There are a couple of things driving the LGBT backlash. One is the excesses of the trans movement. Any reasonable person thinks it insane if all a biological male has to do to gain access to a woman's locker room is just claim without evidence they're trans. Biologically female athletes who object to trans women competing in their sports…
There are a couple of things driving the LGBT backlash. One is the excesses of the trans movement. Any reasonable person thinks it insane if all a biological male has to do to gain access to a woman's locker room is just claim without evidence they're trans. Biologically female athletes who object to trans women competing in their sports are being harassed online and sometimes physically attacked. Interestingly, it's only trans women making this noise. The only time I hear from trans men is when Eliot Page takes a selfie.
The ridiculously overblown drag queen debate is another one. Conservatives started it, but liberals didn't do themselves any favors by suggesting parents go out of their way to take their children to drag shows.
The linchpin to gay acceptance was, "Who I am and who I love has no effect on your life." Meaning, you don't have to come to the wedding. I'm not consummating my marriage in your bed. Pretty hard to argue with, especially since, for an increasing number of Americans, gays and lesbians were no longer an indistinct "other," but their children, siblings, parents, and even (yikes) spouses. But now, the movement is demanding that we overhaul our entire language and infrastructure to include them. Does anyone else realize that, more often than not, mandatory pronoun usage leads to a lot of cis people exchanging pronouns for no purpose?
Finally, asexuals don't belong in this group. Are they overlooked and poorly understood? Yes, but they've never been a persecuted class.
There are a couple of things driving the LGBT backlash. One is the excesses of the trans movement. Any reasonable person thinks it insane if all a biological male has to do to gain access to a woman's locker room is just claim without evidence they're trans. Biologically female athletes who object to trans women competing in their sports are being harassed online and sometimes physically attacked. Interestingly, it's only trans women making this noise. The only time I hear from trans men is when Eliot Page takes a selfie.
The ridiculously overblown drag queen debate is another one. Conservatives started it, but liberals didn't do themselves any favors by suggesting parents go out of their way to take their children to drag shows.
The linchpin to gay acceptance was, "Who I am and who I love has no effect on your life." Meaning, you don't have to come to the wedding. I'm not consummating my marriage in your bed. Pretty hard to argue with, especially since, for an increasing number of Americans, gays and lesbians were no longer an indistinct "other," but their children, siblings, parents, and even (yikes) spouses. But now, the movement is demanding that we overhaul our entire language and infrastructure to include them. Does anyone else realize that, more often than not, mandatory pronoun usage leads to a lot of cis people exchanging pronouns for no purpose?
Finally, asexuals don't belong in this group. Are they overlooked and poorly understood? Yes, but they've never been a persecuted class.