Re: "LGB Without The T": Why Some Are Saying Trans-Rights Activists Have Crossed The Line

On 4/11/2023 6:25 AM, David Hartung wrote:
> On 4/10/23 20:05, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> The LGBTQ community appears to be on the brink of a schism as 
>> trans-rights
>> activists push harder and harder to blur the lines defining sex and 
>> single-
>> sex spaces — often disproportionately encroaching on spaces meant to be
>> limited to only women.
>>
>> There are certainly some cases involving trans men, particularly with 
>> regard
>> to alleged discrimination in health care when a woman who identifies 
>> as a man
>> goes through pregnancy, but the vast majority of the activism comes from
>> trans-identifying men demanding access to spaces that are 
>> traditionally for
>> females only.
>>
>> The advocacy itself stretches across many fronts — from women’s sports to
>> women’s shelters to women’s prisons, hitting up every rest stop 
>> restroom in
>> between — and has forced its way onto college campuses, into high 
>> schools and
>> middle schools, and even into elementary schools.
>>
>> The stated goal is equality or equal access, but the end result is that a
>> growing number of titles and achievements that were previously only 
>> open to
>> women are being quickly taken up by biological males:
>>
>> • A 6’1? fully intact biological male — who was allowed to walk freely 
>> among
>>    biological women as they stripped and changed into their bathing 
>> suits — is
>>    now an NCAA swimming champion.
>>
>> • A female cyclist, after years and years of difficult training, quit the
>>    sport she loved because she was being forced into unfair 
>> competition with
>>    biological males.

These borderline issues are to trans rights what partial-birth abortions 
to abortions rights: wedges designed to split trans rights supporters. 
The real goal is to fully delegitimize trans people.

>> • A male assistant secretary of Health and Human Services earned the
>>    distinction of “Woman of the Year.”

This one isn't even a borderline issue. She can be Woman of the Year 
every bit as much as Amy Schneider is the all time female Jeopardy champion.

> The fact that our culture increasingly claims that men can become women 
> and vice versa, and that also refuses to recognize the real differences 
> between men and women, is clear evidence of societal decay.

David's reply confirms what I wrote above about the real goal.