Pride Month, also known in the Gregorian calendar as “June”, is a time for those outside of the overwhelmingly predominant heterosexual population and some who believe they are gender confused to celebrate their sexual or gender orientations. The celebration of these lifestyles and personal assignments ought to be in the privacy of their own homes, not in public and highly visible venues, such as restaurants, streets, schools, and even the White House. Why is this population defining themselves solely based on sexual practices or gender identities? Many believe that this ‘sets them apart’ and ‘gives them a sense of individuality’. Also, it’s increasingly common and acceptable to play the victim card in today’s social media dominated society.

The victim card gives the belief that you are not responsible for poor choices because, it is claimed, you are oppressed by others. You are, therefore, exempt from doing harm to others because damage is or was done to you. Yes, true victims need to be helped and sometimes protected. However, I don’t believe those defining themselves as members of the LGBTQ+ group (or ‘community’) are victims of oppression in present-day America.

As I grew up, my mother quoted Derrick Wilburn frequently to us: “you are a victim of three things – your own ignorance, laziness, or poor choices.” In other words, stop playing the victim card and take responsibility.

The LGBTQ+ group is not a group of victims, no matter how adamantly they believe they are. Look at the facts.

They have an entire month to celebrate themselves and their sexual or gender orientations. Where is Straight Pride Month? Inclusion is stated as one of their primary purposes, yet they demonize and exclude those who disagree with them. Anyone who is not a flag-waving supporter is labeled a transphobe or bigot. Simply questioning these practices, ideologies or identities can cost you your livelihood and future, possibly causing great harm and damage to your family or business.

The White House recently hosted a large Pride event on the lawn. Many attended the event, including some transgender influencers. One such influencer, Rose Montoya, a man who identifies as a woman, exposed himself topless in front of the White House for a photo-op. In the aftermath of this action Montoya has been banned. Yet just one look at his Instagram page makes it clear his actions at the White House were not out of character.

For the event, the White House was decorated with Pride and American flags. American flags flanked a Pride flag, which violates the US flag code. Code states the American flag must always be front and foremost when surrounded by other flags. Disregarding this code, the White House placed the Pride flag front and center.

Journalist Dave Seminara compiled a list of 433 (and counting) known woke, LGBTQ+ celebrating companies. The following are some big names on the list: Target, Budweiser, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle, Adidas, AT&T, Ben & Jerry’s, Comcast NBC Universal, Duolingo, Gatorade, Indeed, JP Morgan Chase, Kitchen Maid, Lego, Mac Cosmetics, Maybelline, Neutrogena, North Face, Old Navy, State Farm, Tampax, and Victoria’s Secret. The list goes on.

Notice one significant name in the above group: Tampax, a global tampon company. Tampax, which focuses exclusively on female hygiene products, shipped free boxes of tampons to Dylan Mulvaney, a male who believes he is a woman. Mulvaney does not need these tampons because he is an adult human male, yet he has received free boxes of feminine hygiene products. All the women (adult human females) I know, myself included, have never received a single free tampon from Tampax, let alone several boxes.

Victoria’s Secret, Calvin Klein, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit have all cast transgender models. These models are achieving castings at some of the biggest names in the modeling industry while claiming they are an oppressed group and, somehow, victims.

After noting all of the above examples, how oppressed can the LGBTQ+ ‘community’ actually be? In an overwhelming majority of the United States, transgender people are allowed in the restroom, locker room, dormitory, and sport of their choice. This includes access to women’s restrooms/locker rooms, women-only dorms, and women’s athletics even if the person is not female and causing great distress to the great majority of Americans.

If there is a full month of Pride celebration, a specific flag, a White House event seen around the world, a US flag code violation, censorship of Americans objecting to this rapidly accelerating invasion of our private lives, overwhelming corporate donations, companies decorating stores, and models chosen merely to celebrate sexual and gender orientations and identity, you are not oppressed. True oppression is CCP’s Uyghur work camps, Jim Crow laws, forced relocation of Japanese Americans during World War Two, the Armenian Genocide, the Nazi death camps in the 1930s-1940s, and other past and present atrocities. The LGBTQ+ community needs to stop playing the victim card and pretending they are oppressed.