Gay marriage as Trojan Horse
It is bizarre that society's mind was turned so quickly, on a chronological dime, over "trans." If you haven't thought about it from this angle, please do. I think you'll be disturbed at what you realize. What you think is just settled common knowledge today, in 2025, can be completely reversed next year. Will you remember what you thought in this year, or will you “forget” and say “we always thought this way” when the new belief becomes required next year?
Until about 2010-2015, everyone knew what "trans" was. Everyone knew, as all people always have, that we were looking at a rare expression of mental and personality disorders. Sure, people ranged in how sympathetic they were, but across the board, there was no one who actually believed that someone was "really trans." No one believed anyone was "trapped in the wrong body."
You did not encounter people who would argue that it was real to be “trapped in the wrong body,” much less that men in dresses with fetishes were “truly women, and always had been women.” If such people with such beliefs existed, you never encountered them.
It’s much like how most people never encountered a transsexual in the real world. If you're 45 or older, you remember the era of daytime talk shows. Sally Jesse, Phil Donahue, original Oprah, Jenny Jones, etc.
That's where you encountered transvestites. And that's what you called them, because that's what they were. Whether you were sympathetic or repulsed, or somewhere between those two moods, you knew these were men who had a mental problem of some kind.
1988's version of you, if he or she could read this, would not understand what I'm going on about. They would not understand that we now live in a world where a majority of people (maybe recently changed) felt pressured to claim in front of other people that they believed you could be trapped in the wrong body, that children could too, that getting surgery and giving yourself a new name was absolutely natural for some people.
They wouldn't understand it because it is literally insane. Not hyperbolically insane. It is definitionally insane in the most basic sense of that term. Complete disconnection from reality, along with professed schizotypal beliefs.
We need to take in how dire and extreme this is. It's not like trends or fads we've seen before. There are parallel dynamics with fads like the multiple personality disorder/Satanic ritual abuse craze of the 80s, but that did not come close to completely upending our culture from stem to stern the way “trans” has. This was a crossing of the Rubicon of our psyches, individually and as a culture.
And fellow homosexuals, I think the same thing is true in parallel of the rapid, suspiciously rapid, turn in public opinion to support gay marriage. And I think the support for gay marriage, and for things homosexual in other arenas, is as vulnerable to erosion as what's happening to trans right now.
No, it's not deranged to say "we want equal treatment under the law." I know that's not comparable to the lunacy of declaring yourself a woman by fiat.
But we went farther and demanded not just the complete legal analogue to marriage—we had this in civil unions but that wasn't good enough. We also demanded that people profess to feel about gay marriage exactly the same way they felt about real marriage. We felt duty bound to say we could not taste a difference between maple syrup and Mrs. Butterworth’s.
That was when we crossed the Rubicon, and that is how our collective actions parallel the narcissistic demands of the trans crowd. I'm afraid we are not wholly separate and distinct in every way, though we like to tell ourselves we are.
Whatever you think about gay marriage, gay issues, or any of this, I tell you this because I think it's likely to happen and you will want to think about it.
* Because it’s 2025 on the Internet, I have to explain the concept “rhetorical hyperbole” to forestall “not all!” complaints. Yes, Jane or Bob, it’s not strictly literally true that every single person without exception believed this. The use of the word “everyone” is called “rhetorical hyperbole.” It’s a very slight exaggeration of literal reality that allows a writer to illustrate a generally recognized point.
If you find that you are one of the exceptions to my totalizing, “colonizing” prose, please refrain from leaving aggrieved comments about how you’re not like that.
When I was in my young gay days in the gay meccas of Chelsea, the Pines, South Beach the "ts" were like the little brother that tagged along but never really welcomed. We wanted men. Men with muscles, hard bodies, lack of body hair in all the wrong places. Not curves and tits. Not a vagina.
But the social justice warriors needed a new war in 2015. Gay marriage was here and they had nothing else to harp on about. And BTW who are the social justice warriors? Angry lesbians, young mal adjusted straight women (and some of their punching bag, weak boyfriends/husbands), and unattractive gay men. Yes that last one sounds brutal but true.
But trans has never had the raw numbers. Enter the children. Take mentally unbalanced children and teenagers so desperate for belonging and give it to them in the form of social media acceptance. They'd be quickly convinced they're a cat. In fact, some already do, the "furry" phenomenon.
I have a visceral hatred when I see the trans flag displayed. They’re signaling that they’re accepting & loving but all I see are lies to very vulnerable people.