HumpitPuryear said:
Regarding hiring discrimination, We already have laws protecting religion, sexual orientation, etc. My company can't fire me if they find out I'm Christian and support mission work. However, if I show up to work dressed as Jesus in flowing ropes and dragging a cross behind me I'm going to be asked to leave. If I do it again I will likely be fired. It has nothing to do with my being a Christian but everything to do with causing a scene and being disruptive. The same is true with face tattoos and a man dressing in women's clothes and acting out an extreme feminine persona.
The problem with the trans and LGBQT community and activists is they generally don't want to blend in. They don't want to be a transparent cog in the machine. If they did most of the pushback would dissipate. They (not necessarily you) want men in women's locker rooms and in women's sports, etc. They want to act like Dylan Mulvaney the attention *****. They want to force themselves into church pulpits. They want to force transgenderism on schools and communities that have no interest in it. You can say that they just want to live their lives like everyone else but their actions and activism doesn't support that notion.
Thank you for the response. By and large, while we fall on different sides of part of this debate, I think your responses largely suggest that a consistent standard be applied. And I think we agree on a reasonable number of those points (which I didn't copy over). I don't see an issue with companies establishing dress codes. Showing up dressed like Jesus is unacceptable in most businesses. As would showing up with ass-less chaps and a fishnet shirt. I think that I am, not surprisingly, more to the left regarding a man in woman's clothes or vice versa. Provided a person dresses in business attire and the things that need to be covered and covered etc., I don't really care.
Regarding the second paragraph, I think there is a difference between 'standing out' and being disruptively standing out. When I read your first couple of sentences in this paragraph I imagine a beige office filled with identical looking employees with the same hair, same suit, same shoes, same glasses, and employee badges with employee numbers rather than names. I know I'm stretching here and I know that this isn't what you are advocating. Someone wearing a brightly colored shirt (male/felmale/straight/not straight/whatever) isn't disruptive . . . . unless maybe you are a mortician. But, to your point, yes - there can be loudness and flamboyancy in the LGBTQ crowd. As long as the standards are reasonable and are consistently applied, I don't see a problem.
Regarding your last sentence. I may be biased based on the gay people that I do know, but I worry that the stereotype of the loud, super flamboyant, in your face gay man is simply the loudest voice we all hear and so there is a tendency to think that this is how all gay people act. I think for every person that I've described above, there are 10 people you might never know where gay until you really got to know them.
Just like. . . If my only exposure to Christianity is watching the news then my perception of Christianity is going to be that they are a religious-political organization bent on their flavor of social order and Marjorie Taylor Green would be the Queen of all Christians. Of course, I know Christians and I know that this descriptions is radically incorrect.