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Fuck you, Manchin. Burn in the deepest pit of whatever hell you believe in. You know you've earned it.
I hope he stubs his toe in every room he walks into for the rest of his life
I hope he stubs his toe and it gets infected and he gets a slight case of sepsis.
I hope he stubs his toe, trips, and falls face first into a railroad spike, thereby making the world a better place to live in because a hateful waste of life bigot will be gone and no one will have to deal with the dumb bastard any more.
Be the change you wish to see in the world
Whoa. Dial it back a little. 90%. Give him tiny hope. It makes the failure worse.
Give him tiny hope
I hope he stubs his TINY toe in every room he walks into for the rest of his life
And the other sock is perpetually wet
Piece of shit. Piece of shit. Piece of shit.
Oh no, you summoned Joe Manchin
Maybe some guy will come along and punch him in the face.
It’s not just Manchin that voted for it, other Democrats did too.
Heads up for those that follow it (aka trans folks), Biden took a turn on trans rights as well. He now supports bans on “gender affirming surgeries for trans kids”. Which is where Republicans started their crusade to try to ban all gender-affirming care for trans folks. (Yes, I know that slippery slope isn’t a valid argument, but in this case they actually started there and what they are now advocating for).
And people wonder why so many gender non-conforming folks are refusing to vote for Biden.
We all know that "gender affirming surgeries" aren't being performed on minors. Publicly being against something that doesn't happen seems more like a calculated way to get support from ~~morons~~ low-information voters.
Like literally everyone who isn't a rich white Christian man, trans lives will get significantly worse under Trump. Rational self-interest should be reason enough to vote for Biden.
Gender affirming surgeries are given to cis minors all the time. We just call it plastic surgery.
Obviously in this context we're talking about gender affirming surgeries for trans children, not Aughbreylynn's dad buying her bolt-ons for her 16th birthday.
They are being performed in very low numbers (like single digits in the country, and in very extreme cases). But it shouldn’t matter, no part of government should be interfering in medical decisions, even if they’re very rare. Ever. The Republicans in our state started with that and trans women in sports, and ended with proposing constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. They’ve already banned trans health care for minors and started banning books in schools. And they’ve proposed banning all gender affirming care in the state and ran out of time.
Rational self interest is what made me vote for Hillary and Biden the first time. I’m in a deep red state, my state’s electoral college votes are going to Trump without a doubt. I’ll be voting Democrat down ticket, because in my state the national elections won’t matter. It’s the state banning gender affirming care, banning abortions, privatizing schools, etc. And Democrats can’t stop it at the state level (Republicans have supermajorities in both legislatures and will hold the governorship for at least 2 more years), and at the national level they don’t seem to try to care to try to stop it either. If I had resources, I would have already left the country. Many of my friends have.
So my vote isn’t going to count either way, it might as well try to serve as a wake up call to the Democrats that they have to be more than “not really fascist” to win an election.
And people wonder why so many gender non-conforming folks are refusing to vote for Biden.
I don't wonder that, because we're not refusing to vote for Biden. Except for the suicidal trans doomers who are willing to throw their lives away making a political statement. Which is absolutely tragic, but also fuck them for risking all our lives too.
It'll be fun revisiting this if Biden somehow wins and project 2025 policies still get implemented. Then it'll be on to the next issue we totally have to vote blue to stop
I hope it burns with the cleanest coal hell has to offer
"Must-pass defense bill"
And puts stuff into it that (hopefully) will make it impossible to pass.
I'd really like to see them pass some restrictions on religious proselytizing. I know they won't 'cause 1st Amendment, but that's what's driving the anti-trans and anti-LGBT policies.
Edit: Sorry for any spelling mistakes or grammar errors, I wrote this while tired, which causes me blurry vision.
It's Transphobia, that's what it is, all of it. There's no logical reason to FIRST target this as a budget cut, like wtf.
Within the past week or two, I've basically have been accepting the fact that I'm transgender, after literal years of questioning. It's shit like this that makes me want to closet myself back in. Why is it not normal for people to just simply have respect (human decency!) For people's varying sexualities and gender identities. It's not hurting anyone.
It may be easily seen as entirely sexual, but it's really not, because that's really correlated to love, features of your body, etc. But there so much more to it than that. All of this is normal for human beings to do, it's only been thought of being normalized in recent years, and people are just now finding comfort in being open about it.
I just want everyone to be able to (within reason) be comfortable, confident, and be open about who they love, what they feel about themselves, how they want to express themselves. And I don't mean making entire personalities about it (I think some of us have to be more involved about it, because we have to fight to exist), but not making or going out of your way to discomfort them.
Let us live, in peace, please. We don't want to hurt anybody.
❤️
End religious tax exemptions. At this point, they can't stop themselves from crossing the line. Just accept the reality they are going to be political and tax them like any other business.
Why would we care about people? Seriously?
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Lol WHY do they care so much about genitals that aren't theirs, and that they'll never see anyway? Aren't all these people monogamous and married?