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Demovictory9

(32,320 posts)
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 02:31 PM Apr 2021

GOP is "expert at identifying vulnerable, marginalized populations and demonizing them"

Republicans Have Found Their Cruel New Culture War
Arkansas lawmakers’ move against trans people reflects a larger strategy.



I know what it’s like to be used.

And right now, trans people are being used, cruelly.

You probably heard about what happened in Arkansas. On Tuesday, state lawmakers there voted overwhelmingly, by a three-to-one ratio, to override a veto from the Republican governor, Asa Hutchinson, and effectively ban gender-affirming medical treatments, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for trans youth under the age of 18.

It doesn’t matter if those youth are pleading for this kind of help or have already begun receiving it and found it to be lifesaving. It doesn’t matter if their parents, having wrestled hard with the situation and done extensive research, believe that therapy is crucial. It doesn’t matter if physicians have concluded it’s in the youths’ best interest. Politicians know best.

And they’re expert at identifying vulnerable, marginalized populations and demonizing them in the interest of political gain. That’s what Republicans in Arkansas, in Alabama and in dozens of other states are doing with scores of active bills, many of which focus on denying trans youth gender-affirming treatments and dictating how they may or may not participate in sports.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opinion/sunday/transgender-rights-republicans-arkansas.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
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GOP is "expert at identifying vulnerable, marginalized populations and demonizing them" (Original Post) Demovictory9 Apr 2021 OP
The gop needs a perpetual enemy. N/t gay texan Apr 2021 #1
expert? or they're just plain RACISTS Skittles Apr 2021 #2
If I couldn't get my top surgery done I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2021 #3
They are extremely cruel Demovictory9 Apr 2021 #4
Truly how it feels vercetti2021 Apr 2021 #8
They are bullies. That's what bullies do. SoonerPride Apr 2021 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex Apr 2021 #6
Agree with you I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2021 #9
They'll never demonize me vercetti2021 Apr 2021 #7

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,450 posts)
3. If I couldn't get my top surgery done
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 10:03 PM
Apr 2021

I would have killed myself by now.

Being transgender is no choice it is biological and homonal and psychological conflict in the body and mind.

It's like torture,everyday and you cannot rest on your own skin,it's a profound wrongness.
Until the body is fixed.

After I got my top surgery and my internal organs removed and got testostrone, I felt peace inside for the first time I could remember.

I don't take testosterone now because of diabeties.

But the facial hair remains and I am happy it stayed. Still have to restyle my beard as it gets stubbly in places.

Have a goatee.

And it's beautiful and I feel handsome.

Repukes would take away my peace and let me die from being the wrong gender because they would get off on my suffering and eventually death.

I hate republicans and thier cruelty. I often wish they would just die off. Why can't nature eliminate sociopaths and narcissists while she's at it?

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
8. Truly how it feels
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 10:49 PM
Apr 2021

Being on HRT is a great help from what I was feeling. I still feel so so shitty because its gonna take time. But it gets better and these bigots aren't taking that from me

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
5. They are bullies. That's what bullies do.
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 10:33 PM
Apr 2021

Pick on the weak and marginalized and those who can’t fight back.

They were the bullies in grade school.
They were the bullies in high school.

They are still bullies.

That’s their M.O.

Response to SoonerPride (Reply #5)

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,450 posts)
9. Agree with you
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:06 PM
Apr 2021

Bullies ruined my life
Still suffer from ptsd and dissociation because of them. And thier insatiable cruelty.


Bullies need to be kept away from vulnerable people .


I wish we could put them all on an island with each other and let them kill each other off. Never let a single bully ever leave that island. If they try to escape kill them. No mercy,they are unfit to live around people that are not bullies. Yeah the one thing I hate are bullies. Dark triad assholes.

Bullies live to create suffering.

I have good cause to hate them.

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
7. They'll never demonize me
Mon Apr 12, 2021, 10:48 PM
Apr 2021

I'd die before I'd let them decide what I do. I'm gonna be a transgender woman. And they can shove up their bigoted fascist asses

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