Two Sides, When There Is Really Only One.

The Republicans like to say there are two sides to every argument, two sides to the Holocaust, two side for trans rights, first their side (Take your blood pressure meds first.)

Transgender activists prey on sympathetic parents
Washington Examiner
By Debra Soh
November 29, 2021


Last week, a children’s book reading commemorating the Transgender Day of Remembrance in a Denton, Texas, library was canceled due to safety concerns following public backlash. In response, the mother of a trans-identified child organized a "transgender story time" at a new location, with hundreds of people reportedly in attendance.

While seeming benign due to their celebratory nature, these types of "inclusive" events are not innocuous. All of the research literature shows that the majority of gender dysphoric children will outgrow their dysphoria by puberty. Because gender has become a fashionable accessory, children quickly learn that deciding to identify as anything but their birth sex will increase their popularity and foster adults' attention and adulation.
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Many well-meaning parents erroneously believe that celebrating the so-called transgender child is the kind and ethical thing to do. Activists, many of whom are not transgender, have cleverly tricked parents into doing the heavy lifting for them. It is akin to the way suicide statistics have been used to manipulate caregivers into allowing a child to transition, when these numbers pertain to adults experiencing gender dysphoria, and have little relevance to children.

Okay is your blood pressure all right?

This is what Politico has to say about the Washington Examiner,

Phil Anschutz's conservative agenda
By Michael Calderone
October 16, 2009


One night last week at The Dubliner, an Irish bar near the Capitol, an unassuming Denver billionaire who has quietly made himself a player in Washington’s relatively small media world, had dinner with his editors.

It was a rare D.C. visit by Philip Anschutz, ranked by Forbes as the 37th richest man in America. But Anschutz’s ownership of The Washington Examiner, a daily tabloid, and The Weekly Standard, probably the nation’s most influential conservative magazine, has given him a megaphone for his right-wing views on taxes, national security and President Barack Obama that the 130 or so companies he owns have not provided him.

And that is where the Washington Examiner is coming from the far right so attacking us is right inline with it political base.

Now for the other side…

Not a 'two-sides issue': Transgender people exist. Why is there a debate over whether they should have rights?
USA Today
By Susan Miller
November 18, 2021


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“It’s easier to take away someone’s rights if they don’t exist,” Coleman said.

The year has been a tough one in many ways for transgender people. Anti-transgender legislation brewed in state legislatures, including at least 75 bills that would block trans youths' participation in sports and 40 that would deny youths gender-affirming medical care, according to the Equality Federation and the Movement Advancement Project, which track state laws.
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For a transgender person to feel like their very existence is being debated – or denied – is devastating, says Jay Brown, a senior vice president with the Human Rights Campaign.

“It is very dehumanizing,” he said. “Like you are standing there as a person and you exist and people are talking about you as if you don’t.”

The transgender community “for a long time has been a go-to source for fearmongering when it comes to politics,” he said. “A lot of folks still don’t know us. And in the absence of knowing us there are misunderstandings, doubts and confusion. Some of that is at play and being politicized.”

And that is the key, getting to know us.