Today I read a refreshing piece in Newsweek written by transgender influencer Alexis Blake, who likens the media’s portrayal of certain transgender people to a “false flag” operation.
I believe that the media, governments, and social media are pushing the agenda of some outrageous trans people, and giving their stories and videos the limelight. I believe they are pushing the views of these activists within the LGBT community, who I would consider extremists, to create a divide, uncertainty, and to make people skeptical of us. Then they can slowly bring in anti-trans laws which, we are already seeing happen.
Newsweek: I Was Born a Man. Extreme Trans Activists Make My Life Harder
Yes! It is so rare to read these days a trans woman say, “I am more than comfortable saying I am a biological man.” This is where I believe most of us felt we understood the transgender issue, that you are a biological man living as a woman. The issue only became controversial to most when living as became I am.
I recently came across an American trans woman on TikTok. She was explaining that if anyone tried to stop her from using the female bathroom, it would be the “last mistake they ever make.”
It’s always the few entitled assholes of any group that sully the legitimacy of any accommodation for the legitimately oppressed. It’s worse when there’s financial and carceral motivations to do so. This is the point Alexis makes here and one I strongly agree with. The transgender assholes are ruining things for the largely wonderful transgender population.
I liken it to service animals and medical marijuana.
When we first started accommodating the needs of disabled people, it was soon obvious that laws against pets in restaurants, stores, and offices would exclude the blind folks with their seeing-eye dogs. OK, blind folks, your dogs are welcome.
Well, not just blind folks use dogs. There are dogs for deaf folks, too. And some dogs aid folks with mobility issues. Some can detect body chemistry changes for folks with diabetes or cancer. We should let them have their dogs, too.
Also, we can’t pester someone about why they bring a dog in. It’s rude to quiz someone about their disability. If they say it’s a service animal, it is.
We all know where that has ended. Every purse puppy is now a “service animal.” Every owner of a pit bull on a chain gets a “service animal” vest for $29.99 on Amazon. It’s gotten to the point where airlines have people bringing their emotional support duck on a flight.
But at least aside from the Amazon dog (and duck?) service vest industry, there’s not much financial and legal motivation to get dog owners to game the system. There’s also no pressure on dog owners to gain the system other than convenience. And for the rest of us, we can tell the obvious difference between the blind lady with the German Shepherd guiding her through the aisles and the Karen who just didn’t want to leave her Pomeranian at home, but neither one are causing us any problems.
My other example, medical marijuana, ups the ante. Long before legalization, the first few medical marijuana states provided an accommodation for the legitimately truly ill to avoid incarceration for their medical use of marijuana.
But there was a gatekeeper. This wasn’t like just saying your Rottweiler is a service animal, and presto, it is. There was the medical marijuana doctor. You had to convince him you were legitimate, so then the state would give you the card proving your legitimacy.
There was the financial incentive. The doctor needs to sign cards to get paid. His clinic needs new and returning patients to keep the doors open. The patient needs that card to grow the six plants of cannabis medicine.
By the way, my ladylove harvested six cannabis plants back in October of 2021. We are both all day, every day cannabis smokers. We also produce cannabis oil for a few ill friends and family, so we went through about half the harvest for that.
We’re still smoking off that harvest, having missed the October 2022 crop because of living in Idaho. So, you can assume for yourself what a disabled person on a fixed Social Security income, who’s friends with lots of healthy weed smokers, might do with a personal quarterly harvest of eighteen pounds of sticky premium indoor Oregon marijuana.
Then there’s the political angle. Marijuana legalizers like myself wanted to see as many medical marijuana patients as possible. More weed cards means more patients at our meetings where we can charge a $35 annual membership to give them plant starts. More members means more money and political clout for our organization. More members with weed cards means more events where we can smoke weed.
So, if you thought you’d like a weed card, but didn’t qualify? Hey, we’ll help you find a doctor and manufacture a reason you need your card. Had knee surgery a decade ago but it feels fine now? No, it doesn’t, it’s always ached, hasn’t it? And, of course, we’ll have to get a caregiver card for your perfectly-healthy boyfriend to take care of you. What, you’re independent? No, you’re not, you need him to be a caregiver so he can also possess your marijuana. Just make sure he doesn’t smoke any (wink).
Soon, a state like Oregon had 80,000 people so sick they had to pay the state $100 for a weed card. Fast forward to today and whaddaya know, only about 25,000 people these days need a weed card, now that you don’t need one to stay out of jail for smoking pot.
Transgender women like Alexis are the blind lady with glaucoma, a seeing-eye dog, and a medical marijuana card. She is the legit example of why we made these accommodations.
But the nature of the transgender issue is like service animals (“it is so if I say so”) and medical marijuana (financially-motivated doctors, subjects with ulterior motives) combined. Alexis’ explanation of her transition to the women’s bathroom is one of graciousness and gratitude, where we can feel the legitimacy of her need, like the Parkinsons patient whose tremors are foretold by her service dog and she makes them cease with a puff of pot.
The “worst mistake” belligerent trans woman Alexis describes is the purse-puppy Karen fronting her Mexican cartel black market weed under the guise of a medical garden and getting high off showing off her erection in the ladies room.
But is it a “false flag” by the media? That would imply that the media wants to thwart the trans agenda. I don’t think so. I think the non-FOX media is neutral on the issue, but naturally gravitates toward the sensational. Just like how the support duck on the plane gets the ink that thousands of support dogs on planes never get, or how the intelligent marijuana spokesperson in a suit like me always had to interrupt the TV camera crews filming the derelict stoner in the tie-dye waving the “FUCK THE DEA” sign so I could give them positive sound bites.
I do know the transgender agenda would be better served with more Alexis Blakes.