{"id":164740,"date":"2024-12-27T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=164740"},"modified":"2024-12-27T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T16:03:23","slug":"weekend-open-thread-529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=164740","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Chad-bearded-man-transgender-says-woman-right-here-bigot.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-164741\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Chad-bearded-man-transgender-says-woman-right-here-bigot.jpeg?resize=300%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Chad-bearded-man-transgender-says-woman-right-here-bigot.jpeg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Chad-bearded-man-transgender-says-woman-right-here-bigot.jpeg?resize=431%2C333&amp;ssl=1 431w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Chad-bearded-man-transgender-says-woman-right-here-bigot.jpeg?resize=768%2C593&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Chad-bearded-man-transgender-says-woman-right-here-bigot.jpeg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagination doesn&#8217;t overrule nature. This is one reality that many don&#8217;t see when they insist on being something or someone they&#8217;re not. We&#8217;ve seen this with those who fake or embellish military experience. Many among the transgenders want to believe that they are the &#8220;real deal&#8221;, producing legal or other documents to back their claims. They follow up this insistence with the expectation that they be treated as the gender they think they are. Unfortunately for these individuals, we won&#8217;t overrule common sense to play their fantasy. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagination doesn&#8217;t overrule nature. This is one reality that many don&#8217;t see when they insist on being something or someone they&#8217;re not. We&#8217;ve seen this with those who fake or embellish military experience. Many among the transgenders want to believe that they are the &#8220;real deal&#8221;, producing legal or other documents to back their claims. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-GR6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}