Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans attack transgender rights on RNC opening night

Because they have no solutions.

They prolong the problem and obstruct solutions because they benefit from hurting people and don’t want that to end.

So they became the problem.

Because if they actually tried to fix shit, they'd have to recognize there are systemic issues that they benefit from. And then they wouldn't be the GQP.

Conservatives are fundamentally incapable of governing, because they have no ability nor interest in improving society. So they just make up problems to get elected, then steal anything not nailed down once in office. Well, that's the normal conservative aim, Trump also wants to make all of his legal problems go away.

Because their only real interest is funneling wealth upwards. Very few Republicans in power genuinely give a damn about any cultural war topics. No Fox News gasbag is choosing to live in Alabama lol. But the only way they can build a viable electoral base that supports stealing from the working class is by inventing and/or exacerbating working class divisions.

"Oh no, you're not unemployed because your boss outsourced your job, it's because, uh, that gay brown migrant took it!"

Recommend reading Eco's short essay on Ur-Fascism.

https://archive.org/details/eco_ur-fascism

Because if they pointed at the problem they wouldn't get elected. Any republican that points out any problem that isn't "minorities bad" swiftly retires or is primaried on the right.

I just want to go get a cup of coffee with another dude without feeling like I'm gonna get shot or worse.

Fascism 101. Give the people a scapegoat to blame all their problems on.

just my 2c...

conservatives require hierarchy to exist. they believe it always did, does, and always will exists - that achieving any kind of equality on a large scale is a pipe dream and unnatural and impossible or even evil to strive for, because it necessitates "knocking them down" to do it. so, their focus is to ensure that they are not currently on the bottom of this hierarchy (fortunately, there's always someone to put beneath them) and to ensure that the bottom does not "rise past them" to leave them at the bottom (as anything promising equality may do). they rally around loud personalities that project power and control (even if it's not true) because just as there must be those beneath them, there must be those above them as well - they pick superiors that are the most personally relatable to them (in an arbitrary, per-person manner) so they can feel they are higher in the hierarchy than they are. after all, if you're just like this person who is obviously high on the ladder of society, you must be pretty well-off too, right? is this why the people they pick tend to be bigoted, unintelligent, and cruel? maybe.

the reason it's always someone else's problem is that the problem (in their mind) is that the people beneath them (their "lessers") are acting as though they're on a level of the social hierarchy that they don't belong. therefore, all social problems clearly have an obvious clause: "if only everyone else would just know their place under us, we wouldn't be having these conflicts." - it can't be them that's the problem, because that would imply there's some kind of issue that may suggest they're not as high up on the social ladder as they thought. gay/trans/brown/etc people want to be recognized as equals? it dilutes their position on the ladder. they would claw past others in this imaginary hierarchy by any means necessary, so of course they assume the "others" will too. no, it's an attack on them, they have to strike back!

gay nightclub shootings and anti-lgbt violence? "maybe they shouldn't have called attention to themselves as they tried to push us down the social hierarchy" someone (anyone) threatens violence upon them? "intolerable. inexcusable. they need to learn their place beneath us"

why do so many of them hate being called cis? because being labelled cis puts them at the same level as a trans person, who they believe is automatically beneath them by virtue of not being exactly like them. it is an attack on them, because they are not considered the normal, the default, as they believe they are. an identifier implies that differentiation between the conservative and the trans person is required, which implies it's not clear to everyone that they are inherently superior to the trans person. you may as well call them "poor powerless worthless scum who deserves to be exploited and abused" in their eyes.

it's maddeningly difficult to convince a hierarchy-addict that it's a delusion.

it makes being a politician for them pretty easy, too. just be relatable to the average self-absorbed person, and claim to do what's needed to put the inferior scum back below your voters where they belong so they can rise up to be superior once more. no surprise this interlaces very well with fascist and racial supremacist ideologies.

Advocate doesn’t pull punches. They’re here to shit on conservatives and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community

I also really appreciate the article talking about the bullshit myth that trans athletes have some kind of advantage in sports. I don’t usually see that.

Sadly that really is note worthy.

I think MTG is deeply jealous and threatened by the beauty of trans women and is drowning in a pool of her own internalized misogyny.

But I'm also a spiteful, mindless piece of shit who has to be told what should make me mad, especially when it does not impact my day to day life. I enjoy joining the conversation when I hear people complain about our rights being stripped away because although my party has never once been "for" anything, only against progress, I need to pridefully let people know that I have absolutely zero critical thinking skills.

When your whole base is full of reactionaries, making attacks is actually fulfilling your voters’ desires.

The transphobic comments are getting out of hand. Lots of reports and lots of removals.

So a little bit is OK then?

No, he is not, because most of us hate him, but are at the mercy of a super broken electoral system. Only the assholes who support him deserve him.

"But genocide palestine"

Im so tired of these people

Yeah I'm sure the third party votes for candidates that are more supportive of LGBTQ rights in states like MS, LA, AR, CA, NY, etc are really gonna effect the electoral outcome.

She looked like she'd been Joker gassed every time she smiled.

It was like watching a more evil version of Dolores Umbridge in the flesh... Which is fitting, because the woman who thought Dolores up is also a hateful, anti-trans biggot.

They don't. They full know well they're just saying what rubes want to hear. If a hell existed they're going to it for demonizing innocent people for profit.

The religious people think it’s their duty to prevent trans people from “sinning” and are likewise terrified their kids will become “trans sinners”.

I’m not kidding. It’s all religious based hate.

All it would take is to ban mentally ill people from receiving hormone therapy. In a matter of weeks said, "revenge" would fall on its face. Look up what happens to people on steroids who quit cold turkey.

Cuntasauras rex

I guess you have to first answer the question, "what is a woman?" For us to figure out her gender, right?

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” ~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Not only was her fake smile uncanny, her snickering/giggling could be heard and it was weird af.

Removed, transphobia.

Removed, transphobia.

Removed, transphobia.

The ONLY real argument for anything regarding trans individuals is sports.

This IS discriminatory against trans people. Why the fuck should laws exist to regulate sports? That's not the government's job, and it never fucking should be.

If trans people want to play sports, and you want the government to make them stop through the threat of criminal prosecution, you're not just an overt transphobe, but a fascist to boot.

Biological women

Eat shit, TERF.

Next time read the article before you open your dumb mouth. Maybe you'd have learned something:

There is no evidence trans youth have an advantage in sports over their cisgender peers. Transgender student athletes have different body types just as cisgender student athletes. Genetics and training can affect how trans students play as well as if the student is on puberty blockers as part of their gender-affirming care.

Regarding the sports bans, trans individuals do not generally get a significant advantage against their cis peers. In the case of trans women, they are often are at a detriment in sports due to the lack of testosterone in their body that's naturally there even in cis women. We haven't seen clear cases of trans individuals standing out against their cis peers consistently and the argument that excluding such a small group works both ways. Unless trans folks are somehow world-class by default, excluding them from their gendered sport is moot and if anything cruel.

One place I see compromise (at least with trans women, I have no idea how men's sports handles trans men since they need to take Testosterone) is requiring a certain number of years of HRT. Those who just started HRT might have an advantage, but after a few years they are around the same level as or further behind their peers.

EDIT: I'm a tiny bit more conflicted now reading some other comments I've seen you make. I feel like you're coming from a genuinely good place though. I hope you continue to expose yourself to different ideas and keep learning and growing. ^_^

EDIT 2: :barks like a sealion: iykyk

EDIT 3: My only regret is that I only have one downvote to give.

No sane person has a problem with ensuring that womens sports contains biological women throughout

Au contraire. Because of HRT, a trans woman would generally have less testosterone than a cis woman. Some of the top-performing cis female athletes would be disqualified by rules based on hiring hormone levels. And puberty-related changes that would prove advantageous can be avoided with puberty -blockers until fully transitioning as an adult with full HRT. And even then the trans female adolescent is at a hormonal disadvantage during that age range.

Women's sports are divided out so they can compete equally.

This isn't true at all. Women's leagues were created because men refused to let women play in the leagues that were already created. That's literally all there was to it.