re: For those of you that hate gay people and transgenders.. why?.

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I can’t remember who it was but there is a trans poster on TD

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Terd


Honestly Chicken out to the have decency to offer a rainbow flag or a penis emoji/Favorite Team image for you people



and I for one truly dont care,, I like making fun of everyone that is different than me

shite I like making fun of Mexicans as well

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Have you honestly ever felt you were discriminated against because you were gay?

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I can't speak for him, but I have personally witnessed discrimination in my workplace. I used to work in a plumbing supply warehouse in 2015. We had a temp come in who was gay. We didn't even know it until he mentioned his partner. I thought nothing of it, until I heard two of my coworkers snickering in the corner. I went over to shoot the shite and they were making fun of the way the guy walked, saying that he "swayed his hips". After this they also did everything they could do to avoid working with him, and since he was a temp, this means he lost out on knowledge that would have been offered to him if he wouldn't have mentioned anything about his partner.

I don't think those 2 coworkers had any problem with gay people, but they were sure quick to change how they acted when he was around.

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I don't think those 2 coworkers had any problem with gay people, but they were sure quick to change how they acted when he was around.

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its a fuzzy line

ONE you shouldnt make fun of people

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B

if you do,have the decency to do it in front of them and take your butt whooping if its deserved



and if its not obvious, I think its offensive as a Christian who believes God makes us the way he intended and as an American that believes in the rights set forth in the Constitution to judge discriminate or deny rights of anyone.

but, Im also an a-hole that makes fun of the absurd by being even more absurd


but its kinda werid on here when the actual racist send me a private message about the porch monkeys and I have to explain that my jokes are making fn of the extremism not endorsing it


Im talking about you FR33

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I am genuinely curious as to your "not sure what good it would do" thought process. What did you have in mind with the thread? Many posters seem to have the same attitude that I do. Some...not so much. What does their view matter anyway? When someone disapproves of my gender, race, ethnicity, religiosity etc., cool beans. It is their right. Codifying that disapproval is another story. Again, I am genuinely curious as to what you expected other than the mixed (and honest) responses that you got

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Of course I expected a mixed bag of responses. Some posters are just more outspoken in their views than others. When I say “what good would it do?” I mean this: I’m not asking to stop making fun of me, or say I’m sorry for what I am, nor am I making any demands for anything. When I speak of what I go through here in the OT, it’s to show others that trans folks like me exist in the everyday, mundane life. That I go through through living my life just like everyone else, under the radar, and that we aren’t some spectacle either. The only thing I have demanded is to be treated like everyone else. I don’t demand people use certain pronouns, unlike that unfortunate Gamespot person. I’ve come to learn to deal with the stares, it’s just a part of going through this. I’m happy after dealing with this for decades. Genuinely happy.

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their shite is poured down my throat at every turn and it is tiresome.

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I dont think thats what theyre trying to get down your throat

Don’t hate, I pity them. I can’t imagine suffering from such mental illness, and instead of people helping they tell me it’s ok.

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I don't know anyone that hates gay people. I know a lot of people that hate the lie that gay people are "oppressed" and the lbgtqklmnop shite being shoved down their throats all the time. And trans stuff is on a different level.

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This.

Thanks for taking the words out of my mouth and saving me the time to post it.

Im a PK, all the men in 3 generations before me in my family were pastors( except one Uncle) the women in the family married pastors Assembly of God and Pentecostal in short we made hardcore Baptist look like Methodist. So I am well versed in what God has to say about it
I also have experience in Public Policy and was in deep with the political battle( opposed) over Bathroom access in Houston and in Texas.

All these blanket statements as if you know what makes someone gay or trans ... its fine to have that opinion but at least put some study in it so you can back it up.

Heres what I know, babies are born in RARE cases with the sexual organs of both genders showing. Even more babies ( little innocent babies) are born with an organ hidden.. if that "mix-up" can be seen with the trained and untrained eye how much more is unseen and not understood?

SO what I KNOW is that I dont know enough to pass judgment on WHAT someone is and WHY they are that ...

And if it is a sickness, well so is cancer . God creates
you go tell God he is wrong before you call one of his creations wrong

that being said I can disagree with the political movement that tries to take advantage of the issue to grab political power and that exists on both sides...

IF you care to learn read the following from a Baptist Minister from Texas written when the State issue of bathroom access was going on


Mark Wingfield is associate pastor at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas. He has a piece on the Baptist News Global site that is worth reading. It begins:


The truth is that I don’t know any transgender persons — at least I don’t think I do. But with the help of a pediatrician friend and a geneticist friend, I’m listening and trying to learn. This is hard, though, because understanding the transgender experience seems so far outside what I have ever contemplated before. And the more I learn, the more theological questions I face as well. This is hard, even for a pastor.

Here is a taste of Wingfield’s seven things. Some may seem very basic, but as Wingfield say himself, most of us haven’t been challenged until now to look at these things. These seven may also give transgender advocates some starting points for their conversations with us who are still learning.

1. Even though LGBT gets lumped together in one tagline, the T is quite different than the LG and B.

2. What you see is not always what you get.


3. Stuff happens at birth that most of us never know.

4. Transgender persons are not “transvestites.”

5. Transgender persons are not pedophiles.

6. Transgender persons hate all the attention they’re getting.

7. Transgender persons are the product of nature much more than nurture.

shalom

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The only thing I have demanded is to be treated like everyone else.

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No problem here.

My problem is when my tax money is used to pay for certain things. Sex has nothing to do with it. Elective procedures are the responsibility of an individual.

I live by that. I pay for my elective procedures.

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