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In reply to the discussion: What Democrats Are Getting Wrong About Transgender Rights [View all]oldmanlynn
(424 posts)102. This basically just talks about how Republicans have been controlling the narrative
I dont know how much clearer it can get that Republicans, even as despicable as these different trump situations are just as despicable as they are. Theyre still out there all the time with their BS and theres no counter story. That ceding the airwaves to republicans.
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oh so people who are stronger and faster are the problem? I thought that was the point of sports
WhiskeyGrinder
Friday
#4
Individual "women born women" (people give birth to women?) differ "biologically" from each other as well. So?
WhiskeyGrinder
Friday
#14
Better access to care to support transitioning actually helps this problem better than banning it.
meadowlander
Friday
#6
There are no doctors anywhere that perform gender affirming surgery on minors.
meadowlander
Friday
#32
"There are no doctors anywhere that perform gender affirming surgery on minors."
HereForTheParty
Friday
#63
The vast, vast majority of these surgeries are performed on cis teens. They're chest/breast reductions.
WhiskeyGrinder
Friday
#67
Any surgery on any minor requires the consent of parents or legal guardians already . . .
markpkessinger
Friday
#39
Okay, so you've named the ONE legal exception regarding consent to surgery for minors . . .
markpkessinger
Friday
#66
Abortion isn't surgery and in some states minors are required to get parental consent.
WhiskeyGrinder
Friday
#68
An excellent post equating trans rights to reproductive rights devolves into a RW-framed shouting match??
LearnedHand
Friday
#24
seeing so-called progressives fall for such blatant rightwing trash is very disturbing indeed
Skittles
Friday
#30
AOC is showing why she's the new generation of progressive Democratic leaders we need to lead us forward.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Saturday
#79
I think the idea was to ignore it hoping that the messaging would fall flat for some demographics
Ilikepurple
Friday
#55
I think this is a good response, but how does that apply to the trans immigrant prisoner issue?
Ilikepurple
Saturday
#86
You are the one that said it was an issue that the Democratic Party must face, I agree
Ilikepurple
Saturday
#90
I'm not fixated on a problem that doesn't exist, but rights that may exist whether exercised or not
Ilikepurple
Sunday
#95
For me it's the dismissive way this is often framed as "Kamala lost because of "the trans thing"."
meadowlander
Friday
#52
taxpayers don't fund fertility treatments, abortion, or even obesity, from what I am aware
iemanja
Friday
#54
Military personnel can access Ozempic, gastric bypass surgery, Viagra, and some fertility treaments.
meadowlander
Friday
#60
This basically just talks about how Republicans have been controlling the narrative
oldmanlynn
Sunday
#102