Don't separate the LGB from the T; Separate the Q from the LGBT.
Queer is a political position.
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There’s been much talk about whether or not the LGB should separate from the T, since lesbians, gays and bisexuals are categorized based on who they love/sleep with and transgender people is about who they are.
Many LGB activists also feel they are saddled by the T activists, having very different perspectives and experiences.
Here’s the mistake people are making: Trans and Queer does not mean the same thing.
Queer is a political statement. Anyone can be queer. You do not need to be trans (or gay, lesbian, bi, etc…) to be queer. However, there was a time when you were not automatically considered queer just because you were trans.
This is a really important decision to make.
In his manifesto, Ted Kaczynski wrote:
“213. Because of their need for rebellion and for membership in a movement, leftists or persons of similar psychological type often are unattracted to a rebellious or activist movement whose goals and membership are not initially leftist. The resulting influx of leftish types can easily turn a non-leftist movement into a leftist one, so that leftist goals replace or distort the original goals of the movement.”
And he’s right. For all of his faults (which were many), he’s right.
This is a critically important distinction to make. Everyday trans adults are some of the best advocates the anti-woke space has, being the very best people to make the argument that children should not be medicalized. There is no reason to exclude them and treat them as leapers.
They are not part of the queer political movement. You do not have to be queer to be trans and you do not have to be trans to be queer - they are two completely different movements.
It’s not the trans community that are driving the far-left agenda - it’s the queer activists.
People are confused because it is confusing when you’re on the outside looking in to see what’s going on: The queer activists have attached themselves to and co-opted the trans community.
The insanity in the trans community is because they have been co-opted by the queer activists.
The problem is not the T.
It’s the Q.
Get rid of the Q. The LGB is stronger with the T.
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Yes, I think you're correct. The activists who chased Riley Gaines, who threaten JK Rowling, who dox people--those actions shouldn't be laid at the feet of trans ppl (the actions of a few should not be used to scapegoat everyone in that group), but rather, an intolerant ideology. There's a lot of confusion; people (even many adults--see Mike Figeuredo, if you must. He has this boring podcast, Secular or Atheist something or other, & calls himself "queer," but he's just a fucking boring Democrat. If anyone could make radical politics boring, it's that annoying dweeb.) ID themselves as "queer" as synonymous with gay, but don't necessarily share or even understand what queer theory and politics are. I don't even think the early queer theorists' writing was without merit, but what it is has morphed into--especially in early childhood education (!) is something else entirely.
I'm not speaking from a conservative POV, though the woke insanity makes me feel like I'm turning into a conservative, though culturally maybe I am, somewhat--at least compared to the extremes.
One of the poisonous aspects of woke ideology is that it obstructs other, important political projects. Podcasters like Jimmy Dore get called transphobic or rightwing for making fun of wokeness. Dore, who led the charge for M4A, rails against the MIC, the "rapacious oligarchy," etc. Hardly a right-winger, whatever you think of him. (There aren't many lukewarm opinions of him.)
But that is getting way off topic, I realize. I feel like it's important to point out that not all left politics is woke politics, and there is a divide among those who ID as "left" or "on the left"--the issue is not really about the content/substance but comes down to woke virtue-signaling. That is why I brought up Jimmy Dore, and why he is hated by the "boutique left" (Marxists call them the bourgeoisie or PMC--professional management class, which is basically the same thing.) or "shit libs."
But the hard-core woke leftists, like those in that 30-hour long Transgender Marxist video (I tried but couldn't bring myself to watch the whole fucking thing, sorry! lol. I feel bad, because Dr. B watches all of these, & I'm not sure how she does it.) I do still have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that those insane, Foucault-worshipping motherfuckers have made such inroads into early childhood ed. It is almost too much to believe, and easier for people just to say, "Nah, that can't be really happening." But it is.
The cultural agenda that these people have is something the vast majority of people want nothing to do with. What I'm sure a lot of people have trouble grappling with (and is totally understandable) is the difference between what these psychos want to do, and those who think of themselves as nonconformists, rebels, misfits. The crucial difference is that the latter value individuality, while the former prize the opposite--conformity, for a political agenda, which is collectivist.
Unlike many on the left who genuinely want to help people in need,, address poverty, get people health care, actually good things, these people use dishonest means (stealth tactics--exactly the tactics the Christian Right activists were long criticized for, ironically by some of the same people) to indoctrinate children. And in the process, they also take a wrecking ball to the nonwoke, non-crazy left who (like many others NOT on the left) actually want to make the world a better place, but without indoctrination and authoritarianism.
They make us all look like a bunch of freaks. So naturally many of us on the left wonder, "Do I even WANT to identify as being on the left?"
You are dead right. Queer no longer means what it used to mean, and most people just don't understand that. Once they do, it's obvious the Q destroys everything it touches.
Oh, pretty sure this is a typo: "There is no reason to exclude them and treat them as leapers." I'm pretty sure you meant 'lepers'.