The church in my community has a sign out front that says “god loves trans kids”.
I understand what you’re saying and I fully support all adults choosing to present however they want and alter their body in whatever ways they see fit, but I also think it’s incorrect to say that there isn’t an agenda.
The word “agenda” implies some ulterior motive. I don’t see one. I see people choosing to live their lives the way they want to. They used to say the same thing about gay people, that there was an “agenda.” Maybe the agenda was just that they wanted to be treated as human beings with dignity instead of told that they had a mental disorder by people unqualified to diagnose mental disorders.
I do think that there are groups with stake in this issue.
I want to be clear - I hold no hate for anyone based on a “group identity label”. Individuals are individuals and should be treated as such.
I also do not think the current social trends around this issue are healthy. I’ve watched many people in my personal life and community reject their old self and start the process of changing into someone else. They have the right to do so, but the people who tend to make this decision do not typically seem to be doing it out of self love.
My girlfriend has also been sexually harassed in a bar bathroom by a known trans predator, so forgive me for being a bit defensive on this issue.
I can only speak from my own personal experience. Over ten years ago I had a female coworker who was a very talented and a genuinely decent person. I had written her a glowing recommendation on LinkedIn. We both moved on to other jobs and one day I got a message from the same person with a different name and profile photo. He asked me if I would edit the recommendation to reflect his new name and pronouns. I didn’t hesitate to do so. And I invited him to meet me for lunch soon after. A guy walked into the restaurant who appeared to me to be a perfectly ordinary and happy person. He was engaged to be married and had a great new job. You would never have known this man had been born female. We had a great conversation and the subject of being trans never came up.
That sounds great, and I have nothing but respect for that person. People like that don’t strike me as the kind of people who put up “god loves trans kids” signs though, or honestly even benefit from it.
Children are not choosing to live their lives the way they want to, and they cannot consent. It is adults who are inflicting mutilation and sterilization on them. That needs to stop. There are no trans kids. What people do as adults is up to them as long as it does not affect the rights of others. If they say they have changed sex (which is impossible) then they encroach on the sex-based rights of others.
I agree that this only applies to adults. Minors should never be allowed to consent, because they are still developing mentally and physically.
