[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Battlebasset

I generally just roll my eyes a the "pride" stuff. It seems like corporate pandering. And I really don't care how you express your love for other people. It's none of my business, just as it's none of your business about me and mine. Consenting adults, and all that.

Where this goes off the rails for me is the bizarre desire to pull children of all ages into it, especially the gender dysphoria/trans aspect. It's one thing to perhaps think you might be gay as a 14 year old, act out for bit, and then decide it's not for you. It is quite another to think you are the opposite sex, and start taking puberty blockers, hormones, and eventually undergo surgery. There is no turning back from that if you later decide it was just teen-age angst taken too far, and supported by the adults in your life and society at large.

No one should be allowed to undergo any transitioning until they are a legal adult. And you must continue to use the public bathroom of your birth gender, and you can't complete against women/men as a man/woman. The "rights" of a tiny minority should not trump everyone else.

And if you join the military and then decide to transition? Sorry. You joined as a man or woman, and that is what you will be until your service time is up. Then, you can do what you want.