Okay, so voluntary humoring. That's fine. I have no issue with individuals choosing to humor the homeless guy or the guy cosplaying as a woman. Parents of small children frequently choose to humor their toddler's imaginary friends or other forms of make-believe. Good on them.Evil.Fkn.Mean,Nasty wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 4:35 pmSure if you want. Throw a quarter in his cup and say "Bless you Jesus".Deathproof wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:54 pmCould we not assume that the homeless guy is content in his Messiah-hood as well?Evil.Fkn.Mean,Nasty wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:06 pmI get that line of reasoning. Maybe because there has never been a case of a homeless guy being close to JC but there are many cases of trans being content in their new genders.Deathproof wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:01 pmI'd ask then, if someone can be "born the wrong gender", why couldn't the homeless guy who thinks he's Jesus Christ have been "born the wrong not-Messiah"? Why is a supposed "tranny"'s delusion more acceptable/legitimate than anyone else's?Evil.Fkn.Mean,Nasty wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:51 pmI think we differ philosophically on this issue. I believe it to be an actual issue. And there are legit true cases of people in the wrong gender. I dont buy into the attention it gets.Deathproof wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:59 pm
Agreed, we should stop paying attention to them. And I assume we would if they'd let us. But the problem is that men cosplaying as women, and women cosplaying as men, aren't content to play make-believe in private or amongst themselves. They demand that the entire world participate in their childish refusal to accept reality. They insist that the grown-ups in the room (by which I mean intelligent people who don't play along with their bullshit) humor their self-delusions and treat it as if it's real. They demand we adjust the way we speak to accommodate their "let's pretend", that we adjust public policies and methodologies to fit their silliness, and that the majority change the way we live to suit their comfort.
It's hard not to give them the stage they seek when our policymakers, lawmakers, and medical professionals are too afraid to tell them to grow up and leave make-believe behind.
We'll gladly tell the crazy homeless guy on the corner that he's not Jesus Christ, no matter how much he protests. Well refuse to treat him as though he is the Messiah, and we'll lock him up in a mental facility because we know he's not the Messiah. But for some reason, society has decided that boys who feel like girls and girls who feel like boys are to have their delusions treated as gospel, despite them being not one iota more legitimate than the homeless lunatic's.
We have friends that almost encouraged their daughter to be trans. Every social media post was how she/he was doing boy things. How she abandoned her dolls etc. She was 7. It was heartbreaking. I just checked her FB and it has rainbow flags all over it. Maybe they are stopping at her being gay (at 9 now) instead of getting surgery. Hopefully anyways.
People ask me what I would do if one of my daughters approached me that she thought she was trans. Bottom line is I would keep it in the family and def wouldnt do anything drastic until she was 18 and making her own decisions. They both say they like boys so hopefully it isnt an issue.
But no lawmaker, medical professional, or other government entity is going to mandate that all of society has to set aside objective reality and adjust the way we live to accommodate the homeless guy's belief that he's Jesus. Nor will they mandate the same for a toddler's invisible friend, or that she kid's belief that she's a Disney princess. Why? Because we know, objectively, that the homeless guy isn't Jesus, the toddler isn't a Disney Princess, and the invisible imaginary friend isn't real.
So why do we let this fad -- and that's all it is, a fad -- of boys feeling like girls and girls feeling like boys dictate legal and social and academic policy? It's every bit as real as the homeless guy's and the toddler's delusions.