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Missouri GOP lawmakers want to ban trans adults from getting gender-affirming healthcare /
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/missouri-gop-lawmakers-want-ban-trans-adults-getting-gender-affirming-healthcare/
Starfury42
Once again - What the Fuck is wrong with the people in the Southern US? I'm in CA - we're not perfect - but again - What. The. Fuck.
IlluminaBlade
Use the litigation to ban anyone under 25 from entering the military.
Clockworkdancerobot
It was never about the kids.
Casually
To try to be more accurate the headline should be "Missouri Republicans want to ban trans people"
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Missouri lawmakers sure spend a lot of time worried about what's in your pants.
Pseudodraconian
The legacy of Trump continues to sabotage humanity in the USofA
latenightbreeze
So why hasnt the GOP been designated as a hate group yet?
Whatwhatsomethingbutt
These are the same people who'd lose their shit if you legislated that they couldn't eat horse paste or had to get vaccinated.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Shit like this is why I don't buy it when Republicans say they're protecting individual liberties. They take as much as they can.
fractalsphere
That's called legislative genocide. Shame on you, GQP
varyael
Really, so they're raising their voting age and ability to get loans/bank accounts/credit to 25, too, right? Right? Oh, it's just bigoted
diesel01
The point here is to create the perception that being LGBTQ is wrong and shameful, lesser and other.
onewallpaperaweek
JohnnyFiveAces
Mih-zurrah
Marikhen
Misery
WilliamKeith
First trans kids, then trans adults, then LGB adults, then allies, then anyone not loudly supporting the hate. It was always going to spread
skapanda616
Saigon333
It was never about protecting children. As always, they're just a helpful excuse for conservatives to hurt people.
casualgenderquestion2718
it’s points like this when i like to remind people that the first Nazi book burning was a trans healthcare clinic.
casualgenderquestion2718
amending Hegel’s quote of “history repeats itself” Marx said “history repeats itself twice, first as tragedy, then as farce”.
DrSchlepenstein
The GOP went full fascist.
eromitlab
The same assholes who argue against any health care reform by claiming it puts gov't bureaucrats between you and your doctor.
eromitlab
Guess it's okay if a white "christian" republican asshole with a bad haircut is the bureaucrat.
tygerpsimatrix
Wait, this would be the PRIVATE healthcare that they have to pay for as customers.... GOP-ocrasy knows no limits!
PsistormIkura
Ah yes, can die in a war starting at 18, but becoming who you are? THAT is too big a decision until you're older.
12ashwind
lol not in missouri u gotta suffer there
GeneralPrower
VOTE, GODDAMNIT, VOTE!
thebozworth
how DARE you bring religion into the vote! /s
mouseyroxy1
All I keep hearing is Republicans are mostly assholes, hypocrites and pedophiles
CosplayComet
If you see 'GOP lawmakers want to...' you know the sentence will end in someone getting fucked over.
MaximilianShade
People like Mr Rogers exist(ed), true nobility of the human spirit. I know it's possible, even in my lifetime.
MaximilianShade
So how the hell did we end up with so many f'ing sadistic sociopaths with completely absent empathy? Something in the water/air/polution?
TheMouseOfMadness
TL;DR - evangelicals and the "prosperity gospel"
SpacecouchCowboy
I don't want all the trans gay commie agenda grooming my 13 year old wife! -GOP
user3827492
they had to start marrying minors because we kept stealing their milfs from them. Senators didn't get sex ed and can't find shit
ucandcantunc
Make no mistake people, a religious war is being waged, just because it has not touched you yet, does not mean it will not.
Djkb6718
The Bible beating brickheadz that cause this shit need to be erased
storebrandproductmascot
Crazy how God is always on the side of the oppressive majority and never the oppressed minority.
WhyDoThis
It's crazy how God isn't represented like this at all in the bible yet these fuck heads use the Bible as their gold standard. God gave us >
WhyDoThis
free will, which ya know... Choosing a gender-affirming lifestyle falls under. They are all fake Christians. Screw anyone that wants to >
WhyDoThis
mess with others lives like this.
Djkb6718
Fucking A right. Their religion should never infringe on the right of others. Be well internet person.
TalkingSnake
Anyone else feel like some states are literally trying to legislate people who might vote differently out of the state?
DrSmitey
trans people make up such a small percentage of the population for this to be true
TalkingSnake
And the bigots do it. Weird, it’s almost like they are driven by irrational obsession.
OseaDidNothingWrong
Yes, that's the entire idea. Criminalize and demonize every demographic other than upper-middle class white cishet Christians.
TalkingSnake
Oh look, Madison “hitler youth” Cawthorn took a loaded gun to the airport and wasn’t arrested. Again. He’s done this before….
crossingdynasty
Yes, but it’s also a slippery slope towards empowering others to do the same. First kids, then adults, then national law.
CobainsSarcoma
codifying out-groups is the first stage of fascism/genocide.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
TX and FL are trying to work that into their state constitutions
Diplocrap
I very much feel like they’re trying to legislate trans people out of existence. Forcibly detransitioning trans people is evil.
casualgenderquestion2718
alternatively, the cruelty is the point. no overarching motive besides being cruel, because it polls well and makes them money.
whysomuchdoghair
It's absolutely the goal. People leave and those who are seeking their "freedumbs" move in. States like TX(where we live) will never flip.
AregularolPlumbus
That exactly what i see happening. I suggested that might be happening to my conservative mother and she said “maybe there needs to be…1
AregularolPlumbus
“…red and blue states.” Like WTF, you can’t have a functioning country that way. God dammit they’re so fucking delusional.
AregularolPlumbus
Whops, forgot the word “totally” in there.
OgreMkV
Yes. If the GOP gets a lock on TX and FL, then Dems MUST win the rust belt every election to keep the WH. Not to mention the 63 House reps.
Kemi337
Meanwhile if TX turns blue then GOP will have a hard time winning ever again for the forseeable future
OgreMkV
Exactly
talianagisan
Well blue states are very very concentrated or borderline. Get rid of enough borderline and boom you win forever.
Kemi337
Until they concentrate so much in "blue" states that the population sways and red states start losing seats/electoral votes
IdiotSavantTinker
I'd say that's spot on.
HughDaHand
Well trans people are >1% of the population so this won't be very effective for that.
catsandcoke
Legislate a lot of taxes away too
tinybartender
100% yes.
WhichEndDoITypeIntoAgain
Fuck these legislators. I ain't leaving. Missouri democrats: VOTE!! Lives depend on it.
Animorphs
Republicans are vile scum. I’ll be voting blue, moved to MO last summer.
Calise425
I hope a takeaway from the 2020 election is that most states are close. Votes do matter. Georgia went blue and Texas was honestly close.
kiwitreelady
I'm right here with you.
gingerminge
Texas, vote! When you leave, you leave the disenfranchised to suffer.
DiscoTurtle87
I am voting but its hard to give a fuck anymore, ya know... the emotional burnout is real.
eightyearplan
https://www.solidaritystl.org/
flashboredom
Vote for spite; it's what I do.
shygryphon9
Out of the state or dead its all the same to them
freckledkink
They are trying to cull the herd in many ways. I think more liberal people should move to these states and turn them blue. Shoot, most of
freckledkink
Them would be blue if it weren't for the tactics they've been using since they've been states to prevent anyone else getting power. Do you
freckledkink
Really think the southern states where half the population is black had the entire white population so conservative and racist? Or that many
freckledkink
Black people vote republican so they win by a majority? There are volumes written about how politics are done in the south.
zealabyrinth
I think what they really want is genocide.
LuminoZero
And I hope they succeed. A Civil War is impossible with a Rural/Urban divide, but if you have it by STATES, then you have someone to break.
LuminoZero
This isn't going to end until we finish the lesson we ignored in the 1800s.
TalkingSnake
I hope you like blood of the innocent, because that is what you are calling for.
Diplocrap
I’m trans. My mental health is terrible. I live in Nebraska. It borders Missouri. And Iowa, which passed a ban on trans girls in sports.
Diplocrap
Tell them trans people know. We know who we are. We’re happier this way. Some of us are happy for the first times in our lives.
Diplocrap
Tell them trans kids know. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t transition as adults. Trans adults are proof that trans kids know themselves.
Diplocrap
And KS and SD, both of which have anti-trans bills in their legislatures. Just seeing this news puts me on the verge of a panic attack.
CobainsSarcoma
I'm straight, white, cismale and raised Lutheran and Nebraska was STILL a lonely painful place. Good luck and keep strong.
Diplocrap
I’m trying. Thank you. And thank you for supporting us. We’re all in this together. Your support means more than you know. ?
Diplocrap
Tell them it doesn’t even matter if we’re “wrong”. What difference does it make to them, as long as we’re happy?
Diplocrap
Why do they need us to be miserable? Why is it important for us to be happy the exact same way they are?
paintingagency
Since modern conservatism is based on hate and spite, it's critical to have outgroups they can attack. I want you to be happy though ?
Diplocrap
Thanks. ? Some people are beyond reach, but I honestly believe most aren’t.
Diplocrap
I’m terrified. I need y’all to speak up to your friends. Tell we’re just regular people. We’re not hurting anybody by existing.
Diplocrap
Please. Talk to them. Kindly. Change their minds. This is what we need. We need your help. Please.
Diplocrap
I'm having trouble working. It's affecting my entire life. And I'm not even one who is actively looking for out of state sources for my HRT.
Diplocrap
Tell them it doesn’t matter if they understand being trans. If course they don’t, if you did, you’d be trans.
FiestyFriendFox
If I could afford to move....... where would I go?
TalkingSnake
Right? There isn’t a “good” place in the US. There are some places that suck less but shits weird all over.
yeahhedugit
Legislate them to death?
DMSledge
Make it so no decent person would live in the state.
Saigon333
What you mean, is that those states have never stopped.
cadesama
Yes. Terrorizing people is the first goal. Getting them to leave is the second.
disodiumbenzoate
It’s a decent interpretation of all this
TalkingSnake
Uppity women? Don’t you wanna leave and not be jailed for having a miscarriage? Any gays or trans or just a person that doesn’t conform to -
TalkingSnake
a myopic opinion of gender display? Oh y’all are next and you know it. We already made it deadly to be disabled, you can die here that’s -
TalkingSnake
fine. Now the problem with scaring the non whites out is there has to be a remarkably better place to live in the US.
tumppu
Finding a better place than missouri in the u.s.? There's like 48 states to pick from.
TonawandaBlue
They would rather have those kids just kill themselves.
NotAHugeSpider
More proof the so-called "pro-lifers" are really just pro-forced birthers who only give a shit until the kid is born.
Xedi22
As it’s just a well marketed political rally point…so nothing greater or logical around the installed viewpoint is promoted or considered.
StarSumiaki
They would rather trans people as a whole just kill themselves. Because this won't end at just 25.
Vikingtransgirl
That is the point, it's to make us leave or die. It's about the cruelty
skapanda616
Chromeshack
Can't make big decisions before 25. So ban student loans, buying a house, a car, marriage, military, having kids.
Munchman347
Voting Republican...
TAYLORSWlFT
And all crimes are in juvenile court and get removed from your record at 25.
junkgoof
Voting. The goal is to raise the voting age so that old guys can keep their base older, and ignore their kids.
Diplocrap
It’s a common TERF/transmedicalist talking point that 25 is too late to transition. So that’s part of it. (It isn’t. I transitioned at 41.)
Diplocrap
I know people who transitioned in their 50s and 60s. It's never too late.
Chromeshack
You're telling me that people that are so afraid of anything to do with human anatomy that they won't even use the correct terminology
Chromeshack
Woth their kids don't understand something as nuanced as....I dunno how to phrase it. People being who they are?
Diplocrap
Yup. They worry about “trans trender” kids, etc. The graph of left-handedness over time comes to mind.
Chromeshack
Ah yeah, when we stopped forcing kids to be right handed because left handed people were the devil or whatever.
user3827492
And obviously forgive any debts made before 25 years old since we're not mentally mature enough to make them.
GpaSags
Unless you're an 18yo kid about to ship to basic so you marry your 16yo pregnant gf, of course.
NotAHugeSpider
And no picking a religion until 25 too. Require Religion 101/102/201 courses that do an objective overview of all the big ones & atheism.
xrosstalk
All of these things should be made by neurodevelopmental adults. Military included. These people are malicious though. They wear 1/-
xrosstalk
their prejudice like a badge of freaking honour. I think all of those things are reasonable considering life spans in the near future. 2/fin
EaNasirIsABastard
Mandatory free education and strongly encouraged birth control until 25 sounds like a pretty good plan. Let people join the military at 18 >
EaNasirIsABastard
but let them leave without notice until 25 and no deployment before 25.
HiMyNameIsKevinIHaveChangnesia
Deploying is the only thing that makes military life tolerable.
Makerofroads
Disagree
HiMyNameIsKevinIHaveChangnesia
Well, maybe not the only thing but without doubt in the top 3.
CallThisAUsername
Nope, no big decisions, they said. So no joining the military.
EaNasirIsABastard
Hard to say it's a big decision. You can just change your mind and leave as soon as you want to.
CallThisAUsername
And take the indoctrination with you ?
EaNasirIsABastard
If you can't join before 25 that would be a huge handicap to the military.
EaNasirIsABastard
if you are indoctrinated you aren't in a military you are in a cult.
Sloppydrunkcatlady
Yeah, not really in the states
EaNasirIsABastard
Why are your cats drunk?
6313326
In the US, anyway, you sign an enlistment contract, so there can be quite serious consequences for leaving whenever you want to.
EaNasirIsABastard
In the UK, you can join at 16, but you can any day before your 18th birthday just say, "Hey, I'm going to leave now, bye" and walk away.