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That is definitely not true. I have queer and trans friends, and they have legitimate worries. The "Don't Say Gay" bill in Florida is a fine example here, but there are so many more, including the very reasonable fear of Obergefell getting overturned.

The backlash isn't surprising; most civil rights advances end up with one. But the tenor of it is very concerning.



The funny thing about those sentiments is, aside from how exaggerated their proportions are (only a single judge in the Supreme Court remarked in passing about revisiting Obergefell, and the very hysterically-named Florida bill is literally just the tax payers telling you they don't want their children to hear about your sex life, straight or gay, in their tax-funded public schools. If you want your children to hear about sex lives, cool, do it on your own time and money. You can say gay as much as you want, just not to other people's kids.), is that they are largely self-inflicted.

The Florida bill they are so terrified of would have never been drafted if public school employees never put gay porn in the library, people would have never got tired of Obergefell if not for the month-long religious festivals that lgbt movements like to hold so much. Lgbt movements create the conditions of their own societal rejection.


> hysterically-named Florida bill is literally just the tax payers telling you they don't want their children to hear about your sex life, straight or gay

That right there is an insincere and obvious double standard. Let me know the minute that parents sue because a heterosexual teacher says they are married in a classroom. The problem is the gay teacher will be seen as other and potentially punished if they mention their spouse but the heterosexual teacher can speak out without repercussions.


Ah yes. You simultaneously claim there is no anti-gay panic and that gay people are at fault for "societal rejection", which is exactly the anti-gay panic I'm talking about. While also promoting an obvious anti-queer double standard of the exact sort used to oppress. A fine example of doublethink, but not one I'm going to take at all seriously.




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