Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 2/23/2025 5:21 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Trans women are bullied all their lives: rejected by their familues,
discriminated against for employment, bullied at school for being too
'girly', bullied in the street for not being 'womanly' enough and
bullied by pseudo-feminists for daring to 'be' at all.  Now, in America,
they are being bullied by laws drafted by ignorant bigots in the hope of
driving them out of existence.

That has been the case with anyone that could "fashionably" be labeled
as "different".  The criteria used to be much more obvious (skin color,
religious delusion, ethicity, etc.) but most of those have been
"normalized enough" that you can't stoke the fear you need in your
followers.

Trans people exist, they are about 0.5% of the population and that isn't
likely to change.  Nobody can be 'transed' and nobody can be
'de-transed', it is a normal human condition like left-handedness or
ginger hair.  Mobile 'phones don't cause it and it doesn't cause
plagues, earthquakes or crop failure - so tell your politicians to stop
'witch-burning'.

I saw a poll that claimed 10% of the (american) public are LGBTQ.
So, even if you can push them all back in the closet (to appease
your delicate sensibilities), there are dozens in your workplace,
neighborhood, FAMILY, etc.
Gotta wonder how weak-minded folks need to be that they have to
rely on "out of sight" to cope with something that they are so
fearful of (bad grammar).

Secondly, allowing the wrong puberty isn't a neutral act, it is
condemning the child to at least ten years of medical treatment,
including operations,  to try to correct something that could easily
have been prevented.  If there is any doubt whether a child is trans,
use puberty blockers to delay puberty until the child is mature enough
to be certain.  With most trans children, there is no doubt, so puberty
blockers aren't needed.

I had a (older) cousin "come out" when I was a young kid.  This,
AFTER he had entered into a marriage (which obviously failed).
So, at least one person caught up in the collateral damage who
likely wouldn't have been, had societal norms allowed him to
acknowledge his true self, earlier.
You rely on OTHER people to determine if you are racist, misogynistic,
bigoted, narcissist, lazy, etc. -- as, most often, you are loathe
to admit to any of these.
But, YOU determine your sexual preferences, sexuality, gender, etc.
You might "leak" hints to careful observers, but YOU are the defining
entity.  Whereas, in each of the preceding, you are likely the LAST
to know (or admit).
[That's not to say that there aren't folks who refuse to acknowledge
their own preferences -- likely because they KNOW there are social
(and likely business/economic) consequences to that!]