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Why A Lot of Americans Don't Want To Befriend a Transgender Person
The Daily Beast ^ | 05/19/2017 | Samantha Allen

Posted on 05/21/2017 2:18:28 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: Steely Tom

How many degrees of separation between this horrifying crime and “Trump’s Fault” ?


One. One tiny thread away from an impeachable offense, just having the American people discuss this.


41 posted on 05/21/2017 2:42:57 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Trump20162020

Honestly. As a friend or coworker, I would have zero problem. To date, no. I have zero interest in dating anyone with a vagina or even who used to have one. I thought the whole gay liberation movement was, why can’t we love whom we want??? We don’t pressure gays to date the opposite sex. Don’t pressure people to date trans people either, please.


42 posted on 05/21/2017 2:45:43 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: headstamp 2

“I usually try not to befriend people who are emotionally unstable to begin with.”

I already have a wife, I don’t need more.


43 posted on 05/21/2017 2:47:54 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Trump20162020
I was friends - perhaps "close acquaintance" would be more accurate - with a young fellow who, step by step, assumed a female identity. It was a profoundly disturbing experience and it left me with absolutely no doubt that this is a serious, debilitating mental issue. It isn't a "social construct", it isn't a matter of validating a harmless fantasy, and it isn't the sort of thing that is resolved by a more or less complete game of make-believe.

This was a private conclusion, or at least it was until I posted it to the Internet just now. What is equally disturbing is the evangelical fervor shown by liberals that I am entitled neither to express it nor even to hold it. More disturbing still is the degree to which they have succeeded in subverting the powers of the state in pursuit of crude mind control. Notice here the smoothness of transition between "would you be a friend" and "would you date someone", a negative answer to either being a prima facie conviction of intolerance at the hands of the entirely intolerant. This is war, and they're winning.

44 posted on 05/21/2017 2:49:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Trump20162020

friends with one? No

date one? No

be in the same room with one? not knowingly, because if I was, I would leave. Being around known mentally ill people, criminals, perverts, mooselimbs is taking risk with my life that contains zero upside vs the downside if one of these nuts goes off suddenly.


45 posted on 05/21/2017 2:50:51 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Trump20162020

It’s not a right to have someone like you. You have to earn it.


46 posted on 05/21/2017 2:57:24 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Trump20162020

Cultural Acceptance...
Only the Lunatic Fringe!


47 posted on 05/21/2017 2:58:25 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Trump20162020
I've never known a 'transgender'. I've known numerous homosexuals, male and female, got along with most, friends with some. Mostly through music and Drum Corps. A few were somewhat flamboyant about it, but never 'In Your Face'; They kinda kept it among themselves.

As an aside, look up 'Angie Zapata'. She was a 'he', and when a guy found out, he beat 'it' to death with a fire extinguisher. Ken Buck, my current congresscritter, was DA at the time, and this was the first 'hate crime' conviction in the country.

48 posted on 05/21/2017 2:58:34 PM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: ifinnegan
Four percent of Americans had been on a date with a transgender person in the last year.”

Did they know it ?

49 posted on 05/21/2017 3:00:42 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: SpaceBar

Knew a couple of these folks in the city from working at graphics depts in investment banks.

They work evening or overnight to stay in the shadows.

I did it because i HATE traffic and alarm clocks :)

They are heartbreaking to look at yet can be nasty as hell because of their mental illness and insecurities.

Still, they were more tolerable than most of the gay guys!


50 posted on 05/21/2017 3:02:45 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Trump20162020
If I ever encountered a “transgendered” person I would avoid it like the plague for the very same reason I avoid schizophrenics....life is too short to waste time interacting with those who are profoundly,irredeemably,disturbed.
51 posted on 05/21/2017 3:03:24 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: real saxophonist

Should have been ‘She’ was a he. Sorry about all the quotation marks, but that’s the best way to describe it. And I bet somebody is going to say something about me using ‘quotations’, rather than “quotations”.


52 posted on 05/21/2017 3:03:57 PM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Billthedrill

Had to read Your post a few times...

Kept thinking “ Silence of the Lambs”.
“IT puts the lotion on”

Totally Sociopathic.


53 posted on 05/21/2017 3:05:16 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: TChad

Freaks me out enough as is when admiring a ‘pretty woman’ then finding out later she is of XY chromosome type. Weee-ooooo-weee-ooooo-weeee-oooooo-weeee-oooooooooooooeeeewwwww.


54 posted on 05/21/2017 3:07:22 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: Trump20162020

Because they’re seriously mentally ill?


55 posted on 05/21/2017 3:09:27 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Trump20162020

You may change but your chromosomes never will.

People with gender dysphoria are mentally ill. Similar to depression or bipolar disease.


56 posted on 05/21/2017 3:09:41 PM PDT by upchuck (Getting your news from the Wa Po is as worthless as getting it from Saturday Night Live ~ Greenfield)
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To: Trump20162020

I had a college roommate for one year who was a hypochondriac among other strange habits like setting the alarm clock an hour before he got up just so he had the pleasure of going back to sleep. If you picture a short Sheldon Cooper you’ve got a good idea of what he was like. I tried to be friendly but we never really got along. I discovered some years later that he became a drag queen in Houston. Much of the cause, I suspect, was rebellion against his overly strict minister father, but he never really did “fit in”. Such people do need professional help.


57 posted on 05/21/2017 3:11:17 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Trump20162020

58 posted on 05/21/2017 3:11:33 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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To: Trump20162020

I’m assuming they’re all homos, and the homos I’ve met are all clowns, demanding to be the center of attention, and making vulgar references to their sexuality that they deem witty. Accordingly, I avoid them like the plague that they are.


59 posted on 05/21/2017 3:13:33 PM PDT by King Moonracer (I wish I had the Tantulus field, but I'd probably wear it out.)
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To: Trump20162020

I don’t even want to be friends with, “normal” liberals!


60 posted on 05/21/2017 3:16:02 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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