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• Aidinthel@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  US conservatives lost the war against homosexuality and so they needed to move on to a new target that didn’t have as much mainstream acceptance (yet). There is no good reason for their hatred other than that the fundamental purpose of conservatism is to divide the world between a privileged in-group and a marginalized out-group.

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  • Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s really silly when it’s simplified like that, but yeah. Slavery and racism, women’s rights, and gay rights are kind of out of style now. Rallying against them doesn’t get the voter base they used to get, so they have to lean into a new scapegoat.

    Black people just want to live their lives. Women just want to live their lives. Gay people just want to live their lives. Trans people, contrary to most people, still want to live their lives.

    When it’s not cool to target transgender people anymore, they’ll move on to something else. That’s what they’ve always done.

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• ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The GOP is not protecting children from anything. It never has done. The GOP is protecting itself by directing the rage and wrath of its base away from its own incompetence and malevolence so that its base doesn’t see it for what it is: a collection of billionaires and billionaire quislings worsening the conditions for non-billionaires at an accelerating pace.

  Trans is just the latest in a long series of distractions that the conservative base keeps stupidly falling for. (My introduction to their bullshit was the crusade against Dungeons & Dragons and the closely-related Satanic Panic. Ever notice how both those aren’t things anymore? Did they really protect children against the harms of D&D given that D&D’s current edition is the best-selling version of that game in history? No, because it was never about protecting children.)

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• deadtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nothing. Not a damn thing that i suspect is by design. In my opinion it’s smoke and mirrors to distract from the fact that they support underage sex by older men through child marraige.

  Did you know only 4 states in the u.s. require both parties be 18 and provide proof? Did you know there are 10 states where there is no lower boundary in age for the child? Did you know the lions share of child marraige involves an older man taking a female child as their bride through “parental, judicial, religious, or pregnancy exceptions.” The pregnancy exception is really interesting considering a child cannot consent… but if you get married after its all gravy…

  “In the United States, child marriage is a pervasive issue with devastating domestic consequences.  Between 2000 and 2018, almost 300,000 children were married in the United States alone, with approximately 30,000 to 60,000 of those marriages occurring at a spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime.”

  childusa.org/child-marriage/

  Republicans support child marraige while insisting Democrats are paedophiles, presumably to create a smoke screen for themselves. It’s always projection.

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• atlasraven31@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s straight from the Fascist playbook. To get to the end result of genocide, first you start showing how not all Nazis are bad and that (target group) is actually bad. Then you ostracize them. Then…

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• Lodespawn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "QUICK LOOK OVER THERE AT THOSE PROBABY SEX CRAZED PEDO TRANS PEOPLE, and certainly don't look over here at these actually sex crazed GOP friendly pedos .."

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• krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well they need a marginalized group of people to blame all their problems on, provoke fear and hatred of said group to justify their need for absolute control. Oh wait no that’s the nazi party. eh, still works.

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• Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With homophobia headed for the hospice in most US cities and suburbs, the right is desperate for a new scapegoat and thinks they can give their dying party another lease on life by accusing transgenders of grooming and then accusing all who try to defend the accused of the same failings- just like they did in the late 2000s, when people first started realizing that 2 consenting guys or 2 consenting girls getting it on isn’t “unnatural” or “icky”

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  By teaching the unbiblical doctrine of “consent”, transgender people and other liberals might teach children to recognize “sexual abuse” when it’s done to them by their parents, pastors, coaches, or other authority figures. This would undermine God-given authority.

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• ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Soooo, not taking sides on this one because it’s very divisive buuuut……

  The conservatives are worried that therapists are run amok and are out there convincing normal kids that are on a path of self discovery that they should flip genders. I mean I’m a guy and there were definitely points in my life where I wondered what it’s like to be a girl beyond just the simple question. There’s some validity to this because the therapy community has made messes before (see “recovered memories”)

  As an example of this, at a recent pride event I was at, I saw a 10 year old wearing the asexual flag. They’re far too young to try and define what they are, they we’ll change as life goes on…… but more than that, should a 10 year old have a sexuality?? Are they actually asexual or just 10 and not yet finished puberty?

  I don’t have the answers, but it’s a valid question.

  That being said, the reality is that there are VERY few children who actually transition that early in life and they seem to be fairly clear cases, so the risks seem WAY overblown and the blowback on that great mongering is a huge safety risk to the trans community and frankly the lgbtq community as a whole. So while they do have a somewhat valid but minor concern, they’re treating it like every elementary school teacher is trying to find the “trans” in everyone. It gets much worse than that in the “don’t say gay” bills.

  Then there’s the sports problem and quite frankly I agree with the conservatives on that one. Trans folk should compete with the men’s/open leagues and not the women’s leagues. Testosterone is too powerful to allow trans (in either direction) to obliterate the women’s leagues.

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  • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re far too young to try and define what they are, they we’ll change as life goes on…… but more than that, should a 10 year old have a sexuality??

    I’m going to go out on a limb here and bet that you don’t call out parents saying that their little boy is a “lady’s man” or their little girl is going to be “fighting off the boys”.

    Society is perfectly happy to stick orientation on children, but somehow, people only care when it’s the kids themselves saying that they don’t agree with the default assumption that their heterosexual.

    Even if your wrong, and the kid in question doesn’t turn out to be ace, the best thing you can do as a parent is let them find themselves and support them whilst they do it. Maybe they go through some labels before they arrive at certainty, but who cares? The end result is they know who they are more than a lot of other kids do, especially if those kids aren’t straight, but have had straight identity forced on them since birth.

    Then there’s the sports problem and quite frankly I agree with the conservatives on that one

    Then you haven’t done enough research, and are responding to an active misinformation campaign and wedge tactic. Which is exactly the reason it’s used that way by the people you’re agreeing with…

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  • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Testosterone is too powerful to allow trans (in either direction) to obliterate the women’s leagues.

    You are factually misinformed by how hormone therapy works. Testosterone is surpessed in trans women via medication in addition to estrogen being added. It's very VERY common for cis women to have higher levels of testosterone than trans women since they are not actively removing from their system. Studies have been done trans women have no statical advantage in strength, endurance or stamina.

    I hope you will watch this video, I assure you it help clear somethings up.

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  • Ocelot@lemmies.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Always look for the most downvoted comment for the most well thought out answer. Im not saying their right but I’m at least open to the thought of another point of view, especially one that an entire half of the country has.

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    • alokir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ever since the internet became so popular political discussion has devolved into repeating the same lines as some political influencer while silencing everyone who disagrees.

      This isn’t even unique to one “side”. In my home country it’s the people who call themselves conservative christians who have the most support and you’re wasting your time trying to talk with them. They assume you’re some woke agent on the payroll of some Jewish billionaire.

      There’s a difference between having a different opinion, being misinformed or being malicious on purpose, but everyone assumes the latter for some reason.

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• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re saving the kids for the priests to fuck.

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• lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lookup libs of tiktok. I think that is what its called.

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• Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Leftism acts like a cult.

    Trump: **

    QAnon: **

    Yeah, sure buddy. Whatever lets you look in the mirror without getting the urge to smash that face into a bloody pulp.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t act like you’re not in the Biden cult like the rest of us. Don’t forget tomorrow is Wednesday so you need to get up, go to work, come home, make dinner for your family, and enjoy the rest of your night and get a good night sleep.

      /s

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    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How is that relevant to the question of whether leftism/wokeism acts like a cult?

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  • whenigrowup356@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Also, you hear stories about groomers.” Here’s the thing: grooming is a real thing, and it has nothing to do with being trans or letting kids know that trans people exist.

    The sad part about all of this groomer talk from the right is: now this language is politically coded and no longer useful for discussing real grooming like high school teachers doing sketchy stuff with their students.

    Not that anyone using this language cares about the well-being of actual children, but if they did you’d think they might consider something like this.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It projection. If they’re complaining about it, they’re doing it.

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