As a society, we are increasingly aware of individuals who don’t identify the way they present in terms of gender and biological sex: by example, they have male genitalia but identify as a woman. These are folks who have historically resided at the margins of society; their lifestyle was taboo, or something that folks just didn’t acknowledge. Over the last decade or so though, things have begun to change, sometimes for the better. And in an effort to be more
It’s insulting and disrespectful to allow any man, at any time, and for any reason to steal my 10 year old daughters’, and my own, immutable and meaningful biological identity, invade our private spaces naked, and steal her hard earned athletic opportunities.
I don’t care what adults do to themselves, and for years I was willing to respect pronouns so long as that wasn’t misconstrued as denying immutable reality. The activist have put an end to those days. I am as offended by men trying to bully me into saying she/ her and as Black people would be to let my blonde hair blue eyed self to claim I’m Black, and steal all the affirmative action preferences without any of the hassle of actually being Black would be. And I’m just as willing to respect one’s gender “identity” as the NAACP is to respect my racial “identity” as Black.
It’s insulting and disrespectful to allow any man, at any time, and for any reason to steal my 10 year old daughters’, and my own, immutable and meaningful biological identity, invade our private spaces naked, and steal her hard earned athletic opportunities.
I don’t care what adults do to themselves, and for years I was willing to respect pronouns so long as that wasn’t misconstrued as denying immutable reality. The activist have put an end to those days. I am as offended by men trying to bully me into saying she/ her and as Black people would be to let my blonde hair blue eyed self to claim I’m Black, and steal all the affirmative action preferences without any of the hassle of actually being Black would be. And I’m just as willing to respect one’s gender “identity” as the NAACP is to respect my racial “identity” as Black.