That Trans Thread

[Rev. Rye]

My concern is that it is a slippery slope.  "Don't say Gay/Trans" will someday morph into banning all transgenders from coming within 1,000 feet of any elementary school.  Here's Me, by the way:



I need to get my hair dyed.  But, my major concern is that individuals like me will, if the far right has their way, be lumped with sex offenders and the like all in the name of "protecting" K-3 students.  By the way, when I show-up to pickup my 5th grader from her school, dozens of K-3 children get a real-life lesson in transgenderism "live and in full color".  So far, no adult or parent has said anything to me, although, I have gotten a few nasty comments from a few of my daughter's classmates, both girls and boys, which I have ignored.

The combination of a lack of proper defense of the issue from some liberals, along with recent opinion polls concerns me. If the polls are to be taken seriously it seems like trans issues have not quite caught up to gay rights issues in the mainstream. I’m concerned that the far right is deliberately trying to create a wedge issue out of this with knowledge of said polling data. Im also concerned that the same data could explain some of the lack of liberal backlash.

It makes sense that trans rights hasn’t gotten to that point, honestly. Less than a decade ago, trans folk were treated as the “oh yeah, those exist, too” part of the LGBTQ spectrum, only appearing in media either as a joke involving a chick with a dick or (far more rarely) a character in an Oscar bait movie. And even then, they’d almost certainly be played by a cis person. The gay rights movement took decades to go mainstream, and even with the rise of social media, it only makes sense that trans rights would be lagging behind.