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OPINION: The Oppression Studies crowd wants pushback — so as to label it ‘hate,’ ‘phobia,’ etc.

A piece in The Daily Princetonian, Princeton’s student paper, got me pondering a few things this past week.

Titled “‘This Is When We Get Louder’: Resistance and queer joy at a small Princeton center,” the premise is since the current political climate is “precarious” — it’s (allegedly) focusing on “LGBTQ+ topics, including trans athletes, banned books, and civil rights of LGBTQ+ couples” — those in the queer+ community and beyond need to, well, resist and experience “joy.”

For example, the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice’s queer educator and local community organizer, Sara Wasserman, claims people “are disabled by society, not their conditions.”

A black gay visitor to the center said “We cannot allow fear to change us,” while a center intern added everyone “shared communal grief” when Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Rustin founder Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber says of the center that “The folks left behind — that’s who we are here for.”

But what does the LGBTQ+ community really have to fear in Trump’s second term? The president’s not a homophobe, after all; one of the highest ranking officials in his administration is the openly gay Richard Grenell, for Heaven’s sake.

Take a look at an ad for the Rustin Center (pictured, below) — it says “Angelic Troublemakers Assemble!” and “Community Activist Hub.” Do those cowering in fear make “trouble” and engage in boisterous activism?

Let’s be real — there are pride parades everywhere these days. Protests against conservative speakers and the current presidential administration regarding LGBTQ+ issues are in ample supply. All sorts of LGBTQ+ organizations are on U.S. campuses (and now middle and high schools). Kids as young as the elementary level are taught they can be anything on a “gender spectrum.”

And so-called transgender females are winning and breaking records against real females in sports.

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Here’s what I believe those engaged with the center and others really mean when they say people are “disabled by society” and “fearful”: They’re simply irked the vast majority of the public opposes

— trans-females (men) competing against (biological) women in sports
— minors being exposed to graphic sexual imagery in books available in their schools
— “pride” parades (one of which the center organizes) that often feature adults walking around half (or more) naked in front of audiences that contain children.

The only thing “precarious” and “fearful” for these folks is that President Trump actually is trying to do something about such nonsense.

As I’ve said many times, most could care less how their fellow Americans live their lives … but they will push back when things are (way) out of line.

However, the Oppression Studies crowd thrives on the pushback. This is how it remains relevant. It labels any opposition to its “agenda” as “hate,” “phobia,” “erasure,” “banning,” etc.

Consider, what “fear” does Pennsylvania Plymouth-Marsh High School senior Luce Allen have regarding his trans-female identity? He’s been out there defeating real girls in track and field for the last couple of years. This past week he won the Liberty Division girls 200 meters at the SOL American Conference Championships.

Allen has six total first place finishes this year, including being part of the girls’ 4×400 meter relay at the SOL meet. In the 200, he beat out the second place girl by 0.15 seconds.

(Allen’s 200 meter time would have been the fourth slowest in the boys’ competition, by the way, almost a whopping four seconds behind the first place finisher.)

But Allen and his mother have been playing the “hate,” “phobia,” “erasure” game. Not long ago a letter from Luce was read at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association which said “If you remove the ability of trans people to compete with a team that corresponds with their gender, then you’ll strip them of their opportunity to develop as people.”

Allen’s mom complained it would be “cruel” to make Luce run against boys (even though he is a boy) because he’s been “on a journey […] to transition to the girl that she always has been” since age 15. She added her son is “female in her heart and soul.”

In Allen’s and his mother’s minds, you must accept what they say. Merely check out the comments from Oppression Studies types when the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association made a rather cosmetic change to its rules regarding trans athletes: “fear-mongering rhetoric,” “scapegoating,” “promotes body policing,” and, naturally, “anti-trans.”

Additionally, is Maine high school trans-female runner Soren Stark-Chessa “fearful” when he beats his real female opponents, however, er, tactfully? I doubt it.

Rational people are long fed up with the “hate,” “phobia,” “erasure” labels when they voice the slightest opposition to something inherently wrong. The Oppression Studies folks are beginning to realize this, and this is why the decibel levels of their screaming and yelling has increased exponentially.

Once again: No one cares how you want to live your life. But if you use your natural biological advantage to acquire false glory, advocate for books depicting oral sex, and/or waltz around with your junk hanging out at a “parade,” you’re gonna hear about it.

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IMAGE CAPTION & CREDIT: People don gay pride flags during a pride march; jhawn paul/X  INTERIOR IMAGE: Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice/X

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