Nothing to Queer but Queer itself
You’re just being paranoid, America. Nobody’s forcing you to take part in gay marriage or forcing your children to approve of transsexuality. Just let them be themselves and they’ll leave you alone.
Your eighth-grader or high school student will never be given a pop quiz on anal insertions.
There’s been a lot of hysteria lately from conservatives fearing a slippery slope if they “give in” on queer rights. We thought we’d do our part to alleviate their fears by reprinting this Hark Thrice article from thirty years ago. Thrice’s soothing words are just as relevant today as they were in 1986.
Last I looked at the calendar, it was 1986, and yet conservatives are still acting as if it were 1960, predicting that the Democratic Party was about to start worshipping the Pope. My friends on the other side of the aisle, you are acting and speaking unreasonably. When queer rights activists ask for the same rights you yourselves enjoy, they are not secretly greasing some slippery slope for America. Once they get what they want, they’ll stop.
Just because gays can marry, does not mean that you will be forced to take part in a gay marriage. It will never happen, so stop worrying about it. It’s not a winning platform, it’s a whining platform.
When we open our schools and children’s groups to queer instructors and facilitators, they will continue to follow the standard curriculum. It does not mean that your children will be taught the benefits of fisting and anal sex. That’s crazy talk. Even queers love their children.
Accepting gender reassignment surgery for adults is not a scheme to mainstream deviance. Adults have the right to choose whatever surgery they feel they need to be normal. Just because it’s accepted among adults, doesn’t mean children will be encouraged to choose gender reassignment surgery before they’ve matured enough to make such a permanent decision.
And some of the “concerns” presented by conservatives are so ridiculous that they are clearly just fearmongering. Your children will never have to share bathrooms and locker rooms with pre-op transsexuals, nor will your daughters ever have to run out of a shower at the public pool because a strange man is displaying his genitalia near her—not a transgender, in any case.
While I’m here, I would like also to reassure some of our less enlightened friends of the same political cloth that accepting gender reassignment surgery will not lead to genetically male women participating in women’s sports, nor will it lead to genetically white individuals taking advantage of minority advancement programs. Such concerns are, to reassign a phrase, beyond the pale. You don’t have to worry about whites taking up leadership positions in the black movement, nor about whites taking affirmative action slots away from minority applicants.
My conservative friends, as well as my worrisome friends in the big tent, you are listening to fear-mongers spouting hysterics. These things will never happen. You have nothing to fear from the gender revolution. It is merely about leaving other people alone to do what seems right to them. It is only what you would want for yourself in similar situations.
Mr. Thrice’s voice of reason was a great calming influence to a previous generation. Since he wrote that article, however, even more outrageous scenarios have been proposed by fearmongers taking advantage of the recent hysteria. We would like to provide further reassurance to our conservative brethren, sistren, sethren, bristren, whitren, blackren, wackren, and othren.
- No gay scoutmaster will ever marry one of his charges.
- Clergy will never be required to perform gay marriages against their will.
- Parents will never be forced to support transgender surgery for their underage children.
- Families will never be punished for complaining about a relationship between their child and their child’s schoolteacher.
We guarantee that these predictions will be just as reliable as our predictions from 1986. Stop with the crazy talk, people. Just not gonna happen.
Trust us.
cultural appropriation
- Boston Globe unintentionally proves Elizabeth Warren’s ethnic fraud: William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
- “The only way that Warren embraced her heritage was in a very sneaky way meant to juice her appeal to prospective employers by putting her in the desirable employment categories of ‘minority’ and ‘woman of color.’ When she reached the top rung of the law professor ladder, a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School, Warren abandoned her tactical ‘embrace’ of her Native American heritage.”
- Family Member Tells Don Lemon That Shaun King is 100% White: Ace at Ace of Spades HQ
- “It seems obvious, now, that he’s white, but he had previously mostly preferred black and white pictures of himself, where his skin color wasn’t clear and so where his haircut and facial hair ‘read’ as black.”
- Last black ejected from civil rights movement
- White is the new black: a new generation of Democrats bear the white liberal’s burden to save blacks from their own laziness.
- Rachel Dolezal has a right to be black: Camille Gear Rich at CNN
- “Dolezal is disturbing for many people because she marks a cultural fault line. Like it or not, we have entered into an era of elective race—a time when people expect that one has a right and dignity to claim the identity of one's choice.” (Memeorandum thread)
religious freedom
- Christian Baker Makes Case for Not ‘Expressing’ Support of Same-Sex Marriage: Ken McIntyre at The Daily Signal
- When one judge asked whether an oil painter had to create a painting celebrating same-sex marriage, an ACLU lawyer replied yes, Tedesco noted. “And if they don’t want to have to do that, then they can close down their business and just paint on the side.”
- A florist loses religious freedom, and much more: Denny Burk at CNN
- "The message of these rulings is unmistakable: The government will bring about your personal and professional ruin if you don't help celebrate same-sex marriage," said Kristen Waggoner, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, who argued before the court in December.
sex
- Chicago Schools Plan to Teach 5th Graders about Anal Sex: Sarah Fisher
- “These videos should only be used for grades 8-12.”
- The child sex of the anointed
- There’s nothing so uncommon as common sense in DC, and the Washington Post epitomizes the nonsensical vision of the anointed with Betsy Karasik’s article proposing legalizing sex between high school teachers and high school students “absent extenuating circumstances”.
- How Much Sexual Assault Will Be Tolerated?: Rory Cooper at The Daily Signal
- “This week, we saw scores of Hollywood liberals rushing to the defense of Roman Polanski, a man who has admitted to sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl in 1977 and running from justice ever since. The most cited excuses were: It was a long time ago; she forgave him (after a large civil settlement); the judge was too strict and the most concerning…he said it was consensual. Whoopi Goldberg went as far as to not call it a “rape-rape” and rationalize that many other cultures find sexual intercourse between a 44 year old man and a 13 year old girl perfectly acceptable–which ones she didn’t say.” (Memeorandum thread)
transphobia
- Feds say Illinois school district broke law by banning transgender student from girls’ locker room: Michael E. Miller at The Washington Post
- “The report, which caps a two-year investigation, found that Township High School District 211 in Palatine, Ill., unfairly denied the transgender teenager—who was undergoing hormone therapy but had not undergone gender reassignment surgery—access to school facilities in violation of Title IX, that bars discrimination in federally funded education programs, causing her ‘isolation,’ ‘ostracism’ and at least one ‘tearful breakdown.’” (Memeorandum thread)
- Houston Rejected Men in Women's Bathrooms. Here's Where the LGBT Movement Goes Next.: Aaron Bandler at The Daily Wire
- “The ACLU is hopeful that the Superior Court will apply established legal principles to allow annulment of adoptions by same-sex couples who that they can finally partake of their constitutional right to marry,” Witold Walczak, legal director of ACLU Pennsylvania, told CNN.
- How young is too young to seek gender reassignment?: Anermona Hartocollis
- “The drive to treat children is relatively new. The puberty-blocking protocol gained legitimacy in 2009, when it was endorsed by the Endocrine Society, a physicians’ group. It calls for administering drugs normally used to treat precocious puberty, as well as prostate cancer and endometriosis.”
- Parents’ outrage as transgendered woman is permitted to use the women’s locker room ‘exposing himself to little girls: Nina Golgowski at Daily Mail.com
- “At the center of the controversy, Colleen Francis, a 45-year-old student at Olympia's Evergreen College who identifies as a woman but with male genitalia, says she has a right to use the facilities and the school agrees.”
- Sex-change treatment for kids on the rise
- “The mother of the Los Angeles 8-year-old says he’s eager to begin treatment.”
More religious freedom
- Tax me to the church on time
- The left wants to take the policies that are consolidating small businesses into larger ones, and use them to consolidate small churches into larger ones. They want to leverage milker bills and rent-seeking in religion.
- Support for Riverheads teacher and Christianity lesson
- Community, ACLU, President rally around teacher who forced Muslim students to write the Lord’s Prayer in Latin.
More transphobia
- The Destruction of Title IX
- If you put the government in charge of a desert, in fifty years you’ll have a shortage of sand. If you put the government in charge of protecting women, in fifty years you’ll have government-sponsored violence against women.
- That’s a man, baby: Your fantasy is hurting people
- We are beating and mutilating children in the name of tolerance. There will come a time when our denial of biological reality is recognized as a mass hysteria, when child castration is recognized as the barbarity that it is.
- How the left transformed vulgarity into courage and elected Donald Trump
- When you lose to Donald Trump, look inward, because it isn’t Donald Trump’s fault. The establishment left, especially the media, attacked Donald Trump just like he was Joe the Plumber. But Donald Trump has the platform to attack back. Doing so took courage, and the Plumbers of America recognized that.
- Dr. Frank N. Furter: the left’s answer to transgender bathrooms
- The left thinks transgenders are murderous, cannialistic rapists. And they approve.
- Last black ejected from civil rights movement
- White is the new black: a new generation of Democrats bear the white liberal’s burden to save blacks from their own laziness.
- Two more pages with the topic transphobia, and other related pages
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