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They're not interested in facts or outcomes, they just want to ban transness and gender non-conformity in general. Similar to the abortion policy; see the Puli
by pjc50 2y ago
They're not interested in facts or outcomes, they just want to ban transness and gender non-conformity in general.
Similar to the abortion policy; see the Pulitzer winning article https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-wins-pulitzer-prize-public-service-2025 https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-wins-pulitzer-... . Sure, it might kill some women, but they're never going to pay attention to that.
- garciasn 2y agoNo; they want to have a distraction for their voters to latch their attention on to while they do other shit that is terrible. Previously: communists / abortion George Bush II: terrorists / LGBTQ+ / abortion Trump: immigrants / LGBTQ+ / educators / liberals / terrorists / gangs / etc
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> while they do other shit that is terrible Namely, blow out the deficit to fund tax cuts and engage in massive grift.
- sebazzz 2y agoBTQ+ only. Peter is gay so they don't hunt gays anymore.
- rsynnott 2y agoThis isn't a purely American thing, either. For quite a while, the British right's thing was Brexit. When Brexit actually happened, this kind of evaporated as a motivator, and they very visibly tried to pivot to transphobia as a primary voter motivator (it didn't really work, but it was remarkably blatant).