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Anti-LGTBQ “Million March For Children” outnumbered by “Billion March For Not Being Bigots”
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Because there is literally no credible argument against teaching children about being tolerant towards gay and trans kid, other than hate on LGBTQIA+.
Hopefully with kids learning tolerance from an early age, they wont grow to be intolerant idiots like their parents
The only argument I've heard that makes any sense is against gender surgery or hormone treatments, with the argument being that they're not adults and may regret having that medical intervention later. Truth be told, I don't know enough to say whether that's right or wrong, but I do think that's a reasonable argument (but I would want to hear actual medical opinions over this instead of feelings opinions).
But pretty much everything else about it is silly and undisguised bigotry.
Not teaching kids about being queer isn't going to make them not queer, as queerness existed before we named it. Dismissing it as a phase is kind of pointless as even if it were a phase, exploring pronouns and gender identity isn't going to hurt them. Saying it's just a mental illness to be queer is harmful and even if true it has a reliable treatment called gender affirming care. Stuff like making kids get parental permission to be addressed by preferred pronouns is clearly setting up abusive situations, so I don't get how any (non bigoted) people can fully support that.
Maybe the one other thing is I do think drag story time is weird. I know the argument is it's like an actor known for R rated movies doing G rated ones, but drag shows are more like an adult burlesque show and I wouldn't bring kids to burlesque story hour either. People being in drag doesn't bother me, but the drag queen thing is different to that.
Edit: I accept that the first doesn't happen, my point was just that doctors who are sworn not to harm people should be the only ones deciding what medical decisions people are allowed to make.
The second one is a bad comparison yes, but I'm allowed to personally not like it. I don't think it should be banned or that it is what people say it is.
This is a pretty rude answer to someone admitting they don't know much about a subject.
We live in an age where we have countless information at our fingertips. Google scholar is literally a browser click away. If they don't like social media answers from individuals because they're too rude then they should do their own research, on their own time, instead of complaining about the quality of free labor from a minority group that is constantly forced to justify their existence ALL the time. 🤷♂️
That's not fair to OP. He didn't complain about the answers anywhere. I'm just suggesting to folks here that maybe you'd reach more people if you didn't imply that anyone who asks a question is either stupid or malicious.
It doesn't seem too crazy to me to say that someone should be able to enter a conversation and say they don't know something without being attacked.
OK now I now you're trolling. Where did I attack the person I was responding to? This is just manufactured drama, how very reddit of you.