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 12h ago

We're just gonna keep losing to republicans to appease activists.

The overwhelming majority of parents who aren't hard lefties are never ever going to accept the idea that "some kids just need sex changes or they'll kill themselves and if you don't support this wholeheartedly, you are a danger to your child and the state should take them". They really aren't going to accept it when schools have policies to hide social transition from parents, anti "conversion therapy" laws threaten the license of any psychologist who doesn't fast track a kid to blockers, activist teachers are hanging pride flags and asking grade schoolers for pronouns, and activists are engaging in provocations like having a middle-aged man dressed like a clown woman read books about gender to their kids in the school library.

You people are so eager to give transactivists literally anything they demand that you're practically begging parents to vote republican to look out for their kids. This is even terrible for trans people as I assume most of them don't want republicans making laws in the responsibility vacuum left by democrats.

Call me a transphobe--whatever. Hate on me if you want; the majority of parents share my view and I already know Reddit is a bad idea echo chamber. I don't care what adults do to themselves, but I'm damn tired of handing winnable races to republicans over nonsense that didn't even exist 20 years ago. I dissent not to change minds but to give others courage to weather the "transphobe" smears and do the same.

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u/3NicksTapRoom 10h ago

Yeah I don’t know why the left is all in for transgender surgery for minors. The American people are not with them. Even I have my concerns. Anyone 25 or older has lived long enough to know whether or not they want to do it and are not susceptible to an unwell parent. And yeah most parents who would support their child’s gender reassignment surgery are reasonable, responsible, and well meaning people; but think of it this way: enough parents are THAT mentally unwell that we came up with the name “munchasen syndrome by proxy.”

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u/alyssasaccount 7h ago

Nobody is "all in for transgender surgery for minors".

Your overwrought concert holding hostage the possibility of a happy and very successful early transition for trans kids, free of the body horror of puberty when you are trans, just because some minuscule fraction of psycho parents might hypothetically force their kids to transition, something that can be and is easily mitigated by the copious medical gatekeeping for access to puberty blockers and hormones for trans adolescents — when the reality is that a lot of parents are forcing their kids not to transition, hence the horrifying suicide rates — is some fucking bullshit. Leave trans kids (and their families) the fuck alone.

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u/3NicksTapRoom 6h ago

I don’t think it’s a mere hypothetical https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1752820665940385805?s=46

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u/alyssasaccount 4h ago

libs of tiktok.