At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday," Roberts said
He conveniently doesn't mention that the shooter was also a Trump supporting Nazi.
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The mass shootings are all just blending together. Which one was this?
Strong contender for Most Useful Idiot of 2026, there. Hard to see anyone topping that with only ten months left.
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Preventing trans people from physically transitioning isn't going to make them not trans.
No, but they're trying to exterminate the groups. Once they're done genocide-ing the immigrants, they'll add on the other undesirables. That's why they're making the camps so big.
I’ve been shouting from the fucking rooftops They will come after ALL trans healthcare, and indeed all other rights. No one cares. They are mostly totally ignorant of us, so they believe whatever bullshit they read.
Just like the republicans will come, and likely succeed, in overturning Obergefell.
I won’t be able to legally access healthcare, nor will I be able to marry.
Remember, all of our “activism” is because we want special rights, not the same ones that cishet white people take for granted every goddamn day.
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Heritage Foundation should collectively off themselves publicly.
A Kirk if you will
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By his logic, if one trans person shooting folks should make all trans medicine be banned, the ridiculous amount of white male mass shooters should see all white dudes put into prison camps at birth.
Not only that, but us straight, white dudes do so many shootings that despite there really not being that many trans people they’re still under-represented. It’s not like there were only five shootings and so 20% was by a trans person, there were so many that it’s less than a percent.
It’s not just the flat numbers, but the percentages, too.
By his logic
Nobody here is using that shit.
Logic that is.
This is meant to do what it always did, rile up stupid hicks against a manufactured enemy and provide leverage for politicians who want to succeed on the backs of a fearful mob of hicks.
How about they run the numbers on fat cis white guys. Then compare them.
You can really see meal team six's gravy seals holding the thin crust line here!
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There is a correlation between Christian indoctrination and political violence. I think we should outlaw that. Exposing your children to religion is traumatic and should be considered child abuse.
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Project 2025 creator needs to feel the same type of fear that he is whipping up.
Caked-on Orange makeup for guys, and botox fish face for women still good though, right?
Arguably Botox fish face for women (and boob/butt/lip/cheek surgery) is also gender affirming care .. not sure what the orange make up is .. clown affirming care?
Excluding the fact that banning something only serve to make a less safe black market thrive be it drug, liquor, sex or gambling
White man are the biggest source of violence in the USA at least, so should we also ban manosphere cult leader like Tate and his other rapist friend and other white nationalist discourse?
Excluding the fact that banning something only serve to make a less safe black market thrive be it drug, liquor, sex or gambling
They probably want the black market for gender affirming hormone therapy to be a dependency, as that means they'll be in control of the goods and prices. They also have a history of trying to extort the transgender community to force them into work as sex workers, see Epstein emails for context on this.
ok fuckhead, but make it include all gender-affirming care for everyone, trans or not.
no boner pills, no hair transplants, no leg-lengthening, no plastic surgery to change your appearance. be hypocritical more you rat fuck.
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Amazing how the party of "freedom" chooses to ignore the nazi obsession of the shooter and instead focus on the gender identity of the shooter. How very "woke" of them.
However, let's be real here, they just want to make us all mad about this. They wouldn't go through with this as they don't really have the means to do it on a federal level. This is the issue with governance by trolling; It's pretty weak once you realize most of it is dog and pony show nonsense.
Regardless, let's all stand along the transgender community and call this shit out as it is: News manipulation to make a minority feel further unwelcome and create fear mongering around the misunderstood.
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I am a cis gender woman.
I just found out one of my prescriptions is for a drug that is also used for gender-affirming care.
It made me so angry. I didn’t know much about that kind of care. It wasn’t my business and didn’t affect me. A patients care is between them and their doctor. Now, that I actually know what is prescribed, I realize how much stupider the whole debate is.
Just let doctors do their job. If a legitimate doctor prescribes a healthy patient something, it’s not any of our god damn business. Leave trans people alone and let them live their lives.
Mind your own fucking business. Why do conservatives want to dictate how people they will never know live?
Of course he does. He undoubtedly wants to mass-murder trans people, too. Baby steps.
One of the first groups the Nazis targeted even before the night of broken glass were the LGBT. They're foaming at the mouth with rage about the LGBT, and they operate on a last-hired-first-fired basis. They'll work their way up to the Ls, Gs, and Bs eventually.
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Not surprised, this is the main reason why I never said "Well I guess you should be 18 to transition", I knew gender affirming care bans were never going to be just for minors.
Trump himself gave up the game when he made 19 the minimum age for federal plans.
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Shows how much he speaks bullshit here, considering there is no such thing as "transgender surgery" and it is too vague term to connect with any violence.
He goes by supposed correlation between surgery and violence, which even if correlation is true does not mean there is causation and does not justify outlawing it for everyone.
There are no numbers. There is no correlation. This is a lie. But the harm caused to impacted people in the population will be real.
Time to close all the gyms nation wide. Whatever will the gym bros do? Oh and no more cosmetic surgery for anyone.
Aww. Does the poor widdle baby get confused feelings about pretty girls?
I know people who have done steroids my entire life and they are against gender affirming care
They will never understand that they are getting gender affirming care. Just for a different gender
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Are they going to ban balding treatments for cismen too? That's gender affirming care.
How about we stop gender affirming care for cis adults? Banning ED pills ought to do it. Also works to solve the problem of these fascists reproducing.
I wish his anal.cancer would hurry up and kill him.
literally lying in order to pass policy meant to control a population should result in harsher punishment than federal prison. there is, quite literally, zero evidence to suggest trans people are more violent than cis people. these motherfuckers know that and do not care. okay, then we need to. we can't allow this to come to fruition.
Bullets work wonders on these useless pieces of shit.
This man does not deserve the right to life.
The party of “small Government”
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