The right thinks that anyone “crazy” enough to dress like a woman is going to molest people - and besides, men dressed like women make us very, very nervous. According to various medical studies, about 40% of homosexuals admit to being molested as children. Additionally, 40% of all molestations involve an adult male molesting boys. Adult homosexuals make up about 2% of the population, yet about 40% of all child molesters would appear to be homosexual.
Given the actual facts backing up homosexual tendencies to molest children, is it not rational to be concerned that transgenders (just another form of homosexuality) might molest children if given the opportunity?
Let me flip the script a bit. Have you ever heard of "Chastity Bono"? (Sonny and Cher's daughter.)
Did you know she was repeatedly molested as a young girl by the lesbian baby sitter with whom her mother entrusted her while she went on tour? What do you suppose happens to a little girl that is sexually molested for years by an adult female?
This is what happens.
I was merely stating both sides of an argument.
I, personally, think that most gender confusion is a result of a mental illness. There is an entire spectrum of “mental illness” from extreme paranoid schizophrenia to triskaidekaphobia and we react to them accordingly.
I would never allow a paranoid schizophrenic to babysit my child, but I would have no problem with a trisaidekaphobic doing so.
The AMA, in their infinite wisdom, moved all homosexual and gender identity issues off the list of mental illnesses. I think that is a mistake.
As for your well reasoned, researched argument linking homosexuality to child molestation...a liberal would say it is poorly sited and certainly not peer reviewed, thus unbelievable. They would counter with statistics showing the thousands of people killed by guns every year.
I am not stating this in support of their argument, I am just pointing out how reasonable (in their minds anyway) people can be on polar opposite stands and how...in my own way...I try to come to grips with it.
It burns my soul to say it, but if a guy dressed as a girl wants to pee in a ladies room, and he keeps his hands (and other body parts) to himself, so be it.
By the same token, if I want to carry a concealed weapon wherever I please, as long as I don’t use it to break any laws, I should be allowed to do so.