Well, aside from all us "post-sexual" whatever we are, it doesn't look like this person's blog gets all that much traffic. I mean, he doesn't even have an army of yes-men leaving comments.
He thinks the parents should be whipped? And then appeals to what the founding fathers would have thought about all this? I thought the whole point of the constitution and the bill of rights was that you wouldn't have to be whipped simply because someone doesn't agree with you.
And what do the founding fathers have to do with something that they didn't think of or leave provision for?
There's nothing in the constitution about whether we should tax every iTunes download. I mean, honestly, how could the founding fathers screw us so badly that we'll have to pay taxes on our iTunes downloads?! Now we have to deal with the stupid leftists, always trying to tax everything. [/sarcasm]
Lastly, his whole rant is based on his supposition that a second grader doesn't understand whether he's a boy or a girl. Why not? What would ever make you think that a child has any less an idea about who or what they are than anyone else? I think that people with GID probably have a heightened sense of dysphoria, especially relative to the rest of the population. Many people with GID report having felt something was "off" since early childhood. They didn't have to be in high school or college before figuring it out.
Simply because we're a minority (1% of the population, or whatever) doesn't mean that we don't understand ourselves. It doesn't mean that we need other, smarter, better people to decide what's best for us. Based on my own experience, it's the people outside our group that can't relate to us; they have no idea what we're going through, or the types of feelings that we have. They certainly shouldn't be making decisions for us. The blogger doesn't even understand that the 2nd grader in question is talking about being a girl. The kid isn't expressing a desire to be genderqueer-- being a girl one day and a boy the next. The failure to understand his topic makes the blogger the worst person to decide what's child abuse and what isn't. Ugggh.
