Posted on 11/23/2020 9:26:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Trans activists keep bullying businesses into removing content through fear tactics rather than by countering the message with their own better one.
It seems the battle about the rights and privileges of transgender Americans has come down to what other people are allowed to say about them. The controversy over Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” demonstrates how far this battle has come.
Shrier’s book, which explores the phenomenon of many teenage girls suddenly and impulsively insisting they are now boys and how this affects their families and futures, has come under fire from transgender activists. Chase Strangio of the American Civil Liberties Union tweeted, “Abigail Shrier’s book is a dangerous polemic with a goal of making people not trans. I think of all the times & ways I was told my transness wasn’t real & the daily toll that still takes. We have to fight these ideas which are leading to the criminalization of trans life again.”
Several anonymous transgender Twitter users also expressed this belief and reached out to Target, demanding the retailer remove the book from its shelves. Target promptly did. After a heavy backlash that sent Shrier’s book into the best-seller category on Amazon, including No. 15 in all books, Target reversed its decision, also quietly doing the same for its removal of Debra Soh’s “The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society.”
“I dream of and fight for a world where Abigail’s book isn’t the #1 seller on Amazon under ‘LGBT,’” Strangio lamented in response, “Where there is no market for ideas fueled by fear of our existence and the possibilities we make possible in the world.”
Tucker Carlson highlighted one of Strangio’s recent tweets, which said, “Also stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.” Strangio later complained it was meant to be a joke and deleted the tweet, but what else would an objective observer walk away with after a lawyer for the ACLU declared a book dangerous, fueled by “fear of our existence,” and articulated a belief in wanting such books to have no market at all?
Strangio tweeted, “What these people are doing to me is going to put me in danger. They think its [sic] all fun and games but have no idea what its like to actually be trans in the world they are creating.”
Strangio might fit the traditional understanding of gender dysphoria, a persistent and distressing discomfort in one’s biological sex from childhood forward, but what Shrier explores in her book are stories of young girls who suddenly and in groups of friends announce their new trans identity and begin pursuing permanent physical changes without parental knowledge or consent.
Shrier did not write a “dangerous polemic” criticizing or dismissing transgender identity. She wrote a book on the effects of a social contagion and how it has destroyed the lives of young women and their families, explaining how LGBT and transgender activists silence any discussion of this.
It seems the core of Strangio’s complaint is viewing personal experiences through the perspective of how others view him. Using fear and urgency, Strangio positions transgender people’s lives as though they hang in the balance of how other people think about transgender issues and the negative influence Shrier’s book could have on them.
Strangio was born female and transitioned, adopted a new name and a new legal gender, pursued a legal career, and achieved a successful position fighting for Strangio’s beliefs for the largest civil rights group in America. Yet as Shrier points out in the Carlson interview, we’re supposed to believe Strangio’s one single book, the only one in existence on this specific subject, personally threatens Strangio’s “transness”?
A movement that can marginalize and silence viewpoints it finds threatening is not a victimized group. More to the point, what Strangio is effectively arguing here is that the personal identities of all transgender people cease to exist when directly observed without a lens of gender-affirmative theory.
In “Irreversible Damage,” Shrier speaks with transgender people, their families, both conservatives and progressives, and medical professionals, and comes away with a clear understanding of what gender dysphoria is and what it is not. For a movement that struggles to define itself and its wants, this book is a positive development.
This debacle is profoundly disturbing and frustrating. The passion of a person’s insecurities should not dictate what other people read and share. Activists must stop constantly portraying themselves and thus the transgender movement as mentally fragile and emotionally unstable.
Whether Strangio and other LGBT activists like it, a huge market for critical thinking and honest discussions surrounds these issues. Meanwhile, they continue bullying businesses into removing content through fear tactics and threats of persecution rather than by countering the message with their own better one.
Barbra Streisand effect.
...Barbara Streisand effect.
Idiots on parade
Transgenders do not exist. They are male and female. Pretending to be other than what you ACTUALLT are is a mental illness or delusion.
My daughter’s best friend has a 20 year old daughter who thinks she is a man. She just flew down from Alaska to Seattle for a double mastectomy as part of her “conversion”. Doctors who perform this kind of mutilation on the mentally ill should be locked up.
"Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President Barack Obama told NPR that his promotion of the transgender ideology made it easier for Donald Trump to win the presidency ."
And then got his fewwings incinerated instead of incinerating "Irreversible Damage" when Target reversed the decision.
Don't let this lesson go unlearned - @AskTarget got curb-stomped by average Americans, and the author of "Irreversible Damage", Abigail Shrier, handled it perfectly: SHE DIDN'T TURN THE OTHER CHEEK BUT INSTEAD BITCHSLAPPED TARGET INTO NEXT YEAR.
She stood up to that freak and Strangio and the rest of the man-in-a-dress crowd.
Transvestite is the correct word.
They are and will always be xy-male and xx-female. Though these males prefer to be masculyn and the females prefer to be femimen. So why not keep their parts and be feminine men and masculine women?
Trannies are a drag.
Professionals who question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy could find themselves out of a job.
I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/im-pediatrician-how-transgender-ideology-has-infiltrated-my-field-and-produced-large-scale
Aside from the conspiracy theory that transgenders are profitable for the pharmaceutical industry, whereas lesbians and gays aren’t?
The problem is liberals in power using sexual minorities as a political club against conservatives. How can you fight political indoctrination in public schools when you’re fighting crazy dudes in the girls’ locker room at school? And getting sued via redefined civil rights rules for saying a mentally ill man shouldn’t be in a women’s shelter?
Can Hatred of Christians Lead to Support of Sexual Minorities?
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/03/50399/
Can Hatred of Christians Lead to Support of Sexual Minorities?
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/03/50399/
“Transvestite is the correct word”
Maybe 30 years ago...
Nowadays it’s transgender bi gender cisgender friends-gender queer-gender it’s really gotten bizzaro, definition wise.
...and because of free republic I now have a somewhat workable gender related dialog.
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