Trans activists are hurting gay rights. They piggy-backed onto gay rights, despite having a different agenda.
How are they hurting the gains made by gay rights?
Well, the general public is appalled by the trans rights advocates in several ways, from the medicalization of healthy children to the highly aggressive online tactics and “cance…
Trans activists are hurting gay rights. They piggy-backed onto gay rights, despite having a different agenda.
How are they hurting the gains made by gay rights?
Well, the general public is appalled by the trans rights advocates in several ways, from the medicalization of healthy children to the highly aggressive online tactics and “cancellations”.
But, since folks are afraid to say so, for fear of getting cancelled/fired, etc., they keep quiet. And this suppression and inability to speak up and fight back is creating resentment that is seeping into resenting gays.
Many see gays as having broken a deal they made: let us be, leave us alone, and we’ll stay out of each other’s business. Folks generally agreed to that deal, gays got the right to marry/adopt/have kids, etc.
But, the trans issue has aggressively broken that compact. They did not comply with the “live and let live”. They went after our kids, and they’ve even gone after a person all our kids love: J.K. Rowling. (This would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic).
If the gay rights folks were smart about this, they would clearly and loudly proclaim their unaffiliated status on trans issues.
Because if this continues, who knows how far the backlash will affect gay rights — It may get very ugly if DeSantis is elected and Marjorie Taylor Greene is elevated. Or Trump (god forbid) or any number of rising lunatics. Or the Supreme Court gets nastier.
The Trans’ aggressiveness is giving these revanchists much fuel.
It greatly concerns me the way that the trans have attached themselves to the gay rights movement--they are like snakes that slither into a crowd to try to fit in--and I wish that gays would stand up to this because the trans movement is starkly different. Even Antifa operates as the trans enforcers and beats up gay people who don't toe the line, so they recognize there's a difference even if most gays are too afraid to admit so and fight against the hijacking. As it is, it's a no-win situation for gays which is why they should disengage and divorce themselves from the trans movement.
That said, I very much doubt that DeSantis, MTG or Trump would ever do anything to take away any gay rights. Our society has advanced quite a bit in accepting gay rights such as marriage and allowing child adoption, etc. and I think there would be quite a backlash to changing this. (Even many religious people have given up to focus on more critical issues.) In the event that the Supreme Court turned over gay marriage to the states as was done with abortion, I believe it would be relatively easy to get a federal law passed recognizing gay marriage because it has existed for so long and there are numerous societal benefits to it as well as legal problems if it were not recognized in every state. It's just not the same as the abortion issue, which involves literally life and death issues.
Trans activists are hurting gay rights. They piggy-backed onto gay rights, despite having a different agenda.
How are they hurting the gains made by gay rights?
Well, the general public is appalled by the trans rights advocates in several ways, from the medicalization of healthy children to the highly aggressive online tactics and “cancellations”.
But, since folks are afraid to say so, for fear of getting cancelled/fired, etc., they keep quiet. And this suppression and inability to speak up and fight back is creating resentment that is seeping into resenting gays.
Many see gays as having broken a deal they made: let us be, leave us alone, and we’ll stay out of each other’s business. Folks generally agreed to that deal, gays got the right to marry/adopt/have kids, etc.
But, the trans issue has aggressively broken that compact. They did not comply with the “live and let live”. They went after our kids, and they’ve even gone after a person all our kids love: J.K. Rowling. (This would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic).
If the gay rights folks were smart about this, they would clearly and loudly proclaim their unaffiliated status on trans issues.
Because if this continues, who knows how far the backlash will affect gay rights — It may get very ugly if DeSantis is elected and Marjorie Taylor Greene is elevated. Or Trump (god forbid) or any number of rising lunatics. Or the Supreme Court gets nastier.
The Trans’ aggressiveness is giving these revanchists much fuel.
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It greatly concerns me the way that the trans have attached themselves to the gay rights movement--they are like snakes that slither into a crowd to try to fit in--and I wish that gays would stand up to this because the trans movement is starkly different. Even Antifa operates as the trans enforcers and beats up gay people who don't toe the line, so they recognize there's a difference even if most gays are too afraid to admit so and fight against the hijacking. As it is, it's a no-win situation for gays which is why they should disengage and divorce themselves from the trans movement.
That said, I very much doubt that DeSantis, MTG or Trump would ever do anything to take away any gay rights. Our society has advanced quite a bit in accepting gay rights such as marriage and allowing child adoption, etc. and I think there would be quite a backlash to changing this. (Even many religious people have given up to focus on more critical issues.) In the event that the Supreme Court turned over gay marriage to the states as was done with abortion, I believe it would be relatively easy to get a federal law passed recognizing gay marriage because it has existed for so long and there are numerous societal benefits to it as well as legal problems if it were not recognized in every state. It's just not the same as the abortion issue, which involves literally life and death issues.