# When activism alienates the people it needs to persuade

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# When activism alienates the people it needs to persuade

Restored from Instagram stories · 18 August 2023

let's go through the definitions first.

lesbians, gay, bisexuals - these are all individual sexual preferences. whatever happens in their own private space is none of our concern. first of all, it's their own individual freedom.

queer - a word that describes any identity (sexual/gender) except people who are straight (i.e, men who like women and vice versa) and people who are men and women in general.

transgender - men who display feminine gender qualities/identity or start physical transition into  the same and vice versa.

since these are all individual choices, their own personal stuff that revolves within their own four walls (when it comes to sexual preferences),

I don't know what's there to support it or to stand against it. there are hundred other movements. we barely even recognise them. treat it as such.

just people doing their own jobs.

when do we support?

when we as a society see that they are being marginally oppressed, transgenders not getting their rights, segregated, and not valued as a human being with life.

we all have a duty to step in and ensure they live with the same respect that we all are.

i treat them normally. just like any other human around us.

when are we AGAINST?

when ultra peak woke-ism starts hijacking them for their own benefit and starts infecting the society.

one example? promoting permanent non reversible gender surgeries for kids. forced indoctrination.

instead of the movement getting started for people who are oppressed, these people started with indoctrinating everyone that this isn't right that isn't right.

stop your nonsense. the world has a whole lot of problems that needs to be solved than to get involved in your shenanigans.

we have so much problems with poverty. take a look at the number of problems that the poor and oppressed suffer with domestic violence and what not.

i can keep listing them.

when did we start creating solutions for problems that do not exist ? those people are literally inventing problems that do not exist.

instead of solving so many that the world is already plagued with.

any activism if allowed to live longer will be hijacked by people who will do more harm to the actual victims.

now let's come back to the original problem.

what has this resulted in?

transgenders literally wanted to be absorbed and respected as equal contributors to the society.

exact reason why pronouning and other things started.

now look what happened.

much of the general population hates them due to these extra - wokism that has irritated people.

you believe it or not, that's the exact truth.

you don't win something by making enemies. you win something and uplift people by ensuring that everyone else accepts it.

people should become believers to the cause rather than alienating.

people are going to exist who do not believe in your cause. you campaigning hard for them to not exist and make their lives living hell by being a rabid disease online is only gonna turn worse when they get a voice and start bullying you.

the damage that this movement has caused to the transgenders is immense. I have talked to hundreds of such people (some in my DMs). this damage needs to be undone.

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