The biggest lie in the Parental Rights debate is the leftwing assumption they are neutral and parents are being irrational.

Schools aren't presenting multiple viewpoints with parents opposing one.

They are instructing one ideological view and calling it 'education.' We don't have an issue with the history of slavery or the Civil Rights movement being taught.

We have an issue with the CRT version positioning itself as absolute truth that teaches kids to be racially obsessed and discriminatory that we oppose.

So how did we determine that a feeling, however intense or traumatic, of not connecting to the idea of your 'assigned' gender role meant you were very literally in the "wrong" body?

How did we determine that physically altering the body to resemble the other sex was the answer? The APA currently defines the condition as a spectrum of distress associated with the experience of *feeling* like the other sex.

They present it as a simple fact that some people *are* in the wrong body and discover this with varying levels of distress.
psychiatry.org/patients-famil…

Devil's Advocate argument for transitioning minors.

When I pursued transition in my early 20's a huge obstacle was my physical development. I realized I wouldn't pass well.

Had I started puberty blockers, this would have been less of an issue. So many argue that 'forcing' a child to go through puberty when you know they are trans is cruel. You are forcing them to develop features that torment them and will have to be removed or altered with painful surgeries.

Why not let them be 'neutral' and then develop correctly?

In defense of parents affirming 'trans' kids:

I'm 40.
I came out in 1997.
I was the first and only in my high school.
My dad, the police, two counselors and school officials conducted an intervention at my school where I was outed to my dad.

I was removed from school. I spent the rest of high school relentlessly tormented and treated like I had plague by school admins and teachers.

Lots of people had this experience.
Lots of kids experienced horrible family consequences.

Those kids and their peers remember all this and vowed to be better.

Here is the reality:

LGBTQ activists decided what was allowed to be published discussing trans medical conditions and social issues and used their power and influence to remove books that offended them from major retailers.

They demanded social media restrict and ban offenders. They demanded their insane pronoun system be utilized in all industry under the weight of HR codes of conduct.

They used their influence to control how media talks about LGBTQ issues to ensure they are always positioned positively.

They banned words that criticized them.

No one cared about men living as women from 1960 to 2015.

It only became controversial when bald 55 year old men put on sun dresses and demanded they had a civil right to watch your 10 year old daughter pee or shower at the gym. Transwomen who fully transitioned who entered sporting events weren't noticed.

It wasn't an issue until 6'5 250lbs pound men put on wigs and demanded they had a civil right to compete against women professionally and began decimating women's sports.

Imagine there was some pathogen, some mutation, some gene, some developmental anomaly in the brain of a fetus that caused the brain to develop as the opposite sex.

Even this is in the realm of science fiction. We can't determine sexed brains this easily now.

But imagine... Why would the response be to chemically and surgically alter the body?

Wouldn't the first step be to suppress or reverse the cause?

If the development is too far gone, then why is social conditioning out of the question?

Since when did a person *have* to follow gender norms?

LGBTQ media reporting on a vandalism crime and the results of the actual investigation: advocate.com/crime/gay-bar-…

My goal isn't to get social conservatives like @MattWalshBlog to "like" or "approve" of me.

He isn't obligated to edit himself or change his views to accommodate me or make me feel "accepted."

He's not responsible for how liberal-thinking rightwing people see 'the movement.' Matt speaks for Matt and what he says resonates with a lot of people on the right.

I speak for myself as well.

I agree with Matt more often than not and he is fighting for things I believe in - and he and @realDailyWire are doing an amazing job. Winning real accomplishments.

Conservatism isn't about "conserving" a particular lifestyle or preserving a moment in time for eternity.

It's about rational self-government and effective social rules.

We understand the role of government but we know it must be limited and answer to the people. Progressivism views the government as necessary for humanity to thrive, but isn't interested in the consequences to the individual.

'Freedom' is dangerous because it does not prioritize the whole.

In the end everyone is better off even if everyone loses a degree of freedom.

The left is so invested in their White Supremacy belief system they refuse to recognize the cultural pressure most white people have experienced proving they aren't

The frustration you see now is from the left constantly changing the criteria for doing so. The left begins with the assumption (CRT) of inherent racism and unrecognized privilege.

Most white people I've ever known assume *other* white people might be racist, but they are not.

White people generally highly value being viewed as not racist.

How is this different from what @ScottAdamsSays argued?

Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People arrow-journal.org/why-people-of-… bbc.com/news/world-us-…

I think the question is whether a person owes a debt to society *because* they look like a white person, and if they are obligated to act in order to address the harms attributed to their assigned group. Most 'white' people primarily object to leftwing racial politics because they do not see *themselves* as the white people being accused of causing the problem.

Progressive leftists assign far more racial identity to white people than most people assigned 'white' have.

The right would be more effective if they stopped using the left's language in their efforts to stop abuses.

Don't ban CRT.
Enforce existing laws that prevent discrimination based on race.
Clarify regulations surrounding education to ensure race-based theories aren't taught. Don't ban trans youth treatments.
Require higher standards to rigorously study proposed youth transition options.
Clarify in the law the definition of consent and how it affects minors and children in medical decisions.
Strengthen parental rights laws.

Ai me is prettier than real me. 😬 Astronaut me is the best though.

I have long rolled my eyes at the ongoing conservative resentment towards gay marriage, but realized recently this was my privilege getting in the way.

As a gay man I have been conditioned to believe my story matters more than yours does.

This is wrong. Conservatives were blindsided by gay marriage and their completely reasonable feelings were transformed into 'hate' and 'bigotry' over night.

They've been bullied out of the conversation ever since, even by peers they have stood up for and defended.

They deserve a voice.

We can't get early transition advocates to answer how they disqualify a child from transition.

They dismiss our concerns about incorrect diagnosis by claiming it doesn't exist, is extremely rare, or more recently saying, 'so what?' and arguing mistaken transition is a non-issue. LGBTQ activists argue all gender identity is valid and must be affirmed, not questioned.

Medical authorities warn that questioning gender identity results in suicide.

All transgender treatment is called, 'affirmative,' requiring a default position of transgender identity.

Every time I try to describe transgenderism in objective terms, I am forced to rely on vague, supernatural concepts.

I struggle to even position the concepts in a coherent way.

A person is born into the incorrectly sexed body but that body reflects a variation of that sex... A person must surgically alter their body and introduce cross-sex hormones to achieve a resemblance to the opposite sex, which is their true self despite their body being assigned the incorrect sex at birth.

We have sexed hormones, but we don't have a biological sex?

Odd.
The article refers to Henry, who is claimed to be the first openly transgender officer, as 'he' and 'husband.' They never mention the trans identity at all.
reuters.com/world/us/us-ch… 2015.
buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…

Imagine you woke up with the physical features of the opposite sex.

How would you feel?
What would change in your life?
How would you reconcile this physical reality you cannot control?

This is what we're asked to understand about transgender people. The first assumption is that this would cause intolerable suffering to the point of self-harm.

But people who are born with physical limitations or deformities do not tend to react this way. People who lose their sight or limbs etc., do not either.

Regardless of age.

The argument that a trans child will needlessly suffer if they are forced to go through puberty and then surgically undo the consequences can be compelling.

But it requires a series of assumptions and beliefs to fully embrace. You must assume the human body is sexless and neutral until puberty and is capable of being transformed into either sex equally.

You must believe gender is a force that exists independently from the body.

You must believe a child is supernaturally gifted.