Predictably this Tweet violated Twitter’s Terms Of Service and got this guy banned but, aside from calling for the execution of people who believe you can change sex, he’s not wrong and there’s nothing to argue about the rest of what Mr. Foster here said.
Being LGBTQ doesn’t give anyone the right to groom children but what’s incredible is the amount of backlash stating this obvious point is getting.
Even The New Republic calls this a right-wing buzzword targeting transgender youth.
Recently in the state of Florida the Parental Rights in Education bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ activists, has been passed by the Florida House of Representatives. The bill would limit what classrooms can teach about sexual orientation and gender identity.
Under this legislation, these lessons "may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards” and would give parents legal recourse to sue the school or any teacher that engage in these topics.
Now I would think that just about, oh, everybody would agree it’s not a good idea to teach first grade Johnny or second grade Jane about sexual orientation or gender identity pretty much for the same reasons why we don’t allow children that age to view pornographic material, consume alcohol or even take up a two pack of cigarettes a day habit: they’re too young and it can cause irreparable damage.
When a child has sex at an age where they can’t fully grasp the totality of the act this can often lead to lifelong damage, even evidenced in post-pubescent young adults who had sex at too young an age who now act out in sexually inappropriate ways around other kids or (even worse) engage in a sexual relationship with someone much older than them that is even harder to escape from than if they were adults.
This also holds true for gender ideology. A child doesn’t understand why anyone would identify as the opposite sex or non-binary and all a child would understand is that all the other kids, either at school or in social media, are doing it and this, in turn, causes the same levels of damage.
Yes, I can hear the objection from here: “what about kids with gender dysphoria”?
Okay, what about them? Most kids who present gender dysphoria (over 70%) eventually grow out of it, some even maturing as gay, lesbian or bisexual if left alone and without the intervention of a parent who doesn’t rush to put them on puberty blockers at the first sign of gender nonconformity.
Speaking of which, I’m not exactly what you’d call 100% gender conforming and I don’t know anyone who is. Am I trans? Are we all trans? And if so, it would seem to me that a word that describes everything describes nothing.
The thing about going down the path of transgenderism is that it’s in many cases a permanent solution to a temporary problem — once you’ve undergone the hormones and surgeries, you can’t take it back even if you now find that you have regret later down the road.
And even if a child doesn’t express any regret later there’s a strong likelihood they’re going to commit suicide.
A child who is groomed and molested will grow into an adult who is going to groom and molest other children. A child who is groomed into transgenderism will, in turn, groom other children into transgenderism and it’s not entirely unfair to say that grooming a child into transgenderism is morally equivalent to molesting a child.
Which makes all the more incredible that there are people who loudly protest that it’s our puritanical values that are oppressive to little Johnny and Jane if we don’t teach them about the 97 magical genders (and I know there are 97 genders because I read it on a T-shirt that comes styles both male and female) or the best lube to use when little Johnny wants to anally fist little Jane because an adult authority figure told them it was okay, that it was all just perfectly normal.
In the eyes of these people, it’s our response to teaching our children these things and not the acts themselves that are the problem here.
It’s not at all difficult or unreasonable to understand Mr. Foster’s position as there exists a trans/pedo pipeline. If these people truly cared about protecting children from grooming they would support laws that protect children from child groomers.
But they don’t because deep in their hearts they support pedophilia but because it doesn’t play well to us normal folk, they pay lip service to opposing it because the optics look bad — and that’s all it is, just optics, ethics and morality be damned.
This is precisely why pedophiles and gender ideologists push so hard to get the age of consent lowered because if a child has capacity to make decisions about going on cross sex hormones they can also consent to having sex with adults.
Parents, if given the choice, know what is best for their children so you can’t blame them for wanting to put the brakes on a teacher’s academic activism nor can you blame someone like Robert Foster who only wants that those who prey on our children and use them for disgusting, nefarious, exploitative purposes be dealt with severely and harshly.
And as violent as Russia has been as of late toward Ukraine, you can’t really argue that the best way to deal with child groomers is to send them off to a labor camp in Siberia for the rest of their lives.
After and provided, of course, we give them a fair trial.
And it’s not unreasonable to say this is a preferable method for dealing with transgender groomers that they should be dealt with just as severely because there is no compromising with the moral cowardice of people who decry our bigotry and evil for simply wanting to protect our children from them because of their complicity.
Or because they’re groomers, too.