Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts recently endorsed taking care away from transgender adults, saying in an episode of the PBD podcast that the organization is currently “running the numbers” on the supposed correlation between gender-affirming surgeries and violence. His proposed solution? “You outlaw it.”
“But where there continues to be disagreement is on what you do with adults. At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday,” Roberts said, referencing the Monday mass shooting that left three people dead, including the shooter, and three others critically injured, all of whom were related to the shooter. Police have described the attack as targeted and domestic in nature.
“There does seem to be a mounting body of evidence that suggests a correlation between that surgery at any age, mental health issues, and increasingly, although we’re running the numbers on this at Heritage, acts of violence,” Roberts added, falsely.
There is a correlation between Christian indoctrination and political violence. I think we should outlaw that. Exposing your children to religion is traumatic and should be considered child abuse.
How about they run the numbers on fat cis white guys. Then compare them.
You can really see meal team six’s gravy seals holding the thin crust line here!
By his logic, if one trans person shooting folks should make all trans medicine be banned, the ridiculous amount of white male mass shooters should see all white dudes put into prison camps at birth.
Not only that, but us straight, white dudes do so many shootings that despite there really not being that many trans people they’re still under-represented. It’s not like there were only five shootings and so 20% was by a trans person, there were so many that it’s less than a percent.
It’s not just the flat numbers, but the percentages, too.
Wow, is it too much to ask that our big evil movements to dismantle decent society and drag us into fascism have some decent leaders??
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At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday," Roberts said
He conveniently doesn’t mention that the shooter was also a Trump supporting Nazi.
The mass shootings are all just blending together. Which one was this?
Strong contender for Most Useful Idiot of 2026, there. Hard to see anyone topping that with only ten months left.
Project 2025 creator needs to feel the same type of fear that he is whipping up.
Preventing trans people from physically transitioning isn’t going to make them not trans.
No, but they’re trying to exterminate the groups. Once they’re done genocide-ing the immigrants, they’ll add on the other undesirables. That’s why they’re making the camps so big.
Are they going to ban balding treatments for cismen too? That’s gender affirming care.
I am a cis gender woman.
I just found out one of my prescriptions is for a drug that is also used for gender-affirming care.
It made me so angry. I didn’t know much about that kind of care. It wasn’t my business and didn’t affect me. A patients care is between them and their doctor. Now, that I actually know what is prescribed, I realize how much stupider the whole debate is.
Just let doctors do their job. If a legitimate doctor prescribes a healthy patient something, it’s not any of our god damn business. Leave trans people alone and let them live their lives.
I’ve been shouting from the fucking rooftops They will come after ALL trans healthcare, and indeed all other rights. No one cares. They are mostly totally ignorant of us, so they believe whatever bullshit they read.
Just like the republicans will come, and likely succeed, in overturning Obergefell.
I won’t be able to legally access healthcare, nor will I be able to marry.
Remember, all of our “activism” is because we want special rights, not the same ones that cishet white people take for granted every goddamn day.
Not surprised, this is the main reason why I never said “Well I guess you should be 18 to transition”, I knew gender affirming care bans were never going to be just for minors.
Trump himself gave up the game when he made 19 the minimum age for federal plans.
We should just ban white men then too, eh?
Can we?
It’s probably for the best … we have not done a very good job with most things …
Hey!!!
…I actually did kinda ok with the grilled cheese I made last night. I mean, it wasn’t great. It was still burnt, but it was considerably less burnt!
I like that it didn’t result in a mass shooting =)
Baby steps.
I feel like a large celebration is in order for this milestone in our demographic’s development, white men need constant positive affirmations or we rapidly fall back into old ways and start checks notes murdering everyone who doesn’t look like us …
Viagra is gender-affirming care.
Of course he does. He undoubtedly wants to mass-murder trans people, too. Baby steps.
One of the first groups the Nazis targeted even before the night of broken glass were the LGBT. They’re foaming at the mouth with rage about the LGBT, and they operate on a last-hired-first-fired basis. They’ll work their way up to the Ls, Gs, and Bs eventually.
And white liberals will sit on their asses and allow it.
MLK fucking warned us about white “moderates”
Hey, at least he’s not raising their taxes!
They’ll work their way up to the Ls, Gs, and Bs eventually.
That’s all still just parts of phase 1.
What is “gender-affirming care”?
Most prominent example? Trump’s hair.
Actually? Any cosmetic or medical action to augment someone’s identity as either man or woman.
To a transphobic bigot? Anything that deviates from strict gender alignment with sex assigned at birth.
The best filtering example is “breast reduction for cis boys in Texas”, since one study looking for underage “female mutilation” found that the exactly same surgery was more than twenty times as likely to be performed on a cis boy than trans boy.
Anything they want it to be.
I dunno brah, I can’t even define ‘woman’ /s
