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Republicans Have Found Their Cruel New Culture WarArkansas lawmakers move against trans people reflects a larger strategy.
I know what its 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 doesnt matter if those youth are pleading for this kind of help or have already begun receiving it and found it to be lifesaving. It doesnt matter if their parents, having wrestled hard with the situation and done extensive research, believe that therapy is crucial. It doesnt matter if physicians have concluded its in the youths best interest. Politicians know best.
And theyre expert at identifying vulnerable, marginalized populations and demonizing them in the interest of political gain. Thats 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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(2,403 posts)Skittles
(152,963 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)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?
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)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)Pick on the weak and marginalized and those who cant fight back.
They were the bullies in grade school.
They were the bullies in high school.
They are still bullies.
Thats their M.O.
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I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)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)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