They’re terrified of things they don’t understand. Not only do they not understand what a trans person is, they actively avoid trying to understand because it makes them uncomfortable and shatters their fragile, hierarchical worldview.
The problem with this messaging is that it only works when things are good. People can get really crazy about cultural wars when the economy is doing well but people stop caring when they can't afford gas
This is what pisses me off the most. So much time, energy and money wasted on nonsense culture wars when we could legitimately solve real problems in record time
That is why the culture wars are so important to the GOP. If people actually rallied together to fight the Robber Barons, the landscape would be far different.
They want power to do one thing. Reduce taxes for wealthy because they are their donors and because they provide them with vasts amounts of personal wealth. It’s that simple.
But it’s so much easier for republicans to steal from their constituents when they keep them scared of “this thing over here.” They don’t care about fixing anything but elections. Keep the herd scared and they will do anything you say.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Well, that’s the thing. Solving real problems would make people’s lives better, and Republicans don’t want to do that. They want to make people suffer.
They have a variety of reasons they cling to. For some it's purely a matter of 'he said he would bring christianity back into the government'. For others its 'he will get rid of the evil trannies'. For yet others it is 'he said we would all get rich'. Etc and so on. They don't care if he is telling the truth, as long as he says what they want to hear. And that's a common thread throughout the entirety of the maga movement, because, in my opinion, that's how the religious industry conditioned them to function.
Then when you grill them about it they define "changing their gender" to being called a nickname or name of their choosing and teachers not bring required by law to contact a parent and tell them.
Alright, can you tell me if he supports medical transitioning or social transitioning without telling parents?
Let's see how honest you are.
Edit, since people seem to be struggling. The candidate supports SOCIAL transitioning without mandated reporting to parents specifically for child safety to protect from abusive parents. The poster above is implying that medical tranitions happen for kids without parental consent, this is not true.
Social transitioning allows children to explore any feelings of being trans without the potential long-term, lasting effects of medically transitioning. This is usually as simple as wearing different clothes or going by a nickname.
Edit 2, I might be wrong about the person above asserting medical transitions happen. Oh well, morning brain fog got me. Tldr: Social transitioning for a child who feels like they're trans is good.
There is not a single case where a minor had been received a medical transition. There is not a single case where someone forced a social transition.
If a child want to pretend to be another gender, its his right to do so. If he want to truly become another gender, it would be after 18 and still his right to do so.
I'm saying the candidate supports allowing students to socially transition without telling parents (ie clothes, nicknames,etc). I'm specifically pushing back on the propaganda that he supports medical transitions for children without parental approval.
Nobody said anything about forced social transitions at all?
If nothing is force, then do not force them to not do it either. If a child want to be called a nickname. Like "Bobby" instead of "Robert" do we need to ask his parents first?
Are you not reading my posts before replying? I'm on your side here...
I'm an not, and have never advocated for FORCED social transitioning.
The screenshot you're posting is my reply to someone implying this happens all the time and trying to get them to clarify themselves that this ISN'T about medical transition.
Agreed! People should parent their own kids. The problem is, not every parent is a good parent. Allowing for kids to socially transition at school without telling parents is specifically designed to protect children from abusive parents.
Social transitioning has no longterm, lasting effects on someone medically. Its a way for a child who believes they're trans to explore that concept safely through clothes/nicknames/etc. Why is that a problem?
I didnt say a parent should force their ideology, just that parents should be parents.
A good parent will be someone their child feels safe disclosing this information to. A bad parent is someone who will reject and potentially abuse their child over this information. Allowing for social transitioning at school protects the children of bad parents.
Right. So i don't understand why you're coming at me like I'm arguing with you. Good parents care about their child and their feelings. Bad parents want to control their children and don't care.
The candidate in question wants to protect the children of those bad parents.
I think the reason you’re getting pushback in this thread is because you responded to someone suggesting that any person who thinks kids are being medically transitioned in schools is mentally incapacitated.
You’re arguing with someone who isn’t against your position on parenting.
haha wow coming back to this thread an hour later has been funny. But yea, by now i'm sure you see what i meant by rough news; a good portion of the American populace is definitely stupid enough to believe this. Re-reading my comment i can see how it could be taken another way.
The Pedo Party cannot stop thinking about children and their genitals. Their pedo supporters don’t give a shit about the horror stories and the raped children in the Epstein’s files, they only want to hear about the ones their pedos are making up.
THEY are the pedophiles. It's always about projection with them. The Epstein files proved this without a doubt, that's why Donald is illegally hiding them.
I know it'll never happen, but I'd LOVE to hear MAGA explain how they genuinely believe this shit. Are we seriously supposed to believe there's some massive underground operation of underpaid, overworked teachers secretly convincing kids to change genders, all without a single parent noticing?
These people think teachers can't be trusted to teach history, but somehow they're masterminds running a nationwide gender conspiracy right under everyone's noses. Fucking incredible.
QAnon spent years screaming about pedophile elites eating babies. Then their favorite orange creep shows up all over the Epstein files, and suddenly “SAVE THE CHILDREN” becomes “LEAVE TRUMP ALONE.”
I mean Biden was a vegtable that couldn't talk, but he was also the mastermind of the Biden crime family.
Also, don't forget, Covid is fake and no more than the flu, but at the same time Fauci needs to be held accountable for lying to and murdering Millions of Americans.
They used to always say they liked Trump because he tells it straight, but then at the same time, he didn't mean anything he said.
I don't think MAGA knows what a contradiction is, but that's literally all they do is have bad illogical arguments they can't defend and contradict themselves.
They believed that students we're using litter boxes at school. The litter for "go buckets" in sone active shooter emergency kits. Which wild to even type that we need active shooter emergency kits.
Every day I wake up it just gets dumber and dumber and there doesn't even seem to be a bottom. They'll just keep coming up with nuttier and nuttier nonsense and people continue to believe it.
Holy shit - what the hell happened to the world? I'd love to say that it's just the US, but far right groups are making headway all over the place.
I blame Russia and their bot farms. It's amazing how evil that country is and at the same time how effective their propaganda has been in destroying societies. Russia truly is a cancer on this planet.
Ukraine is our only hope. They need to cause Russia to collapse or the world is cooked.
They would have collapsed if it wasn't for Moscow Moych voting against giving them resources when they had Russia by the throat. Trump did the same thing. He's definitely a Russian asset.
The sooner people realize they're being manipulated by the use of wedge issues into giving their consent to a machine that will make them and their children poorer and less safe, the better the whole country will be.
Do I believe I'll see that happening in my lifetime? I wish I could say yes, but I hope I am wrong.
I am seriously ready for someone, anyone with air time, to call out this bullshit rumor and put an end to it. This is quite frankly the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
The people who believe her are bad enough, but politicians who know better and spread the lie just to gain power are grotesque. Hope she loses in a landslide.
Right. When they can’t afford good pay and teaching supplies, they’re preforming thousand dollar surgeries. I wonder if the sound of their pea brain knocking around in their skull every time they move bothers them.
Remember when gays getting married would lead to polygamy, people marrying animals and adult/child marriages so they voted for a second Bush term. Same fear mongering, different decade. And they never catch on they are being used to vote against their own, their children’s and the country’s actual best interest. Sad, very sad.
Heck, I just turned into a gerbil three days ago. I JUST got back from going to the school three blocks away and man...am I ever tired. And, guess what? Not a single damn litter box in the whole f-ing place. I kind of feel like FOX News and Joe-bro Rogan could have been lying to me. Imma gonna go take a dump under my hamster wheel and sleep on it. Why they gotta call it a frikkin' hamster wheel anyway, I feel targeted and mis-sub-familied.
I think they need to show supporting evidence of this. show me one school that will even provide your child with an Advil if you don't sign the permission form every single year? even if you signed last year- they need a new signature. but there are schools who want to transition children without any parental knowledge? prove it.
Schools’ controlling bodies (boards, parishes etc.) are organizations like any other and can be sued. By putting in measures like this, the legal risk is hugely diminished. CYA. Hence, you see it in most schools.
They’ll point to school rules saying kids can change their gender markers, or be called by different names, and act like it’s the same thing. At the school where I work trans kids can ask to be referred to by a different name or gender in school vs. when communicating with their parents, and this protection against outing kids is enough to bring the bigots out.
I’m 100% with you on this topic. My wife has taught elementary school for 25-years, and gender transitions have never happened at her school. They do teach about human sexuality (at a level that is appropriate for 10-year olds), and to respect others who have various gender identities.
Dear MAGA: If you dropped off your child to school as a boy and picked your child up as a girl, please return her back to school, you picked up the wrong child. Thank you.
Kids in school can’t get ibuprofen unless a parent signs 12 forms in triplicate in front of a notary public. But sure, they also do quick surgeries without notifying parents.
They have no other ideas, are incompetent so they spew talking points used as scare tactics.
They have no answers to healthcare, inflation, debt, gun violence, global conflicts and overall quality of life issues affecting their constituents. So, they break out that old chestnut, which has been laying on the ground as in infected with bugs.
Republicans win on fear and hot button issues. Their base believes that it’s legal to kill an infant after birth. They believe universal healthcare is a communist plot. They believe Dems will force them to become homosexuals.
It’s all they have! Transgender, transgender, transgender…
No solution to any real-world problem. Nothing on wealth inequity, inflation, climate change, healthcare, housing, food insecurity, rampant fraud perpetrated by this administration, etc., etc., etc…
And then she will whine about lying and playing partisan politics in the same breath. Vote how you want, but if you vote for her lying self(enough with the idiotic censorship already, jfc) look in the mirror and contemplate what that says about you. It's like her "lifelong Democrat" COP buddy's ad, if you're tired of the insane partisanship, then why in hell are you supporting your family friend who runs lying partisan ads?
I see a lot of people stating it's just Republicans with this biased stupidity toward Trans folk.
It's anyone that jaunt taken the time to see through the constant false allegations, to blatant lies told to reinforce fear about a group of people that are slready in their lives.
The very fabric of society is already woven with Trans folk, Bi folk, Gay and Lesbian, and it was never an issue till used to hide illegal activity of the depraved in power.
The problem is the lies told are getting our brothers, sister fathers and mothers killed as the depravity of the US conservatives gets worse and they need a bigger scapegoat for their vile harm.
All people in the US are colluding with the Trump Administration whilst they are left jn power.
What’s wrong with them? The people making them money are about to lose their jobs so they’re going to say anything to make sure those people stay in power.
They believe it helps them win elections. Until the American public overwhelmingly rejects blatant lies and smoke screens in politics, this nonsense will continue.
Huh, wonder why this is happening.
The decline in transgender identification among young Americans is a significant trend that has been observed in recent surveys. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) reported a sharp decrease in the percentage of students identifying as transgender, from 6.8% in 2022 and 2023 to 3.6% in 2025. This decline is particularly pronounced among younger generations, with a notable drop in non-binary identification and a decrease in other non-heterosexual identities. The trend is also reflected in the sexual orientation identity of high school students, with a significant drop in identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual among girls. These findings suggest a potential shift in social norms and cultural attitudes towards gender identity and sexual orientation among young Americans.
Could it just be that since the rise of MAGA and Trump's second term, trans kids are feeling less safe and less likely to publicly identify as trans out of fear?
That's roughly what the law currently is in Washington, and there's currently an initiative on the ballot to change it. The purpose of laws like this is so a kid too afraid to talk about their gender dysphoria with their parents can talk to a teacher or school counselor about it, without fear of being immediately outed to their parents. It's not a bad thing. That same law also allows kids to tell school staff they're being abused by their parents without their abusive parents learning about it immediately.
Man where do they get this stuff? Remember when the Haitians were “eating cats and dogs “ in Ohio. I don’t know how they sit there on national news and say this stuff that they know to be untrue.
Yes those over funded schools are paying hundreds of thousands of costs per child for gender reassignment. That’s why teachers are paid so low and there’s no free lunch, so the school can fund the surgeries. Please I beg, provide 1 real life example of when this happened and to who. Interview the child, parents, and school officials on national tv.
not the fact that they keep repeating these made up fantasies/ridiculous lies and obsess over trans people which are less than 1% of the total population rather than campaigning on actual policies to better society for every American not just billionaires?
I have a niece who claimed to be trans a few years back. We supported her, told her if that’s what she wanted to be called we would.
She wasn’t/isn’t trans. But, that’s how kids are. One day they’re trans and the next they’re a cat pissing in a litter box. (The litter box thing is /s)
My point is this: if Republican parents supported their kids and told them they were loved regardless of the path they chose, then allowed them to make their own decisions (within reason, I don’t believe any child should be making life altering decisions such as top surgery until their adults)… then maybe if or when they’re confused the kid will come to them to talk it out. And if they’re not confused and your kid is actually trans, guess what: you get a relationship with your kid for the rest of their life because you loved and respected them unconditionally.
^^^^^ this is a tip republicans that will not get you cut off from family. Take heed.
You keep saying dumb and bigot things. Which of these videos were "in the streets"? You complain the same way people did in the 60s about people that weren't white
You better hope that pos has ICE at the polls in a few weeks. Violence against Americans trying to vote is the only way for you scumbags to keep that pos in permanent power.
He's planning on martial law so if he ends our country on that day you fucking monsters will be cheering and celebrating.
You monsters blame liberals for making your lives into a horrible mess as much as you do immigrants. How will you remove all of us? You can't, so I don't really think your horrible pos life will get better, ever.
Too bad you people can't take responsibility for yourselves and your own lives, instead you blame others for the mess that you've made of it.
I will take great pleasure in watching you fascists never being able to own a home and retire. I will enjoy watching you all get what you voted for. I will take a special interest in making that happen to you Maga's in my little corner of the world.
Republicans don’t even want to fund school meals for kids, but you believe schools are somehow facilitating $100,000 transgender surgeries? I mean, really? Transgender people are less than 1% of the population, yet Republicans have somehow scared idiots into thinking this is the most important issue of our time. I guess brainwashing does work.
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u/awhunt1 6h ago
They’re terrified of things they don’t understand. Not only do they not understand what a trans person is, they actively avoid trying to understand because it makes them uncomfortable and shatters their fragile, hierarchical worldview.