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I don't enjoy seeing teens driven to suicide either, but you have to admit that this is a polarizing topic to say the least. In fact, I would much prefer that everyone stop paying so much damn attention to this issue and basically leave them alone.
However, reality has it otherwise. I would submit that so much regarding the trans issue isn't really about trans people at all, but what other people associate with that issue and how they'd like to portray themselves publicly regarding what they associate with the issue.
Unfortunately, the liberal managerial class has made it a point to hide their shallowness and ineffectual economic policies behind superficial social issues, with lgbtqia+ advocacy, and in particular the advocacy, often being one of their favorite shields to hide behind.
Now, this makes for a very effective distraction for people on both sides.
Now, no one's talking about the ever expanding high tech surveillance state panopticon that is unfolding, the economic situation, income inequality, privatized threats to civil liberties, or the incremental emergence of World War III. Nope! When the issue is transgender stuff, that's all we're going to be talking about for the next 300 years it seems. Fuck!
It's less than 1 percent of the population, but when the topic pops up, that's all anyone will talk about.
Now, like I mentioned earlier, so much of this really isn't about trans people.
It's about what other people think about the peripheral issues they associate with trans advocacy.
For superficial Brunch Liberals, it's their opportunity to score an easy social "win" by demonstrating how sophisticated and morally righteous they are simply by saying/doing some performative and symbolic gesture of "solidarity" with trans people.
For the right, this is their opportunity to use the trans issue to stand against what they perceive of as liberal (or "leftist" in their often misused parlance).
