ok, it sounds like you have opinions on certain policies, although you probably don't understand them entirely and should do more research. But basically there's no problem with that. I don't expect you to be omniscient and I'm not.
The problem is when you go around hating people. Don't do that.
My personal policy is that as long as they aren't doing harm, a person should do as they will. And teaching tolerance is a better idea than teaching children that they are probably the wrong sex and need to change to the other - that gets kinda dicey.
But a group of people deciding that little children need to be told they were born the wrong sex have overreached. And their tactic of taking children, and encouraging them to transition is an ethics issue. And it can lead to harming the child.
The psychodynamics of a growing human being are not simple. They can change their minds almost daily.
Even worse, the drugs and surgery is a bit of a rubicon to cross. A boy transitioning to "woman", taking puberty blockers, and other hormones, then amputating his penis and creating an ersatz vagina has really crossed that line. There is no way back.
A young girl, perhaps a "tomboy" gets encouraged to believe she is the wrong sex, gets put on puberty blockers, injected with hormones and other drugs to change her skeletal characteristics and then has her breasts amputated has crossed that line. Then after suffering the side effects of this gender affirming "care" she decides she really didn't want to become a male https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... She testified before congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I have great sympathy for her. I confess, I don't have a whole lot of love for her butchers. Because that's what they are. They took a perfectly healthy young lady and performed medical experiments on her some of which are not healing. she became suicidal after this treatment which was supposed to have her be not suicidal. I keep getting thoughts of old Dr Mengele, another surgeon who enjoyed doing experiments on little children in Germany, and other doctors even here, who performed medical experiments so heinous that ethics panels were created to try to control them.
So what is my wrong thinking here? I have done research, I just might not have come to the same conclusion as some others.
My presumably improper conclusion is that men and women are not physically identical, and that performing medical experiments on young people which crosses a line that cannot be returned from is unethical at best, and should be criminal. Young people can be talked into many things, then change their minds.
I believe that families, not public schools and the parents should have the say over their children. Further, I concluded that if an adult wishes to completely transition, fine - that's their body.
The gender affirming care with schools in control, and that care kept secret from the parents reminds me of the wholesale drugging of young males back when my son was in school. Teachers diagnosed all of the boys in his class (and the whole school) as having ADHD, and they needed put on Ritalin. Doctors were happy to accept that diagnosis and Ritalin sales made for profit.
The results were a lot of messed up young men, because Ritalin damages young males brains. One citation below, but you might try DDG'ing "Ritalin damages young male brains". the NIMH has their assessment in the results.
Sadly, too many parents accepted that diagnosis.
As luck would have it, I was at that Parent Teacher conference where they said my son should be on Ritalin. I asked questions about side effects, was this not just putting boys on tranquilizers and chemically straitjacketing them? I was quite polite, but they had no answer about the side effects, and it erupted into anger at the second question. Gosh, some people don't like being asked questions.
I asked if he had been a problem at all. The answer was no, but he was a big boy, so they just wanted to prevent any future problems. I asked how they diagnosed him with ADHD when he wasn't having any symptoms. Gosh, this wasn't going the way they hoped. I told them no, he wasn't going on Ritalin unless they provided a real doctor's diagnosis and a court order.
Good move, He and a couple other males made it through school and into adulthood just fine. Many of his friends didn't - the grand experiment turned out poorly. https://www.healthline.com/hea... Finally, what is the obsession with putting children on drugs experimentally.
My assessment is not based on hate, but starts with an assumption that healthy people should not be put on drugs that are at base, experimental. As well, it is not affirming to drastically alter young people who are as likely to change their minds as not. And my research (I am a researcher BTW) has shown me that there are problems, some pretty bad ones. I've also concluded that there is a segment of society that really likes drugging people to conform to what that segment believes is just and proper, so much that they wrest control away from the parents.
I've also assessed that if a person does not agree with every point, every nuance, they are attacked. The Trans "community" has been excoriating Ms Cole for daring to speak out about what she considers "barbaric pseudoscience" Do you agree with them or her? https://www.youtube.com/shorts... https://www.youtube.com/shorts... https://www.youtube.com/shorts... She has been banned from speaking on at least one campus, https://www.youtube.com/shorts... You can find more on YT by searching her name. And not just her https://www.youtube.com/shorts... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... There are a lot more examples,
So, I'm interested in your assessment of my opinion on the matter. Am I wrong for believing that major decisions like that should be made by the person who is thinking about transitioning and done as an adult? Am I wrong for being horrified at people who after the mutilation and drugs, decide just like young people always have done - change their mind. Do you agree with the excoriation they have received because of changing their minds?
Love to hear back, is my opinion hate based? Hate as an expression of sympathy for destroyed lives should be a sophist argument.