What puts your entire judgement to question is that you hold Joey Maldonado as some kind of hero.
He’s a kid of 9. He doesn’t know anything about the world but all these dumb adults around him are treating transgenders as a holy caste. But he’s a kid of 9. I’m kinda gobsmacked at how you think it’s appropriate for parents to take the words of a 9 year old at heart.
9 year olds don’t have heroism. They’re too stupid for that. They don’t know the value of anything and they haven’t fought against the brawny beasts and malicious serpents of life.
Also, calling Trump an idiot doesn’t negate the fact that he successfully waged a political campaign against someone who tried stacking as much odds as possible in her favor. Calling Trump an idiot doesn’t make him one. It’s like when people called Bush a dumb ape during his administration. They took carefully crafted and acted personas as a revelation of the “true side” of the man.
You never underestimate your enemy. Period. They’re not dumb. They’re competing for the same reins of power (and rewards of it) that other top competitors are drastically trying to hold.
But honestly, Joey is a 9 year old kid. It’s beyond the pale that any adult entertained his imitation of other “celebrated” transgenders. Honestly, I wouldn’t want you around my children just for supporting something so transparently “human, all too human.” You’re ruining kids for a secular outburst of the cult of the victim and the cult of the insignificant minority.
But that’s my rash opinion.