Before the TRA movement, trans people were already out there, nobody talked about it. They were probably already reading stories to children and working in libraries, and no one cared. Now the TRA movement has aggressively promoted it, along with drag queens who moonlight in children's story time but actually work the adult nightlife circuit.
So my short answer is... no, I would have no problem with a trans person doing story hour. I think it should just be "story hour" and we don't need to advertise the fact that they're trans, anymore than we should have a "gay person" story hour, or "lesbian" story hour. If they can dress like a normal person and don't work in the adult entertainment industry, then I think it would be as acceptable as anyone else doing it.
If the goal is equality and equity then they need to stop with the power tripping and making everything about an agenda. It is so forced, aggressive, alienating, and it's offending the very people who they are trying to win over.
Gay rights took decades. Same-sex marriage took a couple of decades of some really solid public debate. Eventually, the majority of the public was won over and now it's a historical footnote. But the TRA movement has been extremely forceful and this has all been rushed through in literally the past 5 years. It's too fast. It's not giving people time to talk about it, adjust to the idea, and to disseminate education. It's also almost completely divorced from science, and that is the #1 problem with it. The way children are being targeted for transition has no long-term scientific studies, and the whole medical industry around that is precisely why something as benign as library story time is not trusted, because it looks like indoctrination.
TRAs are trying to make being "born trans" en par to being "born gay" when we know from all the psychiatry data that trans people are not nature, they're nurture. And because it's nurture, parents are rightfully suspicious of all this grooming and indoctrination. It's so, so intense, meanwhile trans people are a very small portion of the population. It's so overblown.
They are violently censoring and doxxing anybody who disagrees with them, even others in the LGB community. It has to stop. I would be less against story time if they weren't destroying people's lives for simply questioning it, and if they would stop trying to confuse children about their gender identity. These are not issues that most children would even think about if they weren't prompted to.
Good post. The radical left, and the media that pushes, or perhaps even creates, that narrative, have gone way too far in their approach. I'm glad that we are talking about transgenderism, because it is a thing and has been a thing since time immemorial, long before this current movement. Just like the push for equal rights and social acceptance of homosexuality, this needed to happen. But what is also needed is open and respectful discourse, and an acceptance that it is going to be difficult for many people who the whole concept had just never been part of their world. The correct way to handle it would have been to counter criticism with calm and respectful counterarguments (I mean of course if neo-Nazis are pulling guns, that's a different story, but this discussion really isn't about what the OP references, it's about the broader cultural discussion). Instead, the media, and also certain individuals among the trans rights activists, have decided to take the approach of "we're here, fuck you, if you don't accept everything we say, you're a piece of shit bigot". That kind of approach will never in a million years win anyone over to your side. It just creates resentment, and pushes many people who were never hateful, just confused and uncomfortable but could have been willing to engage in discourse, over to the side of "OMG trans people are trying to make it so it's legal to have sex with children", simply because those people have had hate and insults hurled at them.
Of course the radical right does similar stuff, look at the shit Fox News spews out about liberals. But two wrongs don't make a right.
Furthermore, this constant pushing of transgender ideology in the way it's being done (and this is just my opinion, and I do not mean to offend anyone) is having an effect on young people. I am not going to speculate on whether it's intentional or not, but from what I can see, it has become "cool" to be gender non-conforming. Teenagers and young adults have always, for all time, and will always be confused and seeking to develop their identity. I remember, it was a confusing and difficult time. All teenagers get depressed, hormones are a hell of a drug. But what I am seeing is that there are a lot of young people who are coming out as transgender, or pangender (both genders), or whatever, and it seems to me that it is the modern version of how all of us experimented with our identities when we were young, to try to fit in, to try something new, or as a way to try to figure out why we feel uncomfortable in our own self-image. I certainly did it. I became a "goth kid" for a while in high school. Then I became a "psychedelic guy", psychedelics were my identity. It wasn't until my early 30s that I started to feel comfortable in my own skin and to know who I was, and to no longer let pressures from outside forces question my sense of self.
To be clear, I have no problem with young people trying out the persona of being trans. But my worry is that the idea of hormones and transition surgery is being pushed everywhere. And there seem to be a LOT of young people suddenly becoming trans. It has never been common for people to truly feel they're the wrong gender, there always have been, and I am fully aware that many of them, in the past, were just never willing to make that transition, either due to self-hatred or fear of others. But it's clearly a fad now, and my worry is that taking hormones and getting surgery are steps that have lifelong consequences. I worry that young people, who are not developed enough in their identities, will jump on that train, and later on it will lead to a great deal of suffering, because you can't go back from that. Of course, for some, who aren't doing it because it's a fad, but because they feel they can finally come out, it will be great, and I am very happy for them that they're able to do that, and that is an example of good coming from this.
Overall I see both sides and am conflicted, but I think the way in which his has been rolled out is troubling.
That picture is SICK & anyone who thinks that is ok is mentally ill & I would say is really into loving kids in a very illegal way. Would you send a young kid to a GG Allin concert if he was still alive? NO you wouldn't FFS is the answer.
That picture is absolutely sick, and I would be very surprised if anyone posting in here does not agree with that. Of course, some people in the world would call you a bigot for saying that, which is part of the point I was making above.
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