Not sure I’ve ever been so tempted to say something that could lead to an FBI visit.
https://twitter.com/SPTenantsU/status/1653503532341907467?t=p-eFwQfse9saF_1tGJE3Vw&s=19
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Dems caving on everything they run on and are supposed to be fighting for and then heralding that achievement as bipartisanship is a hallmark of the party for the last 40 years.
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8 of those 64 are about banning trans women from sport.
Edited to be less unnecessarily combative.
Mariame Kabe retweeted this into my feed 
https://twitter.com/DanielDenvir/status/1657436759809040387?t=maZ0ZozfkVJn7UYwJ852jQ&s=19
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For example, Schoening raised the idea that a tomboy – a girl who wore flannel and sneakers – would be told by a teacher, “You know, it might be time to gender transition. Let’s go talk to the school therapist. Let’s go talk to a physician. Let’s do this.” Schoening said she did not know any tomboys who’d actually transitioned after social pressure. But, she said, “Imagine the kids that aren’t strong enough to go talk to their parents and say, ‘My teacher is trying to gender transition me.’ We’re speaking for those kids. And those parents who aren’t made aware.”
Further, Schoening claimed 8-year-old boys could get surgery to remove their penises, and that she feared her state would pass a law saying if parents refused to have their boys’ penises surgically removed, the state would take them away. She thought this issue would eventually go to the US Supreme Court.
Medical guidelines do not call for gender affirming surgery on young children, and many health care providers do not offer it to patients under 18. Children diagnosed with gender dysphoria go through many years of care. In some instances, they can receive puberty-blocking hormones at the onset of puberty. These drugs are FDA-approved to treat children who start puberty at a very young age, but are not approved for gender dysphoria.
CNN asked Schoening if she was saying she believed there was some kind of high-level coordinated effort to make more children trans and gay. “There is,” she said. Who would be directing it? “Teachers’ unions, and our president, and a lot of funding sources,” she said. Why would they do that? “Because it breaks down the family unit,” she said. And why would they want that? “So that conservative values are broken down, and that we can slowly erode away at constitutional rights,” she said.
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Gonna need some clarification on the “them”
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Jfc
And these fuckers are somehow making legislation. Its insanity. Thats the shit that Alex Jones pushes on his show daily. We have states making actual legislation based on Alex Jones talking points and internet memes.
I presented the article without comment, but this was my reaction. My stepmom believes this bullshit and shakes her head gravely when I tell her she lives in a nightmarish fantasy world.
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I forget who I was watching the other day (maybe Vaush) but he pulled up some citation that said the total number of children on puberty blockers in the US is in the low thousands (less than 10K) out of something like 130 million kids.
The number is astronomically low and we are passing legislation all over the country to stop it.
Fucking clownshow.
Check this shit out. This is from the AFPI
"The America First Policies Institute (AFPI) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3)[4] think tank that was founded in 2021 to promote former U.S. President Donald Trump’s public policy agenda.[5] "
Gender Transition Medications and Surgeries for Children in the U.S.).
Gender Transition Medications and Surgeries for Children in the U.S.).
5,063.
Five THOUSAND and 63.
Thats it. That is what we are fucking worked up to high heaven about. Straight from the horse’s mouth. 42 million adolescents in the US. 5K on puberty blockers. 1/100th of 1 percent.
Fuck these people.
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A chiron stating the kids actually committed suicide flashed on the screen for a few seconds before reverting to the text above. These people are pure fucking evil and my idiot stepmom laps it up. It’s maddening.
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“Medications and Surgeries” - Weird, I couldn’t find any numbers in that report for surgeries, I assume that’s because it’s vanishingly small and admitting that blunts the moral panic of the situation. 
The “Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (SEGM)” is widely cited as an authority in the report and sounds like it might be legit but it’s clear from the most superficial of research that it’s a political organization with a virulent anti-trans ideology and is “not officially recognized as a scientific organization by the international medical community”.
Also striking how much of the report (all of section 3) is devoted to comparing treatment in the US vs. European countries in order to argue we’re too permissive. Since when do conservatives care how other countries do things? Like, I thought it was a central tenet of “America First” that we don’t give a fuck how they do things in France or Sweden.
On the left, the extremists exist on the edges, on the right they are the leaders.
May 20 (Reuters) - A transgender Mississippi girl declined to participate in high school graduation on Saturday after a U.S. District Judge said the school district could bar her unless she dressed in clothes required for boys, a lawyer for the girl said.
U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump, said in filing late on Friday after a hearing that he would not stop the Harrison County School District from barring the 17-year-old girl, local media reported. The girl was listed as L.B. in court papers.
“Our client is being shamed and humiliated for explicitly discriminatory reasons, and her family is being denied a once-in-a-lifetime milestone in their daughter’s life,” Linda Morris, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) Women’s Rights Project, said in an email.
“No one should be forced to miss their graduation because of their gender.”
The ACLU sued the school district this week, on behalf of L.B., saying that it informed her she should could not attend the ceremony while wearing a dress and heeled shoes, the Mississippi Free Press said in a report. The school district’s dress code requires boys to wear a white button-down shirt, black dress plants, black shoes and a tie or bowtie.
Mississippi lawmakers have introduced more than 30 bills this year seeking to limit rights of LGBTQ citizens. In 2021, Mississippi became the first U.S. state to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girl’s sports, when Republican Governor Tate Reeves signed legislation.
The Harrison County School Board attorney Wynn Clark said in court papers that participating in a graduation was voluntary and not a constitutionally protected right, the Associated Press reported.
in case there were any remaining doubts that cruelty is the point
derposphere brainworms are crazy strong. my godfather, retired mathematician and physicist told me that he truly believes more people died from the covid vaccine than from covid. they also firmly bought the litter boxes in public schools thing. i could definitely see how they could get convinced of a “trans agenda”
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Current anti-trans tizzy is apparently tuck-friendly swimsuits being sold at Target, possibly in kids sizes.