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I find it comforting that you, a gay woman, has shared this. I am not gay, but shared many of your experiences, such as being a tom boy, having a crush on women when I was young and turns out I have a number of gay friends. But we never know how we will mature and what circumstances will take us to what outcome. The gay rights movement had the aura of legitimacy and was fighting injustice. I do not feel the same way about the trans lobby and their activities. I disagree with your partner's take on trans that we must "support our trans friends, as they are facing insurmountable dangers from the far right." I think most people are supportive of a live and let live philosophy, but the trans movement has made it a point to ride roughshod over women's rights and what they might see as adversity is really just push back against the breaking of the social contract of equal rights holders which is "I respect you, you respect me". Another point is many of the young teens I interact with in theatre are clearly going through "a phase", but are actively pursuing permanent changes. Most of them are autistic and I would know as I am also on the spectrum. Yet the medical community sees their "gender dysphoria" as the dominating issue, and not clear signs of autism or even their playing with various identities as expected in that life stage. It's like we used to examine fashions and select clothing, shoes to mould our appearance into an ideal. These kids are now picking sexual identities for themselves at the gender mall.

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It does make one wonder if some of these people ever consider that they're adopting the same zero-tolerance strategies they claim to hate? Instead of conversion therapy they push medical gender reassignment and transitioning. Yet it's the same zero-sum game being played with peoples' lives and mental health.

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Many of those pushing this ideology are doing so for retribution, not social progress or actual justice. They are not content to just "live and let live" and have genuine LGBTs (as opposed to the politically and media manufactured type) share equal rights and respect with the cis-hetero numerical majority. What they want is to destroy what they call heteronormativity altogether, and in the process eliminate pure homosexuality for the conception of a "spectrum" where gender and attraction itself are considered mere social constructs with no basis in objective, biological reality.

So, rather than accepting the fact that heteronormativity is the biological majority they are attempting to manufacture synthetic LGBTs at an alarming rate by putting pressure on kids who are captive audiences within the mandatory school system, and get them to in turn push that trend on other young people via social media. And they are doing so under the Virtue Cover of standing up for minority rights and opposing transphobia.

Since attempts by homophobes in the past failed to legislate or shame homosexuality or gender dysphoria out of existence, how do the liberal cis-heterophobes of today expect to do the same in the opposite direction?

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