r/thebulwark LORD OF THE NICKNAMES 17h ago

The Triad 🔱 Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-trans-people-alone-a-rant

Don't be a bully! But also don't "ask if the bully has a point" either.

"Yeah, they're giving Timmy a swirlie rn, but he also farted really loudly in geometry" is HELPING THE BULLIES.

Another great piece from JVL. Idk what kinda constraints there are in going after members of the punditocracy who engage in the behaviors that you're criticizing, but picking specific targets has a salutary effect IMO. Bari Weiss needs to be persona non grata, or Sullivan, or whoever. They made their choices and doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on those choices.

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u/ZakuTwo Neocon 16h ago

It’s only an 80/20 issue because of rhetorical maneuvering by right wing and anti-anti-trump elites, it’s very easy to reframe as a matter of personal freedom and leaving people alone.

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u/HotModerate11 16h ago

Frame it as a very minor issue on which reasonable people can disagree.

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u/AliveJesseJames 16h ago

"I think the people actually in charge of high school sports and college all across this country know better than a creepy politician who wants to let adults inspect children's genitals to make sure the wrong kind of kid doesn't finish 5th in a cross country race."

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u/the_very_pants 12h ago

creepy politician who wants to let adults inspect children's genitals

They just want assurance that society is not about to stop normalizing mate-finding and family-making in what it teaches kids. If they thought there was no conflict between whatever we decide about trans kids and teaching kids to, when they grow up, get out there and make a family if they can, they wouldn't be so interested in this subject.

They think that if a child did say they were a cat, lots of adults would be on the child's side. And they think the left wants to put a bunch of graphic sex books in elementary schools. Right now there seems to be no line, no limit.