This ridiculous rant has been published for a year and a half, and it has received 101,000 reactions, almost all positive.
This ridiculous response gushes that it's "the best post I've ever seen in my all my life with regards to this theme of damned gender ideology!" It has likewise received 4,000 positive reactions.
In my response — not on the original post, but instead on a shared version — I said that the phrase "teach them the way things are" makes it clear that this is not only about how to raise one's own child but about the affirmation that the sex/gender binary is the way things really are. As such, it's a knowledge-dominance display over all trans people. Additionally, warning that a person may say "I want to be...a cannibal, vampire, or a tree..." reduces the concept of being transgender to an absurdity. (It's called the "one joke" of the anti-transgender crowd.) The hypothetical person didn't say they were a cannibal, vampire, or tree; they said they were transgender. That's different. When you immediately equate being transgender with something that is universally understood as immoral or that is physically impossible, all you show is that you are closed-minded to understanding what it means to be transgender. Here, the cis person presents the trans person as a deluded infant who needs to be taught how life really is. They claim they are positioned to enforce it as long as the trans person is their own child living under their roof. But they are also making the wider knowledge claim over all trans people.
Otherwise, why would they bother sharing the meme? They would just privately inform their own child of their opinion.
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