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Ok.

He’s wrong and we’ll all just ignore him and continue existing.

Medical science will continue showing that sex isn’t and never has been a binary either.

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Doesn’t stop politicians from trying

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If they could read they’d have some strong feelings about this reality

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The ability to read or not does not have anything to do with how much knowledge one can acquire, there are many ways to acquire knowledge.

Don’t be ableist and harm people that don’t deserve it please.

These people are just willfully ignorant fascists who think they can control reality

No need to ascribe any other features onto them that don’t and won’t harm them but will harm others.

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It’s a reference to a joke from King of the Hill.

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Problem is this means that things we were hoping to get like having hormone replacement therapy actually approved by the FDA for use for transgender care will not happen and any enforcement of anti-discrimination or laws against hate speech at the federal level will no longer apply to trans and non-binary people. This will allow, for example, insurance companies to not have to cover transgender care. There is already a huge waiting list for people who are seeking care in the US due to the lack of specialists (myself included), so that list is likely to get longer. And likely any doctors who might have been planning to take up transgender care specialties may have their programs lose their funding. It’s a huge impact to a lot of areas of government and many industries to have the federal government not recognize transgender care as valid and not recognize non-binary people like me as people at all.

Also, I’m fortunate enough to live in a state that is friendly to transgender and non-binary people, but my employer is not based here, so the insurance I have doesn’t have to obey local laws that don’t allow for blanket policies banning coverage of transgender care. So, the federal laws do matter.

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Thank you for the correction and expansion.

Hoping people will start making their own hormones etc. I understand the rest is shit though and I hope we can all start looking after each other instead.

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