The surgery stuff is an effort to kick up dust around the actual issue, which is hormones and puberty blockers. Nobody’s doing sex-change surgeries on kids. But including that makes it easier for credulous fools and bad-faith actors to pretend as though that’s the bulk of the effort, by design.

You must have either…

I’m already doing me. How’s about you take a long walk off a short pier.

Oh wow you’ve got a Democrat friend how nice. While spouting right-wing talking points about trans folks, among other gems from your commenting history:

Or, and hear me out on this: maybe they threw that shit in to intentionally muddy the waters. And if you go in saying “we need to defend this because they mentioned it while also banning actual care for trans kids”, you let them define the parameters of discussion, as well as giving them ammunition to say that you are…

As another trans person, go fuck yourself. Conservative trans folks are the fucking worst...

One should not capitalize “cis”.

She, first of all.

You’re just never gonna guess what Laurel Hubbard, your purported “rando male”, was doing before she transitioned.

And don’t think it isn’t obvious that you’re casually conflating trans women who have medically transitioned with men. You may or may not be a TERF, but that’s certainly their water you’re carrying.

Ah but testosterone in men is an embodiment of power, a liquid elixir of strength, a distillate of their purest essence, whereas in women it’s a poison, a corrupting influence, pulling them out of their natural orbit and permanently warping them into something strange and unsettling.

Ignoring, of course, the fact that…

Tell me you don’t know any biology or medicine beyond high school without telling me you don’t know any biology or medicine beyond high school.

However, to pursue our wants when we have unfair advantage over others for personal gain is being to other people exactly what the bigots were to them.

“Ignoring the physiological differences between the sexes” is one thing, but inventing differences that don’t actually exist is another. Medical science has made the gap a lot closer than you might think, and it’s probably a good idea to reevaluate your assumptions about what does or does not change during medical…

You may want to read their actual guidance. It includes an entire section on fairness, as well as one on science-based approaches, which seem like reasonable protections for cis women.

As an aside, a trans woman who is on hormone therapy is almost certainly on a testosterone blocker, and thus her testosterone levels are probably gonna be lower than most cis women’s. Testosterone is not permanent.

“These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It’s the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It’s the wicked Jews, false Jews, that make it a crime for you to preach…

Just…really gonna lean hard into that rapey imagery, huh? You realize it just makes you sound like the overblown wannabe-victim that you are, right?

This moment of bi erasure brought to you by right wing nutjobs/TERFs (the distinction is largely meaningless at this point).

Also women’s only spaces aren’t safe spaces, unless they’re explicitly designated as such. What a load of twaddle. And they’re not safe for women if you’re, ya know, excluding women.

Wasn’t derogatory in that it didn’t use slurs, but the concepts you put forward were definitely derogatory and/or intentionally harmful. But you know that, you’re just trying to pretend as though you’re not doing what you’re doing, because admitting you’re being transphobic would just be fully mask-off.

I think we’re in the clear, then, unless some scoundrel of a Republican is willing to ignore the part of the special that says “be cool to trans folks” in favor of the part that makes fun of trans folks. Thankfully I can’t imagine anyone of good moral fiber and Christian upbringing doing something so dastardly.