The Supreme Court is stepping into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear appeals from the Biden administration and families seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
    422·
    4 days ago

    When did attorneys become qualified to determine appropriate treatments for medical diagnoses?

    • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      If Alito and Thomas can master the field of history in such a short time, what makes you think they can’t do the same with the field of medicine‽

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      4 days ago

      To opponents it’s not a medical diagnosis, it’s a choice. Same for anything other than cis people, except the notion of people transitioning is far, far worse.

      They believe that a person chooses to be gay, but at least that choice is reversible, fixable. If it’s a choice, it’s not a choice a child can make. And teens are certainly impressionable.

      Once you truly internalize where conservatives are coming from, it pretty much explains all these views. Almost forgot, we gotta throw in the child molester thing. What a win that propaganda turned out to be.

      We can talk all night about how stupid these views are. Turned a friend around years ago by simply asking, “If it’s a choice we all have, when did you make yours? Because Wonder Woman comics got me a hardon when I was 5.”

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Thanks for this comment, I hadn’t thought about it this way before. I had realised about how being gay is framed as a thing you do rather than a thing you are, because I have a friend who is an ex-benedictine monk, and they explained about how their vow of chastity meant they were basically “one of the good ones”. A large part of why they left was because their rhetoric was “everyone has sinful desires in them and turning away from those is an important challenge”, but the unspoken part was that his gayness made his desires extra bad, like there was just some innately bad thing in him.

        And of course they would apply this same logic to gender. As you say, it makes more sense when you try to see it from their angle. I think that’s important to do if we hope to ever refute them

  • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
    121·
    4 days ago

    We really need an amendment or two around medical care. However, the same problem preventing that is what is causing the need in the first place: Republicans in national and state legislatures. The judiciary sucks right now, but it’s really not their job to do anything but evaluate whether this is constitutional and it likely is (in a post-Dobbs world). I’d love to see the right to privacy ruling come back, but that’s not happening. All of those assumptions can be changed with dedicated, long-term strategic voting and a bit of luck with justice health. Please vote.

    Edit: Somebody replied and I have you blocked. Just don’t want you to have to wait for a response. Lemmy should really just hide my comments from you so we don’t run into this issue, but such is life.

    • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
      336·
      4 days ago

      yes please vote for the do nothing democrats that only promise and ask for funding

      and don’t vote third party because that is a vote for the Republicans

      Biden is not Trump

      looks like the people are definitely losing this November with these same lines being chanted over and over

      Biden has stated on record he wholly believes in Catholicism not just pieces of it and picked a prosecutor as a vice

      how are they suppose help again?

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        121·
        4 days ago

        Have you checked the average cost of general healthcare or maintenance medicine under Democrats vs Republicans ever? More specifically, have you seen how affordable things are now vs four years ago for large portions of the populace in the US?

        • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
          115·
          4 days ago

          have you seen how affordable things are now

          this is kind of voters voting in the US right now

          both party’s four years looked shitty and even worse the past four years

          prices are skyrocketing and continuing their skyward advance towards space and beyond

          personally got less healthcare today than a decade ago at a much more premium price tag

          are you talking about the free Jesus clinics that have “What is your religion?” on the intake forms? those are still free the very very few of them in the US

          • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
            1·
            20 hours ago

            Prices have recently been coming down on groceries, gasoline, and consumer goods. Even Target and McDonalds have announce price cuts.

            If the democrats had solid control of both houses of congress and the presidency, you would be seeing a single-payer option for health care.