An oversight of the transgender debate

When it comes to the transgender community? Do you believe that people aren't always the gender that matches their biology? Do you believe that gender is a biological concept? Regardless of how you answered, that's actually irrelevant to what I'm about to post.

Although it is not explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, I view freedom of thought as more fundamental that freedom of speech. If you're not allowed to think for yourself, what's the point of free speech? You have the right to your own thoughts regarding the transgender community, but there's a difference between your personal thoughts and how the government should be run. Unfortunately, far too many struggle with this difference.

The government absolutely should not be using its power to control what citizens think. The politically correct side of this is that if you truly see yourself as a gender, the government has no right to tell you that you must live your life as a different gender. There's also a politically incorrect viewpoint here. There are reasons that the biological definition exists, and most things that are gendered are gendered for biological reasons. The government has no right to tell you that you can't see gender in terms of biology.

The issue here isn't which side of the issue the government should take. It's more a matter of how the government can respect the rights of citizens to have their own thoughts. This can be difficult since these are contrary viewpoints, but the government needs to support the rights of both sides of this issue as long as they are not legitimately taking away the rights of others.

Since I pay attention to what's coming out of the NEA and AFT, I want to make sure that this concern includes the schools. Government-controlled schools should not embrace the idea that students must have what they consider to be the right perspective on this issue. If schools push the idea that concepts such as gender fluidity must be embraced, they are effectively undermining freedom of thought. Schools must accept the idea that students have the right to see gender in terms of biology. If they don't, they are attacking freedom of thought. From what I have seen from the NEA and AFT, that’s exactly what they are doing.