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Hosted by author, conservative, business owner, veteran, dad - GH Edwards.
Hey. It's g h Edwards. Alright. This is gonna get me in trouble. I know it is.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna talk about transgender, trans, whatever they may be called. I'm gonna say right off the bat that I do not want to try to offend anyone or anger anyone. I'm just gonna sort of let you know the viewpoint of the white midwestern conservative people and how really everyone feels about transgender. And yeah, guess I'll just dive into that. This is like walking on a minefield.
Speaker 1:And it's funny that that my mind goes to that because what happens is what's happened is we've become, I guess, almost afraid to offend people. That was definitely a push for a long time. It's tweaking the direction, but for example, I I myself and most people that I know, in fact, almost everyone I know, is not against transgender. It's really not. Like and let's just specify real quick.
Speaker 1:When we say transgender, we are referring almost always to man on man whatever. So let's just clarify that right off the bat. People don't really care about women on women. In fact, I heard that that lesbians, like, don't even consider themselves gay sometimes or something, which is you know, whatever. You do your thing.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's a good marketing move for them, breaking away. I don't know. But but what I'm really saying is that for the most part, the people would just say, just do your thing. What if it makes you happy, go ahead and do it. But the biggest push that I think we have is that we don't wanna offend people.
Speaker 1:Like, if I saw a transgender person at a grocery store or whatever, and I was curious enough to talk to them or whatever happens to be, or this this goes for any even if any of the cultures, anybody different beliefs, is we have a fear of offending. We have a fear that if I if I see you and you're in a dress in a interesting outfit from your culture you came from or whatever, that if I were to ask that question, might accidentally, like, say the wrong thing and and offend you or something like that. I sort I almost believe that that's kind of a made up thing. I think that if I were to come to a a person in a strange cultural outfit or a transgender person and I were to accidentally say the wrong thing, I think the vast majority of trans people or whatever you wanna call would not jump down my throat and and be mad about it. As long as I had decent enough intentions that I didn't mean to offend.
Speaker 1:And I think a lot of us, most of us, the majority of us, the vast majority of us do not mean to attend and offend. We are just making conversation, whatever. But when we have this fear, and this same thing with traveling. When you have a fear of going out and meeting new people or saying new things because you're afraid you're gonna offend them, you are limiting your conduct and contact with other people outside of your normal little bubble. And that's detrimental.
Speaker 1:Everyone needs to be meeting new people and exposing to new views and traveling. As a conservative person, yes, I do believe in traveling, meeting new people of different cultures. Maybe it's the veteran in me that's traveled around the world and been to, you know, Afghanistan and things like that. I've learned more traveling and meeting new people than I ever have staying in my little hometown in the Midwest. So back to the transgender and my little point there was fearing of offending people hinders people's growth because I don't wanna go talk to new people, so therefore, I don't talk to new people.
Speaker 1:And therefore, they're they're them and then they're not, you know, oh, I know this person, which is not good. So anyways, back to transgender. As always, transgender in sports has always been the big controversy and things like that. What I would say everyone, Midwest conservatives, we say, do what you wanna do. Do what you do.
Speaker 1:Do what makes you happy. Go ahead and do it. Fantastic. But the name conservative alone tells you that if you wouldn't mind doing it in a not super flamboyant, for lack of a better term, not super in your face kind of way. Now does that happen?
Speaker 1:Sure. Does, you know, do conservatives are this super flamboyant in your face? Absolutely. Don't get me wrong. But can we all just agree on the idea that maybe we don't piss each other off on purpose?
Speaker 1:I mean, that could be a good first little step when we just do that. So not anti trans. If you wanna do your thing, do your thing. Internally inside of myself, if you are if you transition from a man into a woman, it's very hard for me to to think of you as a woman. And I couldn't imagine going up to a person and using a they them with them.
Speaker 1:Not because I'm like, I think it's silly, but because I can't imagine how to switch my mind to the different plural terms that we'd have to use to discuss multiple people when I'm talking about one person. I've seen my kids do this. Well, they'll talk about a transgender person or a we or they them or whatever, and they'll able to switch those plurals back and forth without missing a beat. And I'm like, I don't that's a different kind of mindset I can't do. So I'm nervous that if I were to ever talk to them that I would accidentally say the wrong thing and they jumped on my throat.
Speaker 1:I don't think that that would happen, but I'm letting you know that's a a hindrance that is out there, and that should be discussed. Okay? And I'm gonna say that everyone I talk to, man, even the most conservative people, they're kinda like, okay. Go off and do your thing, but just kinda keep it, you know, keep it to yourself. Because a lot of times, the conservatives are some of the nicest people that you'll never meet.
Speaker 1:They really are. And they're never gonna meet you because, you know, we're a little bit of nervous about offending somebody and getting into a a huge thing, and then suddenly we go viral now because I accidentally called a transitioned woman a he, and then they blew up at us. And then the the because there's the the court of public opinion is so swift and divisive now that, like, gotta be careful with it. So that's my venture into trans and trans rights for the first time. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Do what you want with it.