At my job at Woke Disney World, we are inundated with gender ideology propaganda.
On the ‘Disney Pride FL’ Facebook page, an administrator posted a video1 (created by Disney-owned Freeform) with a guy explaining non-binary in this way: “I’m non-binary and bisexual. I’m not a man or a woman. I’m somewhere in between and neither.”
I don’t know if I can express how much this offends me…but I will try.
I started to realize I was gay when I was 13—the year was 1984—and like most people who grew up in this era I kept this secret to myself for fear of rejection and abandonment from my family and friends. Unfortunately for me, the realization of my sexual orientation coincided with the time period when the scourge of AIDS began. For those who have forgotten or were not alive during this time frame, let me set the scene: No gay characters on TV shows, movies, and commercials; no openly gay pop stars. No ‘Representation’ whatsoever—unless it was mocking or violence against gay people.
AIDS originally was called GRID—Gay-Related Immune Deficiency— and when gay men started getting sick and dying, our President ignored it and our government laughed. Nobody cared. I watched and listened to the world around me and the message was clear: being gay was the most disgusting thing you could be, and gay men deserved to die. I remember actually thinking I must be going crazy, because how could I be having these gay feelings when I knew it was so wrong? This is the culture in which I spent my adolescence.
When gay men today claim to be ‘non-binary’ because they don’t ‘feel like a man’, it is like they are spitting on the grave of every gay man who died of AIDS. The REASON men died and no one cared was because they were MEN who had sex with other MEN. The biological reality of sex MATTERS.
There are only two sexes, male and female. This is a biological reality.
Homosexuality = same-sex attraction.
Without sex, there is no same-sex attraction.
When you deny the existence of sex, you are denying our existence as homosexuals.
When you conflate sex with gender and say/imply that sex doesn’t exist, you’re saying that the abuse, hatred, violence, and discrimination that the gay people who came before us endured was meaningless. If there are no longer ‘men’ and ‘women’, then what our predecessors went through was pointless.
A message to young gay men and women: Just because you are an effeminate gay man or a butch lesbian, this does not mean you invented some new category. People have been gender-bending for ages. ‘Non-binary’ is nonsense. Please stop claiming this as an ‘identity’.
There have always been butch lesbians and they are amazing, beautiful women. There have always been effeminate gay men and they can be just as sexy as their masculine counterparts. And these two ‘types’ are often the ones who have suffered the most abuse.
‘Non-binary’-identifying gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals are not helping by seeking to differentiate themselves with this label. They’re making things worse.
So why do they do this? Here’s what I think:
Over the past few decades we made tremendous strides in the advancement of gay rights. And I’m not talking about gay marriage—I mean the act of ‘coming out’ in the first place. We used to be scared to come out of the closet. And we often received horrible reactions. (As seen in this comic strip I did many years ago.) Lives were ruined, careers were ended, families were lost. When I was 19, I wrote long anguished letters to my friends (and sent them in the mail!) to tell them I was gay and let them know I understood if they didn’t want to be my friend anymore. When people talk about homophobia, they speak about the hatred some heterosexuals direct towards gay people and forget the original form of homophobia—the internalized homophobia gay people feel for themselves. This type of homophobia hasn’t gone away; some people do still struggle with this; depending on their family, religion, and environment. But for the most part it is true that ‘coming out’ has changed from a terrifying and potentially life-altering gamble to a non-event met with a shrug. Most people are accepting. Which is great! But it created a new ‘anxiety’ for the generation currently coming of age in our social media-obsessed world: Being simply ‘gay’ is too vanilla nowadays, so they need a qualifier. ‘Non-binary’. ‘Genderfluid’. Or bigender, genderqueer, demigender, etc. etc. etc. ... Back in the day, we were happy to say “Gay is OK”, get a nod of approval, and leave it at that. Our only ‘audience’ was the little world around us. To young people today, every life is a performance and every person is a brand. While my and previous generations just wanted acceptance, the self(ie)-involved generation today is seeking validation, notoriety, and attention. It is crucial to show you are a V.U.P. — Very Unique Person.
‘Non-binary’ is not just disrespectful, it’s insulting. So forgive me if I don’t want to be lumped together in the same ‘LGBTQ+ Community’ as these people. It is a new flavor of homophobia, sinisterly disguised as an expansion of acceptance. “I demand you accept me for the Very Unique Person I am. I have transcended your trivial same-sex attraction.”
No. Honey, you’re just gay.
NEXT in Part Two: Celebrities, Narcissists, and FOMOsexuals
The Disney Pride FL Facebook group is private (Startlingly, they haven’t kicked me out yet LOL) so I can’t share a link to the post I mentioned above. But I found the video in question on Twitter. And prepare yourself because there are sooooooo many upsetting things in this video, beyond the use of non-binary as a descriptor:
Yesss!!! The trans-activists and non-binaries are doing this to "plain old fashioned gays" and to us boring straight cis-women, too. Erasing us and all of the struggles of those giants upon whose shoulders we stand. I really wish we could pry the "T" and the "Q" off of those rainbow letters....
These transactivists are not only doing themselves an injustice but there very actions are causing a huge backlash against the gay community. I don't say LGBQT or anything else because you're either gay or straight, male or female. It's taken a long time for society as a while to be accepting of people being gay. I am a GenXer an d for us quite simply, we don't really care what your sexual preference is. We're not against it nor for it because we just don't care like we don't care what someone's skin color is. We grew up being told to not see color or sexual preference so we didn't and as adults we don't care what someone's preference or ethnicity is only if they are trying to use it some way to gain an advantage or favor as the progressive Millennial generation is now doing.
As I was saying, there is a backlash building against the gay community as a whole because the trans activists are hiding themselves with that community for protection. If you criticize anything the activist are saying or promoting they claim you are anti-gay,. homophobic, ect. That tactic worked in the past but the normies ( the non-woke ) are fed up with all this non-sense and some of that acceptance/tolerance of gay people is wearing thin from the frustration of how iots been weaponized. People don't like it when you target their kids and while it's not the gay community doing that, those who are doing are grouping themselves within the gay community. The gay community is going to have to be the ones to stand up and push out the trans activists and stop allowing them to claim protection within the gay community. Gay people who do not support this have to be more vocal about it as you are being. Another active voice in this is the Maga Drag Queen, a drag artists who is a Trump supporter and has being speaking out against the latest drag in school fad that's happening.