{"id":89739,"date":"2025-06-25T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89739"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:10:12","slug":"89739","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89739","title":{"rendered":"A Policy Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n

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Transgender people claim they just want to be accepted.\u00a0 I can do that. But my idea of “accepted” is the way Colonel Potter treated Corporal Klinger on the television show M.A.S.H., more “tolerated” than “celebrated.”<\/div>\n
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You want to wear a dress? Fine, go right ahead.\u00a0 But it doesn’t get you out of standing watch. It doesn’t get you into the nurse’s shower with Major Hoolahan. It doesn’t get you any special privileges at all.<\/div>\n
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Certain males Want to act like girls, but everyone knows they’re Not girls, so we aren’t willing to Treat them as girls.\u00a0 Your transgender fantasy is your own.\u00a0 I am not required to participate in your fantasy, not even with your choice of pronoun.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Wear a dress if it makes you feel pretty. But you don’t get to shower with the girls or pitch on their softball team.\u00a0 Being weird doesn’t make you special. It just makes you weird in a dress.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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If you have a problem with that attitude, well then, you have a problem. Don’t whine about it, deal with it.\u00a0 As a real woman would.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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“As a real woman would”?\u00a0 \u00a0 Like “No, that’s just\u00a0fine<\/em>, there’s no problem…”?<\/div>\n
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Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Transgender people claim they just want to be accepted.\u00a0 I can do that. But my idea of “accepted” is the way Colonel Potter treated Corporal Klinger on the television show M.A.S.H., more “tolerated” than “celebrated.” \u00a0 You want to wear a dress? Fine, go right ahead.\u00a0 But it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89739","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=89739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89741,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89739\/revisions\/89741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}