It is puzzling to me living in this seemingly dystopian republic of America. Our country is being directed down a path to change society and many people don’t seem to recognize the cliff the lemmings are headed for. One group believes in God and acts according to their beliefs and are condemned by their actions as discriminatory and sued, taken to court, so as to control their actions yet another group of people think and believe something else yet they are able to continue with their actions and beliefs and no one is allowed to question what they are doing without being called names and again sued and taken to court. We are at a crossroads as to where we are going as a nation.
Our thoughts are being examined for political correctness and when they are translated into actions, there is a group of people who judge them for the rightness of them as regard to their own philosophical beliefs. Yet, if we question them, we are attacked on all different levels and labeled in ways to suppress our perspectives about life, morality, and people while science, one of the gods of the Left, cannot be used to justify their position, especially when it comes to anything sexual.
Science is showing more and more that babies can live outside the womb at younger and younger ages due to medical advancements that were not available when the justices in Roe v. Wade allowed for abortion but the caveat by the “old” white men (an incorrect statement of fact) was if it was determined when life begins, in their words viability, abortions would stop. Doctors, science, and surviving miracle babies have helped shown that life does begin at conception just like in the animal world of pandas, dogs, and endangered species which the Left protects with a vengeance. However, when it comes to babies they see them as a danger, a threat except when they are reach approval level which may mean that some are discarded because of their sex or disabilities. The Left wants to build utopian society on their terms and “CHOICE” is one of their criteria but only when it agrees with their core principles. However, they refuse to allow the baby growing in the womb to have standing in a court of law which was Dred Scott’s situation in the 1840’s when he was considered property and not a person.
Yet recently, there is a small group of individuals who identify with different things and others support them with psychobabble, with political correctness, and tolerance without any scientific basis for their actions. A few years ago, a woman was discovered not to be an African American as she identified and the NAACP removed her from her leadership role. One of our politicians has claimed and identified herself as a Native American for years until it was determined that she was ill informed about that having high cheekbones, does not make you a member of a tribe. Identifying does not qualify as a scientific fact yet it has been promoted so much by the Left. However, science should be used when it comes to gender identity but the Left does not want to go down that path, rather letting choices based on thought to be the norm. I recognize that people are confused and struggling about who they are, trying to find someone with whom to identify. In the last 50 years, the high rate of divorce, blended families, the Women’s Movement, unmanly men, spousal abuse, drugs and alcohol, and for other reasons, children do not always see the greatest examples of women and men to admire and call someone a hero and choose to emulate. The tolerance of parents and their own insecurities have led many to no longer guide, encourage, support, and their unwillingness to say no, in some cases, have allowed society and families and children to become more and more confused on many issues, not just gender.
As children, we identify with heroes and other things. As parents, we may support our kids, and buy them race car beds, firefighter jackets, helmets, or princess tiaras, clothes, shoes or Hogwarts’ wands, robes, or StarWars lightsabers, or pirate gear, mermaids, and unicorns. Some parents recognize they are going through a phase that is probably not permanent but others see the make believers being accepted as a reality. Also, there are plenty of children's books and teen graphic novels with fluid genders so characters shift back and forth between sexes. Years ago, there were plenty of children who identified with Davy Crockett and wore coonskin hats. Some of us outgrow these interests and others continue to co-exist in these worlds. I have noticed, that for some, these desires and interests continue and people become writers, or participate in reenacting, cosplay, or pursue a career in police work, fire fighting, or in something else because of their childhood “fixation”.
If a little boy or girl wants to be a pirate, and identifies with Captain Hook, are we going to take that child to the doctor and have them cut off their hand? Of course, we as parents and adults understand that this would be absurd, ridiculous, and harmful to the child. However, taking a child who thinks they are something they are not, to a doctor and have them give them a drug or perform surgery on them because they identify as another gender is not going too far for some and is perfectly acceptable. It is one thing to participate in external activities based on interests but making physical and permanent modifications to a minor’s body, one who is still has a brain developing until their late 20s, seems a little to excessive. Yes, there is a small percentage of people whose sexual organs are mixed up at birth and their chromosomes are not XX or XY but most of those children and teens who are questioning their gender identify do not fall into this category. Liberal school systems across this country, afraid of being sued, in the name of tolerance and for political correctness are bending over backwards to accommodate those who are questioning which gender they identify with. Maybe, its the social media I access but I sure don’t hear/read about girls wanting to use the boys’ bathrooms for gender identity reasons. It is just boys who are questioning and identifying as women. Why is the trend mainly in this direction? Is anybody studying that? Whether it is the terms they identify by, the bathrooms which they use, or the sports they participate in, things are being turned upside down. You may have girls participating in coed wrestling but they are not identifying as boys, they are just wrestling competitively. There are girls playing football with boys but again, they are girls; they are not wanting to become boys. I cheer for those girls and I was glad for the two female Army Rangers, for that matter. I think it is great they are so passionate about their interest, that they invest time to become successful athletes and to compete against the opposite gender. What athletic achievements are being impacted because schools are allowing those questioning their gender identify, who have already gone through puberty, to compete with biologic females and take away those girl’s futures. However, due to HIPAA, school regulations which do not allow inquiries of certain types, privacy issues, and a lack of regulations which do not require a DNA test when children get a physician’s approval to participate in athletics, there is not any true questioning of why men who identify as women in most cases, want to compete against girls in sports. Again, science is abandoned when it comes to sexual choice matters.
And for record, for anyone monitoring my social media, I have worked and interacted with multiple numbers of LGBT individuals and all kinds of people in schools, libraries and elsewhere. Although, I may wonder, internally disagree possibly with some of their choices, and question and write about my concerns generally, I do my best to treat all with respect and tolerance, just as I expect of them towards me. If my questioning and writing is considered discrimination, how come it only is a factor when it comes to this subject? Disagreeing with someone’s choices or perspectives is not a form of discrimination because if this was the case, philosophical, social, political discussions for thousands of years would be impacted. If we cannot rationally examine the consequences of the decisions which are being made, then we really have taken the wrong path as a nation and society.
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