(09-19-2016 07:27 AM)queenladybug817 Wrote: I encourage each of you to maybe expand your mindset and actually MEET people in the LGTBQ community. Talk to them. Hear their stories. Talk to some transgender people, their family and friends.
Get out of your own little bubble and realize that what they go through sucks AND it's not a choice.
We can hash this out all day long, but until you put real people you know into the situation, I'm not sure you'll ever have any true grasp of what is at stake.
As I said in the beginning, some people are perched so high in the tree of moral superiority they can't see what's happening on the ground.
I'm sympathetic to transgender people and the bigotry they face. And if the government proposes a thoughtful, practical solution that doesn't portend more harm than good, count me in. But, the government doesn't always have the answer, and the Charlotte law certainly ain't it.
I realize that transgender people are real people with a lot at stake, but what the high-perch people adamantly refuse to admit is that parents and children, business owners, school teachers, and everyone else here on the ground are real people, too, and our very valid concerns are just as legitimate as anyone else's.
I think it is wrong to discriminate against transgender people.
At the same time, I think the Obama DOJ is wrong.
I think the Charlotte law is wrong.
I think the NCAA boycott is full-throat hypocrisy that is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
And, had you asked me, I'd have said the NC law is wrong, too.
If any of those opinions cause someone to ajudge me a bigot, guess what? They're wrong (at least from my perspective, here on the ground).