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  Banning healthcare for any child is horseshit. Targeting children who are deemed "different" is exactly what a low IQ bully would do.
  Dude is the antithesis of all things swell.
context: What is with all the picking on teachers? I for one am completely sick of it. I’ve had some bad teachers in my life but I was still thankful they showed up and I didn’t have to be in a 3rd grade class of 80 kids. What consequences? At the rate we are going there won’t be any left! We already want them to take a bullet for our kids. But hey let’s also prosecute them for being pro human rights. >
  
  
  What is with all the picking on teachers?
  
  Conservatives have hated education for pretty much my entire life.  Calling teachers pedophiles is just the newest attack. >
  
  It's not new. Anita Bryant started it in the late 70s when she said gay men were becoming teachers in order to recruit young boys into their "lifestyle." Ultimately, Miami-Dade county and also Ramsey County, MN passed legislation barring gay people from teaching. >
  
  The fuck Minnesota. >
  
  It didn't last long but it shows how astro turfed culture war bullshit can even infiltrate progressive blue states. Overall MN has a very good record on LGBTQ issues. >
  
  DeSantis stealing too many headlines. They are in a pissing match of hatred. >
  
  More like Trump is realizing that trans kids are an unlimited supply of rage for his supporters, DeSantis has been tapping into that supply for months. >
  
  YouGov recents did a survey asking Americans what percentage of Americans were of a certain demographic. Trans people are less than 1%, but of course, those surveyed thought it was at least 30% of the population. Obviously people who have been listening to the views of Trump and desantis >
  
  
  Trans people are less than 1%, but of course, those surveyed thought it was at least 30% of the population
  
  Holy shit. Really? Seriously? The only population that's 30% trans is catgirl discord server members. How do they think it's 30% when they never fucking see any trans people? Or are they living in the secret trans utopia where all the trans people go to hide from persecution? >
  
  Small-town mentality. "We don't see any of that around here but it's rampant in the godless cities" >
  
  And then they complain that all their young people are moving to those same cities...but don't see the correlation. Lol. >
  
  They're also unwelcoming to anyone that isn't like them and then wonder why nobody is opening a business in their town. >
  
  And even if you're born and raised there, go away for a few years, then come back...they'll see you as no longer being "like them" and treat you like an outsider.
  Gosh, I wonder why people are fleeing rural America like rats from a sinking ship? >
  
  Man, remember that time back in 2015/16 when people were trying to argue that Trump was the more LGBT friendly candidate? >
  
  I remember. I also remember Trump voters coming into LGBT subs the day the election was called and telling us how they'll defend us if they turned out to be wrong. >
  
  We should go back through and find all those people, it’s time for them to defend >
  
  Some of them probably died in the Ukraine to manpads. >
  
  And to covid. >
  
  
  revealed his plan to “stop the chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of our youth.”
  
  Suddenly they're "our" youth?    Skyrocketing maternal mortality, hungry kids in lunch debt, daycare that costs more than a year's wages, lead in drinking water,  but now the federal government should step in and dictate how they're raised?  This is insanity particularly from the "party of small government"   Get your small "government" out of my bedroom, my doctor's office, my house.... >
  
  And in usual Republican fashion, it's not only total bullsh*t, it's completely false too; I think most transphobic conservatives have a problem with gender-reaffirming surgery (haven't seen many denouncing the fact that estrogen can give trans women breasts), which isn't even legal for minors. >
  
  But their bills don't ban just gender-reaffirming surgery; they're banning any treatment related to gender dysphoria (including puberty blockers and therapy)... Because they think if they can outlaw being trans, then trans people will stop existing. >
  
  
  Because they think if they can outlaw being trans, then trans people will stop existing.
  
  They will. By suicide. >
  
  Sadly, I think they're well aware of that outcome and it's a feature, not a bug. >
  
  He’s a fucking hideous monster >
  
  
  What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?
  
  ~Terry Pratchett >
  
  Republicans! >
  
  That quote was said by a dwarf in the book. Funny thing with dwarfs in the whole Discworld series: A major plot point is their incredibly conservative culture. To the point of where it's not culturally acceptable to be openly female since all dwarfs have beards.
  There's a whole story arc where one dwarf comes to the one of the major hub cities of the world and later returns to her homeland pretty much starting a cultural revolution of being openly female in dwarf society. Clearly a parallel to people in the LGBTQ community coming out.
  The dwarf who said that quote is male but an unusually liberal and open minded dwarf going against the conservatives. >
  
  Captain Carrot ftw? >
  
  Cheery Littlebottom. 
  Captain Carrot is just really tall for a dwarf. >
  
  I thought Cheery was a woman, er female dwarf. Wasn't she the one who puzzled Vimes and Carrot by wearing makeup and a chain-mail dress while on-duty - emulating her friend Angua? I may need to do a re-read of the Watch books. 
  ... 
  < 5 minutes later > 
  ...
  I looked it up. I believe the line is said by Grag Bashfullson in Thud!, which is a great book that examines racial animosity, among other topics. 
  
  "I need no axe to be a dwarf. Nor do I need to hate trolls. What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?"
  
  -Grag Bashfullson >
  
  Exactly.  Dwarfs weren't accepted as being openly female at all, Cheeri (as she became known as) was a hard push against that culture, and largely brought about a change in it in The Fifth Elephant, where it was most evident I believe.
  The line is definitely from Thud! and not about Cheeri at all.  I was saying that it was Cheeri, not Carrot that started the change in dwarf society about openly being female. >
  
  If I recall correctly, the new Low King of the Dwarves was a female dwarf as well, though didn't openly and politically aver as such, due to trying to maintain the dwarves from going into civil war over the issue. I vaguely recall the Low King asking Cheery where she got some of her openly female dwarf accessories and clothing. 
  The Low King's admin worker was female, though, and played an integral role in the theft of the Scone of Stone, or whatever it was.
  Sir Terry Pratchett is my first and foremost god, king, and friend. >
  
  Yeah. Again though, the king wasn't openly female. And she did ask just quietly, but loud enough for the Vimes crew and just enough dwarves to overhear.  She was good at her job after all..  That the admin was female was actually relevant to the plot too. 
  And yes, GNU Pratchett.  I might miss him a bit. >
  
  Oh, wait for that picture on tucker this week. >
  
  If there's not an unofficial holiday when this man leaves us for good, I'll be sorely disappointed >
  
  When Thatcher went, 'Ding Ding (The Witch Is Dead)' suddenly flew into the charts here in the UK. Wonder what it'll be in this instance? >
  
  I want a new track cut by Eminem with 3 straight minutes of sick burns that rhyme with orange. >
  
  Got my orange 4-inch door hinge in storage and eat porridge with George >
  
  Dang, those are some sick burns. >
  
  Hey.
  Caitlyn Jenner.
  Remember when you praised this guy for being LGBTQA-friendly?
  Dumbass. >
  
  She wanted to pull the ladder up behind her and that's why she represents the worst that we have to offer. She built herself up off of our support and look at the absolute embarrassment she's turned herself into. >
  
  Who would have thought that being married into the Kardashians wasn’t the worst thing you could do. >
  
  Not being funny, but isn’t this similar to what DeSantis is trying to do in Florida? I may have it wrong but I thought he was trying to strip rights down there too. Or is that Texas? >
  
  It's Florida. Texas has been doing plenty of ghoulish shit too but DeSantis is seeing how far he can push Florida into a totalitarian state and is warming the national GOP and voters up to his ideas. >
  
  Then I believe Trump is trying to one-up DeSantis by figuring out his platform before Ron even announces… which takes the wind out of his butt (Ron’s not Don’s). >
  
  He’s disgusting. >
  
  It's all calculated hate.  This guy is just malicious, sociopathic, and Machiavellian on every level and exists to undo the loose fabric of this country.  Get him the fuck into a prison for lunatics. >
  
  Typical religious ideology: all political, no science, cruelty as a primary objective. Evangelicals love this monster. >
  
  They will burn the entire country down as long as gays get to suffer more than they do. >
  
  They will eat as much shit as the GOP shovels into their slack-jawed mouths so long as it means liberals will have to smell their breath. >
  
  The Republicans are enacting a genocide on trans people. >
  
  This is exactly what’s happening. The Overton window shift is breathtaking. 6 or 7 years ago it was “we can agree to coexist but the bathrooms”, then it was “but the sports!”, now it’s “we will take your medical care, make it impossible to even talk to a therapist”
  They are marching us directly toward extermination. The trajectory could not be clearer. >
  
  Now we're at the stage where they're building the social and legal framework for classifying the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people as a sex crime.
  They're declaring gender variance to be inherently sexual and obscene and the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might see us, even if it's just standing in line at the goddam  grocery store, they're calling it pedophilic grooming by exposing children to degenerate sexual activity. >
  
  This is what frustrates me as a trans woman who isn’t even sexually active. I’m happier living as a woman in a female body, how is that hurting anyone??? >
  
  By existing, you’ll inform closeted trans people that there’s an option to be anything but straight and cis, therefore “converting” them. They don’t think being trans or gay is a natural state of being, they think it’s a kind of virus that springs itself upon straight people and forces them to be gay. And even if they don’t actually believe that, they’re also fascists who are scared of white people becoming a minority, so they want you to be straight, reproducing to make more white children and shut up. >
  
  My dad is not supportive of my transition. He has blamed my queer friends for indoctrinating me into their “cult” and that changing your body is morally wrong. He disagreed with my therapist who felt I met the DSM5 criteria for gender Dysphoria and told me I need to see other therapists who will give me the “other side” and options for becoming happy in my body as is.
  I tried to explain I’ve had Dysphoria for years and hid it from everyone and he said he thinks I’m lying and have been gaslit by my friends because he thinks if I had these feelings I would have told him because he is the most important person in my life and the first person I should trust with any information. >
  
  Respectfully, your dad sucks and I'm so sorry he isn't supportive of who you really are.  I'm a childfree woman, but I offer you a fatherly hug and a dad joke (below), because everyone deserves a good dad.
  "Why shouldn't you try to write with a broken pen?  Because it's pointless!  Haha!  Get it?  Pointless?  Isn't that a good one, njsullyalex?  Now go tell your mother that the game is almost over and I'll start cleaning the gutters soon." >
  
  I hate this motherfucker but always remember this is the GOP position. If he loses, someone else will do it and a whole lot more. They won't stop at trans people. >
  
  Interesting too because I was under the impression that conservatives are for State rights, but I guess that only applies when they agree with the issue, otherwise the president just bans shit and they are ok with it (as long as it’s their president, if it’s a democrat then it’s tyrant). 
  I also thought that conservatives were for less government interference, but they want the government to intervene in the info the sexual lives of random strangers who they will likely never meet. >
  
  Is 30-40% of the country really so hateful that they’re on board with this hateful shit?  Between this and the war on CRT, you’d think this shit would be deeply unpopular.
  I’ve met a lot of Conservatives that I question the intelligence of, but a lot of them weren’t straight up hateful of people of color or the LGBTQ community.  It’s nuts.
  At this point, nothing should shock or surprise me, but it’s still jarring to see this regressive push actually pick up steam. >
  
  I have a pair of cousins that are half-brothers.  One of them, the older, is a hardline conservative Christian that loves Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.  The other is gay and regularly performs as a drag queen.  While there is an age gap between them, they were still raised largely by and around the same people.  It absolutely amazes me that despite having a half-brother who is gay and who performs drag and is prominent in his local LGBTQ community, that the older cousin is still so hateful towards LGBTQ people.  As an adult, I haven't really seen him disparage his younger brother personally, but he will most certainly go on say Facebook and attack the LGBTQ community generally, often as a part of a larger attack on liberals.  
  The absolute lack of empathy regarding his own brother and his person and community is really just mindblowing. >
  
  God damn that's cold. This is why I've been telling my friends and family that support for the GOP is no longer about a "difference of political opinion." We can disagree on things like tax policy, but the current state of affairs is that one political party is going all in on hate. In words, actions, and policies, the Republicans are demonstrating that they have no ideas, no leadership plans, nothing beyond their culture wars and grievance politics.
  If they can't have empathy for their own siblings that is a special kind of fucked up. I hope the younger one has cut his brother out of their life. You don't get to tell someone you love them and then actively support hatred towards them. >
  
  Here is another interesting wrinkle to this that makes it even more frustrating:
  The males on that side of my family have a history of higher than normal levels of estrogen that can lead to things like some males having increased breast tissue.  The older cousin is one that suffers from this genetic predisposition.  Having that issue as a child/teen exposed him to shame about his body image and to bullying from his peers for, 'having boobs.'  He, even now, regularly recalls coming home from school crying about being bullied over this.
  Of course, as a kid growing up in the 90s this was never diagnosed nor addressed and was just something he had to live with.  It clearly traumatized him, as even weight loss nor of muscle gain really helped to alleviate the issue.  Now, as a middle-aged adult, he's been able to seek treatment and have the issue addressed and is taking hormone therapy to decrease the levels of estrogen and increase the levels of testosterone.  However, to my understanding, even that will only do so much and if he really wanted to fully fix the issue he'd have to have breast reduction surgery to remove some of the fatty breast tissue.
  He fully laments that this was not known and addressed as a teen when he could have merely taken hormone therapy treatments during puberty and the breast tissue would not have developed.  He now openly admits that this is something that he would have wanted to do as a teen were it known and available.
  This is the same man that mocks trans people for wanting to take hormones and for wanting to, and I quote, "cut their dicks off"  He apparently sees no hypocrisy in this stance and has been entirely unable or unwilling to relate his situation with theirs. >
  
  introspection is not one of their strong suits. >
  
  Fucking ghoul >
  
  I vow to have a drone accidently misfire and hit Trump with one of those meat slicer hellfires.
  Oh wait, what do you mean, I don't have any power to do that either?  
  What a dummy. >
  
  Trump is so predictable.  He watches the News, cherry picks red meat issues of the angry white male demographic and sets about posting his drivel.  It's a sick, depraved game. >
  
  And the fascist hits the gas on his fascism. >
  
  That's not fascist at all. 
  /s >
  
  He’s a disgusting fucking human being and anyone that aligns themselves with him are the same. >
  
  hey! douchenozzle! LGBTQIA friendly teacher and advocate here…just try to come and get me, moron. Go back to your overpriced and overrated Florida swamp shack and cheating at golf. 
  asshat >
  
  If his base all the sudden went pro trans he would become Darlene Trump. Fuck the GOP. >
  
  I immediately knew what this was and didn't click on it to keep that image from being burned into my brain again. >
  
  Yet another reason why this scumbag cannot have power ever again.  He definitely has brain damage of some sort.  Either that or one of the worst human beings of this decade. >
  
  Fireworks for when he kicks it >
  
  This is just nazis in 2023. Literally the same game plan the nazis had when their party was forming. Lol. >
  
  It's troubling how intent they are on making people's lives' worse just because they don't understand the science behind so many issues. No, it's not even not understanding the science, but something even more basic, like the complete rejection of context and circumstances in other's lives >
  
  This is genocidal. >
  
  Canadian here. This man scares me, because his beliefs have made their way up here. I live in the riding of the leader of the Conservative Party, who would probably vouch for this kind of shit. It’s mortifying and disgusting. So, please Gen-Z who can vote next year: please vote. Please. >
  
  And /r/moderatepolitics has let their mask come off when it comes to trans kids >
  
  GOP candidates are trying to out "far-right" other candidates.    The hate for minorites (LGBTQ) continues, sign.
  The GOP have beat the Black American hate so much that it is hard wired into far-right followers.   Now they are attacking gays and Jews.     
  Next will be attacks on Seniors?   Attack at Senior Centers. >
  
  Everytime I see a post like this I always point out that these types of attack do not attack children who get treatments to transition but they attack the treatments no matter the reason for getting them. 
  Passing any anti transition treatment bill will cause any children who seek these treatments for anything at all, health records to be made public. >
  
  They’re saying the evil part out loud and people still support them. Wtf. >
  
  This monster is pure evil >
  
  I hate these people. >
  
  Is the Trump crowd snapping their heels and saluting in agreement yet? I expect nothing less from that crowd. >
  
  Modern Republicans need only two things. 
  Someone to worship and someone to hate. >
  
  Why isn’t this fuck in prison? >
  
  He also talked about pressuring pharma companies into stopping usage of their products by trans people of any age. 
  If successful that would eliminate our ability medically transition without entering the black market. >
  
  How to prove you’re a hateful twat. >
  
  Yeah straight up go fuck yourself you vile piece of shit. >
  
  Such reckless hate >
  
  Gotta out-fascist Desantis. >
  
  Republicans love this idea, they want to censor the entire LBGT community and pretend they don’t exist. >
  
  Then they can move on to the next group they want to disappear. >
  
  Lower than scum. Why haven’t his poor eating habits taken him yet… >
  
  As someone who received healthcare as a trans kid, this is going to kill people if he gets re-elected. >
  
  This is so scary and dangerous for trans people and LGBTQ+ folks as well. I graduated from high school back in 2015 and came out as trans during a critical time. Being able to talk to my teachers and confide in them helped a lot. Now, talking about these issues at all in school will cause political backlash and “consequences” from fascists. >
  
  This isn’t just a ban on gender transitions for minors, but for all ages with no exception.  But it doesn’t stop there; he wants to criminalize our very existence.
  fuck this cheeto turd. >
  
  Nobody has ever loved this man and it shows. >
  
  I wonder how Caitlyn Jenner feels about supporting him now? >
  
  She also wants to ban healthcare for trans kids, so probably indifferent. Most of us (the trans community) hate her. >
  
  She's a trans uncle Ruckus. >
  
  This is what fascism looks like >
  
  The cruelty really is the point. I can’t see how these opinions could be popular to anyone with an actual conscience. >
  
  Well that’s actually the most fascist thing I’ve read today. 👏👏 >
  
  Get fucked fascist >
  
  There’s so many more important issues. >
  
  What a monster. >
  
  Gotta love the "small government" right, threatening to supercede the states and tell us what we can't do to our own personal biochemistry. >
  
  The US Christian Nationalist movement systematically criminalizing our fucking existence.
  This is not a fucking game. These laws are about building the legal and social groundwork for classifying sex and gender variation outside cis/heterosexual norms as being inherently sexual.
  The "drag bans", the "bathroom bills", the attacks on trans youth and now adult's medical care, the attempts to pull information about LGBTQ but especially trans people from public scools and libraries, and everything else they're doing, they're working towards making the public existence of trans and gender nonconforming people a sex crime.
  The laws they're trying to pass are so vaguely worded, the existence of trans and gender variant people is being classified as inherently sexual/"adult"/obscene/etc. And if they are able to pass these bans on "performers" they are absolutely going to use it to attack us in every other area of public life too.
  After all, if someone they consider a "man in a dress" is legally classified as an "adult performer" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to kids in a library while dressed as the titular character, what exactly does that mean for the person whom they consider a "man in a dress" who is just trying to go to her job as a 5th grade Music teacher? Or hell, just trying to go to the grocery store?
  They don't actually distinguish between "drag queen" and "trans woman", or between "performance" and "just going about our lives". They see trans and GNC people's existence as inherently sexual, and our clothing and gender presentation as the expression of a perverse fetish. If we are anywhere in public where a child might possibly see us, even if it's standing in line at the 7-11, they are claiming that this is pedophilic grooming through forcibly exposing children to degenerate sexual activity.
  And they aren't going to fucking stop voluntarily. There is no goddamn line where they will decide they've gone far enough, except the point at which we no longer exist. >
  
  We are about 3 steps away from them rounding up LGBT. Don't think we aren't.
  They already had the concentration camps for the immigrants. >
  
  It’s funny how he is against people picking their gender while trump himself picks which shade of orange he wishes to identify as. >
  
  Would his wig qualify him as trans-hairline? >
  
  Where the fuck at? mar a lago? >
  
  More hate pandering from the morally bankrupt leader of the gqp, to deflect from all the news about his many public crimes that hopefully land him in jail. >
  
  Last time it was Mexicans, this time it’s LGBTQ. It’s the easy populist tactics of any cheap politician. Unfortunately, there’s lots of people that eat it up.
  I just lost my job because I was replaced by a robot because I didn’t vote to unionize, and also my tooth ache bill was 25k, must be “the gays” fault!!!!!! Oh and African American history classes of course! >
  
  I’m tired of this fool. And I’m tired of his evading consequences.
  Send him to Guantanamo. >
  
  The same dude who was impeached, twice? The same dude who urged his followers to violence many times over, including on a US govt building? The guy who stole highly classified US govt documents? The one who sticks up for Pootin? The one with well documented Russian ties? Who paid a porn star hush money after committing adultery in his marriage? Whose company is under indictment for tax fraud? Whose university was fraudulent? Who just got done pleading the 5th over 100 times in a deposition? 
  Hmmm seems like this non-exhaustive list should disqualify him or better yet….wake up his moronic followers. >
  
  "I'm not homophobic or transphobic. I don't hate them. I just don't agree with their lifestyle.". 
  Yet, so many people will get behind this. This isn't "I don't agree", it's "You don't get the same rights and freedoms as other Americans because we hate you". I don't know how people can really hide behind the "I don't agree with their lifestyle" bullshit anymore. At some point, it's just glaringly obvious. Same thing with racism. No, not everything is racist or homophobic, but come on. Sometimes, it's just a huge flag you're flying that realllllllyyyyy implies it without 100% directly saying it. 
  Like me saying "Trump is a piece of garbage, dog poop eating cumstain, mentally handicapped fuck that should be thrown in the trash and stomped on."... It doesn't mean I hate him, I just don't agree with his politics. See how that sounds? I couldn't defend that with a straight face. How the fuck can these people try and defend their bullshit homophobia anymore. It's well beyond "I don't agree with their lifestyle". 
  Trump hates America. He hates freedom. Banning healthcare and consequences for LGBTQ sounds a lot like some very authoritarian regimes in the middle east. That's not freedom, that's control. >
  
  To any Republicans who are truly angry about these so called issues, I ask, why?
  20 years ago I was a fox news junkie and it led me down a path that I realized I was becoming bitter and angry at people I didn't know for absolutely no reason.  I realized this wasn't me and I realized it was fox that was feeding me this garbage.  Turned it off never watched again... Now the only people I get angry at are well you.  For wanting to control people's lives, >
  
  What can we do to stop this hate? How can we support transgendered people? >
  
  He wants to ban healthcare for everyone. He almost succeeded in mandating work requirements for Medicaid. >
  
  You know who else hated the LGBTQ community? His mentor, Roy Cohn.   "In a 2008 article published in The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin quotes Cohn associate Roger Stone: "Roy was not gay. He was a man who liked having sex with men. Gays were weak, effeminate. He always seemed to have these young blond boys around. It just wasn't discussed. He was interested in power and access."" >
  
  The radicalization of the right is terrifying. 
  I was a conservative Republican until 2020 (first 18 years of my adulthood).
  The Tea Party really catapulted this radicalization forward. They will say that government should have limited to now power and in the same breathe demand the government make laws according to their own beliefs that are often based in their religious belief. 
  They are trying to set up theocracy in the USA much like what happened in Iran and Afghanistan.
  Rest assured Trump and anyone who thinks like this are religious terrorists. 
  I didn’t know what a terrorist was until 9/11 when I was 17 years old. 
  I was full of terror as I realized that religious terrorists existed and could do great harm to people. 
  I haven’t felt that fear since 9/11 until Jan 6.
  These people are terrorists 
  We can not let them infiltrate and destroy democracy and replace it with their theocracy.
  Ive been banned from other social media for calling these people terrorists…
  I am not sure why…
  Terrorist: a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
  They threaten violence all the time and have committed violent atrocities over and over again including Jan 6.
  What Trump said in this video is intimidation agains civilians in the pursuit of political aims…
  They
  Are
  Terrorists! >
  
  I’m conservative, but in the “free country, do whatever tf you want” kinda way and this is no bueno >
  
  Tbh, I’m not convinced that Trump has any clear ideas of his own
  Seems he’ll jump on whatever right-wing buzzword train is currently popular. I don’t believe he’s an idiot like many do - but I don’t believe he’s got a clear understanding of why people are against trans ideology >
  
  I’m so sick of comments like this. I just cannot fathom how people harbor so much hate and/or disregard for others. Part of me wants to say ‘stop reporting on homophobic rhetoric, they just want attention’ but stopping reporting on this won’t prevent them from passing legislation or spreading vile shit. Not that reporting has been an effective deterrent either, but at least the public knows.
  God, I just want to live my life. I want my friends to live their lives. I want my community to live their lives. Please leave us alone. >
  
  And how exactly does he think , that politics like this will win him an election? This is highly un American and purely a far right single issue voter type plan >
  
  For the moment, he only needs to win the GOP nomination. But don't worry, the upside-down rainbow flag will make an appearance after the general election kicks off. >
  
  Hey remember when Reddit went full "both sides" on Hillary and Trump even though us LGBT people were screaming from the rooftops about what the GOP was going to do to LGBT people? 
  Because I remember. >
  
  What??!!? You mean both sides are not the same??? /S >
  
  It only took 8 years of Bush, 6 year of John Boehner/Paul Ryan and 4 years of Trump for Reddit to figure that out >
  
  Headline says "for trans kids" but in his video he says "of all ages". Like I know that's their end goal, but most know better than to say it and pretend like it's an issue of sports or minors. >
  
  The media is complicit. >
  
  What year is it? Why do certain people insist on ignoring the reality of this world? >
  
  He legitimately sounds like Hitler. It's not hyperbole anymore.
  A vote for Trump is a vote for concentration camps. We are so fucked. I do not understand this right wing obsession with us trans folks. It's terrifying. >
  
  As a teacher, I just love that a presidential candidate is threatening me here. We all know he’s hoping that some of his deranged followers will start harassing or killing teachers they think are “LGBTQ friendly.” I mean, god forbid I call a kid by the name and pronouns they want, or ask my students to respect people of different sexualities. God forbid.