No. of Recommendations: 2
Not surprisingly, OP is simultaneously
1) Demonizing people he doesn't like
2) Feeding the same lazy narrative of "Republicans = racists who hate everybody"
3) Demonstrating an utter lack of comprehension of the issue and what the other side thinks.
Allow me.
This issue has nothing to do with Do Unto Others. It has nothing to do with "You do you, and I'll do me". Conservatives are already BY FAR more tolerant of different things that liberals are. Sorry if that triggers you, but just look at the reaction of this board when you had to contend with thinking that didn't match your own: Freak out city, it was. And still is.
Anyway. What's the issue at hand here?
This issue is about what gets taught in schools and how/when people's kids are exposed to a myriad of issues: Gender identity, sexual orientation, and sex education. What's going on in schools today doesn't resemble what was taught or learned back in the day when it was all about
The Birds and the Bees. It's also progressed far beyond
Johnny has Two Mommies. By and large both are widely accepted in 95% of American society today.
So what's the issue? Part of the misunderstanding may be found in point 3) when the OP says
I have to say I have no transgender men or women in my personal orbit and never have I ever met someone transgender. It's fair to say that the OP by extension has essentially zero contact with the larger LBGTQAI+ community in any kind of numbers - and no, libs: 1-offs don't count. Neither does the nice gay couple who might live in your condo building.
What's at issue here is actually very simple and very basic. So simple and so basic that it's not surprising to me that it gets completely misrepresented at all levels. That issue boils down to 1 question:
Where do you draw the line?LBGTQAI+ culture has always featured a lot of public promiscuity, much of it extending from the days when gays were forced to keep their lifestyles private and hidden. Underneath there has always been a lot more openness in terms of exploring one's sexuality, far more so than in normal Western Cultures and also at a level FAR beyond what's considered racy in more "open" places like Western Europe. Well, as gender identity is making its way into the schools are core portions of the curriculum so is a lot of the tendency to encourage exploration and questions around what one's sexual identity and preferences are.
And with all that, come the instruction manuals.
The disconnect is obvious. For traditional parents raised in a far more conservative western educational structure, they don't want their kids exposed to what an LBGTQAI+ educator considers as a normal and healthy part of discovering one's sexual identity. Hence the conflict, and the return to the question:
Where do you draw the line?It's hilarious to note that
The White House itself was forced by circumstance to weigh in on where the line is just this week:
WARNING: potentially NSFW
https://twitter.com/KarliBonnita/status/1668408239...https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023...WASHINGTON (AP) ' Transgender advocate Rose Montoya is no longer welcome at White House events after posting on social media a video of herself and two others going topless for a time at Saturday's Pride Month celebration on the South Lawn.
'The behavior was simply unacceptable,' White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. 'It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to celebrate their families.'Huh. You mean to say that this
Family Friendly Event turned out to have elements that weren't so family friendly?
Who knew?
This is the disconnect. I'm not going to post examples of what's being taught in schools; all that information is out there to be digested if desired.
