I'm wondering if there's a way to point out that the GOP has gotten everyone terrified about 3,000 Trans kids as a way to distract everyone from the damage done by 800 billionaires in the US. www.npr.org/sections/sho... - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 111 days ago

I'm wondering if there's a way to point out that the GOP has gotten everyone terrified about 3,000 Trans kids as a way to distract everyone from the damage done by 800 billionaires in the US.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/06/nx-s1-5247724/transgender-teens-gender-affirming-care-hormones-jama

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polarnerd.bsky.social•111 days ago

It's also a fact that there are medical reasons other than being trans for kids to take that medication. Once again a panel of white men think they have more medical knowledge than doctors.

misshap.bsky.social•111 days ago

And an even smaller number play sports, but that's the first thing so many people talk about when trans issues come up.

n5iln.bsky.social•111 days ago

I think you just did.

fanofdemocracy.net•111 days ago

I saw a stat that said ~95% of teenage gender affirming surgery is boys getting moobs reduced.

amygo73.bsky.social•110 days ago

Wanna bet they’ll still be able to get it done?

lightspeedsara.bsky.social•111 days ago

Since the transgender community is in fact so tiny, it becomes easy for demagogues to demonize us as a threat to society

emptywheel.bsky.social•111 days ago

Yup. I just wish there were a way to flip that--that they've gotten everyone terrified about a non-threat as a way to ignore the powerful threat.

lightspeedsara.bsky.social•111 days ago

A major difficulty is that many trans people - especially those with mainstream jobs - decide to maintain a low profile and remain and under the radar in order to stay employed. I’ve been an out and proud trans woman and advocate since I transitioned in 2009 while a senior partner in a large 1/2

lightspeedsara.bsky.social•111 days ago

law firm, and when I transitioned I had to persuade my partners I would look and act and be perceived by others as a 61+ year old suburban woman.

gypsymoth.bsky.social•111 days ago

I can easily believe this is a GOP distraction.

witchyone.bsky.social•110 days ago

It isn't a secret. They just amplified the numbers the way they amplify their hate.

meepmeepboxer.bsky.social•111 days ago

The comments here have nailed it: propaganda, fear-mongering, distraction, attack. The use of a very small group is the tip of the spear of planned future attacks. Martin Niemöller's quotation has to be top of mind for all of us.

ernieattorneyatlaw.bsky.social•111 days ago

To clarify, 1 in 1000 kids receives gender-affirming care.
Out of the same 1000 …
- 58 don’t have health insurance,
- 80 have been exposed to gun violence,
- 100 live in households experiencing food insecurity, and
- 160 live in poverty.
Where should the panic be?

iainsut.bsky.social•111 days ago

Less than 4 per billionaire

jamesfromqueens.bsky.social•111 days ago

That is it exactly. Will get worse. Coming for the gays next.

dweinz.bsky.social•111 days ago

Not to mention there are less than 10 transgender college athletes (out of 510,000 college athletes) but their entire campaign was around “saving women’s sports”

cz333.bsky.social•110 days ago

There are more than a few heroes at Brigham and Women's Boston whose stories will never be told.

doctorp2.bsky.social•111 days ago

Now days it appears everything the GOP is doing is a distraction from something really horrendous. Everything is convoluted into smoke & mirrors. Greenland, Panama, and Denmark are are diversions, to exactly what, we don’t know yet

mathworkswonders.bsky.social•111 days ago

Propaganda requires a scapegoat a simple message, repetition, and a play to base emotions.

Our team is not yet comfortable with stoking fear and anger against them, therefore we lack the coherent repetition.

I fear the culture war may be a deflection for many Dems too. 🤷‍♂️

acmeleader.bsky.social•111 days ago

📌

stirlingnewberry.bsky.social•111 days ago

Genau.

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