Transgender rights discussion

Republicans trying to score political points with evangelicals by attacking a minority is pretty much their core ideology at this point.

They desperately want liberals to move from Texas and Florida so that they don't end up losing every future presidential election. Those states have been trending towards Democrats for a good while. Their politics is very blatant and cynical.
 
Laurencio said:
Republicans trying to score political points with evangelicals by attacking a minority is pretty much their core ideology at this point.

They desperately want liberals to move from Texas and Florida so that they don't end up losing every future presidential election. Those states have been trending towards Democrats for a good while. Their politics is very blatant and cynical.
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Unfortunately it is also the Hispanic vote that is assisting Republicans in those two states (more pronounced in FL).

Attacking a marginalized minority also helps in both states with Hispanics the same way the right is trying to woo evangelicals. Thumping has a receptive audience in those two states.
 
Regardless of whether it's found to be motivated by transphobic hate, the killing of Brianna Ghey clearly demonstrates the cost of all this bad-faith hand-wringing about self-ID.

Brianna's deadname is currently being splashed across the press and her death certificate will misgender her as a matter of public record as long as those records exist. Self-ID has never been about toilets or prisons, it's about trans people being afforded basic dignity.
 
feckin hell, conservatives are obsessed with other people's genitals and what they do with them.
 
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The whole "problem" related to trans women in bathrooms is so artificial from a legal standpoint. I mean, isn't there only stalls or other individual locked spaces in women's bathrooms anyway? That should make sure no-one sees anything they don't want to, if everyone behaves. And if someone wanted to show their genitals in a bathroom that would a) Probably already be illegal, and b) Not exactly require anyone to be transgender.

These bigots seem to think that there are swarms of people out there willing to go through the process of changing their gender, just so they can wander into a women's restroom to flash their dick.
 
fecking sadists, I have to stop coming to this thread, it just pisses me off.
 
Most dangerous midget in my country right now - for what credible reason would the state of Florida need such information?

 


Literally using the Fox News defence :drool:

As usual there is common ground underneath artificial left-right divides...

e - a bonus, the guy doing this defence is the NYT's " Health & science reporter"
 
fergieisold said:
Thats not really a regret rate. Just the number that actually requested reversal.
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That's not really a requested reversal rate. Just the combined number that actually requested reversal or transitioned back to their sex assigned at birth.
 
fergieisold said:
not sure what your point is. Anyway the Tweet Author should do a better job at reporting factual information rather than manipulating things I think!
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Just helping you with correcting things.
 
The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic

This is about the article I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle, published by Bari Weiss's new project that is also publishing Rowling's new podcast PR campaign "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling".

It's a tried and true recepie: a pro trans person wants to help, realises that something is very, very wrong, and now has to let people know. She claimed to have witnessed a bunch of ruined lifes, where insecure and confused kids come in and practically get bombarded with blockers and hormones, often with serious side effects. This made quite a stir, of course in right wing circles but also among the libs and centrists. The American Prospect specifically mention Jonathan Chait and Matthew Yglesias as examples of high profile people talking about it, but it was all over.

It was all made up.
 
NotThatSoph said:
The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic

This is about the article I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle, published by Bari Weiss's new project that is also publishing Rowling's new podcast PR campaign "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling".

It's a tried and true recepie: a pro trans person wants to help, realises that something is very, very wrong, and now has to let people know. She claimed to have witnessed a bunch of ruined lifes, where insecure and confused kids come in and practically get bombarded with blockers and hormones, often with serious side effects. This made quite a stir, of course in right wing circles but also among the libs and centrists. The American Prospect specifically mention Jonathan Chait and Matthew Yglesias as examples of high profile people talking about it, but it was all over.

It was all made up.
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Is it always made up?
 
shamans said:
Is it always made up?
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Yes, all stories like hers are made up. All medications have a risk of side-effects, but she lied about the kind and prevalence, and she lied about the process of how medication is prescribed.

She talked about how kids come in there believing they're a mushroom and gets put on pills right away.
 
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