1ºIt’s amazing that so many people are trying to create an issue out of something that is not an issue to feed fears, paranoias, hatreds....If we simply focused on caring for children and supporting them emotionally, intellectually, physically and providing a society which builds acceptance and self esteem, we would automatically about 99 percent of the time do the kind, compassionate and caring thing. A child struggling with acceptance who is very emotionally vulnerable, needs acceptance and reassurance. Sports once were a great source of trying to teach “sportsmanship” camaraderie, acceptance and care for others. Any Child...straight, LGBT, struggling for acceptance because of any of the many challenges our children face, deserves to be welcomed and included and allowed to participate on teams which they wish to play, at whatever level their skills and aptitudes qualify them for.
2ºRelated to this topic, superstar philosopher Slavoj Zizek wrote: “The basic LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) becomes LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual) or even LGBTQQIAAP (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Allies, Pansexual). (See note 22 below) To resolve the problem, one often simply adds a +, which serves to include all other groups associated with the LGBT community, as in LGBT+. This, however, raises the question: is + just a stand-in for the missing positions, like ‘and others’, or can one be directly a +? The properly dialectical answer is: yes – in the series, there is always one exceptional element that clearly does not belong to it and thereby gives body to +. It can be ‘allies’ (‘honest’ non-LGBT individuals), ‘asexuals’ (negating the entire field of sexuality) or ‘questioning’ (floating around, unable to adopt a determinate position). (Especially suspicious is here the category of ‘allies’: why should heterosexuals who have a sympathy for transgender people count as a special category of sexual identity? Is their sympathy not a fact of their morality, which has nothing to do with their sexuality? The hidden normativity of transgenderism is clearly perceptible here: heterosexuality is silently conceived as ‘lower’ than a transgender position, as immanently linked to oppression, so ‘allies’ are ‘honest enemies’ in almost the same sense in which historians of Nazism like to discover an ‘honest Nazi’, a Nazi who admits the criminal nature of Nazism …)”
Slavoj Zizek, THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously, Allen Lane, 2017