I’m shocked they didn’t do this.

People like Logan Paul?

When have we seen anyone else do something like this?

Yes. It was announced so long ago that COVID-19 had spread to the United States a full year later

Because many people talk about it like it’s a thing that happens all the time to trans children when really, it isn’t. There’s a lot of fearmongering around this. I think pointing out how insignificant this topic is is important.

It’s fair to fearmonger over this topic. It causes severe harm and injury to the children who get it in the vast majority of cases. You’re right that it’s also important to talk about how few people are actually getting these surgeries, it has no bearing on whether or not it should be legal.

I think intersex children that have experienced mutilation during infancy are a great example for why sex change surgeries on minors should not be made completely illegal.

Is your argument that mutilating children during infancy should be legal, or illegal? Or, is your argument that sex change surgeries should be allowed to reverse such mutilation? If it’s the latter, would you say that’s the only type of sex change operations available for minors?

That actually isn’t strange. Those people are ideologues, and ideologues are pervasive within the mainstream media.

Not to say that there aren’t child sex change supporters in the real world, but they probably outnumber the actual amount of parents who are trying to get their kids chopped up.

There are a lot of (albeit impressive) rhetorical smokes screens I’m choosing not to engage with, but there are many interesting points of conversation to be had here.

Staying on topic here:

so, no. I don’t think the kind of “sex change surhery on minors” you’re talking about should be banned. it generally isn’t a thing, and sometimes it’s a good thing.

This is an interesting take. If it’s sometimes a good thing, why does it matter whether or not it’s generally a thing? And, what evidence do you have that allowing them to be legal tends to do more good than harm?

Sex change surgeries on minors aren’t happening.

The protest from the far left against banning it is even stranger in light of this.

Why do conservatives never talk about the large number of gender affirming surgeries that people do on cis minors? Cisgendered kids are getting breast implants, and it’s kind of a big problem.

I’ve heard some people talk about this to some degree. Is this happening more often that kids taking hormones or getting sex change operations?

I wonder if Republicans would be more outraged if there was a concerted marketing or social push for kids to get breast implants lol. The reactionary right wing outrage machine doesn’t care as much about effects as much as what the left is doing or might doing.

Nice! That’s a reasonable stance, I think most people are probably where you’re at as well (I guess that’s redundant, it reflects in the poll after all)

Well, IDK. I’m right wing. Exploding Heads definitely at least leaned right, and found myself arguing with those people a lot of the time, but I do prefer right wing lunacy to left wing lunacy most of the time.

Ooh I didn’t know that the exploding-heads guy did anything else.

Why block instances though? I’ve never been a fan of that, I just let people block me.

So you’d support banning them?

The Lemmy devs? I’m aware of this. I’m a right winger and that doesn’t affect me nearly as much as the far left communities of Lemmy users.

The features are all I care about. Eventually I’ll find the right people here and be able to build the communities I want.

Lemmy works really well with Lotide

I’m not sure what that even means. Does that mean it’s right wing? If software can even be right wing or left wing.

So is it a fork of Lemmy?

How long is the education secretary gonna be there if we’re getting rid of the department of education?

Somehow I’ve been liking MTG more lately. She’s a kook but I was also happy she called out Laura Loomer’s racism and got her booted from his inner circle

In the Epic Games Store? They removed them some time ago. Not sure why.

Well, I don’t think many people know the details, and investigations are usually slow. If the investigation isn’t concluded, he’s not technically guilty. I’m not surprised he was and still is allowed to stay in Congress.