Thousands of years of human development has come down to nuts on or nuts off as though this was the most important issue of the time.

I do not care what you are, what you believe you are, what you do, so long as I do not have to be forced to deal with it. Case in point—if you feel your gender is the other and want surgery, and are legally aged, I couldn’t care less. It’s a somewhat free country. Just don’t inflict it on kids until they have had a chance to grow up. Despite what anyone says, they have little to no experience, are easily swayed by fads and flavors of the moment, not to mention drag queens reading happy stories about deceiving their parents.

But when I see your gender confused male now female, sporting a flashy tight breast revealing outfit, long hair, loads of makeup and a beard, I am reminded that there is whole other category for inflicting this my way.

Yes, you have the right to be stupid. No you do not have the right to require I act stupid with you. I have the right to not accept everything that is being peddled my way as normal. I have the right to exist with a set of standards I believe in, even if you feel my standards do not appeal to you.

And while you may think that gender confusion is a huge issue, it is not as huge as an 80+% obesity rate, a very high illiteracy rate, and a massive rate of unemployable youth who believe they are too special to work. Those are major issues worth discussing.

@Forced Air—exactly. And let me add it is a leftist ideology accepted by the progressive left alone.

When I was growing up everyone accepted their gender that I knew. There was zero confusion about that. Gay feelings only surfaced within the 90s with people I knew and it has since become more open, but still no confusion about one’s physical gender, just sexual feelings. Feelings change without serious damage done, bodies are much different.

When our media culture pushes perceptions of groomed kids like “The Amazing Desmond” who is pranced around on stage and on camera, strip teasing like a pole dancer…then you must ask about the morality of this effort. I doubt seriously that Desmond “chose” to be a drag queen girl when he is a boy. This is all from external tutoring.

No, if someone wants to change themselves after giving serious thought at a responsible age (18 is typical), then by all means, they can make that call and take that chance. But just putting a kid under the knife or pharma processes at young ages when important brain functions are still forming up to the late teens is child abuse in my book. What happens later when the kid is now an adult and wants to undo the transition? How many suicides are accounted for then? We only hear about the suicides of those who “wanted” to transition during childhood.

Parenting has become a lost skill. Too many child adults who never grew up are raising kids, or worse…letting institutions raise their kids. Agendas are at play. Social divisions are being accelerated in the name of “inclusion” and “tolerance.” Rubbish. Child abuse by another name….that’s what it is.

If you hurry, you might make it and learn sometin from the young folk (the next generation to make Idaho laws).

As someone who is not a fan of any body modification (though I did have an earring in the late 80s/early 90s), I figure that unless liposuction can get rid of my potbelly, none of this will affect me directly. That said, can’t we just leave people alone?

The fact that the author did not attach his name to the article makes one suspicious. I wouldn’t trust an editorial about a political topic posted anonymously in a newspaper.

EDITOR NOTE–The post is legit. GUARDIAN knows the author and requested the post with promise of privacy to preclude harassment.

What’s the hurry anyway? Steroids hormones and surgery cause permanent and perhaps very regrettable changes. With the exception of a true biological hermaphrodite (which is rare), permanent changes to the body should never be initiated under anyone’s authority until the age of 18 or perhaps even 21.

Anyone get a teenage tattoo you regret? How about cutting off your junk? Probably shouldn’t do that until an adult.

Why would any one person’s opinion, or lie, be forced upon another? Bubba?

It is well said, through evolution “or minds unite us into teams, divide us against other teams, and blind us to the truth.”

Bubba’s comment is full of false statements- yet most of Alabama probably would say the same.