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emblem-man posted...

What would you say is your best good faith interpretation of what republican politicians think about trans people. Specifically adults. In terms of society and policy

They have no policy issue with adult transpeople except for sports, bathroom usage, and how it relates to children.

Lots of them probably don't they themselves recognize the transperson as the gender the transperson identifies as. But I don't think they would want to deny them any basic rights.

I don't think they hate them, but I do think some will have this "they're icky" sense. I think Jonathan Haidt (IIRC?) had some research that found people more likely to feel feelings of "moral disgust" were much more likely to be conservative.

The very very religious of them, will secretly think they are going to rot in hell, but even they I don't think would ever advocate for violence.

Also some republican politicians are going to have literally no issue with transpeople at all but are going to say they do to appeal to their base.

That's what I think they think.

Another way to frame it is that basically every republican politician wants the rules, standards, and laws to be how they were in 2010.

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And people keep bringing up "denying healthcare" but as far as I know there is no push from anybody to deny any adult any standard healthcare just for being trans. That seems to be the main crux of "they are trying to kill trans people", but like I don't know where that's coming from.

Like if there are stories of like republicans even bringing up the idea of like denying somebody's cancer meds,because they are trans let me know. I definitely want to know about that.

Anyway, I said I'd try to only respond to people asking me things directly, and that's what I'll continue to do, though I gotta admit some of these posts make that difficult.