Distinctions
Honestly legislators should not be this stupid. It’s an important job; they should not be this lost in the fog.
Thundering herds of bison that’s dumb. Of course people of any kind are not a theory or an ideology or a contested belief, and nobody says they are. The ideology/contested belief is that people can change sex, that people literally are the sex they are not, that people are what they say they are, that sex is determined by feelings and thoughts and not by the reality of the body.
The fact that there are children who say they are trans is indeed a fact. What’s not a fact is that “people [invariably] are who they say they are.” If that were the case there would never be long queues at airports while hundreds of people go through passport control. If that were the case people could empty other people’s bank accounts. If that were the case we could never be sure our doctor has any medical training.
Children who think they’re trans are a reality. Children who say they are trans are a reality. Children who are the opposite sex are a fiction.
Kind of gives up the game when you replace “trans” with “psychic”.
Also, basic euphonia fail in line three.
I know. A IDEOLOGY. Rethink all your choices.
Guess being able to write well is not a requirement for being a legislator. Not that I am surprised. It certainly isn’t in the US.
If “thundering herds of bison” isn’t a thing yet, it should be.
I first saw this post via RSS, which didn’t show the image. The text of the tweet, at least the first two paragraphs, are perfectly reasonable. The third paragraph makes a claim about government actions, which requires specifics to assess.
Then I saw the image, which seems to me to have nothing whatsoever to do with the text. What does referring to something as an ideology have to do with bullying? Christianity is an ideology; that doesn’t make it OK to bully Christians. Contesting belief that a certain group is the “chosen people” doesn’t mean the people who make these claims are undeserving of compassion. Disagreement is not hatred, nor is it bullying, nor is it abuse.
Indeed, hence “lost in the fog” and so on. That is one very confused MP.
There is no such thing as a Christian child or a Muslim child or for that matter a trans child.
Sackbut @4
Good question. People who believe in gender identity HATE it when you refer to their ideas as an ideology.
I think the problem is that ideologies are made up of ideas, and ideas can be considered and criticized. Can’t have that. We’re supposed to accept as fact that some people just are trans (without thinking too hard about what exactly that means.)
We’re supposed to hear “trans” and think of little Kai (deadname Susan) who is bravely being her true self in the face of cisheteronormativity and being bullied for it by terfs and others who refuse to use “her” pronouns. We’re not supposed to wonder why Kai believes she’s a boy or why we have to accept that she is one.