Stop Pushing!

     I've written on this subject before and you can bet your ass I'll write about it again and again.  Acceptance:  You cannot gain it by forcing yourself upon others!  You have got to take your time and ease others into accepting you.  Otherwise, you end up with the pushback, hatred and absolute vitriol that the trans community is facing now!  It's our fault, collectively.  Personally, however, not one bit of it is my fault, because I'm smart enough to know that you can't push yourself on others.  I've spent my entire 63+ years on this earth watching, studying human nature.  Not once in my life have I ever pushed myself onto others, yet I've gained respect everywhere I've gone.  And via respect, I've been accepted.

    The old saying goes, "you can attract more flies with honey than you can with vinegar."  In other words, the more acceptable you are, the more you'll be accepted.  Right now, the entire Left is being vinegar about this.  Meanwhile, I am personally being more and more accepted... because I'm being the honey that will make me more likely to be accepted.

    I have an upcoming opportunity to show myself as a respectable transgender individual in a small gathering for another cause for which I advocate... the Convention of States Project.  COS is working to get enough states to sign onto having all of the states convene for the purpose of proposing new amendments to the Constitution which, with the votes from enough of the states, can become constitutional law.  Many politicians (Left and Right) don't want this convention to take place because they know that if it happens, their power over you is finished, and the power that now resides in D.C. will be stripped away and returned to the states, where it belongs.  Now, I know you're thinking that the best hope for the trans community lies in the federal government.  That's wrong!  Trans rights will never get passed through both houses of Congress and signed into law by any president.  But, there are several states in which trans rights are law, and the federal government is actually powerless to change that because of the Tenth Amendment.  That is, as long as Congress doesn't repeal the Tenth Amendment!  But, they can't do that if they don't have the power, and they won't have the power if a Convention of States strips them of that power.  This way, we can keep our rights where we have them, and in time we may be able to expand them.  Hopefully, by showing myself as a respectable and acceptable member of society, I can soften hearts and views toward the transgender community to a few people.  Baby steps!

    A while back, I wrote that I hadn't yet told my adult children that I'm transgender.  Well, that has since changed and, as a result, my oldest son and I were able to talk a little bit last night on the issue of the trans community trying to shove itself down everyone's throats.  He gave a great example of the damage it can cause.  Apparently, Japan is kicking our (U.S.) asses in the video game market due to American game studios following DEI guidelines.  One such game was "Concord", by Firewalk Studios.  I'm told they sank $400 million into the production of the game, and got a mere $1 million in return.  According to what I was told, you had to accept a secondary trans character on your team and keep that character alive to the end of the game in order to complete the game.  Players didn't appreciate having that forced on them.  The same players, however, don't mind playing Japanese made games that feature transgenders, cross-dressers, homosexuals, etc...  The difference is that Japanese game makers don't force the characters on the gamers.  American gamers would much rather play those games.  The characters still get used, but by choice... not by force.  There's a lesson to be learned here; the lesson is that you can't force your way into being accepted.  You need to grow up and get over yourselves!  I'm aware my stance on this won't win me any popularity, but I don't care about popularity.  I care about right over wrong, and what you're doing is wrong.  You're hurting a whole community, many of whom don't agree with you and your actions.  I know you have good intentions, but good intentions do not make for good actions.