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Yeah, I’ve just decided I’m not taking the bait anymore. If they want to circle jerk about trans people, I have more important things to do, like, literally anything else. Trans stuff affects me 0% of any given day and I’ve never felt the need to police a bathroom or verify the gender of an athlete.
I cannot fucking believe our country is so mired in this absolute non-issue for 99.999% of the population.
I'm still just shocked that you'll see people say it is their "#1 issue" - like Megyn Kelly on Maher for instance - I saw some Republican say it again about some constituent recently, too.
If you are not trans or a parent of a trans, I don't see how that is even possible to be so ridiculous, but the right always delivers on being disgusting, horrible and ridiculously hateful.
For everyone else - I guess we all have to suffer because the worst people in the world have decided to prioritize this over: clean air, clean water, climate change, upgrading to green energy, health care, education, science and tech leadership, safe streets, a job with rights and dignity that can support an entire family with one income, caring for the sick and the elderly with dignity, mental care, upgrading infrastructure, including mass transit, and on and on and on...
Instead, the conservatives are fixated on the stupidest possible shit. They are wilding the fuck out about Jefferson County having 60 men in women's sports, a thing that isn't even a thing.
Meanwhile, all of us are suffering out here from all kinds of shit that have nothing to do with fucking sportsball or the right's stupid ideas about "gender ideology".
I knew we were going to be hearing about this shit endlessly for two reasons, though - for one, they kept going on about how Michelle Obama really had a dong - sure it was a stupid conspiracy theory, but you could tell that many of them wanted that to somehow invalidate Obama's administration because they view it as something that should be a crime. The other was the flurry of bathroom bill bullshit starting up nearly immediately after the conservatives lost the gay marriage issue in 2015.
yep. obsessed over bullshit, but I think it's because the actual issues leave them no room to stand - the economy, the trillions in deficit linked to their tax cuts, the wars, etc., etc., etc.,