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Teachers can barely force teens to do their schoolwork, how on earth are they supposed to force them into a "gender transition op"?
sigh I wish my rights and existence weren’t treated like this. Like I’m sure I can think of something pithy or brave or whatever but I’m just so damn tired of this shit
Oh I have one. I sure wish they’d started when I was in school. I had to do the hard work of actually admitting I wanted it to myself and others.
Why the hell isn’t the DNC able to sue his ass for libel?
Because many of them believe the same thing. The Democratic party is overall moderate conservatives, but some swing further right than others. We don't have a progressive party in the US.
I mean he's not wrong... i got reassigned and got surgery multiple times in recess Tuesdays before math... thankfully it was a pair number of times so I stayed the same gender after school
Oh I remember we had a big bag of rainbow cookies one time and they made you gay, and the only gay guy in school was eatting them but they were apparently really good so we figured out if you just ate an even number you'd end up back straight again.
Twas a simpler time.
I didn't because I got a cootie shot. It wasn't as easy as it sounds, it involved a circle, circle, dot, dot.
They are the ones trying to force people to be someone they don't want to be.
In any sane world, this level of blatant lying would immediately disqualify one from being electable in a democracy
This alone proves to me that this isn’t about political ideals but rather who holds power. As a result, lies told to further the cause of “power” are simply a means to an end. It’s reprehensible.
Even if that claim is remotely close to true. Why? What on earth would the purpose for a gender transition conspiracy possibly serve?
You have to do more backflips than simone biles to match the mental gymnastics for that kind of thinking.
What on earth would the purpose for a gender transition conspiracy possibly serve?
fascism, it's always fascism, it's literally just fascism.
Because evil. No seriously. And yeah that’s the difference between plausible and implausible conspiracy theories. Plausible ones have motivation. “Why did Donald trump snd the right wing media attempt to overturn the 2020 election?” For power. “Why did the CIA experiment with lsd to control minds?” They were really high and worried that the communists were better at controlling agents than them. “Why do world governments hide proof of alien contact?” There is no clear answer. “Why do world governments work together to hide proof of a flat earth?” To keep the population in the dark.
Trump's most successful political method was that he changed lanes faster than anyone could keep up. It allowed him to control the narrative. You're falling for the same tricks that won him the 2016 election. Don't engage.
Just call them weird and move on.
"Sure is weird someone is thinking about school children's genitalia instead of their choice of weapons for a school shooting, especially at a time like this." Done.
They want to force people to be hetero, Christian, and either white male and upper class, or anything else and subservient.
So for them, other groups forcing/ brainwashing people to be gay/trans, atheist and so on makes perfect sense.
His base believes in doing things just for the cruelty. So these ridiculous claims, (gangs taking over apartments, immigrants eating cats, forced transitions) are believable to them based on their own support for doing things just to be cruel.
According to my biology teacher, its to lower the birth rate
The birth rate is low because right-wing politics make people not want to have children. But I can see how people invested in right-wing politics would be motivated to ignore that.
The birth rate is low because right-wing politics make people not want to have children.
Oh wow, so now schools not only do a gender reassignment surgery during recess, but it is forcing children too?
I mean at this point, I'm seriously wondering who are the people that believe this? The lies are gettting ridiculous at this point.
The same people that believed schools were putting litter boxes in the bathrooms for students to use.
Not the best or the brightest.
I have relatives with master's degrees that work in education that you can not convince that cat litter bathrooms are not a thing.
The "best" part of that is that yes, some schools keep cat litter in classrooms, but the reason is so if there's a school shooter, they don't have to risk walking to the bathroom.
What are cat litter bathrooms?
'Woke' schools adding litter boxes in bathrooms for furries.
Oh lol, I haven't even heard about that.
"I heard a thing that justifies my bigotry, therefore it must be true, because if it isn't true I'm not a good person."
For an adult to get SRS in the US, they generally need to have two letters from therapists supporting the surgery (for both surgeon requirements and insurance), and insurance that actually covers it (unless they wanna pay like $100k out of pocket). But no, teachers are just doing it to kids for free.
You ever see how many pairs of safety scissors are in a kindergarten classroom? What did you think all those were for?
Credit where credits due, he took that from Orbán(hungarian pm). Orbán started saying this exact same thing like 5 years ago. Now it progressed so far that even kindergartaners are being converted with "gender conversion surgeries". People unironically believe this bullshit. They say it so much that "nemátalakító műtét" became kind of a meme. Prepare america, if you fuck up this election its over.
old guy rambles "git off mah skewl" to make-believe gender transition ops.
weird school he went to.
I sent my son to kindergarten and got back a daughter!
Trump falsely claims
Is a complete statement, and is true on a daily basis. Usually multiple times a day.
Its ridiculous, my British uncle is convinced Critical Race Theory is tour is in school. I asked him what critical race theory is and he didn't know. People are being lied to and then they tie it to ego and become talking heads for shit they have no idea of beyond surface level.
People are being lied to and then they tie it to ~~ego~~ preexisting prejudices
Whether it's racism, sexism, transphobia....it's lies that are easy to believe because it feels true.
I asked him what critical race theory is and he didn't know.
Same thing happens when you ask someone complaining about "the woke" what that word actually means. Blank stare and no coherent answer.