• DickFiasco@lemm.ee
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    Imagine getting free surgery of any kind in the U.S. That’s how you know this is a false claim.

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    Even if that claim is remotely close to true. Why? What on earth would the purpose for a gender transition conspiracy possibly serve?

    You have to do more backflips than simone biles to match the mental gymnastics for that kind of thinking.

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      His base believes in doing things just for the cruelty. So these ridiculous claims, (gangs taking over apartments, immigrants eating cats, forced transitions) are believable to them based on their own support for doing things just to be cruel.

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      Trump’s most successful political method was that he changed lanes faster than anyone could keep up. It allowed him to control the narrative. You’re falling for the same tricks that won him the 2016 election. Don’t engage.

      Just call them weird and move on.

      “Sure is weird someone is thinking about school children’s genitalia instead of their choice of weapons for a school shooting, especially at a time like this.” Done.

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      What on earth would the purpose for a gender transition conspiracy possibly serve?

      fascism, it’s always fascism, it’s literally just fascism.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      Because evil. No seriously. And yeah that’s the difference between plausible and implausible conspiracy theories. Plausible ones have motivation. “Why did Donald trump snd the right wing media attempt to overturn the 2020 election?” For power. “Why did the CIA experiment with lsd to control minds?” They were really high and worried that the communists were better at controlling agents than them. “Why do world governments hide proof of alien contact?” There is no clear answer. “Why do world governments work together to hide proof of a flat earth?” To keep the population in the dark.

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    Who is doing the operations, Don? The school nurse with the cafeteria staff handing them scalpels and shit?? Band teacher anesthesiologist. OK I’m done.

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      That’s quite a step up from school nurse when I was a kid. You’d come in there bleeding to death and she’d give you a Tylenol and send you back to class.

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        Wow, that’s quite a step up from school nurses here. We can’t even give kids any medication that wasn’t provided, with a prescription, by the parents.

        Tylenol? Nope. You get a bag of ice wrapped in a paper towel, a large bathroom to vomit in, a thermometer, and a napping table with a privacy curtain that almost reaches all the way around it.

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    It’s just such an obvious and outrageous lie. If you believe that, you’ll believe anything.

    Also, if it was happening, wouldn’t the parents be the ones complaining? I mean, wouldn’t the parents be famous right now? They’d be on all the talk shows making the news circuit.

    If this actually happened, the parents’ names would be famous. Trump would be parading these people around.

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      Also what benefits should the underfunded school system have for giving out expensive surgeries for free? What do they stand to gain from that?

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      One of my daughter’s best friends is trans. I told my daughter that maybe he’ll get lucky and the school nurse will construct a penis for him.

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    I went to the school nurse with a 103 fever and the nurse told me to lay down and offered me an ice pack. MFs can’t even give you Tylenol. You think they’re arranging free surgery? The only other tool they have is bandaids

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    In any sane world, this level of blatant lying would immediately disqualify one from being electable in a democracy

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      This alone proves to me that this isn’t about political ideals but rather who holds power. As a result, lies told to further the cause of “power” are simply a means to an end. It’s reprehensible.

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    For an adult to get SRS in the US, they generally need to have two letters from therapists supporting the surgery (for both surgeon requirements and insurance), and insurance that actually covers it (unless they wanna pay like $100k out of pocket). But no, teachers are just doing it to kids for free.

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      You ever see how many pairs of safety scissors are in a kindergarten classroom? What did you think all those were for?

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    Oh wow, so now schools not only do a gender reassignment surgery during recess, but it is forcing children too?

    I mean at this point, I’m seriously wondering who are the people that believe this? The lies are gettting ridiculous at this point.

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    Its ridiculous, my British uncle is convinced Critical Race Theory is tour is in school. I asked him what critical race theory is and he didn’t know. People are being lied to and then they tie it to ego and become talking heads for shit they have no idea of beyond surface level.

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      People are being lied to and then they tie it to ego preexisting prejudices

      Whether it’s racism, sexism, transphobia…it’s lies that are easy to believe because it feels true.

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    I mean he’s not wrong… i got reassigned and got surgery multiple times in recess Tuesdays before math… thankfully it was a pair number of times so I stayed the same gender after school

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      I didn’t because I got a cootie shot. It wasn’t as easy as it sounds, it involved a circle, circle, dot, dot.

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      Oh I remember we had a big bag of rainbow cookies one time and they made you gay, and the only gay guy in school was eatting them but they were apparently really good so we figured out if you just ate an even number you’d end up back straight again.

      Twas a simpler time.

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    Teachers can barely force teens to do their schoolwork, how on earth are they supposed to force them into a “gender transition op”?

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    sigh I wish my rights and existence weren’t treated like this. Like I’m sure I can think of something pithy or brave or whatever but I’m just so damn tired of this shit

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      Oh I have one. I sure wish they’d started when I was in school. I had to do the hard work of actually admitting I wanted it to myself and others.

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      Because many of them believe the same thing. The Democratic party is overall moderate conservatives, but some swing further right than others. We don’t have a progressive party in the US.