Splitting ‘LGB’ from ‘TQI’ (One)
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 March 01 2023
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    In The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology, Williams makes an observation that is worth discussing.

    But first, readers, go out into your neighborhood, and ask people if they know that teenage girls are having their breasts cut off. Why ask?


    It will reveal to you that the vast majority of your fellow citizens are utterly ignorant as to what ‘trans’ really is.

     

    Now back to Williams:


    so, the warm fuzzy feeling that ultra-busy ordinary people may have about ‘trans’?

    Maybe it went like this:

    A: people understood in retrospect that society had taken far too long to change its attitudes to homosexuality,

    then B: they had ‘trans’ brought to their attention,

    then C: they saw ‘trans’ as a bit of LGB that had been overlooked, so they just uncritically tacked it onto LGB.

     

    Now let’s try another perspective:


    ‘LGB’ is/was a pre-postmodern political initiative. Its framework was liberal, quite moderate. For example, gays and lesbians asked mainly for an end to formal discrimination. They didn’t campaign for the government to jail people who called them rude names.


    ‘TQI,’ however, is a political initiative of a completely different type. It’s authoritarian, etc. Cancel culture seeks to ruin the careers of Wrongthinkers. It is anything but liberal.


    And its political goals extend far far beyond mere ‘TQI.’


    Finally, perhaps commercial enterprises uncritically jumped on the TQI bandwagon because, looking back on how society had countenanced LGB, they didn’t want to be ‘left behind like last time.’ Note also that these corporations are sharply aware that they are dealing with a new generation (‘cohort succession’ – Post forthcoming).

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