Remember that Florida and Texas are labratories for Christo-Fascism. This shit is coming to other states, and eventually federally.
For the first time I heard a Christian nationalist say this out loud. It was basically (CW: transphobia)
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Letting a “child” transition is child abuse. So an adult doing it is also abusive. It’s self-abuse and we should be able to pass laws that don’t let people self-abuse. Also claimed having to see a trans person at Costco is a form of violence/antagonism against him
No you see they simply have to be face-deep in absolutely everyone’s business to make sure nobody is self-expressing in a way that makes them feel doubt about the wasted lives of repression they’ve led. It’s their job. You could say it’s their burden…
This argument requires rolling back to the old DSM assessment that being trans is a mental illness in order to justify it. So I expect they will target that eventually.
Intervening with people who are mentally compromised is considered morally justified and is a simple path to achieving it.
A lot of the battle over trans people comes down to the previous notion that it was a mental illness vs the newer updated view of it. If the pillar can be upheld that trans people aren’t mentally ill for long enough then the new pillar will replace it and eventually normalise, they don’t want that.
Even if you entertain this idea, we let adults smoke cigarettes and do all kinds of dumb surgeries that we don’t let kids do. Nonsensical argument.
Also claimed having to see a trans person at Costco is a form of violence/antagonism against him
Entirely consistent with how Chuds and many Liberals treat minorities, the homeless, any religion they don’t follow, femmes with blue hair. The mere existence of the other is unacceptable; They must be removed and/or destroyed.
China: “We take a look at what processes and policies are successful locally and work towards scaling them, experimentally and incrementally over time.”
US: “Oh, we do the same actually.”
