{"id":2362331,"date":"2024-10-31T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-d-vance-gay-people-just-wanted-to-be-left-the-hell-alone\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:06:23","slug":"j-d-vance-gay-people-just-wanted-to-be-left-the-hell-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-d-vance-gay-people-just-wanted-to-be-left-the-hell-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance: Gay People &#8216;Just Wanted To Be Left The Hell Alone&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fj-d-vance-gay-people-just-wanted-to-be-left-the-hell-alone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2362331&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-strikes-fear-in-aoc-says-she-might-get-jail-time-during-absurd-meltdown-hes-out-of-his-mind\/\" title=\"Trump Alarms AOC, Claims She Could Face Jail in Bizarre Outburst - &#039;He&#039;s Lost It!\">article discusses comments made<\/a> by J.D. Vance, a Republican vice presidential candidate, regarding changing perspectives\u200d on\u2062 gay rights and gender identity. Vance expressed that many gay individuals, who primarily sought \u200bto be &#8220;left alone,&#8221; are feeling alienated by what he describes as\u2064 a shift in the LGBTQ movement towards promoting transgender treatments for children.\u200b He criticized the current discourse\u2063 around childhood gender dysphoria,\u2064 suggesting that \u200cit has \u2062become \u2063overly affirmative without sufficient\u2064 scrutiny. Vance highlighted the financial\u200d implications of the burgeoning transgender surgery industry, projecting it to exceed $7 billion \u2062by the decade&#8217;s end. He \u200cand Joe Rogan\u200d discussed \u2063the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">potential societal pressures leading parents<\/a> to affirm their children&#8217;s gender \u2064identities \u200cfor the sake \u2064of social status. 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Vance predicted the GOP ticket could win the &ldquo;normal gay guy vote&rdquo; because &ldquo;they just wanted to be left the hell alone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance spoke about a movement that merely used to be about gay acceptance but has now morphed into a campaign for child access to transgender treatments. In July, the Republican Party <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/19\/donald-trump-enters-fall-election-with-the-big-tent-republicans-failed-to-build-for-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amended<\/a> the official platform to drop an explicit endorsement of traditional marriage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9afd2d34521e5688dd44f3def39d415b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9afd2d34521e5688dd44f3def39d415b\"><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it that they&rsquo;re like, &lsquo;No, no, no, we didn&rsquo;t, we didn&rsquo;t want to give pharmaceutical products to 9-year-olds who are transitioning their genders. We just wanted to be left the hell alone,&#8217;&rdquo; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of gay guys feel like the whole movement is homophobic, which is ironic,&rdquo; Rogan said. &ldquo;Because they think that there&rsquo;s, people think there&rsquo;s something wrong with being gay, so what you really are is a girl. And they think that a lot of this is being given, these thoughts are being given to gay kids. These kids will just grow up to be gay men.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s pharmaceutical conversion therapy, right?&rdquo; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And it&rsquo;s profitable,&rdquo; Rogan added. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a3abf3c2f8c7026b053901e2b3a6c2d3 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a3abf3c2f8c7026b053901e2b3a6c2d3\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"jcdFEzaQ3B9Zt1AmVN5Ob2CIDqYHryGJM4hSKL8ouxs\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JD Vance: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because again they just wanted to be left the hell alone, and now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BURah2ha1F\">pic.twitter.com\/BURah2ha1F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1852047714663706883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Vance and Rogan discussed how Americans have become too quick to &ldquo;affirm&rdquo; childhood gender dysphoria under the leftist banner of radical acceptance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/new-report-highlights-booming-transgender-surgery-industry-that-is-raking-in-billions-damage-being-done\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to a new report from the American Principles Project this summer, the transgender surgery industry is forecast to exceed $7 billion by the end of the decade. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;Every single day, my 4-year-old or 2-year-old will come to me and say something that is bats&ndash;t insane, because they&rsquo;re 4 and 2.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Like my 4-year-old will come and say, &lsquo;Daddy, I&rsquo;m a dinosaur!&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to take him to like the dinosaur transition clinic and put scales on him?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They want their kid to be a part of the LGBTQ thing,&rdquo; Rogan said, &ldquo;because it looks like a flag of virtue that they can post in their front lawn, &lsquo;Oh look, we have a queer child!&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-90aa863bc488c9c434d23edaee7250b1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-90aa863bc488c9c434d23edaee7250b1\"><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;There has to be some reason why this enormous percentage of Hollywood kids are trans,&rdquo; Rogan added. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It becomes a social signifier for a lot of parents,&rdquo; Vance said, adding that adolescent transgenderism is &ldquo;most common among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-affluence-secularism-boredom-leftism\/\" title=\"PRAGER: Affluence + Secularism = Boredom = Leftism\">upper-middle class<\/a> to lower-middle class white progressives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now you could believe, okay, that there&rsquo;s just like something genetic going on in the mind of a wealthy white progressive, or you could believe that this is a cultural trend that we should be questioning a lot more than we are right now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ecf61967dfab1627f19cc267dc6099f4 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ecf61967dfab1627f19cc267dc6099f4\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. 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