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In that famous childhood classic fairytale, dim-witted Chicken Little is convinced the sky is falling and creates mass hysteria in the farmyard. The farmyard in this case is the United States and Chicken Little is the media.
The mass hysteria created by the media around a possible Donald Trump victory on November 5 deeply affected the LGBT and feminist communities. A week before the Election gay men and women began posting on social media they were terrified of a Trump win. “Are you as frightened as I am?” they declared. “Who else is scared?”
With the LGBT community, the panic was widespread. Some feared legal same sex marriage would be abolished and many had visions of witch hunts comparable to the 1950s when bars were raided and closed by police.
It was worse after the Election when Donald Trump claimed a magnificent victory. “Are concentration camps next?” some asked. The panic was embarrassing. TIME magazine immediately ran a piece about Trump’s win and what it means to the LGBT community.
Or, more precisely, what it means not to average “normal” gays and lesbians but to those keyed into the movement’s intersectional agenda involving gender and transgender issues when it comes to minors and children, issues that people everywhere should be solidly against no matter their sexual orientation.
Just as the media did with immigration issues-dignifying illegal aliens by calling them immigrants-it bastardized the Donald Trump position on transgender issues-which only condemned the pushing of the trans agenda on children and the participation of biological men in women’s sports-to include all (adult) transgender people. This lie was compounded by the left when anyone thought to be against the transgender-child agenda was categorized as anti-LGBT or a hate monger.
LGBT news outlets were fast to send up emergency flares immediately after Trump’s victory.
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a leading LGBT civil rights organization, HRC, fired out this statement:
“Like millions of other Americans, we’re heartbroken by the results of the presidential election. We know our community is feeling scared, angry, and worried about what’s next. There’s no question that we will face more challenges in the years to come as part of our fight for full LGBTQ+ equality. But our ancestors taught us that resilience is our superpower. Make no mistake-we are not backing down.”
But who is the ‘we’ Robinson is talking about? It’s certainly not “normal” gay and lesbian people who don’t use pronouns and believe that anyone who is against puberty blockers or the mutilation of children is anti-LGBT.
The ‘we’ is the radical far left contingent that has taken over and destroyed the gay movement with transgender doctrinal “purity” rhetoric.
HRC, of course, endorsed and invested heavily in Harris’s campaign. Robinson’s comment, “Make no mistake- we are not backing down,” means only one thing: the current radical activists who have co-opted the gay movement won’t be happy until every American believes a five year old child can be trans and that having biological men compete in women’s sports is the legitimate next step in the advancement of civil rights.
This is the present push from organizations like HRC and it has nothing whatsoever to do with homosexuality.
Not only has the transgender agenda completely destroyed the gay and lesbian civil rights movement-one could argue the old gay rights movement really died a natural death when marriage equality was sanctioned by the Supreme Court-it has co-opted its energy and legitimacy when it was a real civil rights organization, turning it into a morally corrupt revolutionary force out to transform American society.
Robinson’s world is a world of trans children; trans babies even; trans indoctrination in elementary schools; the use of pronouns on top of pronouns—because the invention of new language won’t stop given the push for more daring radicalism. It might even mean the complete normalization of pregnant “men” in beards walking the streets in spandex tights or Mama Cass Moo Moo’s.
To accomplish this goal you need every American-via the media-to believe and affirm that any criticism of transgenderism is seen as anti-LGBT hate.
MSNBC reported that the Trevor Project, an organization that provides mental health crisis services to LGBT people, received a 700% increase in crisis calls the day after the election. The calls were from young people needing emotional support-some on the verge of suicide-because the media and organizations like HRC had invented an image of Donald Trump that does not correspond to reality.
Meanwhile, over at Teen Vogue, young readers post-Election were told that:
“Trump has vowed to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth, and indicated that he intends to federally redefine gender to only include male and female. He has spoken about policies that would target trans youth who play sports…”
It’s common sense to want to redefine gender to only include male and female. Democrats, after all, can’t even define what a woman is, and yet prior to the election many Dems stated Donald Trump should not be president because the way he treats women. World peace, the threat of WWIII, the border crisis and the hordes of migrants invading US cities didn’t seem to matter to them. It was all about how Trump treats women, a perception based on skewed interruptions of comments Trump made that were taken out of context.
Yet these same Dems seemed indifferent to Harris’ support for defunding the police, BLM and her comparison of ICE to the Klu Klux Klan.
Teen Vogue was not being sarcastic when it expressed concern Trump would “target trans youth who play sports.” Is this really a major civil rights violation, an assault on international human rights? The moral decay inherent in an analysis like this-especially in a teeny bopper magazine-is astounding: how did we as a society fall so far from grace?
WHYY, Philadelphia’s public broadcasting affiliate, noted that after Trump’s election 5,500 calls flooded the Rainbow Youth Project’s crisis hotline. Ordinarily the hotline receives 3700 calls per month but callers this time were largely “in despair and struggling with suicidal thoughts.”
WHYY quoted one so called non-binary student who uses the pronouns “he” and “they” as having suicidal thoughts because pro-Trump political ads were showing clips of Kamala Harris in 2020 saying she supported gender-affirming medical treatment for imprisoned trans people: “Kamala is for ‘they/them.’ President Trump is for you,” the ad stated.
The teen apparently also felt suicidal because candidate Trump promised to help end the craze of biological men playing in women’s sports.
What made the teen feel this way? It all goes back to the false fear being manufactured by the legacy media when it comes to trans issues, as well as to the militant tone of the current LGBT movement that sees anything remotely critical of the trans agenda as being anti-LGBT and full of hate.
And when you are “full of hate” you are likely to do anything: harass, bully or kill.
An easy way to correct this of course would be to take the ‘t’ out of LGBT but since that’s not going to happen we’re stuck with lies and false labels being hurled at Trump because he wants to keep men out of women’s sports and cut federal funding for any school pursuing radical gender ideology, two issues that have nothing whatsoever to do with being homosexual.
Even Pennsylvania Congressman John Fetterman, a staunch advocate for the transgender community, admitted that ” the messaging around LGBT issues may have hurt Democrats this election cycle.”
‘Hurt’ isn’t the word.
It demolished Democrats. But now we have to deal with the fallout from young people who think the sky is falling because they suckled at the breast of a corrupt and fallen media obsessed with hating Donald Trump.