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My "single issue" is not having a far-right coalition use a protect-the-children anti-trans moral panic affecting at most a few thousand people to mobilize a fascist takeover of my country.

In five years it has gone from "we just really care about female youth sports ok?" to "protect the children" and now already we are starting to see the first restrictions on adult trans healthcare and bans on queer public life.

If you were ignorant of that you'd be a fool, but I don't think you are which makes your support of it much more sinister.

And the wild thing is you don't even need to go through all this trouble! You could just say trans people squick you out and you'd prefer they not exist. There would be no consequences, it's now a mainstream position thanks to credulous supporters of these policies.



So if I oppose irreversible changes to prepubescent children, then I'm anti-trans? Someone should've told me when I spoke out against both male and female circumcision.

/s

I'm focusing on prepubescent children and you are going on about unrelated stuff.

For the last time, a prepubescent child is unable to give consent to castration, sterilisation and other irreversible changes.

The trouble is, your argument that the people who are against sterilisation of 9 year olds are transphobic is simply nonsense, and you're too emotionally connected to trans-as-a-political stance to see the human issues involved.

In a remarkable fit of irony, you're displaying cold indifference to humans, all the while yelling that they must take your feelings seriously.


So at this point what's your argument? Change the subject, make up a slippery slope, and then scream about "fascism"?

What's your goal here? To be so ridiculous that any sort of compromise is impossible? Hope that works out for you


I'm trying to get y'all to see that this isn't an isolated thing. The anti-trans moral panic you've gleefully taken up is part of a broader far right movement to crack down on queer and minority people in public life.




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