Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition ops at school

Somehow you get socialized medicine if you want gender reassignment surgery and you're a child.

Sound logic. Actually the most penetrable, I think, for these dolts.

You can get all the free surgery you want in the US. You just have to join the military.

Stay in school, (trans) kids!

Shit. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that surgery? When I got it, insurance didn't cover it. I had to fly to Thailand to afford it. Even with going overseas it was still about $18k USD including flights and everything. And that was in 2013 dollars. I worked my ass off to afford that. And that's to say nothing of the endless psych evals, therapist letters, and myriad other hoops you have to jump through. It is NOT something you can just stumble into, even if you had an unlimited budget behind you.

And I'll tell you, I was pretty young looking for my age. A bit into transition I was once walking down the street in the middle of the day on a weekday, and I literally had a cop stop me, thinking I was a high school student playing hookie from school. Meanwhile I was 24, having recently finished a masters degree.

My point is...if you could just walk into a high school and get surgery covered like that, and done no questions asked? I would have legitimately become one of those weirdos who fakes being a teenager and enrolls in a high school in their twenties. I probably could have pulled it off. I would have claimed to be a homeless kid, enrolled in a local high school, got the surgery, and then disappeared again. Compared to what I did go through to get it, that would be child's play.

Of course, idiots like Trump don't even realize how involved that surgery is. This is not some outpatient procedure you do in the morning and are up on your feet in the afternoon. Plan a month off of work. That's what it realistically involves. Then imagine paying for it and finding a way to arrange such an extended absence from the very job that allows you to afford it, all while also paying your regular bills and keeping a roof over your head.

For those who need it, gender reassignment surgery is literally life-saving. I can say that from personal experience. But to see ignorant fools like Trump make light of a thing that you had to work so hard to get?...I do not have the words to express it.

That's quite a step up from school nurse when I was a kid. You'd come in there bleeding to death and she'd give you a Tylenol and send you back to class.

Shit, tons of districts aren't even fully staffed with school nurses anymore. They often only have a few nurses that rotate between schools, so any given school only has a nurse on site one or two days a week. It's actually a huge problem because there's nobody available to dispense prescription meds for kids that need them, so either the teachers (who aren't trained or equipped for this) have to help out or the kids have to self-medicate.

Also what benefits should the underfunded school system have for giving out expensive surgeries for free? What do they stand to gain from that?

One of my daughter's best friends is trans. I told my daughter that maybe he'll get lucky and the school nurse will construct a penis for him.

His base believes in doing things just for the cruelty. So these ridiculous claims, (gangs taking over apartments, immigrants eating cats, forced transitions) are believable to them based on their own support for doing things just to be cruel.

Trump's most successful political method was that he changed lanes faster than anyone could keep up. It allowed him to control the narrative. You're falling for the same tricks that won him the 2016 election. Don't engage.

Just call them weird and move on.

"Sure is weird someone is thinking about school children's genitalia instead of their choice of weapons for a school shooting, especially at a time like this." Done.

According to my biology teacher, its to lower the birth rate

They want to force people to be hetero, Christian, and either white male and upper class, or anything else and subservient.

So for them, other groups forcing/ brainwashing people to be gay/trans, atheist and so on makes perfect sense.

What on earth would the purpose for a gender transition conspiracy possibly serve?

fascism, it's always fascism, it's literally just fascism.

Because evil. No seriously. And yeah that’s the difference between plausible and implausible conspiracy theories. Plausible ones have motivation. “Why did Donald trump snd the right wing media attempt to overturn the 2020 election?” For power. “Why did the CIA experiment with lsd to control minds?” They were really high and worried that the communists were better at controlling agents than them. “Why do world governments hide proof of alien contact?” There is no clear answer. “Why do world governments work together to hide proof of a flat earth?” To keep the population in the dark.

They don't even have bandaids most of the time because "somebody" cut funding to the bone.

This alone proves to me that this isn’t about political ideals but rather who holds power. As a result, lies told to further the cause of “power” are simply a means to an end. It’s reprehensible.

I have relatives with master's degrees that work in education that you can not convince that cat litter bathrooms are not a thing.

The same people that believed schools were putting litter boxes in the bathrooms for students to use.

Not the best or the brightest.

Coaches are making some cuts to the foosball roster

You ever see how many pairs of safety scissors are in a kindergarten classroom? What did you think all those were for?

I asked him what critical race theory is and he didn't know.

Same thing happens when you ask someone complaining about "the woke" what that word actually means. Blank stare and no coherent answer.

People are being lied to and then they tie it to ego preexisting prejudices

Whether it's racism, sexism, transphobia....it's lies that are easy to believe because it feels true.

I didn't because I got a cootie shot. It wasn't as easy as it sounds, it involved a circle, circle, dot, dot.

Oh I remember we had a big bag of rainbow cookies one time and they made you gay, and the only gay guy in school was eatting them but they were apparently really good so we figured out if you just ate an even number you'd end up back straight again.

Twas a simpler time.

Oh I have one. I sure wish they’d started when I was in school. I had to do the hard work of actually admitting I wanted it to myself and others.

Because many of them believe the same thing. The Democratic party is overall moderate conservatives, but some swing further right than others. We don't have a progressive party in the US.

He finally admitted he lost the 2020 election...

Regardless of the source, this is essentially verbatim what he said