Video of the day -- uncomfortable realities

This video, and what I have to say about it, will make some regular readers unhappy.  (At 33 minutes it's also longer than I would have preferred, but still worth watching.  6:40 to 8:10 is a skippable ad.)  Be warned that some of it is disturbing.  The part about "drag kids" will make your skin crawl -- if it doesn't, there's something wrong with you.

The gay rights movement was one of the most remarkable successes in the history of US social progress.  As recently as 2003 being gay was criminalized in a quarter of the states; today same-sex marriage is legal all over the US and has majority support, even in the South.  It's also legal in most of western Europe and much of Latin America.  Yet now all that progress is in danger of being lost, and public acceptance is already starting to slip.

The gay rights movement, as such, doesn't really exist any more, having now been fully subsumed into the LGBTQXYZWTF+ Frankensteinian agglomeration which claims to be its continuation, or rather, tries to retcon the original gay movement into being merely the larval form of itself.  In fact it's been a transformation into something unrecognizably different.  A few writers, many of them lesbians, have been speaking out bluntly about this; I've occasionally included their articles in my link round-ups.  What was originally a straightforwardly-defined and easily-understood demographic (gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals) has been swamped, not only by the relatively small number of creeps and nutcases who claim or even actually believe that humans can have a "gender" opposite to their actual sex, but by ever-growing numbers of heterosexuals with various fetishes, kinks, and mental illnesses who find that they can now re-define these as "identities" and muscle in to claim a spot under the "queer" umbrella.  The few actual gay people who publicly object to this are accused of "dividing the community", though this is likely the most bizarre usage of the word "community" in the history of the English language.  After years of such colonization, the results look like this.  It's no wonder public support and sympathy are eroding.

And no, that erosion is not a result of Trump being in office.  It began well before he won the election last year, and I suspect the public would be turning against all this even faster if the Democrats were in office now and the "movement" (I know that's not the right word for what it is now, but I'm not sure there even is a right word) was still being pushed on everyone by government power.  The original gay rights movement succeeded because decent people saw that justice required an end to discrimination and persecution against people with a harmless sexual orientation toward their own sex.  Nobody ever signed up for men in women's sports and prisons, hormonal and surgical mutilation of minors, being bullied into referring to men as "she", hardcore porn in schools, guys in gross leather outfits waggling their dicks around in public at Pride parades (something which would get them arrested in any other context), or guys who look like stegosaurus molesters from outer space holding "story hours" with little children and otherwise imposing their freakish presence on them as something that should be "normalized".  Mainstream society is never going to accept this.  As is shown by links I've posted at various times, public opposition to trans ideology and the whole "movement" is becoming stronger and more widespread as people learn more about what it actually is.

And no, the vast majority of people neither know nor care about the endless proliferation of boring sexual "identities" and their ugly flags.  It's all just one big mob of Martians to them.  When they're told that being gay means you're part of the same "community" as delusional and terrifying-looking freaks, they believe it.

The way this is going, it's most likely to end in a massive backlash of sexual conservatism which will wipe out all of the progress the gay movement has made over the last few decades -- regardless of which party wins the next few elections (in fact, it will be an increasingly crippling electoral liability for the Democrats, unless they can manage to convincingly repudiate their support for the "movement").  If you don't want that to happen -- and I certainly don't -- the "community" is going to have to put its own house in order.

They did it once before.  In the early days of gay liberation, pedophiles (see groups like NAMBLA) tried to glom onto it and link their own perversion with it, hoping to win acceptance alongside gays.  Obviously any such association would have doomed gay liberation to failure, and gay leaders at the time rightly rejected it.  I'm not saying trans ideology and public kink are the same thing as pedophilia -- obviously they're different -- but they represent a politically analogous problem today, and need to be similarly repudiated.

Yes, yes, pointing all this out is likely to lead to some anger and hurt feelings.  But -- it's the truth, and ignoring the truth is dangerous.  Watch the video.  All that shit probably played a non-trivial role in getting Trump elected last year, and that's only the tip of the iceberg of the kind of damage it's going to do as the public becomes more and more aware of what's going on.  Not being gay, I personally don't have as much to lose -- I don't want to live in the kind of society that a real backlash and endless Republican victories would produce, but I'm not among those who would be directly targeted.  Nevertheless, I do know the difference between being supportive and enabling self-delusion.  There's still time to change course, but not much.  That iceberg is getting close.