• Funderpants
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    It’s not a distraction for the vulnerable trans kid who now has to choose between living their most authentic , healthy life and staying in the closet.

    It’s sick to treat these kids like this, to use them as pawns for a distraction, if that’s it. I think though conservatives would do this kind of thing distraction or not.

    • @zaphod@lemmy.ca
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      I couldn’t agree more, but it’s very clear that right-wing parties in both the US and Canada have decided to turn trans rights into a wedge issue they can use to divide and distract voters, just as they’ve always done with marginalized groups in the past. It’s a playbook as old as time (just ask the gay community, or the black community, or the Jewish community, or…), and it’s always been incredibly disgusting and very successful: pick a group that’s too small to be an actual danger and pump them up into a threat that only the right wingers can save us all from. And if you’re thinking “huh, didn’t I hear somewhere that that’s what fascists do?”… well… yeah, exactly.