This new bill, signed into law by President Joe Biden, includes a provision that limits access to gender-affirming care services for the children of people serving in the military.
This new bill, signed into law by President Joe Biden, includes a provision that limits access to gender-affirming care services for the children of people serving in the military.
They start with the weakest and most vulnerable and then they work their way out to the rest of us.
I don’t like Biden at all but this one is finicky.
You may not like to hear it but but placing limits on funding for it they make it harder for the next administration to act against them since most political power is in the purse. No dei? No dei firings. No “misappropriation” of health funding, no health funding cuts or firings for having trans kids. Moreover it means if they do transition privately the government would have to create a novel argument to prevent private and or criminalize actions that amount to speech which would be difficult.
“If we send the Jews to the camps before Hitler takes power, Hitler won’t be able to do his Holocaust!”
Yes of course everything is literally Hitler.
Trans people were among the first victims of the Holocaust. When the same groups the Nazis exterminated are being explicitly targeted again for annihilation, Nazi references are entirely appropriate.
That person probably bombed the analogy portion of the SATs too.
“It’s s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but damn near impossible to win with a stupid person.”
If the first Trump term didn’t show you that unwritten decorum rules like this mean exactly fuckall, I’m not sure what it’s going to take
It’s not unwritten or decorum.
Fuck you, I know how to spell both of those things
I don’t think this is Biden trying to hurt trans kids, I think this represents the democratic party being too tired to fight for everyone’s rights - shrugging their shoulders with a sigh and saying ‘whatever’.
Maybe that “tiredness” comes from the Democrats being fucking older than dirt, and having made absolutely zero attempt to pass the reins on to younger, energetic politicians.
The Democratic Party has been punching downward for decades now; they deserve no sympathy whatsoever.
I think he is. He gets no benefit of the doubt after a year of genocide support.
Nah, this is arguably the smartest thing the second dumbest party has done in years.
Stop openly fighting, they thrive on that. Do smart sly shit they aren’t at all intelligent enough to pick up on.
“Shhh. Just lie back and enjoy it” - Democrats to anyone to the left of the anti-trans bigots they just lovingly kissed the asses of.
They didn’t really though, what did the anti trans people actually get here aside from effectively being thrown a fairly high hurdle.
The first step in a long line of capitulations.
Fantastic non answer.
‘I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: “All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth.” Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.’
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr
My comment was another section from the Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
I was adding more context. The entire letter is worth reading though.