I just watched this guy, Sebastion Gorka shown below, this lying trans obsessed sack of excrement, on CNN blaming trans youth for an inordinate number of school shootings:
When the host tried to interrupt him disputing his claims with real statistics he kept talking over him. This was yet another time I wished hosts could a flash yellow light before cutting off their microphone.
Whenever the host tried to interject actual factual statistics he accused CNN of making up their own facts and having done this for 10 years.
In the next segement, which was supposed to be about RFK Jr., another Trump spokesmans went off once again on how trans people need to be dealt with. This had absolutely nothing to do with what everyone else was discussing on a panel what included him, a less adamant RFK Jr. supporter, and, if I recall correctly, one or two critics.
I am not going to go into depth about this particular show and specifically Sebastion Gorka. It should suffice to show his X page (below):
What I am both intrigued and disgusted by is how anti-trans has even become a “thing.” As both a retired psychotherapist and I hope a rational person it seems that this should be a non-issue. The only time the word “problem” should be in the same sentence as “trans people” is when addressing the problem of the lack of mental health services for providing support for this group. Not only this population, but for any other underserved vulnerable group for whom expert, which would mean non-judgmental, counseling would be beneficial.
When I was on a diversity committee about 25 years ago, along with school administrators and counselors, pastors, and other therapists, it was to help address what was then a growing recognition of the problems gay, lesbian, and bisexual students were having coping with their emotions and to find ways to help them deal with prejudice and basically, to put it simplisitically, to feel good about themselves and their future. We didn’t even talk about trans.
I’m not even sure that I and others knew that, as current estimates show, 3.3% of high school students identify as transgender. The term gay at the time encompassed lesbian, hence they was a “gay and straight” alliance group in our high school. AI tells me that “The term LGBTQ began to be used in the early 2000s, evolving from the earlier acronym LGBT, which was adopted in the 1990s. The initialism itself originated from LGB, which was first used in the mid-1980s.”
There was no LGBTQ+ alphabet with a long list of acronyms like those listed and described on this 2021 website and others.
Political expediency has manadated that people who are gay, lesbian, or bisexual must only be mocked in private and that they may never be publicly demonized. There are just too many of them in the population that hold high postions in politics, business, the arts and entertainment.
There are gay and lesbian people working in the White House, notable among them Scott Bessent, Secretary of Treasury and Ric Grennell, the presidential envoy for special missions, but there are several more (see article).
Trump can play YMCA at his rallies and nobody blinks a bigoted eyelash, but citing financial constraints and scheduling conflicts, he canceled The Gay Men’s Chorus at The Kennedy Center Pride perfomance (see article) I am quite certain it was really because of one capital letter in this sentence:
Aside from believers in the Pray the Gay Away movement my sense is that many, perhaps the majority, of people accept that people are born with certain gender preferences or proclivities. The idea that one could become gay or lesbian due to some kind of overprotective mothering or, as Freud thought, a developmental arrest in early childhood, has been abandoned by experts in psychology and sexology.
While it SHOULD be abundantly clear to a thinking person that the same holds true for a trans person who knows from an early age that the gender of the body they were born with is not the gender that they really are.
The exact causes of being transgender are not fully understood. Current research suggests a combination of genetic, brain structure, and hormonal factors play a role. I’m not an expert, but I don’t think childhood experiences play a role as the anti-trans people want you to believe.
But what a wowza way to demonize a group for political gain than to decide trans people are just plain bad and shouldn’t exist.
The anti-trans GOP don’t rage about people like tennis great Billie Jean King who is a prominent LGBTQ rights advocate. She publicly came out as a lesbian in 1981 after being outed.
I well remember when she played a well known male tennis player, Bobby Riggs, in the much hyped Battle of the Sexes (see Wikipedia).
But had she been someone born a man who became a woman, you damn well know the anti-trans movement among Republicans would have gained traction back in the eighties.
OUT Magazine recently listed 33 football players who came out as gay (here).
Nobody is raising hell saying they shouldn’t be allowed to play.
Just wait until we have one accomplished male to female trans athelete competing in and being a standout in a very popular woman’s sport and we’ll have to see what the anti-trans group has to say. So far all I have found is a list of 29 trans athletes who have won state, national or international titles in women’s sports. I have not heard of a single one of them. If you look down the list you will see the sporting events are not what you would call “major sports.” It is only a matter of time before someone emerges in a professional sport that large numbers of people pay attention to.
Then we may have a trans Billy Jean King. I hope it happens in my lifetime. I want to see a spokeswoman like King go up against the anti-trans bigots.
