The big Transgender LIE

[VeryGnawty]

the very reason that everyone is not up in everybody else's business in the city, it's just too much work.  It's not in your self-interest in LA to worry about what everyone else is doing, that level of obsession will just ruin your life.  And once everyone had it (as its been) pretty much 'in your face!' like they've had over the past decade they just lose interest - it goes from special to ordinary.  It kinda fades into the general background mix of the city.  They are just one of the other people on the bus or BART car with you.

So you're suggesting that the mere persistence of the transgender phenomenon will in itself be the solution?  That makes sense.  It's not like genderqueer is going away.  I can see why fundamentalists would give up the fight when they realize it is a fight that will never end.

Still, I feel it is more of a generational thing.  There are some people who will fight until the day that they die.  When they are all dead, the world will probably be as you describe:  nobody will care.  In another 50 or 80 years, people will find it very odd that everybody in our time made such a hoopla about gender and stereotypes.  It will seem very silly and nonsensical (which it is)

[tekla]

I can see why fundamentalists would give up the fight when they realize it is a fight that will never end.

Still, I feel it is more of a generational thing.

To no small degree that entire fundamentalist movement is a generational thing also.

[Tammy Hope]

that's definitely the trend. In a sense, the whole "slippery slope" they have cried about for years does exist to an extent. the more out we are, the more of us are out.

I think the "boredom" bit is a good way to look at it, like moralizing about alcohol or gambling or, i dunno, short skirts? At some point you just see you are not going to win.

in fact, the head of Focus on the Family was quoted in an interview a couple of weeks ago acknowledging "We've probably lost on gay marriage"

So yeah, the trend is definitely there, and will continue. and if you live in a big city where the thing is further advanced then by ALL means fight for every last scrap of gender expression rights because you have a chance.

i still say that in Memphis or Birmingham or Spartenburg or wherever, you probably will have to take it a step at a time and let that "Boredom effect" kick in a bit more.