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The Trans Movement Has Gone Too Far, and It’s Starting to Backfire on Them
PJ Media ^ | 05/16/2022 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 05/16/2022 8:58:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Radical leftist gender theory has spread rapidly like a cancer upon society in recent years. And while many have caved to the woke mob in promoting such absurdities as the notion that men can become women, women can become men, or that there are more than two genders, an increasing number of Americans believe that the country has gone too far with the acceptance of trans identities, according to a poll from NBC News.

“Thirty-three percent of Americans say society has gone too far in accepting transgender identities, while 35% say the country has not gone far enough to end discrimination against transgender people,” reports Fox News. “Another 25% say that the country has reached a reasonable balance in how it deals with transgender people, according to the results of an NBC News poll released Sunday.”

While the poll still shows that a plurality of people think the country hasn’t gone far enough, the two-point difference is within the margin of error and indicates that the number of people who think the acceptance of transgender identities has gone too far has skyrocketed. In its August 2021 survey, only 26% of Americans said the country had gone too far in accepting transgender identities, while 38% said the country hadn’t gone far enough.

This comes on top of another poll indicating that most Americans do not support transgender surgeries or puberty blockers for minors.

According to a poll released last week by the American Principles Project Foundation, 56% of those surveyed said they would support a ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transition surgeries for minors. In comparison, 34% said they would not. The survey also found that 63% of Americans agreed that children are too young to make decisions about gender identity transition surgery.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: movement; transgender
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To: SeekAndFind

This old skit from THE LIFE OF BRIAN comes to mind.

http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm

Stan wants to become a woman named Loretta and have babies...

JUDITH: Here! I— I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.

FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.

REG: What’s the point?

FRANCIS: What?

REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!

FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.

REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
***
SYMBOLIC OF THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST REALITY is what we are dealing with today.


21 posted on 05/16/2022 9:21:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: drSteve78

I find the results of the survey appalling while the article describes it as some sort of moral victory.

Let me explain; ONLY 1/3 of Americans think trans woke theory has gone too far? Good god it should be 90% after 3 genders were identified! It is like saying a survey found out 1/3 of the US had not committed the serious crime of ______ (fill in the blank).

It’s sheer madness as there are 2 genders not:
Agender
Androgyne
Androgynous
Bigender
Cis
Cisgender
Cis Female
Cis Male
Cis Man
Cis Woman
Cisgender Female
Cisgender Male
Cisgender Man
Cisgender Woman
Female to Male
FTM
Gender Fluid
Gender Nonconforming
Gender Questioning
Gender Variant
Genderqueer
Intersex
Male to Female
MTF
Neither
Neutrois
Non-binary
Other
Pangender
Trans
Trans*
Trans Female
Trans* Female
Trans Male
Trans* Male
Trans Man
Trans* Man
Trans Person
Trans* Person
Trans Woman
Trans* Woman
Transfeminine
Transgender
Transgender Female
Transgender Male
Transgender Man
Transgender Person
Transgender Woman
Transmasculine
Transsexual
Transsexual Female
Transsexual Male
Transsexual Man
Transsexual Person
Transsexual W
Two Spirit

And this is the shorter “Facebook approved” list, one moronic woke website states 100 genders exist.


22 posted on 05/16/2022 9:22:40 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: SeekAndFind
It seems that the transgender movement has pushed too hard in its quest to demand acceptance of its nonsensical ideas, and it’s starting to backfire on them.

I believe Putin and Xi are behind the push for a lot of these ideas. Makes America weak and divided and ripe for conquest.

23 posted on 05/16/2022 9:22:49 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Headline doesn't match the content AT ALL. There is zero evidence in the polling data covered here that shows "the trans movement has gone too far" or that "it's starting to backfire on them." SIXTY PERCENT say either that America hasn't gone far enough or is striking a reasonable balance on trans issue.

“Thirty-three percent of Americans say society has gone too far in accepting transgender identities, while 35% say the country has not gone far enough to end discrimination against transgender people,” reports Fox News. “Another 25% say that the country has reached a reasonable balance in how it deals with transgender people, according to the results of an NBC News poll released Sunday.”

24 posted on 05/16/2022 9:24:02 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Born in 1950

LOL!!!


25 posted on 05/16/2022 9:24:04 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: alloysteel

I pointed out that Ed Gein, Norman Bates(Psycho) and Richard Levine were just men trying to become fake “women” by different means.

WHAM! Instant 30 days in FB jail.


26 posted on 05/16/2022 9:24:16 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SeekAndFind

Its never about “acceptance” or “equality”, its about domination. They preach “equality” until they get it, then they set out to destroy those who accommodated their equality.


27 posted on 05/16/2022 9:24:30 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: alloysteel
there is no way a human male can grow an embryo in his abdomen

Embryos can't even survive in human females with ectopic pregnancies. If a female decides she is a he and takes male hormones to grow facial hair and such, s/he is still a biological female. If s/he has not had a hysterectomy, then s/he can carry a baby to term in the normal way while still pretending to be a male. The real problem with all this BS is that the news media insists on calling these biological women "men" thus spreading and perpetuating the lie.

28 posted on 05/16/2022 9:29:49 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: gibsonguy

“we are to believe 37% are ok with children deciding to have gender mutilation surgery. BS.”

That, sadly, is probably a statistical reality with the real leftie voters.


29 posted on 05/16/2022 9:31:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (JUST LEAVE US ALONE!...Be whatever, you think you are!!!! On YOUR Time and Dime, NOT OURS!)
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To: TiGuy22

The only thing surprising is they got 25%+ people to publicly go on record to be openly called a Trans-homophobes and have their jobs put in jeopardy.


30 posted on 05/16/2022 9:32:04 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: Phoenix8

**Two Spirit** An American Indian version being pushed as normal.

Yet George Catlin found the warriors despised these (what he called) Dandies and Fops in the tribe and would not even have their portraits in the same room.

The publishers of Catlin’s letters make it clear that these were the sex perverts in the tribe.

https://user.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/catlin/letter16.html


31 posted on 05/16/2022 9:32:17 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Grampa Dave

Yes, for the leftist types, they want puberty blockers and bodily surgeries. They think that not administering these treatments is transphobic.


32 posted on 05/16/2022 9:35:18 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

This has gone from “The love that dare not speak its name” to “The love that won’t shut up”


33 posted on 05/16/2022 9:37:45 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: SeekAndFind

Somehow, I am never polled about these things.


34 posted on 05/16/2022 9:39:41 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2022 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...“Thirty-three percent of Americans say society has gone too far in accepting transgender identities...”


So, according to this poll, only 1/3 of Americans have a problem with calling a man in a dress a woman. I find that hard to believe.

Personally, I wouldn’t mock the man in the dress nor try to make his life more miserable than it already is, but accepting him as a woman?, sorry but that’s never going to happen. Nor can I take him seriously on any important matter, since he’s so obviously confused.


35 posted on 05/16/2022 9:40:39 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Seruzawa

“The real problem is that all these activists targeting children aren’t hanging from a streetlight somewhere.”

Hope you don’t mind my edit here. (-:


36 posted on 05/16/2022 10:05:44 AM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: Phoenix8

The Trans Movement and their Word Insanity ,LOL


37 posted on 05/16/2022 10:25:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

The most interesting thing about this is that gay people are beginning to push back on it. Many are feeling it’s diluting their activism and painting them as part of a group that is obviously mentally ill, and in many cases, simply abhorrent.

Gay women are beginning to push back hard as well, particularly those in sports.

We may be at a turning point here, where it could be recognized that people that identify as trans need help in the form of mental care and therapy, no different than any other dysphoria like anorexia.


38 posted on 05/16/2022 10:42:50 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: SeekAndFind

It was too far when they put bruce jenner on the cover of a magazine and forced people to refer to trans people as their imagined sex. Nobody stopped the fascists, and now they’ve gone “too far”.


39 posted on 05/16/2022 10:48:24 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A totally corrupt media willingly lies to protect a totally corrupt administration. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The truly frightening part is how many people cannot see how this hate-filled attack on rationality has affected them.


40 posted on 05/16/2022 10:48:45 AM PDT by Gratia
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