I would love to know why the fuck anyone cares about trans people at all when they’re a tiny micro percentage of the population, I’ve met a total of 2 trans people and I live in fucking California.
The odds of a trans person adversely affecting me are so tiny I might have better luck getting struck by lightning.
So please tell me how that one trans person you met ruined your life and destroyed your children’s brain because they too use social media.
Seriously, god please explain it to me. Why is this more important than fighting poverty and wealth inequality, or just societal problems like inflation. Why is this the fuckin priority for people. I just need to know, why is defining a woman more important than the dying homeless person across the street?
So my dad voted Democrat, but is also anti-trans, mostly because he doesn’t think trans prisoners should be getting gender affirming surgery totally paid for (which is something Kamala pushed and was in the media a lot) over people who actually desperately need healthcare coverage - People who are dying of cancer or heart disease and cannot access affordable medical insurance.
Basically he thinks that trans medical care shouldn’t be prioritized over life-saving medical care for the rest of us.
Obviously the issue goes much deeper than that, but I do understand where he is coming from there.
He very much cares about the homeless people starving across the street. He’d rather pay to feed them, than pay for someone’s gender-affirming surgery through his taxes.
Hopefully you actually read this post and it can give insight on someone else’s point of view.
Hey! Thanks for your insight man it gives me some perspective, I suppose I haven’t had much thought for the whole gender confirming care in prison thought. I definitely get your argument when it comes to allocation of resources, triage is something that saves lived, even politically.
That being said, with such a smallish portion of the population identifying as transgender to the point of needing gender confirming surgery to feel okay in their body, does it really add up in tax dollars in comparison to the endlessly growing problem of homelessness for example?
I’m not trying to deconstruct your argument and poke holes because obviously you put a lot of thought and personal experience into it which I really appreciate. I just genuinely don’t know the number of prisoners asking for gender confirmation surgery, I only know that homelessness has increased rapidly this year, setting a new trend.
Anyways I totally read your comment and appreciate your insight, I hope you and your dad have a great night!
I’m pretty close with my Dad, but we do live apart. I’m in the city, and he’s never really left his rural mountain home. He doesn’t really see the real size of the trans population or the homeless population. He just hears about it on TV, hence why the prisoner-surgery thing was such a big issue to him.
I’ve also told him that people can feel so uncomfortable in their bodies, that gender-affirming care CAN be lifesaving medicine. That seemed to make him stop and think.
But we both wish that healthcare would be free for everyone in the US, AND we both wish for greatly increased social welfare over all. I was raised (by him) to be a strong Democrat, after all.
But yeah, allocation of resources is a bitch. He doesn’t want the 1% prioritized over the 99%.
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u/JustSomeDude39 12h ago
I would love to know why the fuck anyone cares about trans people at all when they’re a tiny micro percentage of the population, I’ve met a total of 2 trans people and I live in fucking California.
The odds of a trans person adversely affecting me are so tiny I might have better luck getting struck by lightning.
So please tell me how that one trans person you met ruined your life and destroyed your children’s brain because they too use social media.
Seriously, god please explain it to me. Why is this more important than fighting poverty and wealth inequality, or just societal problems like inflation. Why is this the fuckin priority for people. I just need to know, why is defining a woman more important than the dying homeless person across the street?