GOP & Policies toward/treatment of Transgender & other LGBTQ Americans

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HeelYeah2012 said:
I do not know any, other than a sibling of one of my wife’s friends that I have only met once.

If I did, I would likely use their preferred pronouns out of respect to them.

Of all the things I listed - pronouns, sports, bathrooms - pronouns is the one that is the easiest to play along with even if it’s a little silly because there is really no harm or danger to it.

With all of this, I’m way more worried about what kind of silly world my daughters will be growing up in than I am about me needing to refer to someone by whatever pronoun they decide they want to go by at the time.
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Good God you’re a callous asshole
 
rodoheel said:
The Trump admin press release on transgender military members is just shameful:

“Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false “gender identity” divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service. Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life. A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”

It’s not enough to simply refuse to provide gender-affirming care. No, we have to call every transgender person a lying, dishonorable sack of shit too. Don’t hold your breath waiting for @HeelYeah2012 and other self-proclaimed “moderates” who claimed they just wanted trans people left alone as long as they stay out of women’s sports to criticize this.
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Cause when I think Pete Hegseth, humility and selflessness come to mind.
 
Well, so much for the argument that Trump wasn't really serious about enacting Project 2025 or that they wouldn't try to carry out their most drastic proposals. We're only a little over a week in and apparently it's full steam ahead on the ram everything through come hell or high water train. Can't wait to see what they decide to do with Social Security and Medicare, because no matter how much they deny it you know they're planning on doing something to cut it or alter it to their benefit in some way.
 
nycfan said:
Invalidating passports and passport applications based on a characteristic of a person seems punitive and quite serious, though the cancellation of active passports is worse.
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Maybe a little punitive. If you want to stick to the science of sex as far as filling out government docs, I would have started that policy going forward, not retroactively, but the comparison to Nazi Germany is just silly.
 
www.nytimes.com

Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors

The directive built on a string of recent actions to roll back federal protections and services for transgender people.
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“… The most recent order set as official policy that the federal government not “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another.”

It directed the Department of Health and Human Services to review the terms of insurance coverage under Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to end some gender-affirming care.

It also gave the department 90 days to release a new set of best practices, meant to revise guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which was written to set standards for transgender medical care, and which the order called “junk science.”

It tasked agencies providing federal research or education grants to medical institutions, including medical schools and hospitals, with ensuring that those institutions were not carrying out any gender-related procedures.

And it directed the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits programs to exclude similar types of coverage starting in 2026.

Civil rights groups have issued increasingly dire statements criticizing the administration for a stance they say widely demonizes and marginalizes transgender people.

“Access to gender-affirming care enables trans youth to live authentically and is often life-saving,” Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center, said in a statement.

“The Trump administration’s continued assault on the rights and dignity of trans people is deplorable.” …”
 
OGtruthhurts said:
this is why your side lost and you are in the minority and the rest of us are stuck with a goddamn lying conman again as leader of the free world with the house, senate and supreme court. maybe look in the mirror, assclown.
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Imagine the obscene arrogance and lack of self-awareness to not only refuse to participate in the democratic process, but to then blame the side that lost for the negative result.
 
OGtruthhurts said:
this is why your side lost and you are in the minority and the rest of us are stuck with a goddamn lying conman again as leader of the free world with the house, senate and supreme court. maybe look in the mirror, assclown.
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I don’t think me calling a guy who thinks his daughter having to be respectful of people different than her is some travesty an asshole is the reason the Democrats lost the election.
Hit dogs holler though
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
I do not know any, other than a sibling of one of my wife’s friends that I have only met once.

If I did, I would likely use their preferred pronouns out of respect to them.

Of all the things I listed - pronouns, sports, bathrooms - pronouns is the one that is the easiest to play along with even if it’s a little silly because there is really no harm or danger to it.

With all of this, I’m way more worried about what kind of silly world my daughters will be growing up in than I am about me needing to refer to someone by whatever pronoun they decide they want to go by at the time.
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If you were really worried about the world your daughters will grow up in, the last thing you would do is vote for Donald Trump. He will quite literally destroy any chance they have at a reasonable future and laugh in your face about it.
 
wmheel1287 said:
If you were really worried about the world your daughters will grow up in, the last thing you would do is vote for Donald Trump. He will quite literally destroy any chance they have at a reasonable future and laugh in your face about it.
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dont forget steal every penny from him and laughs while his family starves
 
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