An Unconventional Perspective on Transgender Issues Today

in FreeSpeech2 years ago (edited)

Michael Malice is an anarchist ghostwriter, author, and podcaster. Blaire White is a YouTuber and somewhat controversial male-to-female transgender activist who leans more conservative politically despite her stereotypically left-wing identity. The former interviewed the latter in a recent "Your Welcome" podcast episode 212 (Google & Apple links), and they covered a lot of interesting unasked questions surrounding the issue of gender, identity, and youth.

The debate seems to be divided into two camps: "how dare you question anyone's claimed identity or sexual preferences," and, "how dare you question chromosomal facts and body parts?" I have a cousin who is gay, and another cousin who sought to change gender many years ago, long before it was "cool." I am not necessarily opposed to people choosing how to dress or surgically and chemically alter themselves, but I am concerned for the age group most known for insecurity and body image issues like bulimia, anorexia, school cliques, an onslaught of media idols, and other challenges which accompany the onset of puberty and young adulthood. Maybe not everyone struggling with sexuality and society needs to be encouraged to consider transitioning to the other gender?

Of course, I'm not the "proper" person to even bring up this topic. While I don't identify with a lot of stereotypically "masculine" attributes like obsession with sports, I have never struggled with gender identity or same-sex attraction. I have no direct experience with LGBTQ etc. issues. I do, however, know what it is like to be an anarchist trapped in a world where statism is the norm. I am an anarchist. I did not choose it, I *discovered * it about myself after considerable soul-searching, discussion, exploration of ideas, and internal debate. As such, I hope this can be understood as a good-faith effort to promote thought instead of "straight white guy bashes the gays."

As a straight white XY male, I know I have an innate inability to comprehend the nuances of this issue. I suggest this podcast episode both to the left and the right and ask everyone to challenge their preconceptions and prejudices on this topic. We won't make progress while everyone is focused on using partisan authoritarianism to bludgeon those who disagree. We need dialogue and discourse without censorship. We need to stop condemning people for discomfort and dissent.


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Wow, I love that this debate was brought up. Your approach is also perfect. For sure more dialogue is required on the matter; I for one think the most important aspects are transgender in sports and an age requirement for gender change.

all i know is what i believe, after becoming learned (through my own re-searching during 50+ years of lifetime experience) to what i found True: Mankind are born as a man-baby or a woman-baby, and on very rare occasion both (i.e. homaphrodite)… and, that is what we agreed to come into this experience re-presented as.

**if each of us, man or woman or both, attempts to modify that contractual agreement, post-being born into the beingness of something different, whether a different sex or a different species of animal or in any way possible… we are in breach of contract with Prime-Source-Creator **… and Creator is the ultimate, and in my opinion the only One to, Judge the contract violator!

i have also learned that it is imbedded in the telLIEvision, and other THE beast SYSTEM, programming… to condition Mankind into believing we are “hue-wo/man-BEINGS” (i.e. something less than and/or stained/hued versions of Mankind) which require some sort of artificial and unnatural modification to our being and/or PERSON! 💥

We must walk the tightrope between respecting the rights of others to choose and act, even in error; and holding to principle. To put it one way, hate the sin and love the sinner. Compassion and acceptance need not mean wholehearted support.

But the world demands we embrace all manner of perversions, and it seems strange to me that a man in a dress is more of an issue than the mass murder of wars, rampant theft and abuse from the police state, confiscatory taxation, corporate collusion with government to plunder the economy, and so forth.

I am as uncertain of your contract theory as I am of "social contract theory." Do you have any evidence for the fundamental attributes of a contract?

nope, my re-search and processing of that theory using the scientific method has netted no physical evidence; as you state, it is just the ”theory” i choose to believe. much like “globalists” choose to believe “the globular earth theory”…the difference being that there is scientific-method deduced evidence that keeps “the globe theory” from being science-fact and i have just not discovered any evidence to verify nor dispute the theory i embrace and presented above.

and i, too, am taken aback “… that a man in a dress is more of an issue…” for so many sisters and brothers whirled-wide “…than the mass murder of wars, rampant theft and abuse from the police state, confiscatory taxation, corporate collusion with government…”

…maybe that is because they are so dizzy from believing that we live upon an oblate-shaped spheroid spinning at 1,000 m.p.h.(at the equator) inside of a vacuum (of “outer-space”)! 🤔

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These kinds of issues can be really controversial that I tend to stay away from it when I can. The world is really changed and nothing is really as simple as it used to be.

I'd rather watch to see where it all ends as long as I don't have any direct experience with any such issues as discussed above.

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