ghettoized, have feel that the "left" is the only affiliation that will protect them from an increasingly hostile world.

I myself, I have never seen my non-conforming gender identity as political. I despise identity politics and the whole oppression olympics, victim identity, and the associated sense of entitlement that throws away any concept of merit, integrity, or capability. The TRAs and the radical marxists who promote all their related insanity are a menace to society, as well as LGBT people's ability to be quietly tolerated in society. Especially when they claim some imaginary "right" to inflict their madness on children through indoctrination in the schools, and undermining of parental rights. CRT and radical "gender theory" should be prohibited in the schools. The real objectives appear to be depopulation (at massive profits), destroying social cohesiveness, undermining family relations, and empowering the authoritarian state and collective irrational mob.

Anyways, Thank You for your nuanced analysis and explanation/clarification, so that hopefully more "normies" be able to keep a balanced perspective, and not be forced into absurd reaction by the lunatic left. I have always avoided these TRA lunatics, because I saw firsthand how they make pretend to be all about acceptance and love, but then ruthlessy and cruelly seek to destroy even members of their so-called "community" should they dare to question the irrational dogmas. I am not an "ally" to these leftist lunatics, and I don't pretend to KNOW what is the proper path for anyone but my own life, much less to feel the need to inflict it upon others under threat of violence or social coercion.

If you walk this path, you have to be psychologically strong enough to accept that not everyone, much less society will understand, agree or approve, and certainly the humility and honesty to realize you certainly can NOT force it (pronouns, radical delusions, whatever) upon anyone (much less their children), and that doing so is only provoking unnecessary trouble for everyone.

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Linoak's avatar

I agree with Mel. You have to consider the outsized power dynamic here. “Trans rights,” which are largely the usurping of the rights of women and girls (no one has the right to experimental cosmetic treatments on demand), have become a focus of the current administration. There hasn’t been one Democratic legislator that has spoken up in support of a precautionary approach to medicalization of minors — they won’t even meet with constituents. A large swath of Dem voters believe you can magically be born in the wrong body and/or that what trans activists are asking for is just a little dignity rather than a mandated belief in/adherence to their pseudo religion. Pretty much everyone I’m in contact with who oppose this ideology, and it’s a pretty decent-sized group, understand all of the definitions and the pretzel logic. We may be talking about a relatively small number of people who would be considered activists, but numbers aren’t the key point when it takes so little to influence so many (John Oliver is only one person) and the amount of damage they do is so significant.

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