NA>Thats always been my problem with the LGBTQ+ movement - When the T and the
  >rest of the alphabet was added to LGB, thats when the "problems" started.

Just a general comment, not responding to anyone in particular.. What seems to
be obvious these days are two things.

1. LGBTQ+++ people are being put front and centre everywhere these days.

and

2. Attacks against them, both physical and through hatefull words, are up
dramatically in the past couple of years. I think something like 62% here.

I like to think of myself as open minded. I won't say I can fully understand
how people different than me think, but if they are not hurting anyone or
costing me money and everyone is a consenting adult, I don't care about what
they do in their bedrooms or homes. I had friends in school who were both
Gay and Trans and that was fine. I have a good friend now who is openly Bi.
I think the problem now is that they are trying to force it down people's
throats and those against it or even 'neutral' (for lack of a better word)
resent it and are pushing back.

I think they are doing themselves more harm than good. Pretty much anything
I would complain about these people doing in public, I'd complain about
heterosexual people doing it too. Some things one shouldn't advertise in
public no matter who you are or what your preferences.

The same problem goes with people of colour as well. If they get pushed at
us too strongly, literally everywhere, some people will push back, possibly
even those who would have 'lived and let live' in the past.

Example.. These days it seems 80% of the movies that come out are about one
minority or another. In the past I'd probably have watched many of them but,
with so much of it there now, I skip over virtually all of them. This doesn't
help them get their message out if they are thinking it does.

A final note..  My Niece is a teacher in lower grades, K to 4. Her school,
like many, are pushing more coloured people content. Normally I'd say fine,
show the kids early that they are people too and all around us. What is not
fine? The school banned ALL books in the school library that had ANY white
people in them. My niece, who has black friends and is not the least bit
racist, had brought in a few harmless books of her own that had white people
in them and they were confiscated.

They are also teaching almost exclusively about LGBTQ++ to 5 and 6 year olds
to the point where heterosexual kids may start to feel like they are wrong
to feel the way they do. I can understand at that age teaching that Some
families may have 2 mommies or 2 daddies but there should be a line..

Is this where we are heading?..
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