I'm Jewish and switched parties in 2001, when I saw leftists turning against Jews and Israel. Now I see people blaming the latest horrible SCOTUS decision on the Jews, and throwing anti-Semitic tropes at me.
Look, I'll level with you. I'm Jewish. I was also once a bisexual crossdresser. I gave it up. Lost interest, believe it or not. I'm now married to a woman with two children. And I'm glad I made that choice in life.
I'm not a supporter of gay marriage. I'm totally glad to have you live well and free and have some protection (Civil Unions was, I thought, the perfect compromise).
The transgender stuff is extra weird to me. Because I lived it. I was tempted to transition. I didn't though, and that G-d because, again, I got those children who are worth much more to me than the high I used to get from dressing up.
If there was this kind of movement around when I was a teenager, I don't know what would have happened to me. They could have pushed me to transition and I might have thought it was a way to be cool and get friends. After all, I was a lonely nerd back then. And you know what those hormones can do? Sterilize you. Fast forward to where I am today, and the best thing I did in my life would not be there.
And I don't want that to happen to other people. I read harrowing, horrible stories of parents losing their children to transition, wives losing their husbands to it. It takes away the entire person. And I've met very, very, VERY few trans people who were well adjusted and happy. And I met more than the average bear. I used to be in those circles.
So when we have this being pushed in our faces, down to drag queens reading to children in libraries -- it's like, what's next? Take your kid to a porn shoot? This is ridiculous! Enjoy the adult things, but keep it away from children. Now this SCOTUS decision is going to continue to make that harder and harder and harder.
Your story seems eminently believable to me. A large percentage of people growing up feel they somehow don't fit their body. I personally never had that feeling in this way, but I certainly had plenty of other feelings growing up, like all of us. Adolescence is difficult.
I think the root of the problem is that modern parents seem hell-bent on controlling every aspect of their children's lives and can't deal with uncertainty. Instead of treating transgenderism as something that might or might not be an adolescent phase it has to be one or the other. The fact is you can never really know what is in someone else's head, not even your own child. Every human has a different experience.
Kids are blessed with the wonder of not having to make a firm choice one way or the other on any given topic. Adults seem to actively discourage that way of thinking. Obviously part of being an adult is the reality that you do need to make decisions and choices. The flip side is you also need to know when to make the choice to not make a choice.
I'm a lot more positive on Gorsuch's ruling. I think it restores Title XII as an enumerated individual right instead of the swamp interpretation we've been operating under.
I'm Jewish and switched parties in 2001, when I saw leftists turning against Jews and Israel. Now I see people blaming the latest horrible SCOTUS decision on the Jews, and throwing anti-Semitic tropes at me.
Sucks. I'm getting pissed off now.
Look, I'll level with you. I'm Jewish. I was also once a bisexual crossdresser. I gave it up. Lost interest, believe it or not. I'm now married to a woman with two children. And I'm glad I made that choice in life.
I'm not a supporter of gay marriage. I'm totally glad to have you live well and free and have some protection (Civil Unions was, I thought, the perfect compromise).
The transgender stuff is extra weird to me. Because I lived it. I was tempted to transition. I didn't though, and that G-d because, again, I got those children who are worth much more to me than the high I used to get from dressing up.
If there was this kind of movement around when I was a teenager, I don't know what would have happened to me. They could have pushed me to transition and I might have thought it was a way to be cool and get friends. After all, I was a lonely nerd back then. And you know what those hormones can do? Sterilize you. Fast forward to where I am today, and the best thing I did in my life would not be there.
And I don't want that to happen to other people. I read harrowing, horrible stories of parents losing their children to transition, wives losing their husbands to it. It takes away the entire person. And I've met very, very, VERY few trans people who were well adjusted and happy. And I met more than the average bear. I used to be in those circles.
So when we have this being pushed in our faces, down to drag queens reading to children in libraries -- it's like, what's next? Take your kid to a porn shoot? This is ridiculous! Enjoy the adult things, but keep it away from children. Now this SCOTUS decision is going to continue to make that harder and harder and harder.
Your story seems eminently believable to me. A large percentage of people growing up feel they somehow don't fit their body. I personally never had that feeling in this way, but I certainly had plenty of other feelings growing up, like all of us. Adolescence is difficult.
I think the root of the problem is that modern parents seem hell-bent on controlling every aspect of their children's lives and can't deal with uncertainty. Instead of treating transgenderism as something that might or might not be an adolescent phase it has to be one or the other. The fact is you can never really know what is in someone else's head, not even your own child. Every human has a different experience.
Kids are blessed with the wonder of not having to make a firm choice one way or the other on any given topic. Adults seem to actively discourage that way of thinking. Obviously part of being an adult is the reality that you do need to make decisions and choices. The flip side is you also need to know when to make the choice to not make a choice.
I'm a lot more positive on Gorsuch's ruling. I think it restores Title XII as an enumerated individual right instead of the swamp interpretation we've been operating under.