Posted on 11/24/2015 5:27:35 AM PST by wagglebee
Actually, you do remember issues of “gender identity confusion.” It was on a television show called M.A.S.H. and Cpl. Klinger was a joke. It was understood back then that a small number of sexually confused people existed, but they needed to be treated as mentally ill and put out of the Army. But because the Army knew Klinger was faking it, he wasn't allowed out. (Of course in the real world, someone like Klinger would never be tolerated in the Army of the 1950s; the character was a joke and everyone knew it.)
I was reading some very liberal “sex positive” screeds recently from the 1960s and was amazed at how anti-gay the liberals, even the hard-core liberals, were back in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the prominent advocates of the sexual revolution actually argued that encouraging co-ed dorms and co-ed showers would help men who were struggling with developing their own sexual identities. They understood that the British boarding school environment for boys had a bad history of generating homosexual behavior, and they thought the sexual revolution would help people by encouraging them to express their sexuality in heterosexual rather than homosexual ways.
We are now at a point where the federal government is trying to force local school districts to do things which are even more radically left-wing than the leaders of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
This nonsense has gone on too long. Now that it's at the level of local school districts where it actually DOES affect real parents and real children in red states, it's time to fight back, and fight back hard.
I don't think the moderate liberals really understand what kind of monster they've unleashed by letting the radical gay activists push transgender stuff onto local schools. We're not dealing anymore with relatively moderate homosexuals who are asking for the "right" to marry, but with extreme radicals trying to force high school girls to let "transgender" boys into their bathrooms.
This is an issue where conservatives can win by making clear to the moderates and even many liberals what really is at stake. Lots of people don't care if Joe and Jim get a marriage license, but they care a great deal if their daughter Julie gets forced to share a bathroom or locker room with a gender-confused boy with male body parts.
Here's a link which gives most of the details except the female uniform which apparently started this incident: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/lenny-bruces-gay-naval-ruse
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