DiscussionThe same Colorado baker who refused to bake the gay wedding cake is now being fined for refusing to bake a transition cake.

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[–]julesburm1891[S] 39 insightful - 4 fun39 insightful - 3 fun40 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Here’s my take on this:

  1. This is being marketed as an LGBT issue when, this time, it is only a T issue. Of course it is.
  2. Given the guy’s past, this doesn’t seem like a good faith request to bake a cake. It feels like he’s been singled out to harass by an activist. (And we’re getting drug into the saga even when it now has nothing to do with us.)
  3. Unpopular opinion. I think there’s a difference between refusing to serve a group and refusing specific requests that violate someone’s religious beliefs. A baker refuses to bake a basic birthday cake for me because I’m a lesbian? That’s hateful and shouldn’t be allowed. A baker doesn’t want to bake a cake for my same-sex wedding because he or she is a devout Catholic and doesn’t support same-sex marriage? Okay. Fine. Whatever. They can keep their conscience clean and I can give an obscene amount of money to a baker who doesn’t have a problem with it. (That being said, the baker in the latter scenario is expected to take it on the chin if he or she loses all my business and/or all my friends’ and family’s business because of the refusal. The baker doesn’t get to have his cake and eat it.)

Anyways, what are your thoughts on this issue?

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well I’m glad you typed all that out so I didn’t have to.

My other thoughts are, if you all haven’t seen Jazz Jennings’s transition cake and how they had that child simulate cutting a penis, you really need to (🍆 ✂️ basically). My further thoughts are that other than that cake, how common are transition cakes and what do they consist of?

My gut instinct is that they are likely to be extremely regressive in gender stereotyping, even more so than the baby showers and gender (sex) reveal parties these days they’re always whining about. When most people just want to learn information about the baby that makes the baby seem more real and to foster closeness when the baby is “not there yet” for most people other than the mother.

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Blue on the outside, pink on the inside. Or visa-versa.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lol then I direct people to my other comment in this thread about the ironic symbolism in that.