When Graham appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program afterward, she attempted to recover by pivoting from her lack of national security knowledge to transgender athletes, as The Advocate reported.

“Of course, Taiwan is our friend,” Graham said. “But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about making ends meet. They are concerned about boys in girls’ sports.”

Trump continued that strategy Friday by making transgender people a central part of his argument for Graham. He attacked Andrews as a “far-left political hack who supports transgender for everybody” and accused her of telling “confused children they’re trapped in the wrong body.”

Trump may have conflated those medical procedures with agreements his Justice Department has forced on two major hospital systems. Those settlements require Texas Children’s Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic to establish or fund services for people who voluntarily seek to detransition. They do not order hospitals to perform surgery on anyone.

In May, Texas Children’s agreed to pay the state $10 million, end gender-affirming care for minors and establish what federal officials called the country’s first “restorative care” clinic for detransitioners. The Houston hospital also agreed to terminate five physicians connected to its transgender health program and permanently revoke their privileges, as The Advocate reported.

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    I saw a guy at Home Depot today with a shirt that said “if genders confuse you, try milking a bull” and I’m like, first off that’s essentially what we are good at but also, this guy’s so wrapped up in culture wars that don’t actually affect him, he’s wearing a shirt about jerking off farm animals in public, and that seems OK to him. It’s well past the point of parody anymore and it can only collapse as people tune it all out like any other odd fad.

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      you have to keep cows pregnant to milk them. If he was to attempt to milk a non pregnant cow his paradigm of milkable would collapse.

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      If bulls are anything like people, well, put the bull on HRT for a couple of years and you might be able to milk it. Trans women can lactate breast milk that’s nutritionally identical to cis women’s.

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        There is zero-evidence that states this. Additionally, the amount of hormones needed to produce lactation that is then passed on to the infant…

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            Yes, I do absolutely know that lactation is sometimes induced in women. And you should try to read what I wrote instead of having an emotional reaction. I didn’t say they didnt “work” in trans women. I said there is no evidence that the resulting breast mild is “nutritionally identical”. And you weren’t able to provide any evidence of this.
            There is barely any research at all:

            Literature and protocols on lactation induction is scarce and merely based on case reports in cisgender women [6–10]. Research focussed on induction of lactation in transgender women is lacking and to our knowledge, only three case reports on lactation induction in transgender women have previously been published [4, 5, 11].>

            From your article. And I am sitting, thanks.

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              ‘ThInK oF tHe cHiLdReN’ is absolutely an emotional reaction even if you don’t perceive it as one. As I was in a rush to get out the door I grabbed the wrong study, here’s the correct one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37138506/

              I thought in context it was obvious that lactation inducing medications working meant producing milk, but since it wasn’t clear I’m spelling it out.

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                Imagine discounting child health when talking about breastfeeding, lol. But again, if you could calm down enough to read what I wrote, and not assume what I was saying, you could probably reply appropriately. Your linked article again, doesn’t say anything about “nutritionally identical”. It is adequate for co-feeding. And like all of these articles, says the benefit is primarily for the trans woman to feel psychologically satisfied. And if you are in such a rush, maybe you don’t need to capitalize every other letter. So, again, please provide a source on “nUtRiTiOnAlLy IdEnTiCaL”

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                  Give evidence for ‘robust macronutrient content’ (exact author words) meaning anything other than a nutritionally identical profile or take a walk.

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                    Give evidence for girl has robust features and girl is identical twin to other girl mean the same thing. And you just told me to sit. Now walk? Why are you obsessed with my activity and position?

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      he’s wearing a shirt about jerking off farm animals in public, and that seems OK to him

      Maybe it’s something he thinks about a lot, and this is his way of coping with the cognitive dissonance.

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      They are brainwashed nutjobs who are exposed to propaganda 24/7. They have no life without it now, that’s why it’s their entire identity.

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      He is also broadcasting that he is the one that is confused by the idea of gender.

      Also: imagine being such a fucking asshole about culture war bullshit that you’d not only waste money on buying a stupid shirt like that but wearing it in public.

      The only way it’d get any more obvious is if they started literally printing up shirts that said “The Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair” and started wearing those.