Popular culture, as dictated by the mass media in Hollywood movies, popular television shows, the music industry, and news organizations, i.e. psychological Leftist propaganda, have made it a cultural sin to merely disagree with their positions, agendas, and proposed governmental legislation. Anyone who believes that these alternate sexualities are perverse and evil are immediately shunned. Not only that, but those who do not positively celebrate these actions are immediately vilified and opposed without a second thought. An example of this is the Leftist outcry that came after the suicide of Joshua Alcorn. Everyone on the Left blamed Alcorn’s parents for his suicide, since this teenage boy wanted to mutilate his genitalia in order to pretend to be a girl. Rather than following the emotional whims of a psychologically unstable adolescent, Alcorn’s parents sought to help Joshua not by mutilating his penis, but by seeking the advice of psychological professionals and the help of their local church community. This was a completely unacceptable response according to people like Dan Savage, who immediately called for the legal prosecution of Alcorn’s parents in light of Joshua’s suicide. In essence, Savage calls for the imprisonment of parents who refuse to pay for genital-mutilating surgery, but who rather prefer to seek the counsel of professional psychologists and close friends to address their adolescent’s problems.
Those who have a similar mindset to Savage possess this mindset in part because of the culture cliche, “follow your heart” and “be yourself.” Savage makes a career in part by encouraging adolescents to engage in sexual perversity and to make life choices which involve rebelling against their parents and their biological sex. These actions ought to be encouraged, because they have been appropriated to fulfill our culture’s moral standards to “be yourself.” Individuality ought to be praised, uniqueness ought to be praised, and therefore a young man who wants to be a girl has the right to become a girl. Even though it was impossible, Joshua Alcorn decided to define himself in terms of being a woman, and therefore any actions taken to achieve this unattainable goal – including expensive genital mutilating surgery that doesn’t actually make him a woman – is praiseworthy. Since his parents did not support Joshua’s impossible desires, cultural Leftists perceive them as moral monsters.