Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Transsexuals are nothing new. They were what we had when I was a kid, not transgenders. I saw this episode in real time. I remember talking about it with my friends in junior high.
The Brady Bunch dad got a sex change. Not "transgender care," he got the full surgery. It was unrealistic because he went from full dude to full woman in one episode. But we didn't know any better and that's how television works.
Even that wasn't pioneering. It had been going on for decades. We laughed about it, and thought it was weird.
But I don't remember anyone saying that he should not be allowed to do it. People who had sex changes could change their sex on their birth certificate and get married to someone of the opposite sex from the new one. I don't remember anyone objecting to that, even if they opposed gay marriage.
Some people expressed objection, i.e. if he was born male, he should stay male, but no one demanded any intervention by government.
So, why do people oppose transgenders, now, if there was such little opposition then? Weeeell, a couple reasons:
First off, transsexuals were committed. They couldn't "choose their gender," they were born the wrong sex they thought and went to great lengths to make their bodies resemble the right one. They didn't wake up each day, demanding that everyone memorized their latest pronouns, or get offended that we din't know that their new, lighter blue, hair meant that they were fluid today. Transsexuals just wanted to be left alone, and most of us were glad to oblige.
Second off, they did not use their sexual dysphoria as an excuse to take over girls and women's sports. Sure, there was Rene Richards, who sued to play tennis. But that was only one person, and she wasn't that good anyway. She didn't start winning every event, making the competition among real women only for second place. She didn't put biological females in danger with testosterone-grown upper body strength. Of course, we're going to object when a guy can get a wig, or a weave, or just grow the do, and now he's the champion in a category women work hard just to get to the upper levels of. Now he's a "woman boxer," fracturing women's skulls.
Third, and most important, they never - ever - got kids involved. Just as announcing yourself as a woman to win women's sports events shows a different agenda that becoming the real you, so does getting kids involved. If you wonder why people think transgender teachers are groomers if they talk to kinder students about their sexuality, ask yourself what other motivation could they have?
Time for you to wake up, social liberals.
The Brady Bunch dad got a sex change. Not "transgender care," he got the full surgery. It was unrealistic because he went from full dude to full woman in one episode. But we didn't know any better and that's how television works.
Even that wasn't pioneering. It had been going on for decades. We laughed about it, and thought it was weird.
But I don't remember anyone saying that he should not be allowed to do it. People who had sex changes could change their sex on their birth certificate and get married to someone of the opposite sex from the new one. I don't remember anyone objecting to that, even if they opposed gay marriage.
Some people expressed objection, i.e. if he was born male, he should stay male, but no one demanded any intervention by government.
So, why do people oppose transgenders, now, if there was such little opposition then? Weeeell, a couple reasons:
First off, transsexuals were committed. They couldn't "choose their gender," they were born the wrong sex they thought and went to great lengths to make their bodies resemble the right one. They didn't wake up each day, demanding that everyone memorized their latest pronouns, or get offended that we din't know that their new, lighter blue, hair meant that they were fluid today. Transsexuals just wanted to be left alone, and most of us were glad to oblige.
Second off, they did not use their sexual dysphoria as an excuse to take over girls and women's sports. Sure, there was Rene Richards, who sued to play tennis. But that was only one person, and she wasn't that good anyway. She didn't start winning every event, making the competition among real women only for second place. She didn't put biological females in danger with testosterone-grown upper body strength. Of course, we're going to object when a guy can get a wig, or a weave, or just grow the do, and now he's the champion in a category women work hard just to get to the upper levels of. Now he's a "woman boxer," fracturing women's skulls.
Third, and most important, they never - ever - got kids involved. Just as announcing yourself as a woman to win women's sports events shows a different agenda that becoming the real you, so does getting kids involved. If you wonder why people think transgender teachers are groomers if they talk to kinder students about their sexuality, ask yourself what other motivation could they have?
Time for you to wake up, social liberals.