That Trans Thread

[Pat Mustard]

I think the more people worry about gender identification, the closer society get to restricting ANY body modification - piercings, tattoos, etc. This becomes more of a concern as religious loonies acquire political influence, as one of their themes about gender affirming  care is, ‘You should be happy with the body God gave you.

Where does it end? No organ transplants? No chemo for cancer patients? No vision correction?

And before certain persons in this thread accuse me of committing a slippery slope fallacy, please remember that, in theocratic societies, some slope are VERY slippery indeed.

Boru

It also comes from incompetent politicians who simply need a group of people to blame for their own mistakes. Usually it's a weak group of people who can't defend themselves; thus, Hitler had Jews back when Jews were still weak, Putin blames the West (along with gays and trans people), and Trump blames all his mistakes on trans people and immigrants. Therefore, we have MAGA people coming here spouting Trump's delusions.

I don't know if you can remember, but there was some guy here on AF who actually blamed trans kids for the fall of Rome.

Hitler was also very big on blaming LGBT+ people, the first victims of the holocaust, despite Rowling's constant denials.