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Imagine getting free surgery of any kind in the U.S. That's how you know this is a false claim.
Somehow you get socialized medicine if you want gender reassignment surgery and you're a child.
Sound logic. Actually the most penetrable, I think, for these dolts.
Damn and to think there's all these lazy trans people saying it's too expensive to afford surgery when they didn't just get their free one at school. Slackers honestly.
Stay in school, (trans) kids!
Shit. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that surgery? When I got it, insurance didn't cover it. I had to fly to Thailand to afford it. Even with going overseas it was still about $18k USD including flights and everything. And that was in 2013 dollars. I worked my ass off to afford that. And that's to say nothing of the endless psych evals, therapist letters, and myriad other hoops you have to jump through. It is NOT something you can just stumble into, even if you had an unlimited budget behind you.
And I'll tell you, I was pretty young looking for my age. A bit into transition I was once walking down the street in the middle of the day on a weekday, and I literally had a cop stop me, thinking I was a high school student playing hookie from school. Meanwhile I was 24, having recently finished a masters degree.
My point is...if you could just walk into a high school and get surgery covered like that, and done no questions asked? I would have legitimately become one of those weirdos who fakes being a teenager and enrolls in a high school in their twenties. I probably could have pulled it off. I would have claimed to be a homeless kid, enrolled in a local high school, got the surgery, and then disappeared again. Compared to what I did go through to get it, that would be child's play.
Of course, idiots like Trump don't even realize how involved that surgery is. This is not some outpatient procedure you do in the morning and are up on your feet in the afternoon. Plan a month off of work. That's what it realistically involves. Then imagine paying for it and finding a way to arrange such an extended absence from the very job that allows you to afford it, all while also paying your regular bills and keeping a roof over your head.
For those who need it, gender reassignment surgery is literally life-saving. I can say that from personal experience. But to see ignorant fools like Trump make light of a thing that you had to work so hard to get?...I do not have the words to express it.
Who is doing the operations, Don? The school nurse with the cafeteria staff handing them scalpels and shit?? Band teacher anesthesiologist. OK I'm done.
That's quite a step up from school nurse when I was a kid. You'd come in there bleeding to death and she'd give you a Tylenol and send you back to class.
Wow, that's quite a step up from school nurses here. We can't even give kids any medication that wasn't provided, with a prescription, by the parents.
Tylenol? Nope. You get a bag of ice wrapped in a paper towel, a large bathroom to vomit in, a thermometer, and a napping table with a privacy curtain that almost reaches all the way around it.
The 80s was a different time.
It's just such an obvious and outrageous lie. If you believe that, you'll believe anything.
Also, if it was happening, wouldn't the parents be the ones complaining? I mean, wouldn't the parents be famous right now? They'd be on all the talk shows making the news circuit.
If this actually happened, the parents' names would be famous. Trump would be parading these people around.
Also what benefits should the underfunded school system have for giving out expensive surgeries for free? What do they stand to gain from that?
The schools get newly indoctrinated woke soldiers. /s
One of my daughter's best friends is trans. I told my daughter that maybe he'll get lucky and the school nurse will construct a penis for him.
Even if that claim is remotely close to true. Why? What on earth would the purpose for a gender transition conspiracy possibly serve?
You have to do more backflips than simone biles to match the mental gymnastics for that kind of thinking.
His base believes in doing things just for the cruelty. So these ridiculous claims, (gangs taking over apartments, immigrants eating cats, forced transitions) are believable to them based on their own support for doing things just to be cruel.
Trump's most successful political method was that he changed lanes faster than anyone could keep up. It allowed him to control the narrative. You're falling for the same tricks that won him the 2016 election. Don't engage.
Just call them weird and move on.
"Sure is weird someone is thinking about school children's genitalia instead of their choice of weapons for a school shooting, especially at a time like this." Done.
According to my biology teacher, its to lower the birth rate
The birth rate is low because right-wing politics make people not want to have children. But I can see how people invested in right-wing politics would be motivated to ignore that.
The birth rate is low because right-wing politics make people not want to have children.
Credit where credits due, he took that from Orbán(hungarian pm). Orbán started saying this exact same thing like 5 years ago. Now it progressed so far that even kindergartaners are being converted with "gender conversion surgeries". People unironically believe this bullshit. They say it so much that "nemátalakító műtét" became kind of a meme. Prepare america, if you fuck up this election its over.
I went to the school nurse with a 103 fever and the nurse told me to lay down and offered me an ice pack. MFs can't even give you Tylenol. You think they're arranging free surgery? The only other tool they have is bandaids
They don't even have bandaids most of the time because "somebody" cut funding to the bone.
In any sane world, this level of blatant lying would immediately disqualify one from being electable in a democracy
Penis inspection day is now penis removal day.
Coaches are making some cuts to the foosball roster
Oh wow, so now schools not only do a gender reassignment surgery during recess, but it is forcing children too?
I mean at this point, I'm seriously wondering who are the people that believe this? The lies are gettting ridiculous at this point.
I have relatives with master's degrees that work in education that you can not convince that cat litter bathrooms are not a thing.
"I heard a thing that justifies my bigotry, therefore it must be true, because if it isn't true I'm not a good person."
The same people that believed schools were putting litter boxes in the bathrooms for students to use.
Not the best or the brightest.
For an adult to get SRS in the US, they generally need to have two letters from therapists supporting the surgery (for both surgeon requirements and insurance), and insurance that actually covers it (unless they wanna pay like $100k out of pocket). But no, teachers are just doing it to kids for free.
You ever see how many pairs of safety scissors are in a kindergarten classroom? What did you think all those were for?
Its ridiculous, my British uncle is convinced Critical Race Theory is tour is in school. I asked him what critical race theory is and he didn't know. People are being lied to and then they tie it to ego and become talking heads for shit they have no idea of beyond surface level.
I asked him what critical race theory is and he didn't know.
Same thing happens when you ask someone complaining about "the woke" what that word actually means. Blank stare and no coherent answer.
People are being lied to and then they tie it to ~~ego~~ preexisting prejudices
Whether it's racism, sexism, transphobia....it's lies that are easy to believe because it feels true.
I mean he's not wrong... i got reassigned and got surgery multiple times in recess Tuesdays before math... thankfully it was a pair number of times so I stayed the same gender after school
I didn't because I got a cootie shot. It wasn't as easy as it sounds, it involved a circle, circle, dot, dot.
They are the ones trying to force people to be someone they don't want to be.
sigh I wish my rights and existence weren’t treated like this. Like I’m sure I can think of something pithy or brave or whatever but I’m just so damn tired of this shit
Teachers can barely force teens to do their schoolwork, how on earth are they supposed to force them into a "gender transition op"?
Trump falsely claims
Is a complete statement, and is true on a daily basis. Usually multiple times a day.
What was that thing he said the other day that was factual and true? I forget…
He finally admitted he lost the 2020 election...
Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it?
-Trump during a Fox interview last week
I sent my son to kindergarten and got back a daughter!
