But there was still pressure. Doctors and therapists often mentioned the suicide risk of untreated transgender youths, which the parent took as a scare tactic. The conflict has been a strain on the family.
Talking about the dangers of not treating is interpreted as âpressure,â when it is just being factual. Of course, facts are anathema to the right wing. I have to suspect this person has an agenda she is not being honest about.
One of her lawyers, St. Louis County Councilman Ernie Trakas, with the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, furnished a statement on Reedâs behalf.
This should be a huge red flag for that.
They are exactly the same âargumentsâ they used against homosexuals, only with trans people search-and-replaced into them, arenât they?
https://unstable.systems/@AmyZenunim/109948892790727327
what the fuck, GitHub. this is your idea of a âcompromiseâ? grow a backbone and tell Florida to eat shit
Dang! Perhaps Microsoft is only trying to warn and protect their users, but thatâs a real brick of text!
Yep. Same old same old. No originality at all, from grooming kids, to being predatory in bathrooms to somehow magically âdestroying the fabric of societyâ - itâs all recycled bigotry.
And of course, if they manage to push trans folks back into the closet (or, God forbid, purge them violently), they will immediately turn back on attacking the homosexuals and bisexuals.
Theyâve already started. Theyâre trying to reverse gay marriage in Iowa, for instance. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage
Thereâs a word for when someone submits a sworn affadavit that contains falsehoods. What was that, againâŚ
Oh, yeah! Perjury.
Thatâs for the little people.
Call them FARTs, not TERFs:
when Breitbart ran a âblack crime vertical,â explicitly highlighting crimes nationally allegedly perpetrated by black people, with no other context, that this was just racism. Every single story they ran couldâve been 100% factually true and it would still have been just racism aimed at racists.
The NYT, The Atlantic, and various others, are running trans panic verticals, and no they donât even feel the need to meet the obligation of being correct. Even if they did, the point would stand. Running stories over and over again how trans youth might be being rushed into treatment, inappropriately, without even having any evidence of this absent dubious anecdotes, is just their way of having present trans panic verticals.
In the early 90s, especially, you could make any claims about African-American criminality (superpredators!), and push that shit into the newspapers. Now you can write about teens identifying as helicopters being given hormones (what? what the fucking what?) and all the Most Sensible People In Journalism will nod along and sneer at anyone who points out this is fucking crazy.
And the ones who donât nod along just will keep quiet. Never criticize the club members.
There is no bottom, is there?
