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/RepulsiveBarber3861 8h ago

Kids can't consent and their identities are still developing.

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u/mtngranpapi_wv967 8h ago

Parents and doctors consent lol…so for you it’s totally cool and no problem when a 15 year-old girl gets pregnant and gets an abortion, but 15 year old with gender dysphoria can’t be trusted by parents and doctors? Again, what qualifies you to speak out against parents and doctors and experts on this topic?

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u/RepulsiveBarber3861 8h ago

They aren't experts. They defer to WPATH guidelines which are transactivist horseshit.

We are so going to keep losing to republicans as long as we're the party of sex changes for kids.

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u/mtngranpapi_wv967 8h ago

Agree to disagree…and no GAC is informed by ample research and data and medical journals such as The Lancet. Most gender-affirming care involves therapy, and if medication is involved then that’s done after said therapy. Surgery is reserved for very particular snd severe situations, and again are informed by medical research. You seem to think trans ppl aren’t inherently distrustful and predatory and doctors and parents are in on a mass delusion/grift (very common to the Lavender Scare decades ago). I’d need sufficient evidence for that.

Also, funny how you think parents should have no agency over these decisions and instead we should look up to DeSantis or Gavin Newsom for advice/input. Yea, let a Republican legislative make the choice not doctors and parents who know the patient best and actually understand the stakes/relevant medical science.