Fear Mongering: Gender Dysphoria
After reading all of these articles, understanding the definition of fear mongering, purposefully creating public feelings of turmoil/fear over popular issue, and grasping the fact that there is nothing to fear when looking at transgender people as active, healthy parts of our society, it is clear the strengths fear holds over our society. The people in these articles used fear to manipulate others, they made others feel as if they were in danger, their values were in danger, or their children were in danger. All of these forms make people want to eliminate a possible threat, in this cause transgender people.
In Children 's Sex and Gender Should Not Be Reassigned by Gail Besse, children were the main drive …show more content…
The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to Society by Traditional Values goes as far as to say that trans people are trying to convert and poison children with this "lifestyle" and they there are clubs and organizations responsible for this "agenda". A GSA (Gay Straight Alliance Club), what was created to be a safe space for LGBTQA students is seen as a conversion camp by the TVC (Traditional Values Coalition). They try to shut them down and believe them to be highly harmful to children by spreading sexually deviant lifestyles. You can see this here "Oppose Gay Straight Alliance clubs on school campuses," "recruitment programs to lure children into sexually destructive lifestyles," "promoting cross-dressing for children," and "recruitment programs in public schools," (Traditional Values Coalition, The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to Society). They even give tips on how to spot these "dangerous" movements in bills, and how to informs you politicians of the danger "Monitor city and state legislative proposals that contain the word "gender" in them," and "Inform your local politicians of this cultural agenda," (Traditional Values Coalition, The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to Society). They believe trans people to be severely mentally ill despite this being proven wrong and use derogatory terms to describe them "what is clearly a mental disturbance," "she-male," "sexually confused children," "men trapped in the bodies of women (or women trapped in the bodies of men) need real help," (Traditional Values Coalition, The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to Society). They blame this behavior on the destruction of family values, overbearing mothers, husbands who are oppressed by overbearing wives, home life problems, and radical feminist extremist. They use the most extreme forms of fear mongering by saying that your life and existence is in
After reading all of these articles, understanding the definition of fear mongering, purposefully creating public feelings of turmoil/fear over popular issue, and grasping the fact that there is nothing to fear when looking at transgender people as active, healthy parts of our society, it is clear the strengths fear holds over our society. The people in these articles used fear to manipulate others, they made others feel as if they were in danger, their values were in danger, or their children were in danger. All of these forms make people want to eliminate a possible threat, in this cause transgender people.
In Children 's Sex and Gender Should Not Be Reassigned by Gail Besse, children were the main drive …show more content…
The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to Society by Traditional Values goes as far as to say that trans people are trying to convert and poison children with this "lifestyle" and they there are clubs and organizations responsible for this "agenda". A GSA (Gay Straight Alliance Club), what was created to be a safe space for LGBTQA students is seen as a conversion camp by the TVC (Traditional Values Coalition). They try to shut them down and believe them to be highly harmful to children by spreading sexually deviant lifestyles. You can see this here "Oppose Gay Straight Alliance clubs on school campuses," "recruitment programs to lure children into sexually destructive lifestyles," "promoting cross-dressing for children," and "recruitment programs in public schools," (Traditional Values Coalition, The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to Society). They even give tips on how to spot these "dangerous" movements in bills, and how to informs you politicians of the danger "Monitor city and state legislative proposals that contain the word "gender" in them," and "Inform your local politicians of this cultural agenda," (Traditional Values Coalition, The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to Society). They believe trans people to be severely mentally ill despite this being proven wrong and use derogatory terms to describe them "what is clearly a mental disturbance," "she-male," "sexually confused children," "men trapped in the bodies of women (or women trapped in the bodies of men) need real help," (Traditional Values Coalition, The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to Society). They blame this behavior on the destruction of family values, overbearing mothers, husbands who are oppressed by overbearing wives, home life problems, and radical feminist extremist. They use the most extreme forms of fear mongering by saying that your life and existence is in