this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Apologies, but I am not sure how all of this is "positive" when it's so much advertised and popularized, and forced even...
These dear politics, propaganda, agenda, designed with a purpose or is it not...
By whom? By government? In countries with large populations?
Why? To lower the birth rate, the population?
Examples? USA, Germany, France, Japan...
It's up to you who you choose to be and is respected, and I respect that. You are a grown up who chose who you want to be.
Yet, there are children, there are families, and there are responsibilities for our families who should have descendants in family trees.
Meanwhile, you force that agenda for what reason? Why should I explain my children to consider the family we have yet again when they question about these events with people who frequently choose not to have any biological children?
Of course... there are abandoned/lost children... which is utterly, awfully sorrowful... and it's miracle they find parents... Yet, this is not a child your own biological family tree has.
Not only that whole month... they see around, now in public socials, video-games, TV shows... schools for fudge sake...
Why isn't there a month for "standard", "straight" he/man and she/woman or whatever the "positive" people you call it, too then?
You do you, and you are allowed to be who you like. It's your family, and your responsibility. Yet, why force that on people, on children, on socials? Why teach children to not be who they were born without even letting them to grow up with a stable mindset and choose responsibly?
Such challenging... sorrowful times for families to protect their dear families...
Oh noes, trans kids aren't even killing themselves as much as they used to! What kind of society have we become!
Nobody is forcing an "agenda" on your kid dickbag. Dysphoria is a medical condition. Doctors carry out a treatment with the consent of the parent and assent of the child, after a long period of psychiatric care in which the child is diagnosed. Fuck off with your "Won't someone think of the kids!" bullshit.
Thank you for some actual sane words.
...wat
Looks like someone spilled a little too much eugenics in their transphobia to remain comprehensible
That's like saying they spilled tomato juice in their tomato sauce. It's all the same ingredient at different concentrations.
At the end of the day it's all fascism.