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Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans attack transgender rights on RNC opening night
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
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I'm not much to look at myself, but I think some wise man once pointed out that MTG has a very chimp-like appearance. Very neanderthalish.
Like she's in no position to tell us what a woman should be or what beauty standards or gender standards we should follow.
Here’s is my agenda as a trans person: I want to have a job and live in a house. In my state, there are no legal protections for either of those two things. I have been fired from a job when it was discovered I was trans; I was unable to access any form of dv shelter when my ex took advantage of that to financially control me.
I don’t want to trans your kid. I don’t want to gawk at dudes in the loo. Just let me take my T and have a drivers license that won’t get me lynched if I’m driving through fucking Bokoshe.
Was anyone else creeped the hell out when she was smiling and pretending to be a nice person?
Not only was her fake smile uncanny, her snickering/giggling could be heard and it was weird af.
So, water is wet? No surprise here...
Why do they care so much? Like really, who gives a shit. A human is a human. These people are just assholes.
The religious people think it’s their duty to prevent trans people from “sinning” and are likewise terrified their kids will become “trans sinners”.
I’m not kidding. It’s all religious based hate.
They don't. They full know well they're just saying what rubes want to hear. If a hell existed they're going to it for demonizing innocent people for profit.
A quick note on this thread:
The transphobic comments are getting out of hand. Lots of reports and lots of removals.
Now here's the thing...
The #1 thing I hated about fucking reddit were the mods who would go "we're locking this thread because it's too much trouble to moderate it."
My opinion then, and now, is "Oh, your volunteer gig is too hard? Go do something else then!"
So, no, I'm not locking the thread. At the same time, I'd advise against mocking the trans community.
I get it, back in the day, I thought all the "Dann Coulter" jokes were funny too. And assholes like Coulter and MTG deserve to have their own hate reflected back on them.
But when you do that with trans issues, you're making those issues a weapon and saying they're a weapon because of the negative connotations and that's just not cool.
The transphobic comments are getting out of hand. Lots of reports and lots of removals.
So a little bit is OK then?
Nope, not really. But a little bit is easily handled. ;)
Shithead.
So, those of you not voting for Biden because "reasons," thanks for condemning to death the LGBTQ+ community. And don't tell me that is hyperbole.
"But genocide palestine"
Im so tired of these people
It’s so frustrating that people can’t see this event would have been the same or worse under Trump.
Biden is in a no win situation on this one and he just happens to be the president on Oct 7
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