Ok, there's a lot of text to respond to, so I will do it in quotes. Feel free to debunk me.
Arguments are not "true" or "false"; propositions and claims are. Arguments are valid; sound; cogent; good; bad; etc..
Ok, well, according to your semantics, your claim is false. Better?
Witness testimony—all of which is anecdotal —is admissible in courts of law, as is testimony from expert witnesses not directly involved with the events of a particular case. As an expert witness (a judge would need only recognize me as such), I would testify that in my expert opinion trannies overwhelmingly groom children as part of their modus operandi and are vastly, grotesquely overrepresented among populations—such as, for example, thr "gooner" subculture—known to groom children.
But you, as an expert witness, state your opinion that trannies overwhelmingly groom children, providing no statistics or data backing it up, with your only evidence being an anecdote about a transgender pedo Reddit subculture, when you can find millions of anecdotes of straight pedos grooming kids on the internet.
As for "expert" witnesses, I'm sure you can find countless qualified experts with fancy degrees who can counter your anecdotes about trannies or gays being pedos with their own anecdotes about trannies and gays being wholesome and not molesting kids, along with the data showing they don't molest more than straight people.
You say you can fight anecdotes with anecdotes, but in this case you can't: I challenge you to produce a single anecdote of a "trans person" whose psychology doesn't predispose them towards falling in this direction.
In which direction? If you mean pedophilia, I'm sure you can find thousands of anecdotes of transgenders who aren't pedos.
Transsexuality is an idea—a psychology. The human mind is not a black box: we can see how things work and what their consequences are without having to feel-and-fumble around in the dark like the idiomatic blidfolded guys failing to identify the elephant in the room.
What does this have to do with gay marriage and the slippery slope?
If you've been around certain spaces online in the last 15 years, no doubt you've seen younger, underage users (or maybe even your peers at some point) becoming attached to a "trans elder" or having an older person(usually a gigahon fat fuck) pressuring them with "egg" talk. If you look at the "Losing people to transgenderism" thread, you're sure to find loads of people telling of them or their friends being swindled into thinking they either aren't straight, or aren't the sex they are born with.
You can find thousands of anecdotes of straight pedos doing the same thing more frequently. Discord or Reddit anecdotes are not data.
I don't see us having massive statistics or "studies" anytime soon that aren't tampered with or tainted by pro-sodomite, pro-tranny ideology, so the anecdotes are all I think we'll have for a while.
So the only proof you have for banning gay marriage or transgenderism is anecdotes from Reddit and Discord.
You seem to have no concept of the future. Your argument hinges on the assumption that things won't get worse, when the evidence says that things have gotten worse.
Why should we ban gay marriage based on a guess or assumption that things might get worse?
Why even argue this? What about gay marriage is worth defending? At best it's gotta be a shallow parody of something like this:
I'm playing devil's advocate, but I also want to hear good arguments against gay marriage.
@Hulkster Let's try a concrete example. The troons assert that a child has the right state of mind and knowledge to be able to start using wrong-sex hormones ("HRT"), i.e. they can consent to HRT. This is despite the fact that
- Children often live in the land of make-believe; we don't accept that a child is trans-species if they proclaim themselves to be a walrus
- Minors are impressionable and simply hearing the idea of being transgender can make them think they are one
- Minors (and hell, even many adults) do not properly internalize the lifelong consequences of using the wrong hormones, in particular the detrimental effects on bone density
- With all of the above combined, minors can easily be lured into "making" "decisions" they regret later
But if we accept that children can consent to HRT, then why can't they consent to sex? After all, sex is a realm with a host of negative consequences so severe, we flat out ban sexual contact below the age of 18. Yet apparently they are mature enough to handle HRT, or so the trannies say. Trannies assume that minors know their "real gender" and aren't just making shit up, that they know the consequences of HRT, that they aren't impressionable and wanting to fit in with what's cool and join the bandwagon, in other words, that they're mature.
I agree that transing kids is bad. How does this justify banning gay marriage?
This is what I mean by enshrining standards that were used to make one thing acceptable now making another thing acceptable. Now sure, it's still possible to oppose pedophilia and accept minors doing HRT, but it's an increasingly weak position. Once everybody accepts minors using HRT, suddenly pedophiles can now make the argument that "a child can consent to HRT, so they can consent to sex." There's no logical basis for accepting one but not the other, this would be a very persuasive argument.
I disagree with this argument. Gay marriage is based on allowing consenting adults to marry. Transitioning kids is based on convincing impressionable kids to do irreversible damage to their bodies. You can clearly support one and not the other.
The only good thing I can say is that this hasn't happened yet, in particular people are (rightfully) pushing back on children taking the wrong hormones. But to me, that just means that the slippery slope is less steep than we thought, and there are people working hard to push the boulder back up the hill. It's still a slippery slope in the end, and in an alternate universe where there was nobody to counteract trannies, pedophilia would be legal now.
So why can't we, as you said, push the boulder back up the hill to keep gay marriage legal without forcing anyone to bake the cake and leave it at that? Why do you have to oppose gay marriage to oppose transitioning kids?