I got to thinking how polarized this gender and transgender thing has gotten. It is not at all new.
What is new is how it has become weaponized and exploited.
I grew up reading Heinlein and in several of his books characters switched physical gender/sex (whatever these words mean) and back without much to-do. In that future, this was as normal as changing clothes it seemed.
So, as I say, I have no problem being friends with trans folks as long as they don't have an issue with me being a confirmed hetero.
Frankly the subject is old, old news and does not interest me much but I did a quick search for Heinlein to refresh my memory
https://search.brave.com/search?q=robert+heinlein+transgender+books
It came up with this https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/transgender_sf
I found it too dense for me but some might appreciate it.
Anyhow, the point IMO is that we must not get sucked in and conflate honest homosexuality, bisexuality, or trans with attempts to seduce the children.
That is the enemies' strategy and whenever we say we want to protect the children they scream lies.
Gender is probably a spectrum and always has been but sex cannot be changed at the chromosomal level regardless of how hard some pretend.
The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal
The America of 1960 was healthier than the America of 2025 because they lived in an environment that did not conspire against physiology.
Independent Medical Alliance Sep 17
By IMA Co-Founder Dr. Joseph Varon
Originally published by The Brownstone Institute on 09/16/2025
Walk into any American airport today and pause. Look around at the travelers waiting at the gate, the families queuing for fast food, the crowds rushing past. You are looking at a country that our grandparents would not recognize. In less than three generations, the very shape of the American body has shifted so dramatically that what would once have been regarded as rare or concerning is now routine. Airplane seats have been widened, retail clothing racks have been extended, mannequins have been reshaped, and soda cups have been enlarged. Entire industries have recalibrated to accommodate a physiology that is neither healthy nor sustainable.
Yet our cultural ...
https://www.junonews.com/p/university-of-alberta-law-prof-placed
I watched this last night and glad I found today to share. Greg was fired up and rightly so.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/16/we-dont-care-that-shit-is-dead/