• aurelar@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    The people in favor of this law would probably try to file it under the mental illness category instead of using the simple fact that they’re transgender.

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      2 days ago

      That could be a tough sell for them now, to call everybody transgender mentally ill as a matter of course. The next logical step would be declaring all gay people mentally ill, then anyone with a fetish that is not very widespread, and so on.

      The gun rights people have been tooled to support Republicans with slippery slope arguments. I do not think they would support this at this moment in time. The administration is testing the waters.

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        19 hours ago

        They always seem to be testing the waters. Razvedka boyem is standard operating practice for Trump and his ilk.