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.

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 individual 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.

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 thr 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 individual 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.