Persecuting Nonconformity

 CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS generally despise gay and transgender people, despite their false pious claims of hating the sin but living the sinner.as if one can be separated from one's sexual orientation and compartmentalized. When you hate someone's fundamental nature, you hate the person. Christians are largely responsible for the historical mistreatment of homosexuals in the western world. Having lost the persecutorial battle against homosexuality after centuries of sustained attacks, the church of love now turns its attention to the transgender community, full force. In about half these disunited states, the conservative one, dominated by far right legislatures and politics, laws are being proposed or enacted preventing transgender children from participating in organized sports and from receiving medical care.  This is yet another manifestation of right wing reality denial, remindful of the notorious bathroom bills of yesteryear, vigorously opposed by the community of the decent and the sane.right wingers offer all kinds of contrived reasons for persecuting transgender people by placing restrictions on them, everything but the truth.  High sounding phrases like "fairness" and "personal protection"; whatever it takes to persecute and discriminate, just like they do with gay people, and have for centuries. The unvarnished truth is that conservatives Christians by nature despise nonconformity to their values, traditional values, such as strict gender roles. male is male, female female, with separate roles all must abide by. the roles ca n and must never vary, despite overwhelming proof to the contrary. Transgender people are not mentioned in the bible, and therefore do not exist, must exist, cannot be allowed to exist.But help is on the way. One half of millennials report having no religious affiliation, and teh generation after that is about the same. the generations arriving at adulthood are far more tolerant of individual differences.All religions eventually die, and with them their various forms of bigotry and intolerance and dogma.Our descendants will be blessed with the opportunity to invent new forms of religiosity, new systems of morality, which, as Einstein said, is of the utmost importance to mankind, but not to God.All that remains to us is to wish them godspeed, the very best of luck, and to hope like hell that they hurry up and get here.