If they had just removed all the gender stuff from the bill, I'd be all for it. Instead, LGB are unwittingly being held hostage as a societal battering ram to push trans ideology through. This is a tactic, one that has been employed before, and reminds me of actions by very, very unsavory people in decades past. The conflation of sex and gender identity in the legislation wasn't an oversight or an accident. It was deliberate.

This legislation isn't going to help trans people, it's going to stir up a giant backlash against them, and thus us. If you speak out against trans, then you've clearly got a problem with lesbians, gays, and bisexuals because they're all in the same initialism together.

Social movements have taken on a new flavor these days. It's not about a little bit of progress at a time, it's about grabbing everything you want right away. Anyone who opposes you is a bigot.

You don't get consensus and progress by stuffing things down people's throats. You don't get it by blocking people on Twitter, or other screaming-matches. Talking-up your supporters is advertisement. Talking to your opponents is activism. You get progress by understanding. Understanding only happens via healthy conversations, and you've got to be truthful and authentic... that little house of cards they're building?

Progress does not happen by shoving legislation through without any input.