That balance, however, is premised on the assumption that homosexual relationships aren’t really *all* that different from most straight relationships. Your mileage may vary on that assumption. But the further you push that assumption (and the related assumptions surrounding trans issues, etc.), the more uneasy the balance becomes.

The left, however, is never content with sharing power (or with anything less than total power, for that matter) so they treat the “balance” as a binary switch: Once you recognize “tolerance” of homosexuality, there’s no limiting principle on ANY sexual behavior. Principles – including the belief in the right of a populace to self-governance, be damned.

Go re-read Obergefell and marvel at the sociopathic contempt for the right of the populace to self-governance. Every last word of that decision is dripping with a psychotic disregard for our rights to govern our lives. The “logic” of Obergefell contains the end of the Republic. It is a literal suicide pill.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/amandas-story-walking-children-back-from-the-cliff-of-gender-ideology

It’s behind a subscription wall now, but I read it a couple of weeks ago and it is excellent advice for those whose children have taken the bait from the trans industry (because that is what it is; TikTok is just their voluntary advertising arm).

Gotta feed the monster.

Thanks for that link– although I have to say that the clip of JoJo early in the documentary saying that he “sees” transgender kids is sickening. I wonder how many of them have had their hair sniffed by the Pedo-in-Chief.

The Power Line photo makes me wonder what the below-the-waist T-shirt is hiding in the photo of the Canadian transgender teacher who dresses like a man– when he’s not scandalizing his students with huge fake breasts inside the school where he “teaches”: “While parents have raged about transgender teacher Kayla Lemieux being allowed to wear Z-cup prosthetics in front of students, the shop teacher was spotted ditching the controversial fetishistic fashion after work and stepping out in public dressed as a man.”

Photos of Lemieux dressed as the dude he is at the link:
https://nypost.com/2023/02/17/kayla-lemieux-ditches-her-z-size-breasts-outside-the-classroom/

BTW, he teaches shop: somehow I doubt that machine safety is part of his course, although fabrication of objects is obviously a central subject.

And sometimes the LGB are among the backlashers.

https://quillette.com/2023/02/06/scotlands-gender-meltdown/

Lots of details on the resignation of the Scots First Minister Sturgeon because of her mishandling of new regulations she sponsored for trans-prisoners: men in wigs wanting to be housed in women’s prisons.

Conclusion:

It’s not clear how the Scottish government is going to get out of this entirely predictable mess. The Westminster government has announced a ban on trans-identified males being moved to women’s prisons outside Scotland, stiffening the resolve of feminists throughout the UK who are determined to protect single-sex spaces. In Scotland, meanwhile, Sturgeon faces only unpalatable choices. Going to court to challenge the blocking of the GRR bill risks another expensive rebuff, while dropping it would outrage the very people she most wants to please.

It is ironic that the contradictions of trans activism are being exposed by one of its most zealous supporters. There are lessons here, and they apply way beyond Scotland. Human beings can’t change sex, and the public doesn’t like self-ID, even when it’s promoted by a politician who claims to be “a feminist to her fingertips.” The idea that uttering words can change your sex is a form of magical thinking, and Sturgeon should have known that it could not withstand the rational scrutiny once championed by Enlightenment thinkers in Edinburgh.

It’s from Powerline’s The Week In Pictures.