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Groups that Oppose Transgender, Intersexed & Gay Rights
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My rebuttal to the 'traditional values' falsehoods about GLSEN in the Google group soc.religion.christian:

I will refute the main 'points' of the anti-GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) website: http://glsen.traditionalvalues.org/

1. "GLSEN targets children for recruitment into the homosexual lifestyle as well as cross-dressing/sex change operations..."

Nothing could be further from the truth. No legitimate GLBT group "targets" children and I know of none that do. That isn't their purpose. They are support groups, and just like any other support group, they can be contacted and provide camaraderie and support to self-identified GLBT people. There's no recruitment or targeting involved.

2. "GLSEN [wants] to impose a homosexual agenda on the nation's public schools."

Firstly, let's finally put to rest the idea that there's a "homosexual agenda." An agenda implies using any means to force the homosexual 'lifestyle' (another misnomer) on others. These after-school groups are for GLBT people, have a right to gather as any other after-school program, and attendance is voluntary. If you don't agree with it, don't attend! No one is forcing anything on anybody.

If wanting equal rights (not 'special rights'), the end of discrimination, rejection and hate crimes is an agenda, then so be it. When negros were fighting for equal rights in the 50s & 60s that most have been the "African American agenda."

3. "GLSEN is pushing for the recruitment of so-called transgender youth as part of its efforts to recruit sexually confused individuals."

This falsehood is partially covered in my answer to #1. Again, there is no 'recruitment' involved. GLSEN is a support group where individuals voluntarily participate. Second, is their reference to GLBT people as "confused." These people have genetic / biological conditions (as intersexed people) that require the proper treatments. That is, gender identity therapy to help sort out where one's internal gender identity aligns. IOW, if one is really TS, TG or just a
crossdresser, etc. They may be confused about where their gender lies on the male\female spectrum, but the condition itself isn't the result of confusion.

4. "...homosexual activists have started pushing the idea that genital deformities found in hermaphrodite newborns are actually evidence of a third sex - not a birth defect."

The problem is they WERE once considered defects and doctors would surgically assign babies or young children to one gender or another, usually to female. The thinking back then was gender was malleable and could be shaped by how the child was reared (nature v. nurture). We now know that's incorrect. Gender is hard-wired before birth and unchangeable, which has been dramatically demonstrated by some surgically-assigned intersexed children who developed the opposite gender identity later in life. Intersexed people should be allowed to identify where on the gender spectrum they fall and make their own decisions about having surgery, or not having surgery. I have personal experience with intersexed people and some identify as male, some as female and others somewhere in between.