[UncleMeat]

The "special treatment" includes:

1. Antidiscrimination policies preventing trans people from being evicted from their home, fired, etc, for being trans.

2. The elimination of policies that prevent or seriously limit access to medical treatment recommended by professional physicians.

3. Basic politeness from peers and colleagues, who should use a trans person's preferred pronouns and name.

None of these things are achieved. Federal antidiscrimination laws have not been passed. States like Texas consider medical treatment to be child abuse. And people regularly deliberately misgender trans people in school and at the workplace.

[pdimitar]

> The "special treatment" includes:

Sure, I never said a-holes don't exist. Sadly they do. My main point is that most common folk is tolerant (even supportive) but that the LGBT group makes enemies out of the common people by blaming them for their plight. And that they go overboard by demanding unreasonable things: like "call me ze/zir".

Also maybe the fact that having LGBT lessons in school is a tad too much. Most kids are impressionable and these "lessons" might have the exactly opposite effect: turn kids into LGBT people before they even discovered themselves sexually.

These are what makes regular folk people hate LGBT (or only trans in particular).

Statistically however, most people are indifferent and wouldn't care one bit. The sad reality however is that many straight folks and girls feel like the trans people are asking for too much. A broken public debate, which is extremely sad -- I'll immediately agree with that.

[UncleMeat]

> Most kids are impressionable and these "lessons" might have the exactly opposite effect: turn kids into LGBT people before they even discovered themselves sexually.

People have been peddling this for ages. Surely there'd be some respected research to back it up. First it was "talking about gay people will turn your kids gay." Now it is "talking about trans people will turn your kids trans." It is just the satanic panic for frightened parents. Equally as stupid as "Mortal Kombat will turn your kids into killers." So let me be very clear. Refusing to speak about the existence of LGBT people in school because of an unsubstantiated belief that it will trick children into not being cishet is a problem. Asking for extremely basic recognition in ordinary life is not an "unreasonable thing."

[pdimitar]

Or maybe the LGBT people need to cite proper research before bringing these classes to school? You know, with a proper process and peer reviews and all the good stuff.

Nobody should get a free pass to put any new classes to school before they prove a benefit.

The burden of proof should fall to them, not on me who's skeptical.

[Ekaros]

Or maybe the messaging shown currently indicates that what they would teach is that being cis-het is a problem. Or being white. Or being male. And you should die if you are some combination or at least all of you should be killed.

[UncleMeat]

So let's see it. Middle school curricula that says that straight, cis, white, males should be killed. Because what I see here is an incredible overreaction used to justify actual public policy that harms transgender people by denying them access to medical care.