Virtue SignalingArticle about "anti-LGBTQ+ bills" with only a passing mention of anything concerning LGB

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[–]Horror-SwordfishI don't get how flairs work 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'll admit I mostly skimmed it because every paragraph was basically "anti-trans" this and "anti-trans" that, but I didn't even see anything concerning LGB. Maybe that little bit about Florida's "Don't Say Trans" bill.

It's ludicrous to me that people think that not exposing 5-8 year olds to gay things will make them think that gay people don't exist. If you really want your kid to learn about gay people at that age, you can teach it to them yourself. I find it bizarre that parents that are speaking out don't feel like they have any responsibility to their children, and it all rests on the schools. Like, you can talk to your kids about things.

This whole article was just anti-trans laws, and it really pisses me off that it's not labeled as such. It should be titled "Overview of 2022 anti-Trans Bills" because that's all that it's about. But I wonder why they wouldn't title it that way? Could it be that "trans" is not widely supported in general, while "LGBTQ+" is supported? Keep lumping us in with the trans people who are bitching about losing their suppose human rights like using whatever bathroom they feel like using and playing on whatever gender sports team they feel like playing on. You know, those human rights that we all have.

[–]JulienMayfair[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's ludicrous to me that people think that not exposing 5-8 year olds to gay things will make them think that gay people don't exist.

Activists these days are just so prone to histrionics and hyperbole -- from every direction. From the TRAs, it's, "If you can't talk about gender identity to 6-9 year-olds, you're literally killing trans people!" From the Trumpers, it's "Secure the borders" at a time when we're having product shortages from a lack of agricultural workers and rising labor prices.

Before same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian widows/widowers were losing their homes to estate taxes because their partner had died. I know people who had to deal with this. LGB people were getting hunted out of the military. My generation won those battles. The invented need to teach kids under 10 years-old about gender identity in school is just not the same thing. School is not the entire world. Like you say, parents who want to teach their kids gender theory are welcome to do it themselves, at home.