Who ‘protects’ the gay and trans kids?
There is so much talk at the moment about ‘Wokism’ and the need to ‘protect’ children and kids from ‘dangerous gender ideologies’ - and it feels like a horrible rerun of the homophobia of the 1980’s only rewritten for the Alt. Right. But in all this talk about ‘protecting the kids’, who’s protecting the kids who are trans, or gay, or simply just ‘questioning’? This kid was born in 1967 - when everyone *knew* that homosexuals were mentally ill, criminally deviant child molesters and perverts. This kid grew up in a deeply loving, devotedly religious and socially conservative family; This kid grew up *knowing* it was ‘wrong’ that he was a ‘softie’ for wanting to learn ballet, and sewing, and art: because everybody *knew* that boys are ‘tough’ and did ‘hard things’ like sports and engineering, but girls are ‘soft’ and only did ‘gentle’ stuff like handicrafts and ‘domestic science’. This kid went to a good Catholic school during #clause28 - being taught what everyone *knew*: that gay = AIDS