Yes, I have..............because I have documents that say I am legally a man.
I guess I'm not sure what we're arguing about here. People were men and women long before there was paperwork to prove or determine it.
Men will always have an advantage over women in sports, no matter how you put it.
I'm already agreed with you. I agree again.
Ok, so let's say that families don't push any agenda on their kids.
Why would I agree to that? Most do if not consciously, then unconsciously and it's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm of the school that it's better to teach kids how to think, not WHAT to think, but the nature of humankind is to pass down ideas and concepts. Were it not so, we'd all still be living in caves.
Most likely 98% (about) of those kids will become straight, because of the biological urge to procreate with the opposite sex.
We can talk about bathrooms and sports all day, but the problem here is we have a fundamental disagreement about reality itself. I do believe people who are gay or trans are just following their true nature and for most people it doesn't come without a fight and a resistance. Assuming you're straight, imagine growing up in a society where 98% of the population and your own parents were pushing you to be gay. You'd certainly try to follow the example, but a the end of the day it just wouldnt' feel right to you and you'd be left with the choice to be true to yourself or suppress it and lived a closeted life.
You should try having this conversation with a person who's actually gay or trans and see if you can at least come to appreciate that they aren't faking it and that this is a real thing that people feel and are. Then you can still judge and condemn all you want, but at least you'll have a grasp of the reality of the situation.
I don't think straight parents push any agenda on their kids. They simply live how biology intended.
The LGBTQ+ community relationships does, because it goes against biological urges and processes.
Biology doesn't intend anything. Do you mean evolution? It's a nuanced process tempered by time and the human evolution of ideas and concepts of morality. There's a reason we don't only practice might makes might. Compassion, empathy, and forgiveness are strategies for success.
How to explain to kids' relationships:
Parents: Mommy is married to Daddy.
Kids: Why?
Parents: Because we like each other, and we are able to create a family.
Kids: How?
Parents: Through love.
How to explain to kids, other types of relationships:
Parents: Daddy is married to Daddy.
Kids: Why?
Parents: Because we like each other.
Kids: Why?
Parents: ....................
So straight parents who adopt kids don't love their kids? And we both know a lot of kids come into the world not through love, but through lust. There are terrible parents who are gay and straight. There are wonderful parents who are gay and straight. Being a good or loving parent has nothing to do with being gay or straight.
They can't create a family, so how are they going to explain to their kids why daddy likes daddy. The only real answer to that would be to get into sexual detail.
Say you are 10 and your parents die in a car accident. You and your sister are adopted by your aunt and uncle. Are you now no longer a part of a family?
Say you are 10 and you ask your daddy why he lives your mommy. Does you daddy explain it's because he likes to put his **** into your momie's *****? I really don't understand your reasoning here. Gay parents would answer the same way straight parents would.
I think there are tribal problems with many groups pushing their agenda in a way that's intolerant and angry. You see this on the Left and the Right. But a person being true to his sexuality isn't an "ideology".
Yes, it is. All throughout history social norms have been Men are men and women are women.
Then all the sudden we have a social push for the opposite of that, one unlike we have ever seen before in the west. That is an ideological push. An idea. Not based in facts, but feelings.
there have always been gay and trans people. Some cultures throughout human history have tolerated and included them. Others exclude banish or kill them. You're seeing it more now because tolerance has gone up. We see gay couples all the time now. We didn't see them so much generations ago not because they didn't exist, but because they were closeted and being out was dangerous and even deadly for them.
Now that said, I do think people can be confused it's my opinion that some of these nonbinary kids are more likely to just be gay or straight but haven't figured it out yet. Some kids starve themselves to death to fit in or dress rebelliously, etc. Some of what we are seeing as nonbinary may be a part of that.
Also feelings matter to one's identity. How many roads must a man walk on before they call him a man? (you should sing that bit). Most straight men come to realize as they get older than being a man is more than biology. How much sense does it make for a man to throw his life away in war? It makes a lot of sense depending now how that man views himself in society and who he is as a person.
............He's just being who he feels he is. Who cares? So long as it doesn't hurt others, that's fine.
It hurts society as a whole. We gave gay people rights. They said it wouldn't be a big deal.
Stop there a second. Has it become a big deal? My life hasn't changed at all in anyway since gays were legally allowed to marry. Is there rioting in the streets? Are kids from gay parents turning out to be horrible people? Is Jesus raining down lighting bolts? Seriously, it's a lot of hysteria that came to nothing. It was a whole lot of hysteria over nothing. Much like what happened when black people started marrying white people.
Now we have men pretending to be women, and pedophilia is at an all time high.
Pedophilia is not at an all time high, but even if it was, there's no connection with being gay or being trans and pedophilia. Gay, straight, and trans people are all capable of being horrible persons. People had the same concerns about black men becoming free or voting and then the same things were said about women getting the vote. Same thing was said about democracy and religious tolerance and yet we got over it. We'll get over trans people too. Your kids or your grandkids won't care the same way you don't really care that women have the right to vote or that your neighbor doesn't belong to your church.
I think the election rules were unfairly changed, right before the election, but legally Biden won, so I will also stop there too.
I'm glad in this you are not among the majority of Republicans. Kudos to you for thinking for yourself. Democracy matters and it's something Rs and Ds need to come together on.
Are you seeing a lot of problems with transmen in men's restrooms?
No! And you want to know why? Because women usually do not prey on men, in the same way men prey on women.
I don't want to get off track here, but I think the real problem behind the bathroom issue is that society has a twisted and sexist perception of "men" in general. People seem to think that men are going to grope and rape women most any time when no one's looking. It's the sexist view society has of men that make this a big issue, but no one ever talks about that. Anyway, this is a bit off topic, but something to think about.
So, to rephrase the question, are you seeing a lot of problems with transmen preying on women in womens' bathrooms? I jsut did a google. Something like 1.64 million in the US identify as trans genders.. say have are transwomen. That means some 800,000 transwomen are using mens' bathrooms right now. Everybody poops right? Contrast that with whatever incidences you can come up with.
'When was the last time you heard of a woman raping a man, or sexually preying on the man to the point of the man being scared and sexually assaulted.
Almost never.
No, not even close to almost never.
The Understudied Female Sexual Predator
Same with battering. Women do beat men and it's probably much more common than you realize:
That said, I'll grant you that abuse of women is more common, sexually or otherwise.
It's none of your business what kind of surgery or drug therapy someone wants to do. Wanna pierce your nose or squirt ink into your skin or take hair from your butt and stitch it into your scale... not my business.
Kids, can't drink.
Kids can't get tattoos by themselves.
Kids can't smoke.
Kids can't drive.
Kids can't consent.
If you go back and read my comment in context it was clear I was talking about adults with the statement which I then followed up by saying "as for kids..."
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