Those like the person you responded to are against any representation of LGBTQ people in society. They like to throw around words like "groomers" and "agenda", but they don't care that they're trying to do the same thing to queer people. They truly believe things like "people are not born gay, God doesn't make people gay". They truly believe that the only reason people are gay is because "someone taught them to". They truly believe that all people are born straight. Thus, they believe that any representation of queerness is an affront to nature, whatever that means. They still claim to this day that there is no queerness in nature.
They don't care that the science points to structured and informed transition being the best option for many trans people. They don't want there to be any trans people. There's no science behind the right-wing view, just hate and bigotry. They think that people are going online, watching a few TikTok videos, and suddenly saying "I'm trans! I want surgery and hormone blockers now!" when that is quite literally never the case. These are kids who are already internally struggling with their own gender feelings versus their body, and there are two types of responses. Loving parents accept their kids for who they are, and assure them that they will always be loved. Parents who are more worried about being "embarrassed" or "ungodly" will tend to suppress this instead, attempting to force the kid into their mold, instead of allowing their kid to be their true self.
These are people who were most likely prevented from learning actual critical thinking skills. They honestly don't understand how to think things through with logic, instead they inject their emotions into the issue, and you can never effectively fight emotion with logic. Logic can't be made "more logical", but emotional appeals can sure be made "more emotional", so emotion often wins out. Emotion is a quite visceral thing that we don't even fully understand. I'm certain that we feel emotion before we even exit the womb, long before any notion of logic could even exist for us.
I don't have an answer, but it's clear that these people simply do not care about the life experience of the "other", and in this case the "other" is the queer population.
They don't care that the science points to structured and informed transition being the best option for many trans people. They don't want there to be any trans people. There's no science behind the right-wing view, just hate and bigotry. They think that people are going online, watching a few TikTok videos, and suddenly saying "I'm trans! I want surgery and hormone blockers now!" when that is quite literally never the case. These are kids who are already internally struggling with their own gender feelings versus their body, and there are two types of responses. Loving parents accept their kids for who they are, and assure them that they will always be loved. Parents who are more worried about being "embarrassed" or "ungodly" will tend to suppress this instead, attempting to force the kid into their mold, instead of allowing their kid to be their true self.
These are people who were most likely prevented from learning actual critical thinking skills. They honestly don't understand how to think things through with logic, instead they inject their emotions into the issue, and you can never effectively fight emotion with logic. Logic can't be made "more logical", but emotional appeals can sure be made "more emotional", so emotion often wins out. Emotion is a quite visceral thing that we don't even fully understand. I'm certain that we feel emotion before we even exit the womb, long before any notion of logic could even exist for us.
I don't have an answer, but it's clear that these people simply do not care about the life experience of the "other", and in this case the "other" is the queer population.