How the Internet and Mainstream Media have harmfully warped the treatment of homosexuality in Society:
For millenia, prior to the age of television, the internet, personal computers and "smart" phones, flooded with the dominating all-pervasive presence of the mass media influencing people's consciousness, the reality of the existence of people with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria was peacefully managed (with some exceptions) within families, villages, and society at large. The afflicted person lived and interacted in genuine functioning communities, his or her family, extended family, farm or other workplace, filling a function in society. There was no need for these persons to stand on a soapbox in the town square and pridefully shout to the other 96% of the population, proclaiming the greatness of his or her deviation from society's norm, i.e., one man and one woman united in love for each other, with that loving unity fruitfully creating the next generation.
Before the internet and mass media created the illusion of a world-wide "community", each such individual worked out his or her condition in the context of the family and community in which he or she lived and functioned. In a truly Christian culture, with other society members empatheticlaly practicing the Golden Rule of respect for others and charity. Nowadays, around the world, the mass media and the internet have made these people consider themselves as part of some imaginary worldwide "community" just because they share the same affliction. This phenomenon was made possible in part by the decay of Christian culture of Faith and Family, with children growing up in Day Care centers, family meals replaced by drive-through fast food, resulting in a generation of isolated lost souls longing for some sense of belonging in a community.
Teenagers and youth in their twenties who are trying to figure out their identity, lacking a traditional family for support and lacking good role models for men and women, are susceptible to this false lure of a "community". But this is only the illusion of a community. A real community is a functioning group of people who interact as part of their daily lives, such as a family farm, a village, a workplace.
Whereas 7.6% of U.S. adults now align themselves with the LGBTQ+ community*, doubling the 2012 statistic of 3.5% in just 12 years, any random look at the mass media's "news" would lead one to believe that the percentage is much higher.
This source states that people who think they are "transgender" (i.e., who think their "real" sex is not their biological sex) constitute less than 1% of the population.
- Peter Elliott
Link to this:
Inside the Transgender Empire
Link to this informative article in the September 2023 issue of Imprimis, the publication of Hillsdale College. Authored by Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, this article is based on exhaustive research. Here are some key excerpts from this article, selected to motivate reading of the entire article to learn the disturbing reality of so-called "gender-affirming care".
"The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on its behalf and activist health professionals are promoting the mutilation of children under the euphemistic banner of “gender-affirming care.” The sudden and pervasive rise of this movement provokes two questions: where did it come from, and how has it proved so successful? The story goes deeper than most Americans know.
In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to be a “social construct” used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man and woman as a false binary that was conceived to support the system of “heteronormativity”—i.e., the white, male, heterosexual power structure. This system, they argued, had to be ruthlessly deconstructed. And the best way to achieve this, they argued further, was to promote transgenderism. If men can become women, and women men, they believed, the natural structure of Creation could be toppled."
"The transgender movement is inherently political. Its reconstruction of personal identity is meant to advance a collective political reconstruction or transformation. Some trans activists even view their movement as the future of Marxism. In a collection of essays titled Transgender Marxism, activist writer Rosa Lee argues that trans people can serve as the new vanguard of the proletariat, promising to abolish heteronormativity in the same way that orthodox Marxism promised to abolish capitalism."
"Jennifer Pritzker, Maureen Connolly, Blair Peters, and their ilk occupy the heights of power and prestige, but like Doctor Frankenstein they will not be able to escape the consequences of what they have created. They are condemning legions of children to a lifetime of sorrows and medical necessities, all based on dubious postmodern theories that do not meet the standard of Hippocrates’ injunction in his work Of the Epidemics: “First, do no harm.” Although individuals can be nullified, nature cannot. No matter how advanced trans pharmaceuticals and surgeries become, the biological reality of man and woman cannot be abolished; the natural limitations of God’s Creation cannot be transcended. The attempt to do so will elicit the same heartbreak and alienation captured in the final scene of Mary Shelley’s novel: the hulking monster, shunned by society and betrayed by his father, filled with despair and drifting off into the ice floes—a symbol of the consequence of Promethean hubris."