Barber: 'This Transgender Notion Is Absolute Absurdity'

[MaidofOrleans]

Barber: 'This Transgender Notion Is Absolute Absurdity'
SUBMITTED BY Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 3/4/2013 4:24 pm
The Religious Right has been predictably outraged over a new transgender-inclusive policy in Massachusetts that is designed to prevent gender identity-discrimination in schools and so it was only a matter of time before Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber weighed in, which he did on a recent radio program where he compared being transgender to a Caucasian child deciding that he is really an Asian child or a person deciding that they are a horse and wanting to run in the Kentucky Derby.

"The [LGBT] chain is only as strong as the weakest link," Barber declared, and "this transgender notion is absolute absurdity.  It's a weak chain to begin with, but it's the weakest link in this LGBT alphabet soup of nonsense":

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-transgender-notion-absolute-absurdity

[Keaira]

Yea, we are the weakest link because there are less of us. And we're constantly being stabbed in the back by the other letters of the alphabet. We're a real minority. What's next? A war on disability?

[Anna++]

*sigh*  What is so horrible about being in the "religious right" that seems to make them hate people?  Maybe they should work on those issues instead of taking it out on us...

[Rachel85]

I just find it plain scary that they give people like him a microphone.
Someone that plainly does not understand anything that we go through.
As to the weakest link? If that is true (which I do not agree with!) then wouldn't it make sense that people like us NEED anti-discrimination laws?
Someone who clearly has no idea on the issues he is talking about and no idea on even how to construct a proper argument, just uses colourful metaphors to distract people from the previous two points. Unfortunately it sometimes works.
What a tool!

[bethany]

People like him walk around with blinders on seeing and hearing only what they want to. They are ignorant and uneducated at best. I would love it if somehow if only for a few moments there was a way to truly show him what it is that we are dealing with. I bet he wouldn't last five minutes.

[FTMDiaries]

Here in the UK we have a weapon against people who spout such views: we call it 'pointing and laughing'. How the heck do they get into positions of authority?

I'm so grateful to live in a country where eejits like this would be laughed out of town.

[Vicky]

For that matter, what does he have against horses in the Kentucky Derby?  After all he is the south half of a north bound horse!!

[MaidofOrleans]

Sorry to post such a depressing viewpoint.

I'm a big fan of rightwingwatch.org but I would not recommend it to those easily offended or in a fragile state.

There is a lot of crap being spewed about us on the right in their own private methods of information distribution every day.

I believe these people tend to preach to a choir of like minded miscreants who love to hear their views validated by each other. I find it best to spread their word to the masses and let people see them for the fools they are.

[Kevin Peña]

After WWII, a bunch of Germans packed their things and moved to Argentina. They weren't Germans anymore. They became South Americans. Thus a person can change his or her race if s/he wants to. It's all subjective anyways, so what's wrong with changing it subjectively? 

As for wanting to be a horse, that is like being trans. Your mind doesn't match your body. If you want to run in the Kentucky Derby, fine. Just don't be mad when you get trampled and undoubtedly change your mind.   

[suzifrommd]

That "weakest link" line sounds calculated.

He wants to divide the queer community.

Let's make sure WE don't help him do it.

[Shantel]

It never ceases to amaze me how someone so lacking in personal knowledge of a subject can blather away showing contemptuous ignorance and suddenly be hailed by his/her contemporaries as something of an expert who's opinion is valuable. I know a person who wrote a book on a subject that he had absolutely no personal experience or knowledge about. Since he's now an author that automatically makes him an authority and he's invited onto talk shows and speaks all over the country and people take is ignorant tripe as absolute. It was this same sort of purposeful ignorance that sent a lot of gays and gypsies up Hitler's chimneys along with Jews and dissenting Christians. Let's hope this isn't a prelude to future events.