The rule broadly targets ‘gender ideology’ in all entities that receive federal funds, including in academia, education, healthcare, governance, advocacy, discrimination protections, and more.
The rule broadly targets ‘gender ideology’ in all entities that receive federal funds, including in academia, education, healthcare, governance, advocacy, discrimination protections, and more.
Why? Honestly why? What does this do to help the average American. This is like Woke 2.0 and all the stupid conversation that happened around that word…so dumb.
It throws his rabid fans a bone and keeps the dopamine flowing. If they are allowed to fully calm down, they might see what they’ve become.
So True!
“Thank God we cancelled the cancel culture… Let’s cancel democracy, science, brown people and trans people.” - GOP
Seriously lol. Like what is the end goal? It’s been a minute since I browsed that project 25 pdf, only imagine what that says about this topic.
There is no end point. Eventually after they’ve killed everyone else off, the fascists will be arguing over which precise shade of blonde hair and blue eyes qualify one to be worthy of living.
the goal is to keep people on a knife’s edge of destruction, so that when some rich turd rolls up and offers you a tiny amount of security to do something reprehensible you’ll do it.
and if you live with deep, personal shame for it for the rest of your life, that’s just an extra little treat for them.
So true and sounds about right. Just absolutely disgusting.
Fascism constantly needs enemies that it can point at as a justification for why they aren’t achieving anything.
It sure does, shifting goal posts and all as to who is going to be cast in the light next to be called out and demonized. Reminds me of similar behavior that a popular political party in 1940s germany exhibited. Bastards.
They would say that this helps the average citizen by preventing it from being okay to be trans in American society which has benefits like:
Preventing your kids from becoming trans
Ending boys pretending to be girls so they can rape and spy on your daughters in gender-segregated spaces.
Stopping “woke” doctors who embrace “trans ideology” from profiting off of coercing your children into expensive and unnecessary medical treatments.
Removing “woke” teachers from tricking your kids into becoming trans, or giving them the option to be trans.
Having to deal with trans coworkers and accommodating their workplace rights.
…and so on. These are almost exactly the same prejudiced justifications used in the past against gay rights in America.
In this new round of American-style fascism, our government has been coerced into being taken over by an extreme right-wing contingent of American political life: Christian nationalists, white nationalists, neo-liberal economic extremists (which used to be called plain old conservative economics), conspiracy theorists, and narcissists. These people have an extreme and unbalanced worldview that flows from their political, economic, social, and emotional wants and needs instead of the fundamental human rights of citizens in a democracy.
Beyond the sociopolitical convenience of having a group to scapegoat and channel political action against, there is a genuine conservative hate for those that do not conform to general conceptions of gender and sexuality. To conservatives, you’re either in or out - with us, or against us, and the people that make them feel weird about sex and gender are easy to exclude. That trans people are human and have rights and live under a democratic government with equal protection under the law becomes harder to integrate into conservative thinking than simply hating them and the accompanying societal norms.
It’s not actually even the slightest bit different from the Nazis, you know. They started with trans people too.
Thanks for the thoughtful response and it all tracks with what i have observed as well. There is a certain dichotomy that appears when discussing rational topics with certain folks that call themselves republicans. Its always black and white and the either your with me or against me mentality is so true and absolutely maddening to deal with in the wild.