Why do you all go on about Bitcoin freedom then freak out about people finding their own truth about male/female crossover?
It's their lives - leave them alone
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Am I freaking out?
I used the pronoun "you" as a grammatical (not gender) plural
So you (singular) may not be freaking out about but there sure are a lot of RW's freaking out
It was exactly the same RW reactions back in the 70's when Gay people were finding their strength and freedom
Back then we used to say (especially to Xtian moralists) that if it bothers you (plural btw) then mind your own business
Do you see their points too, though?
There are externalities here, like what I mentioned with women's sports and prisons.
There's also the way we redefine all of society, not just the way we treat that single individual.
It does affect all of us when we teach children that gender is interchangeable without acknowledging the vast differences between men and women?
Back in the 70's RW's amplified their fears by claiming being gay meant our kids were going to be preyed upon. So they negatively socialized some kind of malevolence in gay people who just wanted to be left alone.
I personally don't agree with former men competing with physiological women or the compelling of pronouns - forcing people to change such fundamental muscle memory habits etc. Emergent change is far more sensible than top/down change
But the whole thing is easily solved by everyone (Reactionaries and gender benders) meeting in the same place in mutual respect. And if that's not possible, at least respect for privacy
The problem has nothing to do with "people finding their truth."
Kids are being indoctrinated, in *schools,* into an ideology that encourages permanently damaging their hormonal development, taking insanely carcinogenic drugs and literal chemical castration drugs, encouraged and even pushed into horrible surgeries that permanently deform them. None of this. can be undone, & almost everyone who goes through it can be expected to be on multiple medications for literally the rest of their lives.
Wosrt of all is that you are immediately labeled bigoted and evil for suggesting there are negatives. People are ridiculed and attacked for trying to discourage this very often life destroying choice and discussion of consequences are literally viciously shut down.
That's not science, that's not supportive of anyone, and its *certainly* not choosing a gender and minding your own business. Its using gender as a cultural weapon to indoctrinate into a *political* ideology by abusing the confusion & vulnerability of teenagers.
Even the idea of pronouns is the opposite of choosing for yourself. No one uses pronouns in direct conversation. I've never walked up to someone and said "Hey she!" Pronouns are for *third person,* meaning how you talk *about* them and refer to them, **when they are not there.** The not-so-subtle foundation of the entire discussion is coerced speech. That isn't about trying to define who you are, it's about power, and trying to force other people what to say and what to think.
I literally could not care less about some dude choosing to wear a dress and who thinks they are a woman and vice versa, but unfortunately that is not at all a good or realistic description of what is happening the gender movement. It's a hateful political ideology masquerading as "self esteem" and viciously framing any and all reasonable discussion or opposition to it as pure evil.
I think it's specifically the 'redefining society' part that we have a problem with. Find yourself, but go alone, like every other great explorer. Don't ask the whole of society to 'find itself' with you. That's where it becomes a campaign and an intrusion, not liberty.
Someone shouldn't care what people think, if they are 'finding their truth'. The fact that they care so much about other people betrays their true motives. To stimulate change. That is where anyone can legitimately start criticizing anything they say, as it relates to their proposed changes for society/others.