I need you to understand how grotesque it's been to watch the Smartest People tell the Democratic Party they were just too nice to incarcerated transgender people and in fact it's trans people's fault for asking them
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Gillian Branstetter
The FL Department of Corrections is attempting to "reverse" the gender identity of transgender people in its custody, referring to trans identities as "short-term delusions" and withholding hormone therapy. Reviving psychiatric theories of the 1950s, they blame trans identities on "childhood trauma"
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Why do they have to torture ppl who are transgender?
I don't get it, what is the point of being mean?
We don't owe them a goddamn thing, they all owe us!
I noted at the time elsewhere that "I will follow the law" is the technically correct answer. However, she
Our care is protected by the 8th Amendment (though Thomas has his eyes on it).
And that is because, to properly defend this, to properly counter message, you need to say something like:
Some data that Pew research put out recently is instructive. One of the most unpopular positions regarding trans people is paying for our care;
These positions are not disconnected, they don't exist in a vacuum.
This article truly shows the horror of it.
They are utter failures and a source of a lot of the rot!
Max.
It's a (im)moral calculus that doesn't add up to anything but bad bad BAD.
goddamnit
They distort our reality because we allow it to happen.