"Today, we show millions of transgender and nonbinary Americans that we see them, they belong, and that they should be treated with dignity and respect. Their courage has given countless others strength, but no one should have to be brave just to be themselves. Every American deserves that freedom."
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. "A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility" (March 30, 2023)
"It seems to me that to publish opinions upon morals, politics, and religion is an act as important as any which any man can possibly do; that to attack opinions on which the framework of society rests is a procedure which both is and ought to be dangerous."
James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)
Everyone should have to be brave just to be themselves because that which one truly is is that for which one is prepared to suffer, to fight, and perhaps to die. Everything else is just gratuitous oddity, attention-seeking eccentricity, or social subversion for the fun of it. The transgender movement is at war with conventional sexual opinions and these opinions are certainly part of "the framework of society." Such a war "ought to be dangerous" and the renegades who fight such a war "should have to be brave." Otherwise such a war will be launched for frivolous reasons, and will be won by fantasists, flibbertigibbets, and frauds.
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