Trans activist: LGBTQ kids belong to gay community more than ‘assigned’ families

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Pride Month is going out with a bang, and one LGBT rights activist is reminding people what the movement’s purpose is.

Children are among the most vulnerable people in the world. There is a laundry list of things kids are not allowed to do simply because they cannot give informed consent, such as enlist for war, drink alcohol, smoke marijuana and get married. But for some reason, the idea of informed consent goes out the window when the LGBT community gets involved.

Responding to a post on the radicalization of the gay rights movement, activist Zinnia Jones said the not-so-quiet part out loud:

“‘In the gay rights movement, there had always been an unspoken golden rule: Leave children out of it.’ Uh, we never agreed to that. Queer and trans kids are the LGBTQ community’s children, much more than they belong to their assigned families, given how those families treat them,” Jones wrote.

Bizarre use of “assigned families” aside, Jones wasn’t done there.

“Queer and trans adults come from somewhere: queer and trans kids. Treat them well or you don’t get to keep them as part of your family. ‘You can bring up your children however you like, we promised. We will leave you alone. We will leave your children alone,’” the thread continues. “‘[Y]ou’? ‘your children’? As if children are just a ciis heterosexual thing?”

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“The fact that queer and trans kids already exist makes it inherent that the LGBTQ community is not leaving ‘their children’ ‘alone’. It shows that this idea of being left ‘alone’, as a presumed ciis heterosexual, was a false assumption. And it shows these are not ‘their children,’” Jones adds. “Why would I ever accept Sullivan’s framing that ‘children’ as a broadly construed concept are something that ciisgender heterosexuals get to claim sole proprietorship of, and the LGBTQ community doesn’t get to have anything to do with this? Unreal nonsense.”

“‘We knew very well that any overreach there could provoke the most ancient blood libel against us: that we groom and abuse kids.’ When recognizing and supporting LGBTQ kids is slurred as ‘grooming’, we still have to recognize and support LGBTQ kids. ‘Grooming’ only recently became overloaded with its blood libel meaning against queer and trans people, an accusation that our open support for LGBTQ kids is somehow just inherently bad. You can groom people as your successors. You can groom people for style or personal care.”

But Jones still wasn’t done.

The thread continued, accusing straight parents of wanting to protect their children from grooming, which Jones says isn’t taking place within the LGBT community. Jones also repeatedly uses the term “blood libel,” which is described as “an accusation that Jewish people used the blood of Christians in religious rituals, especially in the preparation of Passover bread, that was perpetrated throughout the Middle Ages and (sporadically) until the early 20th century.”

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