Speaker 1: We have a voicemail number. That number is 2192. David P
Here's a really good question that came in about the obsession from many on the. Right.
With trans people. Take a listen to this. Speaker 2: Hi, David. As for why people are
so obsessed with trans people, I myself am not trans, but most many of my best friends are.
It's actually really based in white supremacy in that being a straight white man
is their entire identity. And if the gender binary it doesn't exist the way they think it does, then
their entire life is an entire existential crisis that they can't deal with because their entire
identity is based on being a straight white man.
So it's a lot more complicated than that. And the gender binary is very complicated across
multiple cultures, but that's my $0.02. Speaker 1: So there's a couple different
things going on. First of all, I think some people don't like it when I say this.
I really could not care less about gender and sexuality in the sense of it impacting my
opinion or conversations that I want to have with people. And what I mean by that is I
I'm not being pejorative when I say this. I'm really bored by all of this stuff of what
identity and who's what and who do you date and who are you attracted to and what's your gender?
I have so many things that I tend to find of interest to talk about with people regardless
of their identity. That I find all of this stuff really, really boring. I treat everybody with
respect. I don't care how you want to identify. I don't care who you're attracted to. I just
it's just not interesting to me. I consider all of these just people's personal choices,
and I'm fine with whatever as long as you're not hurting people committing crimes. The things I'm
concerned with are people who, regardless of their identity, are just not good people. That those are
my concerns. So for me, it's like I just I just don't care. Do whatever you want, see whoever.
Okay. Now, that doesn't mean I ignore the fact that there are people targeted and treated
terribly because of their identity. Now, why is it such a point of obsession for so many on the
right? Right now, it's trans people. It's it's in a sense, there's two things going on. One. It is
much more what's the word I'm going to say? It's it's now much more accepted to be gay and lesbian,
by the way. Lesbianism has for a long time been the most accepted. That's the least offensive.
That's for a long time. If you could sort of like rank the things that the homophobic, transphobic,
etc., right wingers are angry about lesbians is usually the thing that they're least angry about.
Then you've got gay people, and when it comes to gay men, they have to a great degree kind of said,
okay, gay marriage is legal. You can't fire people for their real or perceived sexual orientation
anymore. We got to kind of ease up on that. And also, I think that the public opinion has shifted
and more and more people, even right wingers, are generally tolerant, if not absolutely fine
with gay people as a general thing, although homophobia still exists. So now you've got trans,
and within trans you have a number of different aspects that people can choose to become enraged
about. There's the trans adoption part. There is the characterizing trans people as predators. This
is the bathroom staff. Remember, that was when bathrooms were the big flashpoint. It was all
about, well, biological men will lie, that they are actually wanting to exist in the world as
women simply to go hang out in women's bathrooms and girls locker rooms. And it's like, of course,
that's not happening. And also acting like a predator would get you in trouble no matter what
you have as gender identity. It didn't make any sense, but that was one aspect that they could.
They've been pushing the gay men or pedophiles thing for a long time, wrongly so. But it seemed
like they had a really specific way to do it with trans people that was less overtly transphobic
to some and so they could get away with it. I think that that's one component of it.
Number two, it's entered the political milieu for the right because of trans sports and Donald Trump
openly, you know, doing his weightlifting, mimicry and the entire thing about trans sports. So as
another aspect that is entered in, if you have a competition among men and some of the men are gay,
it doesn't give you the same opportunity to claim things are unfair that the narrative about trans
athletes has given. So that's sort of like another aspect to it. And then beyond that, they they seem
obsessed to some degree because the focus has been on cultural issues more specifically lately.
And so they don't really have policy to talk about. I think it's sort of like a little bit
of all of the above. That's why the right has become so obsessed with with trans people. If
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