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[–] [email protected] 152 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have few good things to say about the man, but I appreciate that Trump is using his campaign to highlight this administrations accomplishments.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 7 months ago (35 children)

I just had a disagreement with someone on Lemmy a couple days ago who said Biden did nothing for the LGBTQ+ community. Maybe we just need more Trump headlines to educate people? Y’know, since they don’t read headlines about Biden

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you are against a child taking a puberty suppressing drug they want to take at age 10, but are ok with tearing off the genitals (not circumcision, the whole thing) of a day old baby, you aren't against transition, you are against children's autonomy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

They're also ok with child marriage.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are you talking about intersex babies?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow, what a man of the people... Truly a candidate who has the best interests of every American at heart.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Great. Now he’s telling them trans people don’t count. They were already acting viciously. Now Dear Leader has officially endorsed them. Fucker.

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[–] [email protected] 318 points 7 months ago (5 children)

My son is trans. Please vote for Joe Biden so he can have the protections he needs and I don't have to stay up at night worrying about him.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 7 months ago (14 children)

Friendly reminder that everyone who believes in accelerationist BS is privileged af.

Looking at you, Hexbear… and Lemmy.ml people who deleted my comments yesterday calling out Hexbear as tankies

Sadly, the behavior isn’t limited to certain instances though

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But they are both the same

- some asshole

[–] [email protected] 138 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I am very good friends with a trans women who I worked with for a number of years. She is seriously considering leaving the US because of this bullshit. So yes, please vote for Biden.

Also, I hope you son is doing well! It's a hell of a process.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I want to leave the US but I honestly don't know how. I have no idea if I have any skills that'd let me get hired by a non-us company, which is kinda what's necessary to immigrate to another country, right?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Level of strictness and skill depends on the country. Start researching so you know what’s needed.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My best friend is trans and he's considering doing the same. It's so bullshit that he has to leave an entire life behind because the conservatwats are so hateful.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

But hey, CAiTLyn JeNner thinks Trump is the most LGBTQ friendly president. That’s settles any debate, y’all.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

I don't get it. Well I do. But I've yet to have a satisfactory conservative response to the following :

Intersex people exist. That is, at least 1 out of every 1,750 babies are born with both sexual organs. Therefore by their existence we know that there is a blurred line between genders and those people exist there. Even if I go along with them that transgender behavior is a mental illness (it's not, this is just a thought experiment), what exactly do they propose we do about intersex individuals who are literally neither male nor female?

1 out of 1,750 would put the intersex population in the United States at approximately 194,000 individuals. For reference, that would be about 10% of the population of Nebraska or Idaho. That's how many people I am discussing and who seem to always be left out of the conversation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They just want yet another group to stick their boots into. The reasons don't matter at all.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To them once one of either sex has been chosen then the baby is a boy or a girl and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that is scary. Chosen by whom? I'd imagine if anyone reading this paused and thought, "If I was that baby, who would I want to make that choice?" I think everyone would pick themselves. Men reading this would wanna pick male and women reading this would wanna pick female.

Anyway it's fun to think about. But I'm done thinking.

I'm really stoned and ranty. Bed time.

Thanks for the chat!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

You'll never get one, because it's not a logical position. It's just hateful.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they include it in the bills that ban trans care: continue forcing "corrective" surgery on intersex people. That kind of surgery on the genitals of children is always exempted from the trans care bans.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That seems so cruel, I don't get it at all. Sorry you triggered another rant, I'm not shouting at you I'm just shouting, lol.

Using conservative logic, should the babies, made by God, not be left as He made them?

It also seems cruel to mutilate a child born between genders before they have the opportunity to come of age and know who they are. I've heard multiple accounts of intersex people, who the doctor removed one of their sexual organs then become suicidal when they reach adulthood because they essentially feel like a castrated man, or the female equivalent.

Just imagine you were born and had your sexual organs removed as a baby, how would you feel? Pause and imagine living life castrated. If I invest 3 seconds of thought into that, I conclude, "Nah, best not risk doing that to someone, if I was born that way I'd certainly prefer a choice. Let's let them grow up first."

Does being conservative simply require a lack of imagination about these things? It seems so obvious.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Can he stay awake long enough to revoke everything he says he’ll do on day 1?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He'll just be blindly signing what's in front of him.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Yes because he only falls asleep when other people are talking. He LOVES listening to himself

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

It will be a cocaine-fueled frenzy.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Don’t worry, the bigots who are backing him won’t let him forget.

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