Also... Let's look at those articles.
Fight back against redefining words... I am. A Woman and a Man are very clear. Transgender Man/Woman doesn't make you truly either of those things. It may make you closer but it is definitely not the same thing. Biology wins against imagination.
I am not offended. I don't care what someone says to me. Unless they think they can FORCE my behavior. In that case I am not offended either. I am resistant. I am fighting. Very big difference between being offended, feeling insulted, or having my feelings hurt and what I am in those cases.
If they are pushing sterilization acts upon children that does not OFFEND me. It is beyond being offended. It is threatening. It is threatening the future of the human race.
Big difference between THREATS and CHOOSING to be OFFENDED.
Nothing I wrote about in this post had a damn thing to do with me being offended.
It also did not have a damn thing to do with looking for an escape hatch to discount anything.
I've listened just like everyone in this country... whether I wanted to at the time or not. It is in my face and I've been listening and observing the arguments for some time.
Some of these people are LUNATICS and they are very vocal and due to this "offended" nonsense we are not supposed to dare to challenge them.
I've known gay people (before LGBT then Q were the "in" thing) all of my life. Zero problem with them. One of them happened to be one of my closest friends for years, and a roommate for four years. I was the first person in the world he came out of the closet to.
I had suspected. Now I know a lot more than I did back then but I can see some of the cliche signs before he came out of the closet.
Him and another friend were always making gay jokes and anti-gay jokes. I didn't join in on that because I really don't like making fun of other people other than myself, and perhaps my friends. If I make fun of you it will be with a smile and you'll know that means I consider you a friend.
They would make fun of other people, and often anti-gay jokes.
I've come to learn that this is not uncommon for gay people who are still in the closet. Maybe it is a defense mechanism. Trying to convince yourself. Camouflage, I don't know.
I just know that this friend came out to me first. He realized out of everyone he knew I'd be supportive.
That was before this movement was pushed to extremes...
Overcompensating.