A new study was published showing that transgender people who opt for top surgery have very little regret. Conservatives are predictably outraged at the conclusion, going as far as to blame science.
This is pretty consistent in conservative circles. There used to be (still is?) a lot of right-wing outrage regarding undocumented immigrants to the United States, insisting that they are a nexus of crime and a burden on the state, and yet, they actually pay more taxes per capita than the general population and have lower crime rates than the GP as well.
(The GOP doesn’t want to admit that the US likes undocumented immigrants specifically because they can be exploited as a cheap labor source, because usually it’s their own constituents doing the exploiting.)
So it’s not about sensibility or truth, it’s about alarmism and two minutes of hate to rile up their base to vote and keep them in office.
Conservatives also LOVE to forget that most developed nations rely on immigration to keep the population growth steady, which is what props up retirement and a growing economy, as well as the fact that poor immigrants are generally the people who end up doing the shitty jobs that natives don’t want to do but have to be done.
Kick the immigrants out, the economy collapses and there’s no one to clean your office, then complain that leopards ate your face!
This is pretty consistent in conservative circles. There used to be (still is?) a lot of right-wing outrage regarding undocumented immigrants to the United States, insisting that they are a nexus of crime and a burden on the state, and yet, they actually pay more taxes per capita than the general population and have lower crime rates than the GP as well.
(The GOP doesn’t want to admit that the US likes undocumented immigrants specifically because they can be exploited as a cheap labor source, because usually it’s their own constituents doing the exploiting.)
So it’s not about sensibility or truth, it’s about alarmism and two minutes of hate to rile up their base to vote and keep them in office.
Conservatives also LOVE to forget that most developed nations rely on immigration to keep the population growth steady, which is what props up retirement and a growing economy, as well as the fact that poor immigrants are generally the people who end up doing the shitty jobs that natives don’t want to do but have to be done.
Kick the immigrants out, the economy collapses and there’s no one to clean your office, then complain that leopards ate your face!