The civil rights era was a much-needed turning point in American history. It needed to be made clear that when the United States said "all men are created equal" and that this was a "self-evident" truth, it meant it.
Anyone who believes in the American dream, believes this to be true. Your skin color isn't what makes you better or worse than anyone else, it's the individual decisions you make and the person you have it in yourself to be.
The issue is that any group with an ounce of identity issues believes its fight is just like the fight for civil rights, and more than that, there are a lot of Democrats and activists happy to make people believe that's true.
As Fox News reported, Washington Democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves decided to compare the transgender fight with the civil rights fight:
Washington Democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves spoke during an executive session of the House Education Committee on Thursday morning where members of the committee introduced SB 5123, a bill that aimed to expand protections for students, including gender expression and gender identity.
"I recall a time in our country’s history not that long ago … where people like my grandfather were told that they could not participate in sporting activities because he was Black man," Reeves spoke following a proposed amendment to the bill.
"I can recall a time in our country's history, Madam Chair, where people like my grandfather and my great-great grandfather were not allowed to participate in processes and places in our society because of the color of their skin because people for years – for generations – had told our society that Black people were less than human, that Black people were animals, that Black people did not have the brain capacity to compete with White Americans."
Only being black and being confused about your own gender are not the same.
A black person is black. Transgenderism is a lie someone embraces. These are not the same.
Moreover, I find it a bit on the self-important side for a person who think they're transgender to put themselves in the same category in terms of the struggle black people went through back in the day.
The thing is, transgender people have all the same rights everyone else does, but that's not what they're after. Equality was never a part of the equation. It was always dominance. This is the "you will be made to care" crowd willing to go to any lengths to see to it that you look at them with reverence and obedience, not as equals.
Yet, that's not how the left wants to frame it. All things that involve identity groups are equal to the fight for civil rights, which should be a grave insult to those who actually did the fighting. Theirs was for equality, the transgender activists are doing this for control.
To think that the fight for transgenderism is a fight for some kind of American value is one of the biggest lies told in the modern age. There is no American value in schools hiding their attempts at indoctrination from parents. There's no freedom in being forced to use pronouns that have no basis in reality. True equality doesn't come at the barrel of a gun.
Then again, "equality" has always been something of a concept the left has struggled with. They believe that equality can only be achieved if a group they perceive as powerful is made less powerful or the less powerful are given special privileges. This isn't equality by definition, but again, the left never stopped to truly think about this.
In fact, they've spent a lot of time and money seeing to it that no one else thinks about it too much either.
But unequal people who identify as transgender are not. They have all the same rights and freedoms we all do, but they see the lack of control over society as a deprivation of a "right" somehow, which says a lot about them as a community.
