Trump campaign announces official LGBT coalition

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I'll believe him when he lifts the transgender military ban. And supports gay marriage. And supports anti-discrimination legislation. And... you get the point. Trump doesn't support LGBT rights, he just doesn't.

I should also note that Biden's record is much worse than Trump's. Biden supported DADT, DOMA, and other anti-queer legislation that hurt the LGBT rights movement. Yet leftist queer folk still support him.

Queer folks aren't welcome in either of the two big parties. The Republicans openly refuse to give us rights, and the Democrats are scheming behind our backs and only care about stealing away our votes. Voting for Trump or Biden won't change anything. On the issue of LGBT rights, they're both the same.

[–]yishengqingwa666 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The military is not obligated to accept mentally ill AGPs into its ranks.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, it shouldn't accept the mentally ill, but not all transfolks are mentally ill. There should be a ban on mental illness in general, not on those who choose to identify a different way than you believe they should.

[–]yishengqingwa666 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Anyone who claims to be the opposite sex, has 'dysphoria', is on cross-sex hormones, demands mutilating surgeries and regularly threatens suicide is mentally ill.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not all transgender people meet those qualifications, though. There are some transgender people who don't claim to be the opposite sex (they accept that their sex is male or female, but believe that shouldn't dictate their behavior and personality traits). They don't wish to use hormones or undergo surgery. They don't have any distress over their sex (the definition of gender dysphoria requires distress) and don't threaten suicide in any way.