Well, I’m about to ruffle feathers for what I’m about to say here but I’m gonna do it anyway. I’m fine with free speech and I fully support people being their own unique self even when it seems opposite of me…but it seems that the 1% of LGBTQXYZ people are overshaddowing literally every single pocket of our lives..every show on tv, every sport, public bathrooms and lockerrooms, clothing options, beer, childrens wear, cosmetics..everything.
BE WHO YOU WANNA BE, I GOT ZERO PROBLEM WITH THAT. LIVE AND LET LIVE. I SUPPORT YOUR RIGHT TO BE YOUR COLORFUL SELF, I EVEN ADMIRE YOUR CONFIDENCE..and often your sense of style…but leave room for those of us who are just fine with the gender we were born with. You want to play sports? Great, I hope you succeed, but create your own category, girls don’t have to compete with boys and boys with girls, do like the marathons, just get out there and go regardless of gender, or make up your own unique third category. Just don’t ruin it for the ones who are fine with being who they were born as. I don’t care what surgery you had or what hormones you are taking, you will never have a different physical genetic make than the one you were born with. That’s just fact. Embrace who you are, learn to be happy with that without requiring the whole world to shift and conform for you. Seriously, WE ALL are having to shift and conform to the world around us everyday, not just the LGBTQ community. Consider people with disabilities, they are in a constant state of shifting and conforming, people with different religions or cultural differences or economic status..we are all making room for each other…sometimes with a simple act of grace and sometimes by other means. Im simply saying, you don’t have to take over to be accepted and included.
You don’t see me out there creating huge events to show off and celebrate and bring awareness to the fact that I am straight…so please forgive me if I don’t fully understand why it is so important for you to have to shout it from the rooftops. If you are confident and secure in who you are I don’t get why it is so important to have a parade or festival about it. Before you say it, I know that not every LGBTQXYZ person is a card-carrying, in your face, activist. Obviously, this isn’t about those people who are just out there being their unique selves and living their best life.
We are all sharing this planet together, let’s make room for each other without squeezing each other out. Try to understand that your choice is something that not everyone is going to feel comfortable talking about. You don’t have to shove your ideas down their throat just as I’m sure you are hoping they will not do that to you. If you were born a man and choose to wear a dress, fine, if you look great in it, awesome, good for you…but rather than insisting that cosmetics that were made for females be mainstreamed to include you is dumb.
Hey Maybelline, if you really want to target the LGBTQXYZ community, why don’t you create a whole line that caters to that community? Why must you alienate the women who make up the majority of your customer base?
While I’m on a soapbox Target can fall off a cliff too for their new line of children’s trannywear. For the love of Pete and Jane, leave the children out of this. Let kids be kids, they can think about their “gender assignment” when they get older…after puberty and the perils of high school peer pressure and drama.
You wanna encourage children to be the best they can be? Tell them you are proud of them, help them succeed in life, support their big ideas, grieve their losses, be willing to have hard conversations without freaking out or abandoning them. Offer advice without being a dictator and be willing to accept that sometimes they will take your advice and sometimes not. Love them anyway. Try to protect them from decisions they are not old enough to fully understand and when they get old enough to understand, keep protecting them and keep loving them whatever they decide. Sometimes they really need you to be a battle worthy warrior with them and sometimes they just need to sit and have cookies in the kitchen knowing you love them and care about them….AND NEVER EVER, EVER GIVE UP.
And as for all you people who call yourselves Christian and then fail to “Love One Another”, shame on you. Your job is not to judge, your job is to Love your neighbor as yourself. God alone is our judge. Man looks at outward appearance but God looks at the heart. (Proverbs 24:12) If your goal is to draw someone to Christ, attacking them is not the way to do it…and assuming they don’t love God just because they are struggling with their gender is not right either. In case you forgot, EVERYBODY struggles with something. Your struggle might be poverty, religion, abusive relationships or sickness or deformity but EVERYBODY struggles so BE KIND.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Romans 12:3 Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
We don’t all have to agree to be just alike, we were created to be individuals, unique and special. If you are asking me to accept your “gender choice”, then I must also ask you to accept that my choice is to roll with the one I was born with and don’t be mad at me because I like a good love story chic flick, solely about a man who meets a woman, and falls in love, and gets married, in a country barn, with the summer sun setting in the background and I hope you will forgive me when I want that sweet love story to be about a straight couple that I can identify with.. not every love story needs the obligatory gay couple. I’m not saying you cant have your moment in the sun. I’m not saying there isn’t a place for you. I’m just saying you don’t have to have representation on every show on tv or stage.
If you want room to spread your wings, awesome, I hope that whatever you are doing works for you and gives your soul peace. I also hope you will consider that others are trying to do the same thing. We are sharing this planet, we all bleed red, we all breathe in and out every day till we die…that should be enough common ground to recognize that it is not necessary to infiltrate every nook and cranny of the world and annihilate it for your own agenda. Be kind to others even when they are not like you..and even when they do not like you. If we all just start with that, the world will be a better place.