Roe v Wade

I don't understand why it's hard for you to understand: conflating pedophilia with transgender identity simply doesn't illuminate issues around transgenderism itself. Pedophilia is pedophilia; transgenderism is transgenderism: you are concentrating on a narrow slice where the two spheres overlap. This constant sensationalizing of pedo drag queens, and the insistence that it's an important component to the dialogue around transgender identity is simply a right-wing fundie scare tactic - it keeps the debate focused on an issue which is marginal to most trans experience.

It was the same tactic used with regard to the gay community in the 70s and 80s (and today), by fundies - try to keep the conversation in an area which will revolt people, in order to deflect from the substantive issues.

FWIW, fundies aren't alone in inappropriate conflations: I also have a problem with the "T" and the "I" and the "A" in LGBTQIA: "T" represents a physiological change prompted by a dysphoric experience; "I" represents a non-normative physiology; "A" represents a behavioral preference.

Only L and G are innate sexual predispositions - I'm even suspicious about B being anything other than a behavioral preference. There again, my few gay friends are old-school queers from the 70s and 80s, and their conservatism nay have rubbed off on me.

But, generally, I think the term "gender" has become an inappropriately wide magisterium.

I keep saying it's about the trans activists fighting for sexual choice in children and you keep saying "no, really that's not important, what's important are these other things". That's the umbrella you carry.

Would that be the very same home office accused of ignoring the grooming gangs for the last two decades and accused of continuing to ignore them? That home office?

I would say that he's scared of anything not him because he paints anything not him as the enemy and evil.

Just the ones trying to be around children while not being dressed appropriately for that age group.  Drag Queen wants to wear a dress and heels?   Fucking a, have fun.  Wants to host a story hour in a dress and heels, sure go ahead.  Wants to do so in full regalia with his cock hanging out because he refused to wear underwear and chose a short skirt and sits with his legs spread and was later found to have been on a sex offender registry?  That's pretty fucked up behavior. You know this, that is what happened, stop pretending otherwise.

Desmond Napoles, aka "Desmond Is Amazing", pantomimes sucking cock, pantomimes taking ketomine, has grown men stick money in his waist band after performing 'strip teases' and sexy dances for them.  He was 10 when he started all that, the kid is now maybe 15.

I give it 10-15 years before he reveals how many times he's been raped, because the community will reject him if he comes out about it any sooner.  Just look at how the community rallies around Hollywood, even after a few 'big time' abusers were removed, yet the parties with underage kids still continue.  It's a problem within the community, but the community refuses to address it (as a whole).

And harmlessly so. But again, we then have to begin trying to define what is 'mental illness'† and I count "operating outside of the betterment of the species" (procreation) as mentally ill.

So being 110% against ever having children is also mentally ill, and I want no children.


† And what we define as needing treatment. Feel dysphoric about having an arm and want it surgically removed?  Too bad because you're crazy, in need of counseling, and no sane doctor would perform the procedure; but, feel dysphoric and claim you need gender reassignment?  Well, now, "How brave of you, let's get you hormones, and will a year from next Tuesday be okay with you to chop off those offending sexual characteristics?  What you're only 6 and your Mom was pressuring you?  Oh sweetie, your Mommy just wants what's best for you..."

I mean call me crazy, but I think we need to take a long hard look at what we're calling "crazy" and what we're promoting.  Under 16?  Counseling, no meds, no surgery unless it's an extreme case.  Over 16?  Go fucking nuts, fuck up your life, it's your own life.

Nooooo. It was mentioning another area that the media has been failing a group of people (at the behest of the police in this instance) in order to cover things up.  Though it does appear it's not Muslim grooming gangs (despite all the ones they've found in the past five years have been Muslim) but pretty much all the Brits.  I mean if 1 in 10 people in England were sexually abused as kids and the police have been categorically failing them, that's a frikken problem...

Totally relevant. Yet another area that Liberals (capital L Liberals) are trying to sweep problems under the rug instead of addressing them.

All accurate things and it does.   I'm also a realist, so I temper my communism to "what actually works because humans are shit bags and can't share properly", but the realist tendencies don't interfere otherwise.



Awesome.  And I've now heard from more detransitioners than I can count (off-handedly anyway) that they weren't trans, just confused, and they've fucked their whole lives up because they felt pressured into transitioning.  Hence why I say 16.  By 16 most teens have figured that out enough that they know where they are headed, and as I've said, they're practically adults, fuck it, go wild and make you into the you you want to be.  And if you fuck your shit up, well, you were old enough to know better and old enough "peer pressure" and Adult pressure really aren't going to be that influencing.

So you're good with your kids Kindergarten teacher showing up in thong (and nothing else)?  Maybe a shear silk nightie?  Having seen what a few "Drag Story Hour" queens thought was age appropriate, I'm pretty much okay with just banning it.  Drag Queen shows are not age appropriate for children, that's not culture they need to be exposed to as kids.  Guy in dress? Whatever, no one cares.  Drag Queen dressed like it's Mardi Gras?  Not appropriate and you know it.

Drag is all about sexualized behavior. I've never met a Drag Queen who claimed otherwise until this latest attempt to sexualize kids started, and even then I've still never met one face-to-face.  No Drag Queen I've ever met wanted kids anywhere near them will they in Drag.  Dressed as a women, sure, whatever, but Drag is a state of mind that involves raunchy sexual play.

I saw.  Now it's back in the hands of the States where it always belonged.  

Trigger laws in multiple states will now force women and girls to bear the children of their rapists and pedo incestuous fathers.

Well done US. Welcome back to the dark ages. You are truly now a developing country. But don't worry - you can still carry a concealed firearm.