What a pile of passive/aggressive bullshit.JoeMemphis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:42 am Reading the first line or two of your post seemed to imply something different. If I misread that then you have my apology.
But bottomline Brad, your last paragraph says it all. I’m not asking or expecting you or anyone else to live by someone else’s standards. You have every right to expect me to follow the Constitution and there is only one of them. One version.
I’m not about to dictate to members in your community how to run and manage that community. All I expect is for them to do so lawfully and constitutionally. Exactly how they go about that is not up to me.
"If we want to kill all the gays in our community, that's our right!"
This is what the right is doing about trans people. BTW, before you call bullshit, Glenn (Yes, I know this reply is to Joe, but Glenn will come here and attack the article, because Glenn has hopped aboard the anti-trans train) - I got this link from Drudge. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxpky/ ... s-holy-war
Trans issues, in particular, have been targeted with unprecedented fervor as of late. In 2022, anti-trans hate went mainstream, with onlookers asking if the escalation in anti-trans rhetoric is constituting the beginning of a genocide. Hate groups, far-right pundits, and conservative legislators have zeroed-in on trans people and spread harmful lies and stereotypes about what it means to be trans, often falsely framing trans people as a threat to children.
The political and social environment in the U.S. for trans issues is already fraught. This year’s legislative session has seen a record-breaking 470 anti-trans bills introduced in states across the country, including three trans healthcare bans that have already been signed into law. In South Dakota, Gov. Kristina Noem signed a gender-affirming care ban this year that in many ways resembles a previously failed ban, “Vulnerable Child Protection Act,” first introduced by Deutsch in 2019, and discussed in the emails at length.
“They are not trying to protect children. They are trying to murder the transgender community,” Lecaque said.
Today, trans youth, especially Black and Brown kids, are struggling with mental health more than before, families with trans kids are considered fleeing their homes in states that are hostile to trans people, and hate groups and extremists have repeatedly incited violence at drag shows.
Numerous medical governing bodies, including the American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, however, have endorsed gender-affirming care for minors. But that hasn’t stopped several states from introducing or ratifying legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors.
