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.”
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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.
141 Comments
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 123 pts · 1d
MAGA thinks they smell blood in the water on the trans issue, so that's their chosen wedge issue for the foreseeable future. I'm the past it was abortion, flag burning, kneeling, gay adoption, gay marriage, gay gayness, etc.
The proper answer to any trans nonsense is: "I am not a doctor, and I won't presume to interfere with the medical decisions between any patient and their doctor, on any subject. I have absolutely no opinions on this subject, and do not consider it an appropriate subject for a political discussion. It is an appalling and indefensible political strategy to use any medical issue as a political talking point, so I'm not interested in your opinion either."
That works for ANY medical issue, including abortion.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 59 pts · 1d
I asked my idiot aunt (who won't admit to being a Trump supporter but is) why can't politicians leave medical decisions to medical professionals. She said medical professionals can't be trusted because they work for the government. That's how fucking stupid she is. We need the government to intervene in medical decisions because we can't trust professionals who work for the government
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1d
Aren't most medical professionals in the US working for private companies?
BooBees@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 1d
Yes, only second to all the doctors working at the post office of course
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1d
Me and my aunt live in Canada but my question was in regards to politics in general, including the Untied States
nobodysreadingthis@quokk.au · 6 pts · 1d
No, two different things were meant by 'government' there.
When a fascist speaks and isn't accusing you, replace all nouns with 'smurf' as first step of translation.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1d
This type of thinking is just ingrained in Americans. It's why the "sewer socialism" of Mamdani style politics is so important right now.
Americans are not use to having a government that actually functions. Their relationship with it is rightly defined by its exploitation of the working class in the interest of capital. Though they can't really define it as such. But this "anit government" part is correct in a way. It's just only answered with the wrong conclusion. That "less government and more private corporations freedom is the answer". It's the only answer they get in the media.
Fortunately, the bar for a "functioning government" is so low that even something as simple as the "pothole socialism" we've seen make Mamdani MORE popular is giving people a waking.
"Wait, government can actually do something to help me?"
It's a lost concept; and I think even someone like your aunt could be shaken out of this type of thinking if they actually experienced it first hand.
She has the right right frustrations. It's your job to direct he to the answer that you can show her materially improves her life. She's just distracted be the false conclusion. She has the correct frustration though.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
In the US doctors don't even work for the government mostly. They work for an independent company whether it's a hospital or an insurance company or a clinic or a university or a research lab or whatever.
SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today · 36 pts · 1d
Trans rights are human rights.
Abortion is healthcare.
I would rather push back more directly than try to dodge the conversation.
Steve@startrek.website · 9 pts · 1d
Shit I need to memorize this speech
BooBees@fedinsfw.app · 12 pts · 1d
You can just call them really weird for wanting to talk about other peoples personal medical shit and walk away. That works too.
nobodysreadingthis@quokk.au · 4 pts · 1d
No. You need to say 'dude, get the government the hell out of exam rooms. Bedrooms too. Fuck you, I'll trans whatever I want.
Steve@startrek.website · 4 pts · 1d
Trans deez nuts, or lack thereof.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Huh, that's much more levelheaded and polite! I asked my uncle if his genitals fell off, because I don't understand why he's so concerned with everyone else's when he still has his own to worry about.
blarth@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 1d
Yeah, I’ve just decided I’m not taking the bait anymore. If they want to circle jerk about trans people, I have more important things to do, like, literally anything else. Trans stuff affects me 0% of any given day and I’ve never felt the need to police a bathroom or verify the gender of an athlete.
I cannot fucking believe our country is so mired in this absolute non-issue for 99.999% of the population.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
I'm still just shocked that you'll see people say it is their "#1 issue" - like Megyn Kelly on Maher for instance - I saw some Republican say it again about some constituent recently, too.
If you are not trans or a parent of a trans, I don't see how that is even possible to be so ridiculous, but the right always delivers on being disgusting, horrible and ridiculously hateful.
For everyone else - I guess we all have to suffer because the worst people in the world have decided to prioritize this over: clean air, clean water, climate change, upgrading to green energy, health care, education, science and tech leadership, safe streets, a job with rights and dignity that can support an entire family with one income, caring for the sick and the elderly with dignity, mental care, upgrading infrastructure, including mass transit, and on and on and on...
Instead, the conservatives are fixated on the stupidest possible shit. They are wilding the fuck out about Jefferson County having 60 men in women's sports, a thing that isn't even a thing.
Meanwhile, all of us are suffering out here from all kinds of shit that have nothing to do with fucking sportsball or the right's stupid ideas about "gender ideology".
I knew we were going to be hearing about this shit endlessly for two reasons, though - for one, they kept going on about how Michelle Obama really had a dong - sure it was a stupid conspiracy theory, but you could tell that many of them wanted that to somehow invalidate Obama's administration because they view it as something that should be a crime. The other was the flurry of bathroom bill bullshit starting up nearly immediately after the conservatives lost the gay marriage issue in 2015.
borkborkbork@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d
yep. obsessed over bullshit, but I think it's because the actual issues leave them no room to stand - the economy, the trillions in deficit linked to their tax cuts, the wars, etc., etc., etc.,
borkborkbork@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
goddamn I miss the days conservatives cared more about privacy than bullshit culture garbage.
nobodysreadingthis@quokk.au · 3 pts · 1d
Yes. The trans issue. Followed shortly by the trans question, followed shortly by dontworryaboutit
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 11h
They always need someone to persecute. It's the only thing their base wants in life: a good lynching.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1d
Nah. I think instead we should double down and start promising scientific studies (in a couple weeks) will confirm our hypothesis on autism. We should definitely start fear mongering over vaccines and continue blaming doctors and trans people. /s
Fucking RFK this week.
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 1d
They tried the anti-trans bs in VA last year and got fucking destroyed by spanberger. Liberals and moderates don't care about it anymore. The magat trash are getting more and more detached from reality by the day, and that says a lot, because they've always been detached from reality.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 49 pts · 1d
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.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1d
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.
pega_sus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
🥛
Komatoes@discuss.online · -8 pts · 1d
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1d
You just made all that up.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10926588/
You don’t know lactation induction medications exist for cis women and are running your mouth about whether or not they work in trans women based on your emotional reaction? Sit down
Komatoes@discuss.online · -4 pts · 1d
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1d
‘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.
Komatoes@discuss.online · -5 pts · 1d
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"
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1d
Give evidence for ‘robust macronutrient content’ (exact author words) meaning anything other than a nutritionally identical profile or take a walk.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1d
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.
Komatoes@discuss.online · -1 pts · 1d
To be pedantic he didn't say that all cows could be milked, just that no bulls could be.
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe · 6 pts · 1d
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.
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Maybe it's something he thinks about a lot, and this is his way of coping with the cognitive dissonance.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
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.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1d
He is so fucking stupid. It makes me cringe thinking that this moron is in charge and all the other branches just bent over for this ugly fat worthless child rapist.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
He’s who bubbled up to the top, but it’s a deep swamp.
shartgargle@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1d
Cess pit*
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 42 pts · 1d
Good God, Grampa Dementia strikes again!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 37 pts · 1d
Party of small government, folks...
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
"Small enough to fit in your reproductive organs" appears to be the goal.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
They're super focused on genitals.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1d
And your excretory tract too, for that matter...
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1d
Small enough to fit in your pants.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
The party of small government has always been the party of NO government. Because once democracy is gone, they can take over and do what they want. The south never stopped waging the civil war, they just kept waging it by other means. They always hated the Union, and because they weren't stomped out completely they came back, like an infection when you don't finish your antibiotics.
They want to destroy it, because they know that they cannot and will never be in charge as long as us, the common people have a say.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1d
This is why I can't get on board with anarchy. Who would protect us from the grandchildren of the confederacy, or the fourth reich?
Stable systems are worth maintaining when they protect us from far worse things. One of the big issues with the current situation is how severely it's destabilizing the system. That's their goal, as you state.
I'd much rather have incremental progress within an imperfect system, than a catastrophic failure followed by a gamble on what takes its place.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
Honestly, nobody really "wants" anarchy. It's just an intermediary stage. Remember the 1991 LA riots? People always say "if you want change, violence and burning down your own neighborhood is dumb", but that is what anarchy is. It is a last resort. A total revolt against society. The social contract has been ripped in half- anything goes. If things burn, they burn. If they loot, they loot. If they kill, they kill. A suspension of all law and order. A reversion to the Hobbesian natural state- a life, nasty, brutish, and short. Because that is what happens when there is nothing left, when all other recourse has been thwarted and when supplication has failed over generations. On the most fundamental metaphysical level, society is a contract, and agreement. If the counter party does not uphold its part of the bargain, who the fuck are they to demand shit? Nope. We refuse. If they don't uphold their end, why wouldn't we stop? That's how unions operate. We stand in solidarity with one another, because we want to cooperate. But if you can't, if someone wants to subjugate you, or treat you unfairly, what are you to do? Play along? "Just pick yourself up by your bootstraps", hey FUCK YOU, YOU pick yourself up of the blazing fire I am about to start if I'm not treated equally. Alas I wax revolutionary. But I'm really just trying to illustrate a point.
"You should have revolted with less violence!" is the weak retaliatory cry of the bourgeoisie.
You hit on an important topic here, because in a polarized world where everything is either black or white, and there are no grayscales, anything other than perfection is not good enough. Which is ridiculous. It's like gun control issues, just to take an example- "if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns". Yeah. Yeah, and that's bad, we want to make sure to catch all the outlaws who have guns when they shouldn't. I don't know if that makes sense, it makes sense in my head right now, but ok, so let's say... Let's say some gun legislation cuts school shootings by 5%. Is that not enough? It isn't. But it's a fucking start. "Those laws don't work" is such a dumb argument because that's like saying "murder is illegal, yet people murder! Curious!", they claim that if it's not perfect, which it will never be, it's useless.
"There is no bother voting, because both parties are bad. One is worse than the other, but they're both bad, so I don't vote."
That is letting perfect be the enemy of good. "I support Kamala, but one of her cabinet members doesn't pray five times daily towards Mecca, therefore I'd rather abstain, or vote Trump". Like, how does that work in people's heads? Surely we can acknowledge that progress is slow and imperfect. Surely it is better to take a step forward, than take one back.
Anyways, thanks for interacting, I appreciate if you read all that, if not, then that's all good, too. One love. Peace upon mankind.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
"The child is unruly and needs to be restrained, lest it hurts itself, or us."
Never a question whether perhaps the parenting isn't all that fucking great and there's good reason to lash the fuck out.
Just my $20.
Komatoes@discuss.online · 0 pts · 1d
Intermediate? Who do you think would come out on top after an extended time of might-makes-right and unhinged violence?
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I think if you want me to answer you, you better address the whole idea I took time writing out with more effort than a single sentence ending in a question mark. Or two.
savvie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
GOP!!! GOP!!!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1d
Ooga ooga, Jesus crusade.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 1d
Myocardial infarction. Massive. Live TV. Please.
Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
That's too fast. This piece of shit deserves to suffer.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1d
I'm hoping for a major stroke that leaves him unable to speak. He just sits in his wheelchair drooling on himself.
Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17h
That's not really that far off from what he's like now.
DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 2 pts · 17h
I'm not holding my breath but I'm still hoping for a groundswell of electoral opposition that puts someone competent in power so he has to impotently watch P2025 crumble and get reversed. Also, y'know, a fair trial for his crimes and getting sued into oblivion by all the people he's stolen from. If he just has a massive stroke they'll keep him in power as long as he's technically alive. Its like 40k but way dumber
jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
They'll just put a light on it and he can blink once for yes and twice for no.
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1d
Me scribbling in my temu deathnote.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1d
Government says wear a mask = bad Government orders genital surgery = good
Am I getting this right?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1d
Yes, because the conservative mind is incapable of any critical thought. Just whatever heir leader says
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7h
Looking at how many American men were circumcised in the last few generations, for no reason other than it being gently suggested by the government, Yes, apparently that's the way it is.
People love forcing genital pain onto others to make themselves feel better, but hate it if others are allowed to do anything to their genitals themselves. I think it's the abrahamic religions? Because that's what they do there too.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1d
And the king decreed make that one a male and that one a female. The people cheered, he was going to fix this gender problem once and for all. Gender was no longer determined by silly things like genetics, feelings, or facts. Only he could bestow it upon the masses.
At first people would bribe him for the privilege of a different sex. The corrupt king would pray on poor souls who didn't fit in. Soon though, he realized his ultimate power. Humiliation.
"You are no longer male", he would scream at a general or diplomat. "You are whatever I say you are", the king would croak through his curled cruel smile as they were hauled away for forced gender change surgery.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 7h
OMG if trump cut off kegseth's dick, and then got on stage and said something like "he did woman things and the iran killed a battleship, so I gave him a pussy" these idiots really would cheer and parade him around as a [slur], to use as an "example" of how "horrible trans people are".
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 1d
Reverse surgeries? I'm trying to think what that means literally and I'm not really sure -- isn't a reverse surgery a dissection? 😧
toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online · 47 pts · 1d
I think he means "we're stapling dongs back on"
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 19 pts · 1d
"You came back! We've been saving this for you."
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1d
It’s the episode of South Park where they grow a dick for Mrs. Garrison on the back of a mouse.
spongebue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
It's the second half of a surgery when they reassemble
Komatoes@discuss.online · 1 pts · 1d
No, dissection is also surgery.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 1d
Post-top surgery trans dude here. Have yet to have any tits forcibly operated back onto me. Which is what they’d have to do, because all my former breast tissue is mostly gone.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d
First they came to put tits on me, and I said hell yeah, because tits are dope
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T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
They are, unless you don't want to have tits on your chest of course!
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 21h
Too true, too true...
bunnybunny@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 1d
And one third of Americans believe this shit
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 1d
Yep. A few years ago there was that whole spiel about how Democrats were putting litter boxes in public school classrooms so that the kids who identify as animals would have a place to relieve themselves. I heard someone actively talking about it while grocery shopping at one point.
Trump himself has claimed children are getting gender affirming surgery IN SCHOOL and I can tell you that there are men and women out there, this very year in 2026, who have made statements implying they would kill the teachers involved. Like, it's complete fantasy, they just love to be angry and act tough about stuff that's not happening and never will.
dion_starfire@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
The litter box thing gets even better - the root of it was a school that did indeed have litter boxes in every classroom, meant for human use. But it had nothing to do with Therian kids identifying as cats. It was in response to the question "what if a kid needs to use the bathroom during an active shooter lockdown?"
pega_sus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
Woah slow down, don't think they know those words yet. You might cause an aneurysm.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 7h
They also believe they live in the greatest country and that they are free.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 19 pts · 17h
They are putting dicks on people? Where are they sourcing them? Are they removing some dicks, to put them on other people? This seems like the wildest nonsence yet.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 7h
Now we know where RFKs raccoon peens are ending up.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 6h
Oh, that makes a sickly amount of sense.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
So, he's literally admitting to ordering genocide?
Komatoes@discuss.online · -5 pts · 1d
TRAHR@quokk.au · 9 pts · 1d
Genocide does not simply refer to the murder of members of a group, it refers to the destruction of the group.
And yes there is a genocide going on ahainst trans people in the US.
https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-alert---anti-trans-genocide-in-the-usa---%233
Komatoes@discuss.online · -7 pts · 1d
I always wondered about this with the blind or deaf communities. The deaf community has a very strong culture, identity and language. If we eliminate deafness in children, is that a genocide?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Oof what a shit take.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h
Being transgender is not a limitation of ability. It is an expression of authenticity.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
I'm really looking forward to his death
I sincerely hope that it is extremely painful
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
He's the first, and only, person I'd be happy to find out they contracted Ebola.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I'd be pleased to see him spread it to all his supporters and sycophants, and anyone who has ever voted for him or wanted to
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I was just thinking about how many of his dumb ass sycophants would catch it because masks are for liberals.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 16 pts · 1d
Somebody give this dude reverse brain surgery.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Call Ben Carson
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
He makes something up that his hardcore fanatics would consider "good". That's all.
He is running into the situation that even his core base notices that they cannot afford food or fuel anymore, and that his ICE is not just taking "criminals" off the streets, but also their underpaid and exploitable
slavesemployees.Aeao@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1d
NO BACKSIES!
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1d
This man's brain has probably melted into slop à-l'-AI.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 12 pts · 1d
"What can I do for you?"
"Hey doc, you still got that penis I handed over?"
"Yeah, of course."
Pondis@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
If they are putting dicks on trans women that had bottom surgery, there's nothing to stop me getting another one or five grafted on.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11h
5 dicks. How do your condoms fit?
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Like a glove
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 18h
You do you, you funky echidna.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1d
Get this fuck out of office now.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1d
We lost that battle twice. The only way he leaves is by force. Sorry, America. Collectively, we are too stupid to vote.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
His body is working on it.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1d
Not hard enough.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d
I threw him out of the oval office every day since he got there
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1d
Are people in South Carolina worried about making ends meet or are they worried about whether somebody playing in girls' high school sports has a penis? These are two completely different things, and where are the people worried about "girls" playing in boys' sports?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
There are lots and lots of them because they have been indoctrinated to be worried about it. They are fucking reprogrammable meatbags. They lost the cultural war over gay marriage, and ever since then have pivoted to attacking trans, as instructed by their thought leaders. That's why the bathroom bills got going around 10 years ago or so - they lost the gay marriage thing in 2015.
You would not believe the kind of stupid shit you'll see on social media when it comes to a "conversation" around donnie's shithole administration going after Jefferson County school district here in Colorado, for instance.
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/07/28/jeffco-public-schools-legal-action-trump-administration-transgender-athletes/
You'll see brainless chuds saying things about how they are "paying for others' ideology". And they are right but not the way they think they are. We in Jeffco are going to pay for the ideology of the far right. It's about ideology, all right - THEIRS.
They are all beside themselves over "men in women's sports" and so we may lose $50 million in school funding due to their uninformed, backward and batshit insanity.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d
I agree with your points but I think you missed the one you replied to: as you said, the idiots are enraged over "men in women's sports" but their point was those same people don't say anything about "women in men's sports" because trans men go completely under their radar.
In fact a group of bearded and burly trans men did a protest the other day by following the law in their state and using women's bathrooms. At one point they were confronted by police and had an uncomfortable conversation about what their genitals and DNA were. But they were not arrested because the law in that state says they must use the bathroom of their birth sex. Brought the stupidity of the law face to face with a lot of ignorant people.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Oh, fuuck. /smacks forehead.
D'oh!
Oh, well, anyway....LOL. Yeah, the conservatives seem to be mostly fixated on trans females vs. trans males, just like they are focused mostly on gay men vs. lesbians....
Komatoes@discuss.online · -1 pts · 1d
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
You're going to say it's because of physical advantage? Which has been shown to be negligible in trans women who have been on hormones for a length of time, when compared to the variations in physical attributes already present among cis female people (and not even taking into account intersex people who were "corrected " to female at birth). And which doesn't even apply in a number of sports. For instance in shooting and biathlon events being female can be an advantage (at least by averages, there again individuals differ widely within the sexes) so a trans man could theoretically dominate if the hormones don't change that too much. Or maybe we're talking about how compliance to societal standards has always been more strictly enforced for women, even in the definition of being a woman, and how they're perceived as needing protection and separation but/therefore not compensation for their athletic performance.
Try thinking about this: a trans woman who competes as a woman has little to gain because women's sports aren't sufficiently appreciated. If she were willing to deny her identity and compete in men's tourneys she would be up against bigger stronger men, as would any man of her build, and rank lower, but she'd probably have better pay and equipment and facilities regardless. She'd also still probably get similar abuse from transhaters, because she's a target for their misogyny that gets them in less trouble than beating up on "real" women (although they likely do that too).
Trans men are more able to "pass" in society because our expectations about the diverse appearance of men is so much greater. And if a trans man athlete competes and takes a spot from a less-athletic cis man, is society going to support his protest or say he's just a whining wimp? That's an attitude rooted in misogyny as well, by the way. Weak equals female equals unworthy.
Komatoes@discuss.online · -2 pts · 1d
High school sports don't require any sort of hormones. Most sports don't have official hormone-length schedules. But no, the advantage is not "negligible". Height, limb length, joint size, heart and lung size, etc. are all fixed features. There minimal overlap between these aspects between men and women. A 5"10" person is average height for a male, but in the top range for females.
And yes, certain "intersex" males should also not be competing in female sports.
And as far as I see, women who don't identify as women are still primarily choosing to play in women's sports.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
"women who don't identify as women" tells me a lot about your bias against trans people in general.
If Veronica Ivy chose to testosterone out and play as a man the profits would be considerably higher, even at a lower rank.
Most trans women who play in women's sports do so because it's the only way they can play without denying their essential identity.
Women's sports are important. Women are important. Trans women are women.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
They also banned boys playing in girls sports a few years back, so for South Carolinians this is a totally fabricated state issue.
Komatoes@discuss.online · 1 pts · 1d
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
No, they fucking aren't, you desiccated orange peel.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Trump thought they were doing gender affirming surgery on mice!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
All because he's a fucking moron who got confused by the term transgenic.
He's like one of those assholes that, as an adult (not as someone in junior high, mind you), snickers at something that starts with homo - like homogenous.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
I'm not sure who's dumber: dumbass trump or the dumbasses who voted for him three goddamn times. Any dumbass could've been tricked the first time, but smarter dumbasses knew better than to fall for it twice; imagine how fucking dumb you'd have to be to fall for his bullshit a third time, after all the corruption, COVID mismanagement, J6 coup, felony convictions, Epstein shit, etc. Imagine still thinking that this NYC elite billionaire real estate mogul who just learned what "groceries" are is on your side. He ran on affordability, attributed his win to his focus on affordability, and is now claiming that affordability is made-up bullshit that the "communists" are flinging to criticize him.
Trump is a stupid motherfucker, just about as stupid as I can imagine a person being, and yet millions of people are possibly even more fucking stupid for continuing to support him. I just don't understand how such a level of stupidity could be possible.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Not one person around him has the fucking balls to say that it's time to take the keys away from grandpa and ship him off to a mental ward...and the whole goddamned world has to sit here and suffer his crazy bullshit.
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Those that did speak up were fired. It's a classic authoritarian move to only keep local yes-men as inner circle.
Drusas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1d
Most are are benefiting from his remaining in power.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 1d
Wouldn't a reverse trans surgery still be a trans surgery? That's themselves point. Gender confirmation. In this mythical case, confirming the gender they want the person to have rather than the gender they are.
So clearly any previous claims about safety, child safety and surgical regret are completely ingenuine. Quelle surprise?
Komatoes@discuss.online · 1 pts · 1d
"Trans" refers to biology sex and gender identity being "across" from each other.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1d
Trans means across, beyond or other side of, also. It's used when describing someones gender, like the chemical meaning, to mean expressed opposite, but it is a complex topic. Its whybcis is used also, like the chemistry meaning, being a scientific term.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1d
I didn't get bottom surgery, but could I get a reverse surgery as an addition? Asking for a friend.
Cheebus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 7h
Isn’t this just government mandated gender affirming surgery?
It’s the government affirming the gender in this picture
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Terrorphin@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 21h
Transgender for everyone doesn't sound good though, does it? I mean - isn't that going a bit too far?
JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 18h
You have to open negotiations with a strong position you can afford to negotiate down from
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7h
"you drive a hard bargain Christian moron. Ok then, how about instead of transitioning you, I offer myself up in your place? This will prove to your god I am a good and kind person, and you can put the gun away trying to convert me."
chewypoops@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17h
As a Democrat, I won't rest until every public schoolchild is transgender. Especially the Christian ones.
Terrorphin@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 3h
Good man!
Alexfire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 5h
Could have voted for
Progress, but were told that Dems,
Make gay trans furries
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7h
he is the absolute most unfunny joke alive
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I need reverse surgery. My dick is too big. I need another to keep it company. I wanted Trump to pay for it, but he also wanted to remove my anus, and I'm not comfortable with that, because I need to eat, too, and food turns to poop, and if I don't have a butthole I won't be able to poop, and therefore won't be able to eat, which is unreasonable.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1d
Coolostomy, bro.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
You made me geggle.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
newton@feddit.online · 1 pts · 1d
Wacko
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 22h
Somehow in my head I now see a lot of women with stitched-on, defunct cocks. Welp. Guess they are now augmented.