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More TQ+ Community members complaining about the misgendering and even saying it was logical for them to start turning violent…
They WANT violence. They’ve been doing it daily for some time & always blame the victims.

Just proving this is a total lack of mental healthcare. pic.twitter.com/OUN859FA4y

— Brian 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 (@Psy_Brian) March 27, 2023

I refuse to blame an entire community or ideological movement for the heinous actions of an individual. It’s demagogic, divisive, and unfair. And it’s precisely what far too many on the Left do, instantly, whenever an atrocity occurs, irrespective of the facts. Toxic.

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 28, 2023

Added: I respect Guy Benson’s advice to be cautious about widespread blame, but I also don’t think we should ignore that the shooting happened amid calls by activists for action to stop “genocide” against trans people, including the recently enacted Tennessee law banning puberty blockers and transition surgery for minors.

More: Twitter is now blocking tweets showing trans activists’ calls for violence, including gun violence. While understandable, this move obscures how extreme some of these activists are.

We watched trans activists promise a “Day of Vengeance” to stop “violence” and “genocide” against the trans community.

This shooter targeted a church and Christian school on Trans Awareness Week, immediately after legislation passed that activists call ‘genocidal.’

— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) March 28, 2023

This kind of rhetoric is so common it’s not longer shocking (but should be):

If they would have succeeded in pulling @ThePosieParker to the ground do you really think they would have stopped? #LetWomenSpeakAuckland pic.twitter.com/c5YRuo6X0l

— Ani O’Brien (@aniobrien) March 26, 2023

I don’t like having to share posts like these but we can’t pretend that these messages aren’t being spread by extremists.

Added: Shaking my head over this captured tweet from Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ press secretary, posted just hours after the shooting (original removed by Twitter, understandably). Added: Press Secretary Josselyn Berry resigned on Wednesday, two days after the shooting. Why wasn’t she fired, or at least suspended, immediately after her vile post went up?

And via Log Cabin Republicans:

Still more.

Newspeak watch: "gender expansive youth". It means gay boys and girls being prepped for trans identity. https://t.co/4fycQOQNoq

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) March 27, 2023

Organizations that were once at the forefront of the movement for gay and lesbian rights and social inclusion have morphed into something very different, following the achievement of legal equality for gays and lesbians, and for transgender people. In keeping with fashionable progressive-left trends, they’re now onboard with the war on the gender binary.

“Lifesaving gender affirmating care” https://t.co/5fChmgcm8H

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2023

More on the response to the campaign against the New York Times by GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign, and others for (1) reporting on the medical transitioning of minors and including the critical views of doctors and detransitioners, and (2) running an op-ed defending J.K. Rowling for casting a critical eye on requiring that transmen, including men who simply present as women, be granted access to women-only spaces.

It still amazes, though probably it shouldn’t, how woke-progressive LGBTQ+ advocates have embraced medicalized conversion therapy for gay and lesbian kids who are gender nonconforming — and how they think their support for these procedures makes them morally superior, instead of morally monstrous.

When progressive parents lead gender-nonconforming kids to transition. https://t.co/RXBznjTlW6

— CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) February 6, 2023

More from this mom on YouTube, here: “I Transitioned My Child – I Regret It“.

The simple answer is that they redefined divergence from gendered stereotypes as transgender identity — there is no answer to the question “what and who is trans?” that does not resolve to this proposition https://t.co/TyOYa5xE4l pic.twitter.com/YWvd0gBkWh

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) February 7, 2023

And below, what LGBTQ+ activists don’t want gay people to understand:

Trans activists (some) have been a disaster for the reputation of the LGBT community. The pew numbers for 2022 will be stunning.

Not just in the US.

When gay activists in other countries push for things like marriage, they now get shown vids of drag queens sexualizing children

— Jeffrey Towson 陶迅 (@JeffreyTowson) January 24, 2023

Is there anything that woke-academic “queer studies” doesn’t corrupt?

2./ You can savour the full Dr Strangelove vibe here. Harvie thinks Gender Self ID (which erases women’s single sex spaces, undermines gay rights and endangers the mental health of children) is just the start. He wants to go further. You bet he does….
https://t.co/C1ZkD8JqEd

— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) January 17, 2023

Saying that predators will take advantage of a bill meant to help trans people is *not* the same as saying trans people are predators.

Why is this simple point impossible for some people to understand? At this point it has to be intentional.

— James Winbeck (@InMc80820675) January 17, 2023

Relatedly, here in the U.S.:

Violent extremist group SoCal Antifa is organizing a direct action against those expressing support for the teen girl who spoke publicly about her experience with a naked man in the women’s locker room at a YMCA in Santee, San Diego County. https://t.co/EO7voyb3Ie pic.twitter.com/DBFH3iUxvo

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) January 17, 2023

Yes, another compilation post on the single most important issue facing gays and lesbians today, especially with regard to protecting gay youth. Pointing this out drives LGBTQ+ wokists apoplectic.

‘Belief in biological sex has been redefined as bigotry.
Standing up for women’s sex-based rights has been rebranded as transphobia.
So Rowling’s perfectly normal views, likely shared by most people out there, can be talked about as hate crimes’
https://t.co/DE5tBlxzxe

— Joanna Blythman (@JoannaBlythman) January 13, 2023

Along with safeguarding the rights of women, another vital reason to separate LGB and trans rights is saving gay kids from being pushed onto the trans train:

Click on replies, below, to read the responses with numerous examples:

The gay to transgender pipeline amongst people under 25 is wild.

— Fredward (@Fredward_III) December 21, 2022

Below:
>>Woke guy goes from “trans surgeries on minors aren’t happening” to “they are happening and it’s good” in record time.<<

Follow the science: