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[–]LtGreenCo 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

"He's literally warning society against promoting transgenderism among young children more than 40 years ago"

Sorry but no he's not.

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood was a show for very young children from kindergarten up through maybe 3rd grade. And back in the 60s/70s/80s, tranny kids weren't a thing. It wasn't on anybody's radar including Rogers', and the notion was so ridiculous it was unthinkable. But even so, Rogers just wasn't the kind of person to give cryptic warnings to society. He was a straightforward guy and if he really wanted to warn the world about this issue then he would have done so very specifically and concisely.

Let's just please let the man rest in peace and not tarnish his legacy.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, considering it wasn’t until John Money et al in the late sixties and early seventies, that “gender identity” was talked about in academic journals, it is hard to see how a children’s TV presenter could have predicted anything, let alone been warning the world when up until that point the few transwomen were middle-aged men and transmen weren’t a thing.

I suspect that because Mr Rogers made so many episodes of his show and was interviewed on TV so often that you could find all sorts of things he is appearing to advocate or warn about simply because he said an awful lot and clipping an out of context sentence or two is easy if you have the time to go looking for things.

[–]Galindan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Not quite true. There was at least one doctor in Weimar Germany that performed surgeries and so forth. I can't remember his name. This cancer has been growing for awhile. And just like peak Weimar it will end with pedos and political upheaval.