I've been watching the "discussion" on AGB, and, in predictable fashion, it's going like trying to fight an angry drunk for the steering wheel of a car.
What no one seems to be able to get their heads around is that the ENTIRE reason this bill was written is because idealistic and well-meaning, but highly indoctrinated elementary school teachers are teaching all the "gender spectrum" nonsense and gender iidentity theory to young kids. We know this is happening. We've seen the educational materials that the TQ+ educators have prepared. The response to people pointing that out is the usual "that never happens" dismissal.
Many adults are willing to accommodate trans people in their day to day lives, but I would wager that, deep down, even if they're not willing to say it for fear of reprisals, the vast majority of people do not believe that trans women are 100% women or that trans men are 100% men. And further, they are not comfortable with educators teaching their kids (who may barely be familiar with how babies are made) that what makes a man a man or a woman a woman is their "gender identity," i.e., the extent to which they feel comfortable conforming to ultra-traditional gender roles.
Gender identity theory is a radical theory based in ideas that hardly anyone outside of Queer Theory took seriously even 10-12 years ago. None of it is remotely proven. But I will grant that TRAs know what they're doing here. They want to indoctrinate kids with these ideas at a young age, before they've had the chance to learn anything else. And that's what parents are rightly objecting to. But, of course, when Republicans were given the chance to write the bill, they had to throw sexual orientation in, too, just one case of the backlash we've been predicting as a result of the LGB being forced into an alliance with the TQ+.
We at LGBDropTheT knew this was going to happen. We've seen it building. We've read the stories of children becoming trans at school without their parents' knowledge and the parents very understandable outrage at all this, not to mention what can happen to the parents if they are not compliant. They risk teachers calling CPS on them. In that sense, trans activists are targeting their children -- and the parents as well.
And none of this was what lesbian, gay, and bisexual men and women had in mind when we were fighting for gay rights. All that slander that we were coming for people's kids was nonsense. But yes, TRAs are coming for people's kids, very explicitly. And we are seen as guilty by association.
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