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JD Vance demands that the DOJ investigate hospitals caring for transgender patients
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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I would say that's definitely not the case, this is pretty textbook as far as fascism is concerned to keep the Party distracted with purity tests. It's also a lot easier at the beginning to obfuscate all of your dastardly plans by saying it's to marginalize demonized outgroup x so people don't ask too many questions about why they're doing obviously unrelated thing y
Obviously the end result of this is more and more infighting and more and more drastic "No True Scotsman" purity tests as more distraction outgroups are deleted by the government leaving larger groups affected over time but it's still in the beginning/mid stages in the US and they still have plenty of time for larger amounts of mass persecution :)
I also want to add that you are very naive if you think at some point the people in charge (or at the very least policy setters) didn't sit around a table and specifically and intentionally pick trans people as a target because they're very easy to demonize to their base and they also occupy a relatively small portion relative to the population size of the US
Like all the people in this post who are like "all the bad things happening in the US and they focus on this"
Yes they focus on this - that's the entire point of doing this to begin with