GOP & Policies toward/treatment of Transgender Americans

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nycfan said:


The supportive responses to this and related stories is depressing. Country that indiscriminately bombs civilian targets & kidnaps children from other countries they attack to force adoptions and convert the children to Russian patriots is being celebrated by American right for protecting children and defending traditional values.

Sample (notice all the blue checks — paid subscribers to Xitter):

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It's interesting that many of those comments supporting Putin's stance are aimed not just as transgenders, but the LGBTQ community generally. I'm convinced that attacking transgenders is just a wedge issue for Trumpers to go after the much broader and larger LGBTQ community as a whole. Most of these people have never accepted gay marriage or gay rights, and they're just waiting for the chance to legally roll it all back.
 


Completely agree with McBride on this. Republicans don’t actually care about the transgender issue. They just know that the simpleton morons in their base are so obsessive with what genitals other people have or take a shit or piss, that they pretend to care about the transgender issue so they can implement bunch of cuts and policies that are extraordinarily unpopular even with said simpleton morons in their base.

Look to this thread for proof. There are multiple Republican voters on this very thread who claimed over the last three years that they have no choice but to vote Trump for economic reasons, despite those people presumably having enjoyed the fruits of the greatest economy in the world over those last three years along with the rest of us. Yet here they are in here obsessed with legislating who uses what when and where. Guess it was never about those kitchen table economic issues after all!
 
CFordUNC said:


Completely agree with McBride on this. Republicans don’t actually care about the transgender issue. They just know that the simpleton morons in their base are so obsessive with what genitals other people have or take a shit or piss, that they pretend to care about the transgender issue so they can implement bunch of cuts and policies that are extraordinarily unpopular even with said simpleton morons in their base.

Look to this thread for proof. There are multiple Republican voters on this very thread who claimed over the last three years that they have no choice but to vote Trump for economic reasons, despite those people presumably having enjoyed the fruits of the greatest economy in the world over those last three years along with the rest of us. Yet here they are in here obsessed with legislating who uses what when and where. Guess it was never about those kitchen table economic issues after all!
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There are some white Evangelical Pub politicians to whom these issues are mission critical but I agree that the culture war preoccupation is largely sleight of hand for Pubs in power to fleece lower and middle class Americans.
 
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In my opinion, McBride is handling this correctly. Just address and open letter to Mace and have her decide which restroom is the "appropriate" one and move on with it.

Hell, put a porta-john on the floor and use that. Neuter the moron in her tracks. That's really all anyone can do because we are ruled by the morons.
 
wmheel1287 said:
In my opinion, McBride is handling this correctly. Just address and open letter to Mace and have her decide which restroom is the "appropriate" one and move on with it.

Hell, put a porta-john on the floor and use that. Neuter the moron in her tracks. That's really all anyone can do because we are ruled by the morons.
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I think she should take a shit just outside the door to the women's restroom every time she needs to. Big ol' dump, right on the floor.

Granted, diplomacy has never been my strong point.
 
Wheels81 said:
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I would get a couple of those wrong, lol. But only a couple. I would have estimated gun ownership in the mid 40s; and military veteran at probably 15%. That 6% figure is pretty surprising to me, but I'm sure it would make sense if I thought about it. Oh, I also I would have thought atheists were more like 10%.

A few smaller errors: I would have put "advanced degree" a little lower, but that depends in part on what counts as an "advanced degree." I would have said Muslim at 3% (and I'm skeptical of that 1% number) and Jewish at about 5-6%.

Note the similarities in the numbers in so many of those categories. That strikes me as the result of a cohort of people -- oh, I don't know, let's call them MAGAs -- who are convinced the boogeymen are all around them in massive numbers.
 
superrific said:
I would get a couple of those wrong, lol. But only a couple. I would have estimated gun ownership in the mid 40s; and military veteran at probably 15%. That 6% figure is pretty surprising to me, but I'm sure it would make sense if I thought about it. Oh, I also I would have thought atheists were more like 10%.

A few smaller errors: I would have put "advanced degree" a little lower, but that depends in part on what counts as an "advanced degree." I would have said Muslim at 3% (and I'm skeptical of that 1% number) and Jewish at about 5-6%.

Note the similarities in the numbers in so many of those categories. That strikes me as the result of a cohort of people -- oh, I don't know, let's call them MAGAs -- who are convinced the boogeymen are all around them in massive numbers.
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It is because the word "atheist" has a negative connotation in America and people tend not to self-identify with that term (often preferring agnostic, when really they are both). The people who answer "none" next to religion are now over 30% in America, and while that is not a perfect analog to atheism, it is pretty close.
 
Calheel said:
It is because the word "atheist" has a negative connotation in America and people tend not to self-identify with that term (often preferring agnostic, when really they are both). The people who answer "none" next to religion are now over 30% in America, and while that is not a perfect analog to atheism, it is pretty close.
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I consider myself an apathetic agnostic.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
Lol jesus. Those estimates are wild.
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Indeed. But it does go a long way towards explaining Trump's appeal to a large segment of voters. His supporters really do believe that they're surrounded by legions of enemies. Believing that 1 in 5 Americans are transgender, 30% are gay, and 27% are Muslim is no doubt feeding their paranoia, and makes it ridiculously easy for Trump and other Republicans to play on that paranoia.
 
This is such bad faith BS:



1. The assertion that this person has been “injuring” women for years is simply false.

2. The claim that female D1 athletes are “defenseless” is moralizing BS - coming from a former female D1 athlete no less.

The athlete should sue Riley Gaines for this. I would.
 
CFordUNC said:
The most hilarious part about Riley Gaines is that even ignoring Lia Thomas, Gaines still got her sorry ass beat by like FOUR other biological women in that swim meet.
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Gaines should be thankful every day for Lia Thomas. Gaines wouldn’t have made the medal stand either way, but because Thomas participated, Gaines was able to make a career out of her losing race,
 
Calheel said:
It is because the word "atheist" has a negative connotation in America and people tend not to self-identify with that term (often preferring agnostic, when really they are both). The people who answer "none" next to religion are now over 30% in America, and while that is not a perfect analog to atheism, it is pretty close.
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Many religious nones believe in a god, they simply don't subscribe to a religion. The demonization of LGBTQ people and worship of Trump may not make people atheist, it very well may continue to drive people away from religion.
 
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