social transition
Social transition is functionally harmless and very easy to go back on, if a child changes their mind. There is no reason to try to limit how a children can socially transition.
social transition
Social transition is functionally harmless and very easy to go back on, if a child changes their mind. There is no reason to try to limit how a children can socially transition.
discriminatory
How much money are legally disabled people allowed to have in their bank account at one time? How do we treat disabled people in society? How do we treat mentally ill people? The homeless? How have we treated them historically? Are we treating them fairly now? How do we treat people based on national origin?
sexist
When did women get the right to vote? Was it during the founding of America? How long have women been allowed to work in all the fields men work in? How long has no fault divorce been a thing? How many women were allowed to help run our nation during it's founding?
racist
Slavery. Chinese Exclusion Act. Police Brutality and Racial Profiling. George Washington owned slaves. So on and so forth.
Members of one race, color, sex, or national origin cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to their race, color, sex, or national origin;
SO WE ARE GOING TO DEAL WITH WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND NAZIS AND OTHER HATE GROUPS?!?!?!
An individual's moral character or status as privileged, oppressing, or oppressed is primarily determined by the individual's race, color, sex, or national origin;
When America stops having a history of oppression people based on their race, color, sex, or national origin... then we can talk. But again, segregation wasn't even a hundred years ago. People were (and still are) oppressed due to things like race, color, sex, or national origin.
Members of one race, color, sex, or national origin are morally or inherently superior to members of another race, color, sex, or national origin;
So we're going to condemn white supremacists and erase the Proud Boys and the Ku Klux Klan and take real, tangible steps to stop Nazis... right?
national unity
Attacking and scape-goating several different parts of your population (queer people, POC people, women, etc.) is also undermining national unity but sure.
“unconscious bias,”
Bias that you are not actively thinking of or intending to do. That's unconscious bias. Is that idea of not intending to do something, yet still doing it like... unheard of? You can NEVER harm someone or NEVER make an assumption about someone without thinking EVER. That's just not possible. Like... unconscious bias isn't even a condemnation, it's just a thing everyone will do or be involved in due to the whole... unconscious part of it.
usurps basic parental authority
Why does a parent get full authority over their children? Can children not be granted rights and liberty to make choices or have a say in their own education and lives?
anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies
A) Anti-American <- Nationalistic B) Subversive (Does this inherently equal bad?) C) Harmful (Please cite how it is causing material harm with clear evidence and data) D) False (Again, material harm, clear evidence, data)
These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity.
"Children are questioning their bodies, their parents, and reality as they understand it. This questioning is antithetical to the concept of critical thinking... which encourages people to question life and think deeply about what they're learning and told." <- Things that don't make as much logical sense as they want you to think. Also, you can repair division, confusion, and distrust by just... being kind and working with transgender individuals. Also, children and trans people are literally advocating for a right to personal identity. And last I checked, family unity has not been a genuine goal in America for large swathes of the population since it's inception. Again... think of slavery, think of the military draft, think of ICE agents seperating families... family unity is not America's top priority.
adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics
Who set this system up? "Innocent children are compelled to adopt identities... solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics..." <- This is not a new thing. Children were born into slavery. Born in segregation. Little girls were forced into life paths then AND now. Acting like this is new is outrageous, when America has been built on the idea of using skin color and immutable characteristics to determine people's lives since its inception.
and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand.
A) "Patriotic Admiration" is giving Nationalism to me. B) "And the values for which we stand..." is bullshit considering how cherry-picked these values are in practice. What happened to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" when it comes to trans people self-determination? Or queer people in general? Or POC? Or women? Liberty has always been a value that exists in our country in name only.