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Buzz's avatar

Please don't frame this as a left/right issue. Half the people demonstrating against "gender medicine" at the SCOTUS Skrmetti hearing were gays, lesbians, democrats, and left-leaning centrists. Even the NYTimes erroneously framed it as a left/right issue YET the lede photo of the front page showed banners stating "Democrats Against Puberty Blockers" and "Stop Transing Gay Kids" being held by LGB's.

Have a look:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-152564627

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Bev Jo's avatar

Please stop calling those in the trans cult who are harming kids "Leftists." Everyone I know who is a Believer in this cult is a Liberal and not remotely Leftist. Some Believers I know here are Right Wing in their politics, so repeatedly calling them Leftists, confuses the situation and makes it look like the Right Wing are the friends of women. The Right Wing is always female hating, and especially now when they want raped pregnant 13 year old girls to be denied abortions and die in childbirth.

I am adamantly against the Right Wing, but am not a Leftist or Liberal.

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José Duarte's avatar

What's the difference between a leftist and a liberal in your view?

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Ollie Parks's avatar

Izquierdista is a polemical term in Spanish or English. There are liberals who either object to transitioning children or are open to being persuaded that it is wrong. Calling them “leftists” and using it as a term of opprobrium rather than a neutral description of a person’s political leanings is polarizing and undermines the effort to curb the abuses of trans activism.

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Eliza Mann's avatar

"The Right Wing is always female hating, and especially now when they want raped pregnant 13 year old girls to be denied abortions and die in childbirth."

This statement is both extreme and extremely untrue. Who are you referring to when you say "right wing"? Republicans? Right-leaning independents? Radical conservatives? Those who would deny an abortion to a raped thirteen-year-old are few, but you make it sound like this is the default position of the right. Here is a Gallup Poll from earlier this year which found that only 12% of Americans think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances (https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx). I suspect that even these people would balk when the mother's life is at stake, as in your example.

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Gerda Ho's avatar

Put her in jail for lying to kids .

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