Well AT, I respect that. You sound like a real, honest democrat like my parents were and I was as a kid. You are right on every point, when you are nine years old, you may vaguely get that you're a boy or a girl, but there is no sexuality, no grasp of gender identity to the point that you could go to your patents and say: "Hey Mommy, I think I'm a transgender."
You don't have to go anywhere. Both parties are repulsive to many, so you're sure as hell not alone. Maybe just remain independent and advocate for your individual issues as a free agent. .
It is a determining factor in voting for a candidate even though a religious test is not used according to the Constitution yet the people of the USA are not the Constitution and therefore judge a candidate according to their religion. Which is what this thread tis aboot...
I know cause on Sunday Trump is nowhere near a church but he is a golf course...So how does golfing and never going to church make a person a good Christian?
I feel your pain. I'm a conservative who leans libertarian. I was a Republican all my life. But Trump has made it impossible to be both at the same time, so I resigned as a Republican. I have no party to go to. That is actually quite freeing. No longer am I a partisan straight party ticket voter. I have stopped voting at the federal level. If you vote for the lesser of two EVILS, you are still voting for EVIL. You can always write in a name l like I do from time to time. When one of my daughters was in first grade, she asked for friend to have a sleepover. We said fine, it was cute. The little girl was dropped off by her grandfather. She didn't live with her parents for unknown reasons. She was filthy. He clothes were filthy and her body was streaked with dirt. So my wife an I made the very risky decision to give her a bath and wash her clothes. I asked my wife to do the bath since it was a little girl. Well, it turns out "she" was a transgender. She had picked out her own girl name, too. At that young an age, girls and boys have the same little kid bodies. You let a little boy's hair grow out, and they can easily pass as a girl. For whatever reason, this kid wanted to be a girl. It could have been a phase. There certainly seemed to be something going on with the home life. Maybe she passed through it, maybe she didn't. We didn't tell our kids about the situation. We let the kid be a girl with our kids being none the wiser. As for gay marriage, I'm fine with it being called marriage. Religion does not own the word, and so-called religious people used to use their Bible to ban interracial marriage. There really isn't any difference between their arguments and the arguments of anti-gay bigots today. This whole issue isn't about religion. It is about government cash and prizes. The bigots want gays to be denied access to the same government cash and prizes awarded to their marriages by the laws of the land. This is about equal protection of the laws. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking it's about religion.