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I reject the idea of a history of civil rights where you draw the 'first' line at the last thing you feel conflicted about, and then draws a slope starting there.
if you want to go that far back into the history of civil rights to try to draw a slopeand calim it slippery, then the 'first' thing is repealing miscegenation laws, or slavery abolition, or like challenging the right of prima nocta or w/ethefuck.
I don't want to make this about semantics, so let's not. If you really want me to bite the biggest bullet available, then fine, what Americans count as "civil rights" is egalitarianism taken to excess and any society is better off throwing it all out than accepting it all without question. It's quite possibly better to make too many distinctions between people than to make too few. The optimum is likely neither 0 nor 100.
But we needn't go that far into the abstract. Concepts like slavery, race and marriage are tangibly real, universal and highly relevant to almost everyone in ways that transgenderism is not, and no amount of false equivalence will make the latter any more substantial than it clearly isn't.
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That's something I'm uncertain of, because first we all learned the pop culture version of it, then later on it was said to be untrue, and right now I'm in ignorance of what the opinion is. Let me go look it up.
Okay, looks to be regarded as a myth. You're really batting a thousand on inaccurate references in this debate, friend. You want to go three-for-three on the Inquisition, 'cos I've got a rebuttal video on that as well 😀
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