The old way of thinking is flawed and mistaken

[victoriacantons]

There's a story in the Daily Mail about a trans girl joining the Girl Scouts in the USA deep south and in response three leaders have quit citing that "trans people are dangerous to our children".

Some others have responded tobthe above by assuming that the thought goes that a trans person is dangerous because they pose a threat as a sex offender.

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Comments

[alicephilippa]

Removing their ability to pigeon hole all individuals based on a flawed genetic characteristic removes their ability to control those same individuals. This has been seen most strongly is apartheid and the drive for Aryan purity. The Old Guard don't like control being removed from them.

The sad thing is is that they also tend to be the ones who have a voice in the populist press and their views get to be promulgated until there is a revolution. We are starting to see that revolution beginning, and the article you linked to and My Transsexual Summer are the beginnings of the revolution where trans people are being portrayed in a positive light and not a threat to society. Trans people will always be a threat to right wing fundamentals whether it is in 5 years or 500 years.

Consider the Following Cystal Clear Statement

[shelleybear]

"In 2007, when Glenn - then still known at work as Mr. Morrison - informed her supervisor in the Georgia General Assembly's Office of Legislative Counsel that she would begin arriving at work dressed as a woman, she was fired by Sewell Brumby, who heads the office.

Brumby later said in depositions that it bothered him because "he was a man dressed as a woman and made up as a woman".

Brumby also said, "It's unsettling to think of someone dressed in women's clothing with male sexual organs inside that clothing."

Batty: Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave. *

*Roy Batty "Blade Runner"