Current Events > Trump Promises to Go After Trans People if Re-Elected - Do you agree with him?

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Former president Donald Trump says that one of his top priorities if hes re-elected in 2024 will be a sweeping federal rollback of transgender rights.

His proposed plans hinge on harmful anti-trans myths often touted by the far-right, and appear to be part of an effort to out-do Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely opponent for the 2024 presidential nomination. Last week, Trump proposed an education plan thats even more extreme than the policies DeSantis has implemented, and DeSantis has also gone after LGBTQ people, including via his infamous Dont Say Gay bill, which prohibits discussion of gender identity and sexuality between kindergarten and third grade, and also prohibits the topics for older kids if lessons arent deemed age appropriate or developmentally appropriate.
The left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an act of child abuse. Very simple, Trump said in a video posted online.
Trump said he wants to stop the chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of youth in the U.S. and said hed go after hospitals and healthcare providers whove presumably offered gender-affirming care. He also said hed create a private right of action that would allow victims to sue doctors who have unforgivable performed these procedures on minor children. Trump added that his Department of Justice would investigate big pharma and big hospital networks for what he claimed is a deliberate cover up of side effects to get rich at the expense of vulnerable parents.

To be clear, studies show that trans people are more likely than cisgender people to experience mental health struggles, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, and thoughts of suicide. Nearly half of all LGBTQ youth have seriously considered suicide. But those issues can be mitigated with puberty blockers and other gender-affirming therapies, which are safe and effective, and are correlated with better mental health outcomes for trans people. Teens who are able to access gender-affirming therapy typically have better mental health outcomes than trans people who have to wait until adulthood.

What the fuck is this question

Poll results should be public so anyone who votes yes can be banned.

Remember in the lead up to the 2016 election Trump supporters kept saying he was actually going to be an ally to LGBT people?

And if you ask most of them, theyll still say hes an ally And if you mention stuff like this, theyll say, This is different But its whatever

Poll results should be public so anyone who votes yes can be banned.

What the absolute fuck? Is this real? So he's gone from being three quarters fash to full fash?

What the fuck is this question

It's CE, some will vote against the grain to rile people up

I gave him a chance when he first ran cause he was a unknown quantity

Something to note here is that this trans panic stuff has basically zero recent record of electoral success. The same year Trump won North Carolina, that state was ousting its governor over an anti-trans bathroom bill. Republicans ran this playbook in 2022 and came away with very little to show for it.

The rhetoric is obviously alarming, and people are rightly spooked because he's won before, but I don't think we should overstate the potency of this issue, on which a majority agree with the Democratic position.