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What fuels transgender backlash? (CNN shocked at reader response to story)
CNN ^ | September 30, 2011 | Madison Park

Posted on 09/30/2011 4:51:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

(CNN) -- Tuesday's CNN.com story about transgender children and their families shed light on an emotional topic and provoked strong response.

"Transgender kids: Painful quest to be who they are" centered on identity, gender, health, parenting and child development. It's not unusual for a popular story on CNN.com to have hundreds or thousands of responses, but the overwhelmingly negative tone of Tuesday's comments raised the question about the root of the hostility. What exactly provoked such harsh opinions?

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: transagenda; transgender
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1 posted on 09/30/2011 4:51:34 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I believe people should be able to do what they want.

Even if they are nuts.


2 posted on 09/30/2011 5:01:17 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
CNN and the left will say the responders who expressed their thoughts and feelings that the trans gender lifestyle is repugnant and unacceptable in a good and wholesome society, have something wrong with them.
3 posted on 09/30/2011 5:01:25 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

ah, but you are not ALLOWED to say or even think they are “nuts” or else YOU will be branded as a hater

THAT is the issue. Shove it ino ur faces, flaunt it, and brand us if we flinch or look away. Thought control.


4 posted on 09/30/2011 5:04:36 AM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common - Voltaire)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Notice the use of language to blur the line between a person born with a disorder and someone who consciously chooses to mutilate themselves. Lose the battle for language and lose the culture war - similar to the problem the U.S. has with the seeming inability of the government to identify radical Islamists as a military enemy.


5 posted on 09/30/2011 5:05:29 AM PDT by Pecos (O.K., joke's over. Time to bring back the Constitution.)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

yea but the problem, is that these two women are not hurting themselves they’re having this little boy injected so as not to have the boy go through male puberty and have been bringing him up as a girl.

This is a classic case of the child needing to he taken away from these nuts.
These two freaks then should be jailed for child abuse.

and this goes to show as another story did last week that homosexuals are not in their right mind and should not be able to get a hold of kids


6 posted on 09/30/2011 5:06:32 AM PDT by manc (Hannity the fraud he admitted he's socially liberal he's no conservative marriage=1man+ 1 woman)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Clueless! When a suicidal child wants to be who he is by killing himself, responsible adults don’t support and assist in the suicide. When an addicted child wants to be who she is by injecting heroin into her veins, a responsible adult doesn’t escort her to her dealer and then help to hold the needle steady. Yet when mentally disturbed children want to mutilate their bodies, these journalists don’t understand why a story supportive of these unhealthy desires draws hostility.

The harsh opinions come from the fact that decent parents see our duty to our kids as including guidance and not just unthinking “support”. Children need adults in their lives, and liberals have abandoned (or never accepted) their responsibility to act as adults.


7 posted on 09/30/2011 5:06:53 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Psychological researchers drumming up new business. We need to study this! We need to better understand how to advise parent! We need a grant!

This is obviously a social disease, brought on by our twisted culture. As old Bob Grant used to say, "It's sick out there and getting sicker." And it is.

8 posted on 09/30/2011 5:07:25 AM PDT by Huck (Oy.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
These kids are too young to make such life changing decisions. They're "pretending" at this age. They probably believe if they changed their minds, they could always go back. They have no idea their "parents" have mutilated them beyond repair. They'll forever be walking Frankensteins.
This isn't a child's choice. At this age, this is an insane parents choice.

9 posted on 09/30/2011 5:09:04 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Pecos

CNN did nto even tell the whole story but have you noticed how many of these stories are now coming out about homosexuals raising kids?

Last week a woman has a child, she then said she was a man, had her boy say Daddy, then raised the boy as a girl.
Then send the poor kid off to school and tells the school the boy should use the girls bathroom as he is a girl.

Does that make any sense?

It is time for these freaks to seek mental help, none of this “well I know one they’re nice I have no problem with them”
This pro queer, cross dressing biased liberal corrupt media is so out of touch with reality.


10 posted on 09/30/2011 5:10:02 AM PDT by manc (Hannity the fraud he admitted he's socially liberal he's no conservative marriage=1man+ 1 woman)
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To: silverleaf

Craziest part of your statement which is a true statement,is that we have ratios of like 5 people attempting to tell 95 how they should react and behave. Of that 95 its pretty split between those opposed to being told how to think and those who don’t care if they’re told.
Elitists.


11 posted on 09/30/2011 5:13:33 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: wiggen

less than 5 I’d say
There was a report out yesterday saying the census lied about how many homosexuals and so called couples there were in America.
They added the numbers to make it look like there are more homosexuals than there is.

All of this homosexuality agenda, cross dressing, sex with kids etc has to stop.
No more encouragement from Hollywood, press etc . Telling these people it is normal for a man to dress as a woman to be now a lesbian is certainly a mental problem


12 posted on 09/30/2011 5:20:35 AM PDT by manc (Hannity the fraud he admitted he's socially liberal he's no conservative marriage=1man+ 1 woman)
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To: concerned about politics
And the child, being a child, accepts the premise and acts accordingly. Children need the love and acceptance of their ‘parent’ whomever that might be designated. So sad for the kids. Perversion used to be recognized and treated. Now it is glorified. Heartbreaking for those who could benefit from intense psychological counseling.
13 posted on 09/30/2011 5:22:11 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Another sign (as if we needed any) of a decadent, indulgent, selfish society.

I haven’t seen any stories about woman-trapped-in-man’s-body originating from Ethiopia and Somalia lately, have you? It seems that a daily struggle for survival tends to focus the mind and doesn’t leave room for flights of fantasy.


14 posted on 09/30/2011 5:23:46 AM PDT by relictele (Pax Quaeritur Bello)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Maybe it’s the recognition that repackaging insanity does not serve a society’s best interests. And maybe it’s rebellion at the elitist notion that common folk are so stupid they’ll believe that little boys in dresses are normal.

In other words, maybe it’s a gross disconnect between the perverted salons of the self-appointed cultural trendsetters and the living rooms of people who work for their money.


15 posted on 09/30/2011 5:25:08 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

“I believe people should be able to do what they want.

Even if they are nuts.”

That isn’t authentic freedom, because their rights end where mine begin.


16 posted on 09/30/2011 5:26:51 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: silverleaf

Don’t forget, in addition to punishing you for expressing an opinion, or even for simply not “celebrating” their perversity/mental illness,

they want to push this on YOUR KIDS against your will,
and if you resist that, you will also be punished.


17 posted on 09/30/2011 5:29:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: manc

I understand what you’re saying but the percentage of elitists is much greater than that sub group.


18 posted on 09/30/2011 5:31:52 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: SumProVita

I won’t let them change your privates.


19 posted on 09/30/2011 5:33:40 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

Do what they want to them selves, not to another.


20 posted on 09/30/2011 5:34:23 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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