And worth repeating:
Culture & Identity
It’s the Ideology, Stupid
Two orthodoxies embraced by the LGBTQ+ progressive left:
Intersectionality:
“Gender-affirming” care:
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As the post asks…
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Sullivan adds: “This is because the vast majority of children with gender dysphoria are gay or lesbian; and this is the target population for child sex changes. … In many ways, the threat to gay and lesbian children is as grave a threat as any that the gay world has encountered. And because of the “LGBTQ+” formulation, the threat this time is coming from inside the house.”
Absolutely: “LGBTQ+” prioritizes transing gender-nonconforming gay boys and lesbian girls, and adult gays and lesbians who don’t go along are labeled “transphobic” bigots.
And this:
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‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Is the Real Conversion Therapy
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Worth repeating:
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Gay White Men and the LGBTQ+ Left
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A direct line can be drawn from this upheaval in the early 1990s and the divisiveness in today’s LGBT activist spaces, where “cis gays” — and, in particular, “cis white gays” — are seen as upholders of villainous Western cisheteropatriarchy and its henchman capitalism. …
This is racism, operating under the guise of “anti-racism”, plain and simple. It attempts to end inequality by inverting it and, in the process, is attacking the foundations of the principles that have enabled the remarkable progress our society has made in transcending bigotry and prejudice.
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Growing Engagement on Gender Transitioning and Gay Youth
Relatedly:
Worth repeating:
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On Gender, Reason vs. ‘Queer Theory’ Fundamentalism
He adds, pertinently:
Before social media, most gays and lesbians naturally reconciled the tension between their sex and their feelings about gender by adulthood. Over the course of puberty, they came to terms with their sexual orientation, and by extension, their sex.
Many gays and lesbians express their gender in creative and individualistic ways all through their lives. We’ve always been a proudly gender-bending community. But until social media came along, very few of us experienced such long-lasting mental anguish about our gender expression that we adopted transgender identities and underwent “sex change” treatments. Nowadays, the rate of medical interventions on gay & lesbian people’s bodies is so high, alarm bells are going off all over the world.
Increasing numbers of people are coming out as detransitioners, people who regret the medical therapies they feel they were misled or coerced into carrying out, under the influence of Gender Fundamentalism. Irreversible damage has been done to their bodies. Upon meeting some of them, the penny dropped for my acquaintance Helen Joyce, a former editor at The Economist who went on to write the bestselling book Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality and who now co-directs the advocacy group Sex Matters.
She put it this way: “Oh my God, they’re sterilizing gay kids.”
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The Real LGBTQ Issues for Our Times
Encouraging gender-nonconforming kids, many of whom would otherwise grow up to be gay and lesbian adults, to medically transition, absent anything approaching appropriate guardrails.
At the same time, demanding that men who identify as women but who have chosen not to fully (or even partially) medically transition to be treated as women in all respects, including athletic competition and traditionally female safe spaces.
More mediocre male bodies taking podium places from female athletes. And it stinks!!!! https://t.co/hL4gD3icxf
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) December 4, 2023
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‘Violence’ = Not Obeying Progressive Activists
A few simply truths for those whose minds are full of lies:
Ethnic Cleansing 101 pic.twitter.com/MfmgJrwads
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) November 22, 2023
Difficulty level: Palestine. pic.twitter.com/Z5BeGo3Zxs
— Dani Buller (@askdani__real) November 10, 2023
They deny and lie until the denials and lies are categorically disproven, then they slither to their next denials and lies. https://t.co/y3RcCAxQhk
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 22, 2023
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A Different Future
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