The headline says it all: "I want to be 'treated just like every other girl.'" Nova Maday, 18-year-old student at Palatine High School in Chicago, is suing the school because they have not given him (no matter what pronoun he prefers) the access he demands to the girls locker room. Yes, you got it; he thinks he's a girl. They've given him access to a private changing area within the locker room, but that's not good enough. He wants to be treated just like every other girl. That's the point. That's the only point. If it makes other girls uncomfortable, it doesn't matter. If some disagree with his notion that he can have male DNA and body parts and logically consider himself a girl, it doesn't matter. If he's just plain wrong, it doesn't matter. The demand (by legal force) is that everyone else needs to agree with him that he is "just like every other girl." Note to "Nova" (not his birth name): You're not like every other girl. Here, quick verification ... at 18 "every other girl" is having a period. I'm sure science can suggest a few more easy tests.
The truth is, this concept is prevalent. Most of us want this. "I'm just like you." We want to be viewed as "normal".
Merriam-Webster gives this as their #1 definition of "moron": "dated, now offensive : a person affected with mild mental retardation." Interesting. "now offensive". Why now? The word comes from the Greek, moros. It is in our word, "sophomore", where the first half is sophos for knowledge and the last half is moros for foolish. The actual intent of the word, sophomore, is to indicate someone that thinks they're knowledgeable but is actually foolish. So moros gave us "moron" to indicate "mild mental retardation" (1910) -- a mild mental slowness. It became offensive, so they changed it to "retarded". It became offensive, so they changed it to "intellectual disability". The point, however, is that it is not the word used, but the fact that a word is used that causes the problem. We just want to be regarded as "just like everyone else", so any word will eventually be classified as "now offensive".
Back in the days of the big battles over whether or not to erase "marriage" as a thing and replace it with something else (whatever that may be) that includes the description "gay" or "same-sex", there were several gay authors who honestly pointed out that the community didn't really care about "marriage". They had the rights they wanted with civil unions. No, it wasn't about "marriage", they said; it was about acceptance. One author even suggested that the aim was to tear down marriage for all. The point was this. If they could get their relationship categorized in precisely the same way as the heterosexually normal relationships, they would do it. Because "just like everyone else" was the aim. They didn't want to be thought of as "abnormal", "perverted", or different in any sense. They wanted to be "just like everyone else."
Here's the thing. It seems to be a running problem. For sinners our goal is clear. We want to be "just like everyone else". Okay, not really, because we also clamor to be "individuals", to be recognized as unique. So in what sense do we want to be like everyone else? That would be in our shortcomings -- our faults, our foibles, our weak points, our sins. We want our sins approved, our lusts admired, our rebellion embraced. When it comes to our evils, we want to go unnoticed. It just doesn't work that way. What we need is not to be "just like everybody else". What we need is to repent and be forgiven.
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I've never understood the argument that they want to be treated no differently than any other "not their natural gender". You are clearly different from your opposite physical gender, no matter how much you want to believe otherwise. Plus gender identity doesn't dictate sexuality. Someone could identify as female, but be physically male and still attracted to females. I can't imagine how uncomfortable that would make everyone involved. Now you have a male teenage body naked and surrounded by attractive naked female bodies. I remember my teenage years, it didn't take much for an erection to happen and I didn't have access to live naked girls. The girls would be uncomfortable with the erection going on and the boy boy would be embarrassed by it since he/she doesn't believe he should have it at all.
I remember the beginning of the push away from using "retarded". They wanted "special" instead. Now that word has negative connotations. It doesn't matter what word you use, you're still different.
Probably a little too much personal info, David, but I don't understand either why someone who is by definition not "just like every other" whatever would demand by legal force the right to be regarded as "just like every other" whatever. There is no rational thinking here; it's purely emotional. "I just want to be like everyone else." Sorry, kid ... you're not. (I also think it's ironic that many at teenage and beyond are clamoring to claim, "I'm my own person; I'm unique. I'm not like anyone else!")
Just today on social media I see that back in 2016 a teen makeup artist named James Charles became the model for Cover Girl makeup. One liberal comments as follows:
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I'm all for #COVERGIRLJames ! makeup knows no gender. I love this change in the industry, gender stereotypes are finally being shut down
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I don't know what to make of that.
It's true, I suppose, if a guy named "James" can be the Cover Girl, then gender is at its end and we can all slip off into some other world other than the logical one. I just wish they'd admit that it's not logical (i.e., no relation to science, facts, reality, DNA, biology, the way things actually are).
It’s inteteresting that for a group of people who use “science denier” as sn epithet, there are so many areas of basic science that they freely deny.
It’s inarguably fact, that men and women are different both in physiology and at genetic v levels. This doesn’t even take into account the obvious difference in “parts”.
It’s why it’s possible to forensically identity gender even after decomposition.
Biology, and cosmology are up for grabs, but heaven forbid you question “global warming”.
Yes, it is amazing to me that science is sacrosanct unless it isn't. To be able to pick and choose, especially in areas that there is no question, is really bizarre.
I live in Palatine. So glad my daughters have all graduated out before this nonsense came to the fore. It actually began in nearby Schaumburg High, which is in the same district. There was, within a week or so, a meeting at the District 211 office which was attended by a group that formed after the Schaumburg incident occurred. It was comprised of parents who did not appreciate having their daughters subjected to having their private areas compromised by delusional boys who want to pretend they're girls.
I cannot believe that allegedly responsible adults, in the fields of psychology and education, as well as some parents of the delusional kids, suffer the foolishness as they do...as if science truly backs the notion of multiple genders, that a person can actually be of the sex the person's blatant biology does not support and basically, any of the LGBT agenda.
As you say, the goal is clear. But it's not to "be like everyone else", since as you point out, they aren't. Rather, it is to let one's every desire and whim dictate morality and truth for them, and to hell with what anyone else...or facts...says.
It is to get YOU to say they're "just like everyone else" so that their whims will be validated.
I did an unscientific survey of multiple women I know about how they would have felt if a man came into the locker room and started changing with them, and the response of every one was flee. One of them even said they barely felt comfortable enough changing in front of other girls. I understand the desire to "feel" normal. We all have it, but not at the expense of EVERYONE else.
It seems to be something that no one on the other side of the question seems to get. It's not about "transgender"; it's about a biological male in the girls locker room. It's not about discrimination; it's about everyone else who suffers for it.
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