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Can I ask the shack to please, when expressing frustration with the Republican culture war bullshit to stop specifically complaining about them not focusing on “Real issues”?

I understand your intent. The republicans shouldn’t be spending time on culture war stuff as it’s just petty and hateful.

But, them attacking trans people is still a real issue. My rights as a human being are still a real issue. Not considering my civil and human rights as a “real issue” is why democrats never got around to ratifying our rights into law when they had the chance.

It’s still a real issue and phrasing what the republicans are doing as not a real issue just plays into their hands when they attack us by building a narrative that our rights don’t matter and aren’t important one way or the other.

Trans people are 4 times more likely to encounter violence than any other minority group in the United States.

You want to cede bathrooms? Ok let’s talk about it

You pass laws and cede fucking bathrooms. I now have to use a men’s bathroom in 90% of the country where they don’t have gender neutral bathrooms. I am then putting myself in a situation where I get raped or assaulted. It happens all the time. You don’t hear about it because we maybe survive even though we are permanently hurt. It happened to a former Shacker too.

So I can’t safely use a public bathroom or have to hunt for a genderless one. Did you also know the most common testosterone blocker for a trans woman is a diuretic too? Which means most typically have to pee every 30 minutes to an hour or they will have to pee themselves before surgery or being potentially able to go long enough they no longer need the blocker.

Do you also know how important bathrooms are for women in society when we don’t feel safe? Do you know 99% of women fully accept and are fine and in most cases don’t even know a trans woman is in the bathroom with them. Do you know how absolutely vital is having access to the space is to survive?

Also how are you going to enforce this? Are you going to check what is in our pants? Does everyone show ID at the door? Because even for that to work then you need to strip my legal status in the country to sex assigned at birth.

What happens when women are in men’s bathrooms all the time and vice versa?

Or do you just segregate and other us like people of color pre-civil rights so we just don’t have the same rights as everyone else. Maybe we have to now eat in our own part of the building or go around back to pee.

This is the can of worms you are opening up if you are fucking stupid enough to support this and it makes my life in public near impossible in most circumstances. Imagine being in constant fear every time you have to pee and needing to pee every 30 minutes.

FUCK YOU

It’d be more effective if RFKj was a science-based health advocate and not a conspiracy theorist. There’s no evidence that seed oils are a health risk. Fluoride in water is one of the greatest public health innovation in history. And for gods sake there’s nothing wrong with taking ADHD meds.

Probably the most disgusting thing I've eaten from McDonald's

Sure:

- ability to get the healthcare I need after discussions with doctors and psychologists and getting the medical approved standard of care without government interference simply because I am transgender.

- for parents to be able to do the same for their children

- for schools to be able to support their students needs

- for information about us and our needs and care and scientific studies supporting all this not to be labeled as pornography to bypass freedom of speech

- to not fear being arrested for dressing as my gender around a minor due to it being perceived as pornographic for me simply wearing a dress, in public pruent to the public interest. I’m looking at you TN drag ban

- not being denied basic services or fired from a job or abused because of discrimination and having the right to seek legal action same as anyone else when it happens

- being able to use the appropriate fucking bathroom in peace and not have my privacy of what may or may not be in my pants invaded and questioned constantly

- to not be segregated and othered from society

- to be able to play sports with my peers

And this is without even touching where broader women’s and LGBT+ rights issues intersect with trans people.

Those are all ones to start. I’m not asking to force people to accept trans people as the norm or force opinions. I just want the same rights without discrimination as the rest of society and to be left alone to live my life.

What if we throw trans folks under the bus and the right invents another bogeyman immediately after to scare the shit out of their base? Because they are going to.

There is no silver lining. Don't give this garbage any credit or any room for acceptance. The "food is poisoning us" path is the well worn track to anti-science/anti-vaxx. People like RFK Jr want to make knowledge and science the enemy. The enemy is the corporations run by the billionaires who are allowed to exploit us because they aren't regulated.

Being anti-vax is disqualifying. It's such a public health danger that being against HFCS or corn subsidies is trivial next to it.

servicing rights get sold all the time. Won't end till you pay off yer shit.

Donald Trump doesn’t have any real ideas on how to do anything, so I’m wondering if they’re going to try to just deflect on everything to culture war cruelty and immediately take credit for the relatively strong Biden economy.