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When Graham appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program afterward, she attempted to recover by pivoting from her lack of national security knowledge to transgender athletes, as The Advocate reported.

“Of course, Taiwan is our friend,” Graham said. “But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about making ends meet. They are concerned about boys in girls’ sports.”

Trump continued that strategy Friday by making transgender people a central part of his argument for Graham. He attacked Andrews as a “far-left political hack who supports transgender for everybody” and accused her of telling “confused children they’re trapped in the wrong body.”

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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 Children’s 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 Children’s agreed to pay the state $10 million, end gender-affirming care for minors and establish what federal officials called the country’s first “restorative care” 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.

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[-] newton@feddit.online 1 points 19 minutes ago
[-] SayJess 7 points 3 hours ago

Myocardial infarction. Massive. Live TV. Please.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

He makes something up that his hardcore fanatics would consider "good". That's all.

He is running into the situation that even his core base notices that they cannot afford food or fuel anymore, and that his ICE is not just taking "criminals" off the streets, but also their underpaid and exploitable ~~slaves~~ employees.

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

So, he's literally admitting to ordering genocide?

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 31 points 8 hours ago

He is so fucking stupid. It makes me cringe thinking that this moron is in charge and all the other branches just bent over for this ugly fat worthless child rapist.

[-] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 32 points 9 hours ago

I saw a guy at Home Depot today with a shirt that said "if genders confuse you, try milking a bull" and I'm like, first off that's essentially what we are good at but also, this guy's so wrapped up in culture wars that don't actually affect him, he's wearing a shirt about jerking off farm animals in public, and that seems OK to him. It's well past the point of parody anymore and it can only collapse as people tune it all out like any other odd fad.

[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

he's wearing a shirt about jerking off farm animals in public, and that seems OK to him

Maybe it's something he thinks about a lot, and this is his way of coping with the cognitive dissonance.

[-] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 points 1 hour ago

They are brainwashed nutjobs who are exposed to propaganda 24/7. They have no life without it now, that's why it's their entire identity.

[-] Catoblepas 8 points 8 hours ago

If bulls are anything like people, well, put the bull on HRT for a couple of years and you might be able to milk it. Trans women can lactate breast milk that’s nutritionally identical to cis women’s.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

He is also broadcasting that he is the one that is confused by the idea of gender.

Also: imagine being such a fucking asshole about culture war bullshit that you'd not only waste money on buying a stupid shirt like that but wearing it in public.

The only way it'd get any more obvious is if they started literally printing up shirts that said "The Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair" and started wearing those.

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago
[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Not one person around him has the fucking balls to say that it's time to take the keys away from grandpa and ship him off to a mental ward...and the whole goddamned world has to sit here and suffer his crazy bullshit.

[-] Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Those that did speak up were fired. It's a classic authoritarian move to only keep local yes-men as inner circle.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 6 hours ago

Most are are benefiting from his remaining in power.

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

I'm really looking forward to his death

I sincerely hope that it is extremely painful

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

He's the first, and only, person I'd be happy to find out they contracted Ebola.

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I'd be pleased to see him spread it to all his supporters and sycophants, and anyone who has ever voted for him or wanted to

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I was just thinking about how many of his dumb ass sycophants would catch it because masks are for liberals.

[-] Catoblepas 15 points 11 hours ago

Post-top surgery trans dude here. Have yet to have any tits forcibly operated back onto me. Which is what they’d have to do, because all my former breast tissue is mostly gone.

[-] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

First they came to put tits on me, and I said hell yeah, because tits are dope

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[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 37 points 13 hours ago

Good God, Grampa Dementia strikes again!

[-] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 20 points 13 hours ago

Reverse surgeries? I'm trying to think what that means literally and I'm not really sure -- isn't a reverse surgery a dissection? 😧

[-] toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online 43 points 13 hours ago

I think he means "we're stapling dongs back on"

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 18 points 11 hours ago

"You came back! We've been saving this for you."

[-] hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 hours ago

It’s the episode of South Park where they grow a dick for Mrs. Garrison on the back of a mouse.

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

It's the second half of a surgery when they reassemble

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 14 points 12 hours ago

Somebody give this dude reverse brain surgery.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

Call Ben Carson

[-] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 10 points 12 hours ago

Get this fuck out of office now.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

We lost that battle twice. The only way he leaves is by force. Sorry, America. Collectively, we are too stupid to vote.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

His body is working on it.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

Not hard enough.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

I threw him out of the oval office every day since he got there

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 11 hours ago

Wouldn't a reverse trans surgery still be a trans surgery? That's themselves point. Gender confirmation. In this mythical case, confirming the gender they want the person to have rather than the gender they are.

So clearly any previous claims about safety, child safety and surgical regret are completely ingenuine. Quelle surprise?

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 12 hours ago

This man's brain has probably melted into slop à-l'-AI.

[-] Aeao@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

NO BACKSIES!

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago
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