This is why so many women voted Trump

[BabyLlamaZen]

I’m not saying it’s right, I’m not saying it’s worth the horrors of the Trump administration (and what other women’s rights will be abolished). However, I can also empathise. Books like this are everywhere in baby sections of bookshops in USA. My american friend is naturally more conservative than myself although hated Trump and didn’t vote for him previously (she abstained and then she went Biden although she says she seriously regrets) and this time she voted Trump. She said this stuff is now everywhere and it’s constant. She also showed me a baby’s ABC book which included B for bisexual (and literally then described it as people who are sexually attracted to either gender). For babies.

It has been proven without any doubt that those children declaring they are transgender usually have at least one, usually numerous comorbid issues. Including pre-existing trauma, depression and anxiety.

They ARE vulnerable. And they need extensive support. It is not proven however that medical treatment for their gender identity improves this. They deserve kindness. Kindness is not only gender affirming treatment and kindness is not telling children that they are hated and going to commit suicide and that they will die without their gender being affirmed.

Taut, not taught

Trans issues aren't a big topic in the US currently like they are here, they've gone backwards to revisiting abortion. I really doubt women voted for Trump because of it, they were far more likely to vote for Trump because they believed he would do a better job with the economy, which was a top 3 issue (or just straight out top in a number of states). And because of Roe v Wade in the southern Christian/cult states. Trans issues weren't even mentioned in the debates or speeches, so I highly doubt that they or a random book in a bookstore (assuming it's even real, since we don't appear to have a title or author) had anything to do with it. I think you're overlaying popular topics and your own prejudices here and assuming it's the same there.

Of course it's many factor but this child did not feel like they were loved and accepted by their family and society for who they were, although they were not causing any harm to others. I know the feeling and it's awful. (I have a disability so I am different in that way)

I should imagine the authorities will be scrutinising her social media. Because There is no evidence to suggest trans identity causes suicide in children.

So it will be something else. And her online presence will be the key.

Transactivists target children and make them believe that everybody hates them, because they are born in the wrong body. When, of course, there is no such thing.

It's highly manipulative. Her poor family.

It has been proven without any doubt that those children declaring they are transgender usually have at least one, usually numerous comorbid issues. Including pre-existing trauma, depression and anxiety.

They're also significantly more likely to be autistic.

I did the same when I saw it on here last night, got the same lack of info via Google and actually posted here wondering.

Of course it's many factor but this child did not feel like they were loved and accepted by their family and society for who they were, although they were not causing any harm to others.

You can't change sex, and the idea that you can does cause harm to others. It's not kind to give children the idea that everyone will believe they are the opposite sex. They don't, and they won't.

So if something like changing their gender (without hormones or surgery, which physically harm health) makes them feel better, more like their true self, what's the harm?

This seems to be something a lot of people in the UK struggle with understanding - many Americans are used to their states being in control of a lot of the important legislation in their lives. That's how the country is structured and people like it that way. They don't necessarily like the federal government sticking their oar in, even if they agree with it's stance on an issue.

None of them are prevented from influencing their local state laws and in fact because it's a smaller unit they may feel they have more influence there.

I also think people need to get away from this "Trump got rid of Roe" thinking. No, he had some influence on appointing judges, but it was a legal decision, by the Supreme Court. They didn't just make it up, there is a whole legal decision that's explained in pretty clear detail for anyone that is interested in reading it. It's telling to me that it's uncommon to see people who have actually read the judgement make a legal argument around it's reasoning.

People seem to hate Clarence Thomas, but he's no idiot, and he's a very clear and concise writer, it's not hard to read his judgments. I've never seen anything that makes me think he's made shit up in order to get to some predetermined answer, his views on issues seem to come out of a very careful legal mind.

Roe fell because it wasn't a watertight legal decision, not because Trump wanted it gone. If you use the courts to legislate, that's always going to be the danger.

There is no such thing as "changing your gender". It's meaningless. What you mean is asking everyone to pretend that they think you are the opposite sex.

Wrt "Stepping out in front of a semi" post
Firstly, the claim that "everyone will kill themselves" is number 4 in gender ideology myths.

Secondly, women have the right not to be confronted by anyone's "semi" when they're in women only spaces. We all know how that swimmer was very proud of theirs.

Changing their name and appearance to be perceived as a different gender, then.

It's a lie. That's what the harm is. Human beings cannot change sex. And the way you think does not dictate what sex you are. That's sexism.

If the child wanted to wear clothing coded to the opposite sex, then they can.

That's feminism.

I saw vox pop sessions after the Trump victory and some Trump voters did mention the transgender phenomenon.....it may not have been the sole, motivating factor, but it certainly formed part of a broader picture of disenchantment with progressive politics.

Unfortunately, people have eyes.

I mean, political promises are a lie, churches are a lie, Santa Claus is a lie, but those are accepted in society as ok.

Gender (sex role stereotypes) is harmful, why tell boys or girls they have to behave in certain ways and like certain things purely because of their sex? It would be better to get rid of these expectations. How can you be your true self by pretending to be something you're not?

I mean, political promises are a lie, churches are a lie, Santa Claus is a lie, but those are accepted in society as ok.

And equally, it's fine in society for people to disbelieve them and call them out.

The evidence that "transitioning" helps these young people's mental health issues in the long term is simply not there.

Indeed.

And you can believe in transgender ideology all you like. In fact, in this country, belief in it, and disbelief in it are both protected by law

But if forcing children to believe something that isn't true results in them killing themselves, then you're going to find people on a parenting website disagreeing with it.

Although not necessarily in places like Iran.

Far point, @nauticant

Fair!

And they're actually not. Global wars are waged over less.

Although not Santa, obvs! Becauae that obviously is true.