Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.
Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.
Part of me wants to let the fascists do whatever the fuck because whatever they want to do is clearly a waste of time and resources persecuting a tiny minority of population that have little consequences in the lives of the fascists to begin with. Wasting time and resources means they will eventually and quickly run out of those and therefore lose power. They run on emotions rather than with reason. But on the one hand, a lot of innocent will get hurt in the process.
You really think the trans-hate is only going to affect people who are trans?
Any man or woman who aren’t sufficiently cookie-cutter cisgendered are going to be affected. Including people who simply work in fields that are typically gendered and not their gender. Women who are doctors or scientists, men who are nurses or stay-at-home.
People who just don’t look masculine or feminine enough. Women who don’t dress like couch cushions to let Vance creep out on them.
Pretty much anyone who doesn’t present themselves as they want are going to be “trans”.
And that’s ignoring creepy ass men checking a child’s genitals.
And of course, trans people are worth protecting, same as any other person.
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