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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an atheist. I believe in capitalism and free markets.  I abhor the military-industrial complex. I'm concerned about human-induced climate change. I want lower taxes and somewhat less government.  I support universal access to abortions, within some minor logical constraints.  [b]I feel like the LGBTQIA+ movement gets too much airtime and we don't need to bend over backwards for trans people.[/b]  I despise trump and all the MAGA scum (because that's what they are). That said, I'd like to stop the flow of illegals across the southern border.  I'd also love to see us allow in many more talented, educated people from all over world.

What do you think?  After re-reading the above, I feel like I should probably vote republican, but i just hate most republican politicians!

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You understand, where the bolded is concerned, that the democrats take a more libertarian view of LGBTQ+ and that by passing laws making, for example gay marriage legal, they are just leveling the playing field for everyone. It is the right that has taken the moralist "marriage is between a man and a woman" stance and has given these issues the airtime that you seem to disfavor. Same with the idea that it takes therapy and medical procedures to affect a gender transition, and that it is the right, on moral grounds, that is making an issue of what should be a private issue between a person and their doctor.[/quote]
A couple of problems with this take:

1. Democrats allowing natal males to self-ID into women’s sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, prisons, and intimate spaces, as well as men’s crimes being categorized as women’s crimes based on what the male criminal says he is, is NOT “leveling the playing field.” It’s completely dismantling women’s spaces and undermining the rationale for women’s spaces while denying women the language to speak plainly on what is happening (“a woman raped me with HER penis” = no bueno!).

2. Democrats are forcing insurance and Medicaid to cover cosmetic surgeries for people who want to pass as the sex they were not born. That is not “libertarian.” That’s redirecting (misappropriating?) taxpayer and employee funds towards the trans movement and raising healthcare costs at the expense of the non-trans majority in society. It also amounts to discrimination when women can’t get breast implants covered by insurance, but men who want to pass as women can.

3. I won’t even touch the kid-related controversies. If there’s one thing we’ve learned over and over, including most recently through the opioid epidemic, it’s that doctors CANNOT be trusted to self-regulate. The idea that states shouldn’t legislate and regulate  the surgical and chemical transitioning of children and should trust profit-seeking doctors to walk away from fat paychecks is crazy.

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It’s important to tell the truth and the fact that trans supporters so often lie about what their movement is up to tells me that it’s not a trustworthy movement and the Democrats’ support of that movement is a huge strike against the party.[/quote]
You sound a tad obsessed.[/quote]

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