You have moved the goalposts twice. First, you said there was no evidence that Muslims wanted reform and no movement working toward it. Now you acknowledge those movements exist but say they probably will not transform three of the most authoritarian countries in the world. Their inability to overpower the Taliban or the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia does not mean Muslims do not want reform. It means authoritarian governments suppress reformers.
You also say you are “injecting reality” into the transgender discussion, then immediately admit you will not examine the statistics. You cannot dismiss published evidence because your recollection feels different and then substitute your own prediction about what will happen. That is the opposite of evidence based reasoning.
You are correct that several European countries have restricted or more tightly controlled medical treatment for minors because the long term pediatric evidence remains limited. I do not ignore that, and I support careful evaluation and appropriate limits. But that does not establish that transgender identity is a fad, disprove adult treatment, or support your claim that transgender children are usually confused homosexuals. Sexual orientation and gender identity are not the same
Finally, I did not say you personally called for violence. I said someone openly called for people to be tortured and publicly executed, and your response was not to condemn it but to reinforce the dehumanizing premise behind it. Even if every medical question were unsettled, that rhetoric would still be indefensible.
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I don’t pay as much attention to the transgender stuff as most people so I am largely absorbing news through occasional articles appearing in the periodicals I read.
From my recollection, there is a big increase in transgenderism or whatever you want to call it, driven mostly by young people. I remember reading the majority of transgenders are under 30.
There was a study that pointed to “social contagion” being a major factor. Of course there are people who are going to dispute that because they buy into the whole premise.
Short of devoting myself to studying this shit, which I don’t have the time or inclination to do, I am pretty confident based on life experience that social contagion is a major if not the major factor.
Young people want to stand out and be special and unique and rebellious. When I was a teenager, it seemed like just about every other girl had declared herself bisexual. Within ten years most all of them were married to men, or divorced from men.
Commons sense tells me that their bisexuality was a way of getting attention and titillating the boys. Transgenderism is little different. Kids pick up on the social debate and see it as a way to stand out, especially if they are otherwise confused about their sexual orientation.
Does this mean there are zero “real” transgenders? Of course not. But realistically we would not be seeing transgenders so much more common among the youngest generation if it was a legitimate phenomenon.
The generational gap in willingness to announce it can’t explain the entire surge. It may have some effect, but it wouldn’t account for most transgenders being under 30.
I am not going to bother spending an hour on google to copy and paste links to the above statistics. You can just as easily summon studies sympathetic to your point of view and we are right back where we started.
I enjoy arguing but don’t need to bolster my arguments by invoking an endless battle of the experts.
Same with Islam. Plenty of polls reputable firms show how backwards most of the Muslim world is, and how hostile to the west. The fact that a handful of Muslims start a few organizations isn’t going to budge those views…
