Religion largely absent from the issue at my kids' school
by fortune_smith (2024-02-02 16:25:31)

In reply to: Your last paragraph is something I've been thinking about a  posted by Tex Francisco

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Although, we did have a few Muslim families that partly objected to the topic on religious grounds.

But even for folks who may have had a religious sub-agenda, the grossly-disproportionate coverage of the topic was enough to lean on. Near-daily, maybe even daily? C'mon, who dreamt up this approach ....

Of course, we had some administrators who responded to any effort to curtail their enthusiasm with "you're just transphobic." For people who want to take that approach, I'm sure the religious right is a convenient bogyman -- sometimes legitimate, sometimes contrived.

I have never seen this presented as a religious issue.
by Domer84  (2024-02-03 22:43:08)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

And I live in the South. While there may be a few raising a religious objection, they are a relatively small minority.

The obvious objections are things like permanent damage to transitioning minors, the ability of minors to consent, the social contagion problem, teaching small children that they may be the wrong gender, transitioning kids at school without parental consent, biological men in women's spaces, and biological men taking women's opportunities, such as sports.

I suspect that trans activists may use the few who raise religious objections as strawmen to avoid addressing the other issues.

I'm not necessarily saying that the debate is being had
by Tex Francisco  (2024-02-04 12:37:32)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

based on religious principles. My take is that the presence of the religious right in US politics makes our left/right culture divide far more polarized than Europe's and makes people less willing to take heterodox positions, publicly at least. For instance, there is a much much stronger TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) movement in the UK than the US. "Radical" feminists are obviously very left on most social issues, but in the UK they seem much more willing to break with the left on trans issues than in the US.