The Supreme Court is stepping into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear appeals from the Biden administration and families seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care.
To opponents it’s not a medical diagnosis, it’s a choice. Same for anything other than cis people, except the notion of people transitioning is far, far worse.
They believe that a person chooses to be gay, but at least that choice is reversible, fixable. If it’s a choice, it’s not a choice a child can make. And teens are certainly impressionable.
Once you truly internalize where conservatives are coming from, it pretty much explains all these views. Almost forgot, we gotta throw in the child molester thing. What a win that propaganda turned out to be.
We can talk all night about how stupid these views are. Turned a friend around years ago by simply asking, “If it’s a choice we all have, when did you make yours? Because Wonder Woman comics got me a hardon when I was 5.”
Thanks for this comment, I hadn’t thought about it this way before. I had realised about how being gay is framed as a thing you do rather than a thing you are, because I have a friend who is an ex-benedictine monk, and they explained about how their vow of chastity meant they were basically “one of the good ones”. A large part of why they left was because their rhetoric was “everyone has sinful desires in them and turning away from those is an important challenge”, but the unspoken part was that his gayness made his desires extra bad, like there was just some innately bad thing in him.
And of course they would apply this same logic to gender. As you say, it makes more sense when you try to see it from their angle. I think that’s important to do if we hope to ever refute them
To opponents it’s not a medical diagnosis, it’s a choice. Same for anything other than cis people, except the notion of people transitioning is far, far worse.
They believe that a person chooses to be gay, but at least that choice is reversible, fixable. If it’s a choice, it’s not a choice a child can make. And teens are certainly impressionable.
Once you truly internalize where conservatives are coming from, it pretty much explains all these views. Almost forgot, we gotta throw in the child molester thing. What a win that propaganda turned out to be.
We can talk all night about how stupid these views are. Turned a friend around years ago by simply asking, “If it’s a choice we all have, when did you make yours? Because Wonder Woman comics got me a hardon when I was 5.”
Thanks for this comment, I hadn’t thought about it this way before. I had realised about how being gay is framed as a thing you do rather than a thing you are, because I have a friend who is an ex-benedictine monk, and they explained about how their vow of chastity meant they were basically “one of the good ones”. A large part of why they left was because their rhetoric was “everyone has sinful desires in them and turning away from those is an important challenge”, but the unspoken part was that his gayness made his desires extra bad, like there was just some innately bad thing in him.
And of course they would apply this same logic to gender. As you say, it makes more sense when you try to see it from their angle. I think that’s important to do if we hope to ever refute them