Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts recently endorsed taking care away from transgender adults, saying in an episode of the PBD podcast that the organization is currently “running the numbers” on the supposed correlation between gender-affirming surgeries and violence. His proposed solution? “You outlaw it.”
“But where there continues to be disagreement is on what you do with adults. At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday,” Roberts said, referencing the Monday mass shooting that left three people dead, including the shooter, and three others critically injured, all of whom were related to the shooter. Police have described the attack as targeted and domestic in nature.
“There does seem to be a mounting body of evidence that suggests a correlation between that surgery at any age, mental health issues, and increasingly, although we’re running the numbers on this at Heritage, acts of violence,” Roberts added, falsely.
I did Nazi that one coming.
It’s so fucking crazy that a handful of creepy weirdos have so much influence on this country, just because the Republicans hold power. I shouldn’t have to care what an asshat like this “wants”; the rule of law should prevail and most people should be able to point and laugh at an unflushable turd like this.
Imagine if the Democrats worked anything at all like this. Some random scribbler with a weird personal hobbyhorse expresses what they want in relation to a marginalized group and the entire party acts on it.
It cannot be stated enough: conservatives are WEIRD FREAKS. The Republican Party: same thing.
Does this ghoul go out in public? Does he expect to continue to be able to live in society, go into restaurants, rent cars, go for a walk?
This is the piece I don’t understand. Do these people not have a notion of the social contract? Do unto others? How could a person knowingly be associated with something like project 2025 and just keep on trying to exist in the public sphere?
Aww. Does the poor widdle baby get confused feelings about pretty girls?
I know people who have done steroids my entire life and they are against gender affirming care
They will never understand that they are getting gender affirming care. Just for a different gender
Haircuts are gender affirming care. Clothing is gender affirming care. Glasses are gender affirming care.
There is a correlation between Christian indoctrination and political violence. I think we should outlaw that. Exposing your children to religion is traumatic and should be considered child abuse.
Opus Dei are quite dangerous, they even support slavery. Kevin is probably part of “the cult within the cult”.
How about they run the numbers on fat cis white guys. Then compare them.
You can really see meal team six’s gravy seals holding the thin crust line here!
What are those plate carriers supposed to cover?
That’s a dinner plate carrier.
Lmao
By his logic, if one trans person shooting folks should make all trans medicine be banned, the ridiculous amount of white male mass shooters should see all white dudes put into prison camps at birth.
By his logic
Nobody here is using that shit.
Logic that is.
This is meant to do what it always did, rile up stupid hicks against a manufactured enemy and provide leverage for politicians who want to succeed on the backs of a fearful mob of hicks.
Not only that, but us straight, white dudes do so many shootings that despite there really not being that many trans people they’re still under-represented. It’s not like there were only five shootings and so 20% was by a trans person, there were so many that it’s less than a percent.
It’s not just the flat numbers, but the percentages, too.
At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday," Roberts said
He conveniently doesn’t mention that the shooter was also a Trump supporting Nazi.
For the curious…
Dorgano at some point appeared to have a Schutzstaffel insignia tattoo with a skull on it on her right arm. In addition to the tattoo, she posted pro-Nazi content on Twitter, including stating repeatedly that being “to the right of Hitler” was a “compliment” and replying “wp” to an image of someone giving a Nazi salute.
Yes, ignoring Nazis among their movement and party is a regular feature of conservatives/Republicans.
The mass shootings are all just blending together. Which one was this?
Strong contender for Most Useful Idiot of 2026, there. Hard to see anyone topping that with only ten months left.
Project 2025 creator needs to feel the same type of fear that he is whipping up.
Preventing trans people from physically transitioning isn’t going to make them not trans.
No, but they’re trying to exterminate the groups. Once they’re done genocide-ing the immigrants, they’ll add on the other undesirables. That’s why they’re making the camps so big.
Wow, is it too much to ask that our big evil movements to dismantle decent society and drag us into fascism have some decent leaders??
/s
I am a cis gender woman.
I just found out one of my prescriptions is for a drug that is also used for gender-affirming care.
It made me so angry. I didn’t know much about that kind of care. It wasn’t my business and didn’t affect me. A patients care is between them and their doctor. Now, that I actually know what is prescribed, I realize how much stupider the whole debate is.
Just let doctors do their job. If a legitimate doctor prescribes a healthy patient something, it’s not any of our god damn business. Leave trans people alone and let them live their lives.
I’ve been shouting from the fucking rooftops They will come after ALL trans healthcare, and indeed all other rights. No one cares. They are mostly totally ignorant of us, so they believe whatever bullshit they read.
Just like the republicans will come, and likely succeed, in overturning Obergefell.
I won’t be able to legally access healthcare, nor will I be able to marry.
Remember, all of our “activism” is because we want special rights, not the same ones that cishet white people take for granted every goddamn day.
they start with kids because they have no rights and are thus easier to oppress, and they then use that to come after the rest of us
Are they going to ban balding treatments for cismen too? That’s gender affirming care.
We should just ban white men then too, eh?
Can we?
It’s probably for the best … we have not done a very good job with most things …
Hey!!!
…I actually did kinda ok with the grilled cheese I made last night. I mean, it wasn’t great. It was still burnt, but it was considerably less burnt!
I like that it didn’t result in a mass shooting =)
Baby steps.
I feel like a large celebration is in order for this milestone in our demographic’s development, white men need constant positive affirmations or we rapidly fall back into old ways and start checks notes murdering everyone who doesn’t look like us …
