Your article is not as clear as you think it is. Now you’re merely being defensive. The whole flavor is about the LGBTQ community. This is what any impartial observer would say. You are correct that the performance where the person was spreading his legs, was a drag queen not a trans person. I merely misspoke in my response. In any case it was hardly prurient by any reasonable standard. That is the more important point since your article is about sexualization of children. The fact that you cannot see how offensive your article is shows that you have a blindspot if not internalized transphobia. You could’ve handled the whole issue of sexualization of children by leaving the LGBTQ community out of it entirely. As you admit, the two are unrelated anyway. So why even bring it up? Why not focus on beauty pageants where four and five year olds are highly sexualized?
There is enough piling on on the LGBTQ community without you adding to it. There is inconsistency in your arguments and logic. You don’t want to talk about racism because you are a person of color and I am not and you think I do not understand it. Fine if that is your attitude. On the other hand I am a trans person and you are not. Don’t dare try to tell me that you know my experience and the way the article should be perceived. You are clueless. I am not being defensive either. I am beginning to become irate at an author that normally I like, which I also have repeated twice. Do you want to have a discussion? Fine. Tone it down. Your outrage is misplaced and inappropriate.
The LGBTQ community is an overly scrutinized and abused one. Your insensitivity to this fact by spending about half your article discussing examples which reflect badly on the community is not accident in my opinion. There is a huge difference between the sexualization of children and implying that the LGBTQ community is responsible for it. You have created a situation of guilt by association. That is inaccurate and unfair. You also seem to have a problem with drag queens reading to children. Two of your points include references to this, including the quote by Blaire that you used to sum up your argument. On this I strongly disagree. Have you ever been to a drag queen reading hour? It does not sexualize children in the slightest. It exposes them to a rather unusual type of person that they do not frequently encounter in their day-to-day life and gives them a chance to see how normal and human they are. It is an educational process, not a sexualization one. I am amazed that someone who I would consider highly intelligent has such a strong internal bias and doesn’t see it. You are better than that.
