We literally just want them to stop performing for children. That’s it. And leftists are saying no deal. Children will see giant fake tits, dicks bulging through thongs, and naked man ass twerking. Because that’s progress.
Maybe if we pretended to ban it entirely we could headfake them into compromising with us and ban it only for kids but still have it in burlesque venues. As though this shit has any cultural value whatsoever for adults. Muh "as long as you're 18 you can cut your dick off and pretend you're a woman, just keep gay porn out of libraries!" We're being entirely too reasonable.
I do think that if we go too far, we do run the risk of turning the mainstream against us. The LGBT lobby became powerful in the first place because of anti-sodomy laws. In order to enforce those laws effectively, you need a widespread invasion of privacy. Even straight people balked at that, and they were amenable to the idea that "what happens in the bedroom is no one elses business." That gave the LGBT lobby a foothold to push for gay marriage and beyond.
That said, I do believe that we need to push back on certain things and gain lost ground. For example, I strongly believe that medical transition needs to be brought to a halt, for both children and adults. Poisoning and mutilating the bodies of the mentally ill is not sound medicine. First, do no harm. The long-term research into suicidality among transgender people is also not supportive of medical transition, particularly surgery. There are rare individuals who seem to mentally improve with transition, but the negative consequences to that individual physically, and to society as a whole, outweigh the benefits. If current methods of treating gender dysphoria are insufficient, we need to find new methods of treatment.
Good point. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say you can’t have that type of surgery til you are 18 since there are other things you can’t do until then. I can imagine some with gender dysphoria may be happy looking like the opposite sex. Personally I would still see them as a man who believed he was a woman. I think that’s another issue that irritates people. The push to ignore reality. As a Christian I’m not going to bother anyone in the lgbt crowd unless they specifically wanted to have a theological discussion and agreed that the “what we do in private is none of your business” and asking for tolerance instead of acceptance was appropriate. And you can’t deny it doesn’t help to massively over represent a small percentage of the population in entertainment because ppl get tired of it. Similar to race or gender swaps or how some studios feel like every show must include black ppl or strong woman
We literally just want them to stop performing for children. That’s it. And leftists are saying no deal. Children will see giant fake tits, dicks bulging through thongs, and naked man ass twerking. Because that’s progress.
Maybe if we pretended to ban it entirely we could headfake them into compromising with us and ban it only for kids but still have it in burlesque venues. As though this shit has any cultural value whatsoever for adults. Muh "as long as you're 18 you can cut your dick off and pretend you're a woman, just keep gay porn out of libraries!" We're being entirely too reasonable.
I do think that if we go too far, we do run the risk of turning the mainstream against us. The LGBT lobby became powerful in the first place because of anti-sodomy laws. In order to enforce those laws effectively, you need a widespread invasion of privacy. Even straight people balked at that, and they were amenable to the idea that "what happens in the bedroom is no one elses business." That gave the LGBT lobby a foothold to push for gay marriage and beyond.
That said, I do believe that we need to push back on certain things and gain lost ground. For example, I strongly believe that medical transition needs to be brought to a halt, for both children and adults. Poisoning and mutilating the bodies of the mentally ill is not sound medicine. First, do no harm. The long-term research into suicidality among transgender people is also not supportive of medical transition, particularly surgery. There are rare individuals who seem to mentally improve with transition, but the negative consequences to that individual physically, and to society as a whole, outweigh the benefits. If current methods of treating gender dysphoria are insufficient, we need to find new methods of treatment.
Good point. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say you can’t have that type of surgery til you are 18 since there are other things you can’t do until then. I can imagine some with gender dysphoria may be happy looking like the opposite sex. Personally I would still see them as a man who believed he was a woman. I think that’s another issue that irritates people. The push to ignore reality. As a Christian I’m not going to bother anyone in the lgbt crowd unless they specifically wanted to have a theological discussion and agreed that the “what we do in private is none of your business” and asking for tolerance instead of acceptance was appropriate. And you can’t deny it doesn’t help to massively over represent a small percentage of the population in entertainment because ppl get tired of it. Similar to race or gender swaps or how some studios feel like every show must include black ppl or strong woman