I take every news outlet seriously - even the ones who I think sometimes publish bold faced lies - because they all tell us something.

Even their silence is communicative.

Notice, though, this is about minors receiving life altering surgical procedures for a condition that is highly debatable… It can be said to be an attempt to prevent the mutilation of the healthy bodies of minors, and taking a stand to be good stewards of them.

I’d also point out that the very first successful transgender surgery was in 1952, and even the language around transgenderism was not even beginning to be fixed in the 1970s, not even among activists (immortalized in the name of the group ‘STAR’).

Trans people only existed in a very broad, big tent sense of the definition.

Perhaps a few of them were even members of the SA, that was famously purged due to its homosexuality. Nazism did embrace paganism and at different points even hinted at the future practice of polygamy. They even had ‘breeding’ programs. It is not hard to imagine a scenario where they would have been more pagan and receptive to ideas about homosexuality, though I suppose what ultimately prevents this is not Christianity, but the evolutionary view of homosexuality as a sign of social unfitness.

A Justice’s highly questionable comparison between interracial marriage and transitioning the genders of minors through permanent medical procedures is worth discussing.

What has been helpful to me is to ignore the idea that there even is an “objective” position to be sought.

Nothing is objective.

Read both right wing and left wing sources - that is the best way to stay informed.

To be completely fair, there are issues with this happening in Australia. It has become something of a joke to look at the recipients of aboriginal scholarships or even seats at Universities designated for aboriginal scholars and you wind up seeing visibly white people. This is to not doubt the veracity of their claims or even to necessarily “demote” them as aboriginals, but it becomes potentially harmful to the aboriginals themselves who consistently see visibly white, minimally aboriginal people beating them out for these rewards or obtaining them because there’s so little competition.

It would be like making a list of the top 10 Latino scholars in Latin studies and 9 out of 10 of them are light-skinned castizos… Particularly for people from places like Mexico, where discrimination based on coloring thrives, it is unhelpful…

So, I am not saying that the people who remove them are absolutely right… In some cases they are denying people where such a problem may not exist, but I understand some degree of vigilance and gatekeeping.

The Russia & Syria smears are being brought up all the time.

The Russia one was particularly insane since criticizing NATO wars abroad and standing up for resolving conflicts through diplomacy has traditionally been the bread & butter of the anti-war left, right, but the origins of these criticisms and chief encouragers of this often are the alleged anti-war left.

We are actually seeing something of a flip occur, right, with conservatives increasingly becoming a voice for peace and de-escalation in the world.