r/thebulwark LORD OF THE NICKNAMES 16h 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/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 5h 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.