When Graham appeared on Sean Hannityās Fox News program afterward, she attempted to recover by pivoting from her lack of national security knowledge to transgender athletes, as The Advocate reported.
āOf course, Taiwan is our friend,ā Graham said. āBut I think people in South Carolina are more worried about making ends meet. They are concerned about boys in girlsā sports.ā
Trump continued that strategy Friday by making transgender people a central part of his argument for Graham. He attacked Andrews as a āfar-left political hack who supports transgender for everybodyā and accused her of telling āconfused children theyāre trapped in the wrong body.ā
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Trump may have conflated those medical procedures with agreements his Justice Department has forced on two major hospital systems. Those settlements require Texas Childrenās Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic to establish or fund services for people who voluntarily seek to detransition. They do not order hospitals to perform surgery on anyone.
In May, Texas Childrenās agreed to pay the state $10 million, end gender-affirming care for minors and establish what federal officials called the countryās first ārestorative careā clinic for detransitioners. The Houston hospital also agreed to terminate five physicians connected to its transgender health program and permanently revoke their privileges, as The Advocate reported.
Yeah, Iāve just decided Iām not taking the bait anymore. If they want to circle jerk about trans people, I have more important things to do, like, literally anything else. Trans stuff affects me 0% of any given day and Iāve never felt the need to police a bathroom or verify the gender of an athlete.
I cannot fucking believe our country is so mired in this absolute non-issue for 99.999% of the population.
Iām still just shocked that youāll see people say it is their ā#1 issueā - like Megyn Kelly on Maher for instance - I saw some Republican say it again about some constituent recently, too.
If you are not trans or a parent of a trans, I donāt see how that is even possible to be so ridiculous, but the right always delivers on being disgusting, horrible and ridiculously hateful.
For everyone else - I guess we all have to suffer because the worst people in the world have decided to prioritize this over: clean air, clean water, climate change, upgrading to green energy, health care, education, science and tech leadership, safe streets, a job with rights and dignity that can support an entire family with one income, caring for the sick and the elderly with dignity, mental care, upgrading infrastructure, including mass transit, and on and on and onā¦
Instead, the conservatives are fixated on the stupidest possible shit. They are wilding the fuck out about Jefferson County having 60 men in womenās sports, a thing that isnāt even a thing.
Meanwhile, all of us are suffering out here from all kinds of shit that have nothing to do with fucking sportsball or the rightās stupid ideas about āgender ideologyā.
I knew we were going to be hearing about this shit endlessly for two reasons, though - for one, they kept going on about how Michelle Obama really had a dong - sure it was a stupid conspiracy theory, but you could tell that many of them wanted that to somehow invalidate Obamaās administration because they view it as something that should be a crime. The other was the flurry of bathroom bill bullshit starting up nearly immediately after the conservatives lost the gay marriage issue in 2015.
yep. obsessed over bullshit, but I think itās because the actual issues leave them no room to stand - the economy, the trillions in deficit linked to their tax cuts, the wars, etc., etc., etc.,