{"id":78779,"date":"2021-07-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78779"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T20:05:56","slug":"so-let-me-get-this-er-for-lack-of-a-better-term-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78779","title":{"rendered":"So Let Me Get This&#8230;Er, For Lack Of A Better Term, &#8220;Straight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let me try to fomulate the logic, here.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>:If it biological man says she identifies as a woman, that decision must be treated as sacred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ditto a biological woman claiming to now be, or identify, as a male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally, someone of any gender declaring an affectional orientation for their own gender is to be supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Industries and entire areas of academic disciplines have sprung up to support all of those decisions. Institutions, up through and including academia, the American Civil Liberties Union, and a fair chunk of corporate America, deem that decision to be absolute, inviolate and ironclad. Naturally, there&#8217;s a branch of medical science devoted to helping people transition physically as well as psychologically, to support that identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a gay person deciding they want to identify as straight, and making efforts to do so, <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2021\/07\/15\/lgbtq-conversion-therapy-restriction-walz-executive-order\/\">must be squashed with the full power of the state<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why the special treatment? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What side effects affect \u201cgay conversion therapy\u201d, that don\u2019t affect any other change in identity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not judging, one way or the other; I\u2019m just trying to figure out the moral logic. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2021\/07\/15\/gov-walz-to-sign-executive-order-banning-conversion-therapy-in-minnesota\/?utm_campaign=true_anthem&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_source=social&amp;fbclid=IwAR35oe7BzSZmoF5VuKBIhAbAzOGjzWfzSLjty6sW6J2lWdJvsJDHQEbaFWE\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me try to fomulate the logic, here. :If it biological man says she identifies as a woman, that decision must be treated as sacred. Ditto a biological woman claiming to now be, or identify, as a male. Naturally, someone of any gender declaring an affectional orientation for their own gender is to be supported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78784,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78779\/revisions\/78784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}