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> thinly veiled attack It's not veiled at all. > massive personal choice, with tremendous cost and a huge emotional and mental ordeal to undertake It is inde
by mutant_glofish 3y ago
> thinly veiled attack
It's not veiled at all.
> massive personal choice, with tremendous cost and a huge emotional and mental ordeal to undertake
It is indeed a personal choice, and that's part of the argument against it being taxpayer-funded.
For example, do you think cosmetic surgeries should be taxpayer-funded? They are also often very important for the person who wants to go through them, are costly, and sometimes have long recovery periods.
> The oddest part is that one would expect the right should support the
You are, of course, making a grotesque caricature of your political opponents. Here, the issue is simply that they don't want to pay for a surgery they see as immoral, barbaric, and unnecessary.
- superchroma 3y agoThe surgery is one thing, but biocompatible estradiol is inexpensive. The surgery, an uncommon thing, is routinely held up for public mockery as part of the right's obsession with transgender people. And the right make those caricatures entirely on their own. They are indeed immoral and barbaric. Have you been amongst conservatives discussing prison sentences for pedophiles lately? They bay for blood, call for extreme, vicious violence and death against such criminals. If such talk is to be believed, then they do not believe in the justice system, but in vigilante justice. I feel no commonality with such unprincipled people, even if our views on other issues are not so different.
- porkbeer 3y agoWhy are you comparing transgender persons and pedophiles?
- superchroma 3y agoI'm not. I am pointing out that outspoken voices on the right throw out the law and principles when it suits them.