This got removed from politics because “Video links are not allowed” apparently? Pretty weird considering that most politicians say stuff on video nowadays and not really writing articles anymore since the invention of the radio pretty much lol. Hope it’s a better fit here, this is the kind of stuff people should be aware of.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73859928
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/13118934
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
A ban of federal funding for gender affirming health care, i.e. denying health care to a marginalised group of people who can’t otherwise access it, is quite literally a genocidal act in a way that a ban on serving in the military doesn’t even come close to.
It’s actually not, and that’s crazy talk. People still being able to perform gender affirming health care on their own dime is much more ideal than being liquidated from even being part of major aspects of society.
You mean their own dime that they don’t have, hence qualifying for federal assistance?
Buying HRT of the internet and self-medicating without medical supervision (which does have serious risks) is relatively affordable, and the fact that it isn’t outright banned (yet) is something, but without insurance that covers it, medically supervised HRT is out of reach of many, and any kind of surgery is out of reach of the vast majority. Need I remind you that every serious medical association considers these things to be essential health care?
The denial of specifically this health care, which is essential to trans people, is a deliberate infliction of living conditions calculated to bring about the destruction of trans people who have no other means, as a group.
The US has been gearing up for a trans genocide (per the The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention) for a long time, and you are proving your willingness to be a collaborator in it.
“Welp, I guess we better empower the Trump administration more because the alternative has someone who said something nasty!”
No, the alternative in this instance is someone who is fully onboard with the continuation and escalation of those anti-trans initiatives. Proposing a ban isn’t just saying something nasty. It is active participation in the early stages of a genocide. Why don’t you just come right out and say that you think trans people owe it to you to vote in your interests without any expectation of any solidarity in return?
You are free to vote against your own interests just because you don’t live in an ideal world.
By not voting, all you do is empower the vote of those who do. Hope they are the least harmful for you, because a couple of billionaires are doing everything to get their voters to vote and slant the vote towards their interests.