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Believing in total equality for same-sex attracted persons, their right to employment, to marry, to have those unions recognized across state lines, to adopt children and raise families, requires very little imagination from the average straight person. The prior iteration of the gay rights movement did a great job in making the case that same-sex attracted people are not deviants, but simply people who are attracted to members of their own sex as opposed to the opposite one. People got on board. It really didn’t seem like a big deal.
Asking society at large to believe that biological sex is mutable, on the other hand, demands the kind of mental gymnastics or willful ignorance that is mostly found in PhD-level philosophy programs. When you go from “Will & Grace” to Drag Queen Story Hour, you’re gonna lose the kids along the way. LGBTQIAP+ culture is pushing so hard that it’s pushing the kids off the edge.
originally posted by: KiwiNite
Lol. Women still think that they're such a prey? Bunch of paranoics.
originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: Boadicea
They ALL wear skirts and have beards over there, how anyone can tell the difference now is beyond me.
Finally, remember this is all to allow grown ass men with a sexual fetish to force us all into role playing for them.
Thats just gross.
What did they finally get tired of playing golf?
Eventually such situations will lead to lawsuits, and quite likely some arrests.
Asking society at large to believe that biological sex is mutable, on the other hand, demands the kind of mental gymnastics or willful ignorance that is mostly found in PhD-level philosophy programs. When you go from “Will & Grace” to Drag Queen Story Hour, you’re gonna lose the kids along the way. LGBTQIAP+ culture is pushing so hard that it’s pushing the kids off the edge.
originally posted by: AnakinWayneII
I think they should COMPLETELY abandon these plans.
This is the problem with devolution, you see. Imagine, for a second, that these absurd plans went through. They would not be legal in the rest of the United Kingdom.
In any case, the Scottish Government should completely shelves these absurd plans.
hm...you're bit more optimistic then me.
I fear that this agenda has woven itself into the fabric of liberal leftist movement.
On its own it probably would collapse as you say, but they are sort of being backed by this monstrous conglomerate of leftist policies being implemented in most western countries.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: MarioOnTheFly
hm...you're bit more optimistic then me.
I am optimistic, in large part because I know they are manufacturing much of their support, and desperately trying to silence any opposition. There is too much to hide, and it will fall apart under its own weight.
I fear that this agenda has woven itself into the fabric of liberal leftist movement.
That's what we're supposed to believe, but the opposition and protests within the left itself is significant. While so-called "Lib Fems" are totally on board with the Trans Agenda, the so-called "Rad Fems" are NOT on board. Lesbians for the most part are definitely not on board -- especially when they're told they have to accept that "some lesbians have penises" and rejecting them from your dating pool is "transphobic." Transsexuals -- those with genuine gender dysphoria, not those with a sexual fetish -- are completely against the Trans Agenda. The left presents a united front, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
I'm more worried about the support from the RIGHT that is going unnoticed... like this:
Illinois Governor Pritzker signs executive order to protect transgender students
On the plus side, maybe this will spark more protest and opposition from the right, who have largely dismissed it as "never going to happen," or -- worse -- enjoy the thought of all those leftist womenfolk getting their comeuppance (even as every other woman has to suffer along with them).
On its own it probably would collapse as you say, but they are sort of being backed by this monstrous conglomerate of leftist policies being implemented in most western countries.
Definitely... for now... but in my opinion, their biggest mistake was the demand for self-ID and all the attendant rights and protections that go with it. They went too far. Which has empowered the narcissists and creepers and haters to go too far. And I mean clinical narcissism -- Narcissistic Personality Disorder -- and sexual paraphilias like cross-dressing, pedophilia, etc. When they could pretend it was only about the gay effeminate man that just wanted to live their lives in peace, the public could accept that... who doesn't want to live their life in peace? But they went way too far with self-ID and the demands on the rest of us.
It will probably get worse before it gets better, but I do think we are seeing the tide shift.
Pritzker said the order establishes a new Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force, and directs the state’s public school board to take “comprehensive action” to better support transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students.
He said the order would “disrupt the patterns of discrimination” in classrooms statewide.