A safe space for GSRM (Gender, Sexual, and Romantic Minority) folk to discuss their lives, issues, interests, and passions. LGBT is still a popular term used to discuss gender and sexual minorities, but all GSRM are welcome beyond lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who consent to participate in a safe space
Donald Trump burst into the dressing rooms of minors for Miss Teen USA pageants and ogled them multiple times while they weren't dressed, according to many contestants and witnesses.
Most men who equate trans folks with pedophiles imagine people "pretending" to be women so they can creep on underage girls in locker rooms and showers. That's because that's what they would do, or at least want to. In other words, pure projection...
Projection.
Far and away the highest concentration of pedophiles in this country are Youth Pastors in Evangelical Christian Churches.
Accusations against LGBT people are just a cudgel used to demonize them because there is literally no reason otherwise.
It’s a simple accusation that dehumanizes the accused.
That is like asking why racists call black people n***. It's because it's insulting, degrading and an attempt to "get more people on their side", like children.
However, there is always a chance that a person was taught to hate, instead of developing hate on their own. If the situation allows, sometimes, people can unlearn hate through life experience.
It's part of Amerikkka eugenics program, have people think whoever they think is lesser is child molesters by manipulating society so that way Amerikkka can commit genocide on them.
It's a war, baby!
Has been for my lifetime, where anyone that isn't cis-het is a target. For words or actions.
The whole pedo/groomer thing isn't new, it's that trans people are being hit with it currently because they're the spook specter. They're the fear factor to make all the good little Christians and conservatives rally.
It's the same empty blather that was thrown at gay men in specific, and anyone in the LGB community, back before the T was common in general awareness, and definitely before trans rights as an issue came into the forefront.
Hate and fear are the tools of people seeking power because a scared populace will run to their shelter, and a hate filled populace can be weaponized.
That line about trans rights being human rights, it isn't just a slogan. It's the battlefield we're all facing.
What's absurd is that most of them don't even believe it, as in most of the far right leadership. They definitely see trans people as aberrations to be eliminated, but that's applicable to gays, commies, blacks, and anyone else that isn't part of their arbitrary in group. But they parrot the bullshit about bathroom danger so that the rank and file will parrot it and nice believe it.
It's a war of words as much as a war of violence.
If trans people didn't exist, it would be someone else, but damn do the trans folks make such a convenient target. A minority, one that's vastly different from the ground in concepts that make up the christo-normative, christo-fascist way of thinking. The lack of familiarity makes it so much easier to make up whatever the hell they want and point the pitchfork.
I've seen this same shit spread on multiple groups just in my fifty years. It's absurd that they keep doing it, and even more so that the followers don't even have to pretend to dinner forget that it's the same tripe served with a new label