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This is about everyone suffering from gender dysphoria. They say they're attacking trans people, who make up a small fraction of society, but they're attacking treatments for a diagnosis anyone could have. This stuff helps a lot of people, more than we might typically think about.
As someone who's competed against all manner of genders in roller derby, lemme tell you, trans people are tough as nails and you want them fighting for America. The USA men's team for the RD World Cup even has a trans-man, and they beat out 50 biological men for that spot.
Trans men are (or can be) biologically male. The best term to use for 'non-trans' men would be cisgender men. 'Biological' is the preferred term that bigots use to spread misinformation and insinuate that trans people aren't real, natural, or equal.
Someone else said it pretty well:
Biological sex is a construct. It is based on the observable traits of:
- Primary sexual characteristics
- Secondary sexual characeristics
- Gonadal Sex
- Chromosomal Sex
A fully medically transitioned trans person usually matches a majority of these, so it is totally reasonable to say trans women are biologically female, and trans men are biologically male. Generally, the binary categorization of sex is scientifically unsound; it should be understood as a spectrum.
Respectfully, I'm not going to get into the linguistic gymnastics here. My meaning is clear.
Peoplewhosaycourtshavenopower says what
Christ they know how to play this population.
Every time we all breath a sigh of relief that some new policy to force toddlers to work in slaughterhouses got shot down in court, we’re likely missing the 30 odd, convoluted deregulation policies that slip right past the new cycle because they’re written in legalese and seem abstract to 99% of non-wealthy Americans.
Maybe you misunderstood the problem.
This wasn't legislation, this was an implemented order. This isn't the first time it's happened in the administration either.
It restored something taken away. It undermined the sweeping power of the executive. These are narcissists we're dealing with, so this isn't the last we've heard about it.
That's why I keep telling people the courts will use their enforcement mechanism when necessary, or they are complicit in the problem. From what I can tell, enforcement wasn't necessary here, the DoD just didn't want to fuck with the court.
the headline makes it sound like they chose to do this but in reality it was because the courts made them because the original decision was unconstitutional. :)
I'm pleasantly surprised it wasn't just ignored. Not like anyone would have enforced it.
I'm still glad to see that the military, at least, is still respecting court orders.
Deep down I knew there was no chance it wasn't forced. They're actively ignoring other court orders so I guess even these evil fucks sometimes realize to pick their battles.
They're fully aware most of their policies are going to get shot down in court, that's why they're carpet bombing the US with bullshit right now.
If we all breath a sigh of relief that some new policy to force toddlers to work in slaughterhouses got shot down, we're likely missing the 30 odd, convoluted deregulation policies that slip right past the new cycle because they're written in legalese and seem abstract to 99% of non-wealthy Americans.
I don't know how many times I can scream that they're robbing us blind while distracting us with stupid cultural nonsense.
100% they're literally diarrhoea-shitting policies up the wall and seeing which fecal stains the courts and the economy miss or don't care about.
sigh of relief
This is a success. We need to do more now. No relief, just motivation.
Oh I know. Climate change is getting accelerated as fuck right now. And so many other things you cannot even know what to be most concerned about
There is going to be an open rift between the US military and government very soon, I'm calling it. Let's hope it doesn't come to a full-on civil war
civil war
Okay Tim, what exactly are the battle-lines going to look like in this civil war?
It's gonna be trump and co in a bunker under the white house and every 2 minutes they are gonna hear an ever increasing boom above their head. The line is gonna be at crater level.
Though that is unrealitic. It will probably take place at mar-a-lago or some golf court.
A military coup is one of the best-case scenarios and requires a little more optimism than I have left.
best? I don't think it would turn out how you think it would...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Argentina#Infamous_Decade_(1930%E2%80%9343)
Lol
How is it gonna be a civil war if the military is not on the governments side? I mean i have seen the stuff the us police and ICE gets, but neither would have the numbers or the tactical knowledge to win from the effing military. If the military would try and overthrow the president, I can't imagine FBI and CIA would try and stop them.
Might turn out like in Turkey though, were nothing really happened except 100,000 people getting convicted of treason or fired from their job.
Legal Eagle laid it out in a recent video. The administration has been blatantly ignoring (I think several at this point) SCOTUS restraining orders. If they continue to disregard the judiciary, I don't think it's all that unlikely that parts of the military arrest Trump and his administration, in what's effectively a military coup. Trump is deeply unpopular among the military top brass, and they tend to still value the constitution. But who knows who will side with whom, the military is by no means a monolith
The majority of the Supreme Court is in Trump’s back pocket, there will be no actions or repercussions.
On one hand cool, on the other hands troops not cool
Pleasant as this is, I wonder how they're going to keep the crybaby-in-chief from demanding they stop again as part of his 'dei is evil' crusade.
I'm going to be optimistic for now that this is a sign that the military is concerned with honoring their oaths to uphold our Constitution by following due process etc, after 100 days of profoundly disturbing attempts by the Executive branch to dishonor the highest of laws in our land.
this is a sign that the military is concerned with honoring their oaths to uphold our Constitution
They want meat for the meat-wall. Let's not get too optimistic.
No, really, the world's largest volunteer fighting force, and we also have the distinction of the world's biggest and most powerful military, so the brass had to do everything and anything to keep the ranks open wide for anyone who wants to go get themselves killed while burning brown kids in far away lands.
The slightly less cynical take is that we absolutely cannot diminish our enlisted forces any more. We have growing threats from Russia, an unstable president who may start a war with Iran for fun, instability between China, Taiwan and Philippines, just to name a couple of hotspots. If we get in a large-scale fight and don't have every advantage we're very likely to lose all status in the world.
The administration knows this. They are distracting you all with these culture-war bullshit fights knowing full well that most of them will either get shot down in court or overridden at some point. While we're all focused on trying to stop the latest bill to force toddlers to work in kitten slaughterhouses, they're passing 30 new policies that deregulate the financial sector and repeal laws that limit corporate power, which our illiterate population ignores because it's boring.
I'm sure they are worried about driving away talent as well.
My very first thought was “wow, the pentagon really ran all of their best programmers away and now they’re scrambling.”
I'll be honest, even if that is the only real reason for them doing this, I would still consider this good news.
huge W
I'm confused. So we're listening to court orders now?
Great news though
Why did this happen? Where did a random W come from? Everything is falling apart and no one is doing anything about it and we just get a W out of nowhere from nothing? How do we do it again
no one is doing anything about it
A lot of people are doing a lot about it. Might be time to step away from the Internet if you really believe that. The reality is dark enough you don't need to make it out to be even worse
Court
That, and Hegseth seems to be spending all his time being paranoid about leaks when he's the biggest leaker. Between that and day drinking, he doesn't have much time in his schedule to actually advance fascism.
He's concerned over leaks about his leaks. Literally.
Didn't think I'd end up saying this but thank god he made that moron.