I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
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Erin Reed
ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning:
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
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No intelligent person could conclude otherwise.
Rational thought just goes out the window and is replaced by media driven FUD.
But then the "liberal" media like the NYT and the Atlantic started validating it, and here we are.
Maybe liberals didn't appreciate it enough until they lost it, and watched things go from 50-50 to 40-60 against.
2) There's a pretty good case to make that it was conservative media that took over the GOP rather than the other way around. Not really something Dems would want to emulate.
MAGA: and I took that personally...
Not the media for some reason: ok, but why?
Leon:
Motherfuckers.
And what they're hearing now is erasure; being defined by "gender" is killing us. *Everyone* deals with related social/aesthetic/etc. expectations and norms, gender isn't
How people are physically sexed (on the levels we notice, not like say chromosomes) is clearly as *innately wired* as sexuality. And for about 1% of the population something goes wrong in utero and they aren't born with their body. We're literally f/m/nb people born
*Erasing the innateness of
Defining trans people in terms of gender/transgender has really destroyed us. Gender....We're just *vibes and aesthetics*. A mental exercise. This lie is that we’re our asab but just want to say, wear dresses or cut our hair short, etc., and some of us want that so
So yeah, part of the current lie is that 99% of people *just happen* to be existentially good with how they’re sexed and trans people are their asab like everyone else but just have really feminine or nonbinary or masculine personalities and some of us as a result want
Which sports?
Do not buy the bullshit.
My bet: he'd still rape.
Like, there is not really new data in the last 5-10 years or incidents, just overwhelming media coverage of like 3 trans athletes.
But they the NYT editorial page will never take responsibility.