Thank you Hortense and Perry for your comments! As a very liberal Democrat who lives in a city in a state that is so “blue” that I feel like I live in the sky 🤪!, I really “feel” you on this. “Icky” is such a perfect word to describe the weird rites and rituals of people trying to think that they can fundamentally change sex. I feel so …
Thank you Hortense and Perry for your comments! As a very liberal Democrat who lives in a city in a state that is so “blue” that I feel like I live in the sky 🤪!, I really “feel” you on this. “Icky” is such a perfect word to describe the weird rites and rituals of people trying to think that they can fundamentally change sex. I feel so alone in my critique and I know that I can never go back to thinking that a human being can be “born in the wrong body”. Yes, I used to thing that. I am so disturbed by the attempts to erase women’s spaces and even the word woman! --- “pregnant people”!!!!!! no, no, no.... I am even more disturbed by public schools attempting to teach trans ideology to children, and the idea of messing with children’s (and young people’s-- I shudder to think of 20 year old me [eons ago!] making irreversible decisions about anything!) bodies fills me with incomprehensible despair. Why would anyone, especially someone who calls herself/himself a doctor, advocate for these practices?
I agree with you, Ruby. My very blue state -- Rhode Island -- is not really as blue as it appears. It has a strong blue-collar population, but those blue-collar workers understand that the Democrats provide better government services than Republicans do, and so many of them vote Democratic -- though certainly not all of them. To the best of my knowledge, there are no drag queens reading stories to kids in Rhode Island.
I agree with you about professionals. No teacher should EVER tell his or her students that they are free to choose their gender. I know there are teachers who are doing that, and it is a total lie. Too many professionals are liberals, and they don't seem to be aware about the harm that trans people are doing to kids. "You are trans? How exciting! How wonderful! You can be anything you want to be!" (Puke.) If I were a school principle, I would be talking to all the teachers about it. "It is not up to you to talk to kids about their sexuality."
The efforts of trans people to make women invisible will not work or last. A few institutions have picked up on the "pregnant people" lingo, but it will fade. Everyone knows that only a woman gets pregnant. If you ever have a professional talking to you about "pregnant people", just look them in the eye and say, "Women! Not 'people' !"
Thank you Perry. I appreciate hearing your take on Rhode Island’s “blueness”. It’s different where I live and it is probably its own blue bubble. I just think that a lot of people who support the idea of trans do not really go too deep in their thinking. I am fairly certain that was what I did when I mouthed platitudes like, “maybe he was born in the wrong body”! I was trying to understand, and I was trying to fit in and I was also trying to summon up compassion. I started to educate myself because there was this tiny little voice inside that did NOT understand, and as I proceeded to learn more, my belief structure crumbled. I hope that those Democratic Rhode Islanders you mentioned can nudge the Democratic Party in a saner direction. Many of the Democratic movers and shakers in CA (my blue bubble) are really into using the transgender train as a means to signal that they are not Republican. Some of the stuff they are coming up with is truly ludicrous/scary [take your pick]-- CA as a sanctuary state for “trans” kids, etc...
Yes, I know that the trans community has done a good job brain-washing the people of California. I understand that Newsom is also brain-washed. Sadly, Biden is brain-washed too, as he supports everything trans no matter whether it is good or bad. I just don't understand why people aren't able to distinguish good from bad in social movements. Protecting trans people in housing and employment (that's good); allowing trans people to redefine what gender is for the whole human race, influence children, displace women in women's private spaces, and shame people who disagree with them out of their jobs (THAT'S BAD). Is that so difficult?
Yup, yup, yup - I agree with you here , especially:
“ I just don't understand why people aren't able to distinguish good from bad in social movements.”
It seems like it’s an all or nothing deal? Inability to see the “gray”? (But when you think about it, nothing too “gray”’or in between about people getting surgical interventions or cross-sex hormones.) Maybe that’s it? and perhaps there is a name for this in psychology or philosophy? --- Something so difficult to envision as prosaic or typical or normal (I could be skewered for using normal like this where I live 🥹)--- something out of the ordinary for most people--- in order for people to embrace the humanity of someone or a practice that is difficult to understand, maybe we need to accept the whole big idea of it ( Exulansic talks about trans as religion) and so we pretend to make sense of something that does not make sense. And maybe in our wanting to ensure that all people have the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we become easily manipulated to accept as true someone else’s truth, as if we have to all believe in the same deity in order to belong?
Sorry for the longwindedness!!! Trying to understand “my people”, which means all human beings in all our messiness.
Anyway, thanks for putting out that clear thought: “I just don't understand why people aren't able to distinguish good from bad in social movements. “
Thank you Hortense and Perry for your comments! As a very liberal Democrat who lives in a city in a state that is so “blue” that I feel like I live in the sky 🤪!, I really “feel” you on this. “Icky” is such a perfect word to describe the weird rites and rituals of people trying to think that they can fundamentally change sex. I feel so alone in my critique and I know that I can never go back to thinking that a human being can be “born in the wrong body”. Yes, I used to thing that. I am so disturbed by the attempts to erase women’s spaces and even the word woman! --- “pregnant people”!!!!!! no, no, no.... I am even more disturbed by public schools attempting to teach trans ideology to children, and the idea of messing with children’s (and young people’s-- I shudder to think of 20 year old me [eons ago!] making irreversible decisions about anything!) bodies fills me with incomprehensible despair. Why would anyone, especially someone who calls herself/himself a doctor, advocate for these practices?
I agree with you, Ruby. My very blue state -- Rhode Island -- is not really as blue as it appears. It has a strong blue-collar population, but those blue-collar workers understand that the Democrats provide better government services than Republicans do, and so many of them vote Democratic -- though certainly not all of them. To the best of my knowledge, there are no drag queens reading stories to kids in Rhode Island.
I agree with you about professionals. No teacher should EVER tell his or her students that they are free to choose their gender. I know there are teachers who are doing that, and it is a total lie. Too many professionals are liberals, and they don't seem to be aware about the harm that trans people are doing to kids. "You are trans? How exciting! How wonderful! You can be anything you want to be!" (Puke.) If I were a school principle, I would be talking to all the teachers about it. "It is not up to you to talk to kids about their sexuality."
The efforts of trans people to make women invisible will not work or last. A few institutions have picked up on the "pregnant people" lingo, but it will fade. Everyone knows that only a woman gets pregnant. If you ever have a professional talking to you about "pregnant people", just look them in the eye and say, "Women! Not 'people' !"
Thank you Perry. I appreciate hearing your take on Rhode Island’s “blueness”. It’s different where I live and it is probably its own blue bubble. I just think that a lot of people who support the idea of trans do not really go too deep in their thinking. I am fairly certain that was what I did when I mouthed platitudes like, “maybe he was born in the wrong body”! I was trying to understand, and I was trying to fit in and I was also trying to summon up compassion. I started to educate myself because there was this tiny little voice inside that did NOT understand, and as I proceeded to learn more, my belief structure crumbled. I hope that those Democratic Rhode Islanders you mentioned can nudge the Democratic Party in a saner direction. Many of the Democratic movers and shakers in CA (my blue bubble) are really into using the transgender train as a means to signal that they are not Republican. Some of the stuff they are coming up with is truly ludicrous/scary [take your pick]-- CA as a sanctuary state for “trans” kids, etc...
Yes, I know that the trans community has done a good job brain-washing the people of California. I understand that Newsom is also brain-washed. Sadly, Biden is brain-washed too, as he supports everything trans no matter whether it is good or bad. I just don't understand why people aren't able to distinguish good from bad in social movements. Protecting trans people in housing and employment (that's good); allowing trans people to redefine what gender is for the whole human race, influence children, displace women in women's private spaces, and shame people who disagree with them out of their jobs (THAT'S BAD). Is that so difficult?
Yup, yup, yup - I agree with you here , especially:
“ I just don't understand why people aren't able to distinguish good from bad in social movements.”
It seems like it’s an all or nothing deal? Inability to see the “gray”? (But when you think about it, nothing too “gray”’or in between about people getting surgical interventions or cross-sex hormones.) Maybe that’s it? and perhaps there is a name for this in psychology or philosophy? --- Something so difficult to envision as prosaic or typical or normal (I could be skewered for using normal like this where I live 🥹)--- something out of the ordinary for most people--- in order for people to embrace the humanity of someone or a practice that is difficult to understand, maybe we need to accept the whole big idea of it ( Exulansic talks about trans as religion) and so we pretend to make sense of something that does not make sense. And maybe in our wanting to ensure that all people have the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we become easily manipulated to accept as true someone else’s truth, as if we have to all believe in the same deity in order to belong?
Sorry for the longwindedness!!! Trying to understand “my people”, which means all human beings in all our messiness.
Anyway, thanks for putting out that clear thought: “I just don't understand why people aren't able to distinguish good from bad in social movements. “