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NBC Opinion: Conservative legislators want transgender kids' lives as the new battlefield in their culture war
NBC News / Comcast ^ | January 17, 2021 | By Chase Strangio, ACLU

Posted on 01/17/2021 5:11:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...Trans children are more able to live full, self-actualized lives.


The mentally ill never live full, self-actualized lives.


21 posted on 01/17/2021 5:55:21 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nope. Cull them.


22 posted on 01/17/2021 6:00:00 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: alexander_busek
But the reality that these lawmakers and other anti-trans forces will eventually have to face is that when transgender young people are able to access health care, play sports, go to the restroom without fear and use pronouns that affirm who they are, nothing bad happens to anyone.

Until then any straight person who doesn't use the *correct* pronoun will have hell to pay.

It's a veiled threat to use violence to control us.

23 posted on 01/17/2021 6:08:54 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: JonPreston

I’m not even sure what “fight” you’re even talking about. For that matter, I don’t even know what the hell a “transgender” is.


24 posted on 01/17/2021 6:21:25 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Transgenderism is a mental disorder


25 posted on 01/17/2021 6:29:44 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey (Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people -Socrates)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Chase Strangio - insidious stereotypes, preposterous pseudoscience

I can't decide if that name is a stage name, a name this person uses when pole dancing, or just something it goes by when using flowery language like "insidious stereotypes" and "preposterous pseudoscience".

In any event, it must have rooted for the Drama Queens while in school.

26 posted on 01/17/2021 6:30:47 AM PST by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“ But the reality that these lawmakers and other anti-trans forces will eventually have to face is that when transgender young people are able to access health care, play sports, go to the restroom without fear and use pronouns that affirm who they are, nothing bad happens to anyone.”

The reality that those who “Chase Strange” ignore is that something bad has already happened to these poor young people. And it’s been done purposefully.


27 posted on 01/17/2021 6:34:20 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have a close friend whose daughter decided that she wanted to be a man when she became a teenager. He had been divorced but got custody of the kids because his ex-wife was certifiably crazy. The problem with marying and reproducing with a crazy person is that the offspring from the relationship often have issues themsleves.

So the ex capitalized on the situation with the daughter and hired a transgender counceler with no actual credentials but who was an advocate for this form of mental illness like the author of this piece. What was a demand for attention from a child of divorce and would have been a passing phase turned into a multi-year ordeal. And as his daughter became more and more involved in this “community” the nonsense snow balled to the point that it makes one wonder what form of lunacy will be advocated for next.

It is sad that our society has not only become accepting of harmful mental illness, but now has a large percentage who actively advocate for a sure fire path to misery and a wasted life. My friend’s daughter’s certainly got the attention that she craved, and his ex-wife found a way to get her daughter back after being a horrible mother. But how many years of his daugher’s life will be wasted before she comes back to her senses? Or will she kill herself like so many of these misguided souls eventually do? And what of people like Nancy Pelosi who are coddling this nonsense by banning speech with gender terms in the House of Representatives?


28 posted on 01/17/2021 6:36:41 AM PST by fireman15
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s child abuse to indulge delusions.


29 posted on 01/17/2021 6:47:32 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents{}Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They will do anything to get AtTeNtIoN. Being gay satisfied that need and a bonus was they didn’t have to take responsibility for what they did and said. Funny thing, there are so many today that they are no longer getting the AtTeNtIoN they are craving. So, what will they do next to get their fix?


30 posted on 01/17/2021 7:15:15 AM PST by bgill (.)
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To: alexander_busek

The pronoun issue will be solved easily, we will soon be prefacing each other with “comrade”


31 posted on 01/17/2021 7:19:27 AM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...powerful forces on the right have made clear what will be the next front in their so-called culture war.

I have no doubt the GOP has chosen to make the transgener issue abortion 2.0.

The Republican party doesn't do anything about abortion. They didn't even defund Planned Parenthood when they had the chance.

But boy do they make a big deal about abortion. You better vote for us; you better donate to us, or the Democrats...

They take you money and votes, but never do anything about abortion.

Now, the Republicans will play the same game with transgender.

And why not? By doing this, they can avoid issues like voter integrity, foreign wars, and reigning in the deep state.

32 posted on 01/17/2021 7:22:08 AM PST by Brookhaven (Ghost the GOP in 2022)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When we said the perverts were after our kids, we meant it.


33 posted on 01/17/2021 7:25:01 AM PST by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Since I was 5 I’ve been convinced that I was the Queen of Spain. However,on each and every one of the 30 times I’ve knocked on the front door of the Royal Palace in Madrid an ambulance has shown up and taken me to a hospital.


34 posted on 01/17/2021 8:16:29 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Alberta's Child

I can never remember whether a transgender woman is a biological woman or a biological man.


35 posted on 01/17/2021 8:41:43 AM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt m)
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To: Diogenesis

Social justice jihadis frame everything as life and death for a reason. If you say “everyone who disagrees with us is hurting us, killing us, wants us dead”, you’re training your people to be terrified of the unbeliever. They’ll never listen to the infidel who wants to hurt them and cling to the leaders to keep them safe.

And both types of jihadis (Muslim and social justice) use this reasoning to justify literal violence. Your hate speech is equated with wanting us dead, so we can use literal violence to scare you into silence. Or kill the infidel for the safety of the collective.

That’s the justification Islam has for executing atheists and feminists. Your social rules violation is an attack on all sacred souls, off with your head.


36 posted on 01/17/2021 8:52:15 AM PST by tbw2
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To: independentmind

I think the guidance is to NOT say what they actually are, biologically. But it changes definition to suit whatever agenda or paragraph.


37 posted on 01/17/2021 9:24:51 AM PST by MonicaG (God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
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To: fireman15
what form of lunacy will be advocated for next

I was just thinking this very thought this morning. Joe Biden is already saying that Transgender issues are "the" civil rights issue of our time. Lefties always have to have a new "cause" to fight for. What will it be next?

I'm thinking NAMBLA will be the next stop on the train to hell ("For some children it's the only positive touching and attention they will ever receive"), but hey, what do I know? I'm just an unwashed, toothless hillbilly Trump support with a 3rd grade education and a bad moonshine habit.

38 posted on 01/17/2021 10:05:08 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President Barack Obama told NPR that his promotion of the transgender ideology made it easier for Donald Trump to win the presidency ."

39 posted on 01/17/2021 11:57:34 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Brookhaven
"The Republican party doesn't do anything about abortion. They didn't even defund Planned Parenthood when they had the chance.

But boy do they make a big deal about abortion. You better vote for us; you better donate to us, or the Democrats...

They take you money and votes, but never do anything about abortion."

Not true. There are only about 19 states with abort-on-demand. From there it is a spectrum of restrictions down to about a dozen states where it is just-plain-hard to get an abortion. Do you think Democrats are responsible for that spectrum?

Given that Roe was a rotten, unconstitutional decision that was initially dispensed and interpreted as wide-open-anything-goes, the GOP spending the next 50 years preventing an African-American holocaust in about half the states was another victory that they'll never get credit for, because of the MSM but also because of people like you.

Furthermore, there will come a day when a Justice will write these words:

"The people that avail and aggrieve themselves of Roe as "settled law" have never once been asked, 'What was "settled law" before Roe? before Griswold?' This Court now asks that very question, as we send this case back to the states to be determined there thusly."

40 posted on 01/17/2021 12:13:40 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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