Here are some questions that have probably occurred to just about everybody who has thought about these matters, but perhaps the questions should continue to be asked until someone offers a compelling answer to them:
- If it's child abuse for adult men to marry underage girls, why is it not child abuse for surgeons to permanently alter the sex of underage children? Why is it considered transphobic to merely raise the question?
- If it's child abuse for the parents to give a young daughter to a man as a child bride, why is it not child abuse for parents to have their child undergo irreversible sex transition surgery or give their child hormone blockers?
- In this age of birth control and childless couples how long will it remain illegal for siblings to marry? If the genetic sex of the people getting married doesn't matter, why should the genetic relationship matter?
- How long will polyamorous marriages remain illegal? If the gender of the people getting married doesn't matter why does the number of people getting married matter?
- If gender is what one chooses it to be and should not be imposed on a child at birth, does that mean that gender-reveal parties are transphobic?
- On what criteria does a transgendered person's psychology trump their biology? Why does a transgendered person's psychological view of their gender trump everyone else's psychological view of their gender?
And on a different topic:
- Why did we require people traveling into our state (Pennsylvania) to quarantine while at the same time allowing masses of immigrants, many of whom were covid positive or untested, to come across our nation's southern border?
- Why is there so much concern over those who don't wish to be vaccinated? If the vaccine works then those who want it and get it are protected. Those who don't want it and and don't get it are not protected, but they're not a threat to those who choose to get vaccinated. Shouldn't those who choose not to be vaccinated be free to assume the risk, just like smokers and motorcyclists?
- Why is the left pushing the idea of requiring people to prove that they've been vaccinated by showing a "vaccine passport" in order to participate in many activities, but are horrified of being required to show an identification in order to vote?
And finally:
- Why do we build a fence around our Capitol and declare fences to be both workable and necessary to protect our politicians from the rowdy masses, but oppose building fences at the border because they're allegedly unworkable?
Maybe there are good answers to some, or even all, of these questions, but if so, someone will have to help me with them.