I responded to an article about Robert(aka Alexis) Arquette who died reciently:

“I am sorry the guy died, but it is obvious to me, that he lived a very unhealthy lifestyle. There are many ways to commit slow suicide, from drugs and alcohol to risky sex, but helping this guy justify this behavior is not good, and now he is gone. The family didn’t help by accepting his risky behavior. There are reasons that his type of lifestyle has been taboo since the begining of time, because you end up dying young, spreading disease and hurting your friends and relatives. No amount of acceptance or justification will change that.”

The post recieved a very positive response with 15 thumbs up and only 4 thumbs down at the time I looked at it. This is despite my use of the pronoun “he” and my assertion that his death was the result of his own behavior.

For me, it is encouraging that many people are seeing people like Robert as tragic figures, who’s life choices may not have been in his own best interests. According to the article, Robert’s family accepted his choices, and I believe that this may have been a mistake, but not knowing Robert, or his family, it is impossible for me to know. I do know that family, out of love for a family member, will sometimes accept someones bad choices, not wanting to alienate that person from the family. I would speculate that the Arquette family was doing this, but in the present political climate, I doubt we will ever hear what they really thought about Roberts’s choices. This is a VERY difficult situation for a family to be in, because you alienate the family member one way, and justify bad choices the other way. So in a way, people feel like its a catch 22. When the family member dies, however, maybe we all need to see that acceptance is not the way to go. This lack of acceptance will cause the family member to harbor resentment against the family, but if later that family member dies, the family cannot blame themselves.

Today, (9/15/2016) I checked, and the article I responded to on yahoo news is gone. Maybe the majority of Americans don’t like transgender politics, but journalists being biased, use their power to cheat in the debate.