It is because they are children. They do not know (or should not know!) what their sexual preferences are yet. We protect them until at least after the confusing period of puberty for that very reason. Children are malleable. They are a blank page which makes them extremely vulnerable to manipulation or indoctrination by those who have an unusual attraction to children. Vulnerable and easily persuaded. They need to be protected against such grooming. Sex should be a dry(!) scientific discussion gradually introducing the biology, the very real (!) differences between the sexes and not complicated with the ridiculous idea that you can choose whether you're a boy or a girl.Potter wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 9:20 am I have a question for those people who are terrified about teaching children that it's ok to accept transgender people.
It's been taught for as long as I can remember that it's ok to be gay, I'm sure some of you (that aren't dinosaurs) might have even come to the conclusion yourself, i.e. that it's ok to accept gay people as equal and everyday normal members of society...and I wonder...how many of you were turned from straight to gay because of this?
Remember Sophie Lancaster? People are now taught that it's ok to be goth, so how many of you were convinced to turn goth because of this?
Teaching kids that it's ok to accept transgender people into society will not turn them into transgender people.
I think some of you are so scared to teach people that it's ok to be anything other than heterosexual because you're internally terrified that you might not be one yourself and you'd prefer to keep that reality recessed into a very dark and faraway place in your minds.
That is insanity.
The subject is invariably juxtaposed with the equally contentious and increasingly ridiculous proliferation of "gender" identities. Yes there are boyish girls and girlish boys and yes, they should be allowed to develop however they may choose. Not that it is any business of mine but I am quite happy with the idea of boys wearing a dress, playing with makeup or girls climbing trees being a mechanic or whatever "gender affirming" roles are currently accepted.
Buggered if I even know how boys and girls are "supposed" to behave in this modern era and god only knows how confusing it must be for children to "understand" this topic when it is still so vehemently argued among the so called grown ups. Best let them sort it out for themselves I say, it's not as if that rather obvious strategy hasn't worked for the entire duration of mankind.
But my biggest fear if you want to say I am "terrified" or "scared" of allowing or encouraging sexual deviants to "educate" children is that you already know damned well what a "transgender" adult or gay activist is going to tell them. Let's be honest here, the alphabet people, the LGBTQ+ brigade are already obsessed with sex/gender. That is all they seem to offer. I never hear positive stories about how their individual and personal choice has benefitted society, it's more about how if you CIS gender bigots don''t accept my personal sexual fantasy, I will destroy you.
They're not going to convince me a man can be a woman just because they says so. I am not a child.
The "fear" is of course that there is an element of the medical profession, looking for the next quick buck. Gender affirming care is big business. A lifetime of corrective surgery, drug induced hormone manipulations, a lifetime spent "proving" you made the right call even though all of the evidence proves otherwise. We already know, it cannot possibly ever work. Boys are still boys after they are castrated, girls are still girls after they are neutered the only difference being, after that decision has been made for them, before they discover their true sexual identity as adults, they will never be able to have children of their own. Never become the despised "normal" family unit of a man and a woman.
It is the surgical intervention and puberty blockers for children that I object to and therefore I also object to allowing sexual deviants access to children so that they can radicalise and manipulate them into their seedy sex obsessed world. After the age of consent, knock yourself out. Do what you like to your own body, behave as you like with the only slight caveat: you go your way, I'll go mine. They can't tell me how I have to think. I am not a child, I will make my own mind up. I think they are deluded.
