One transgender woman, Sheena, left Florida to move to Minnesota. Florida has recently passed extremely harsh legislation targeting the transgender community, and Sheena cited this legislation in her decision to move with her partner, stating that she “had to leave Florida within one month [of the transgender medical ban on adults] to avoid having my care halted.”

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    That was the goal. We don’t vote for fascists, so we need to be removed. Forcing us to flee is the first step, and when that fails to eliminate us completely they’ll start implementing further measures to make it impossible for us to vote or live in red states.

    Interestingly, that also forces us to live and vote in the states we flee to, making them less red as we’ll obviously never miss another election after becoming political refugees.

    Balkanization.

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      Definitely gives rise to conditions for conflict and civil war, when areas have been depopulated of anyone who disagrees. Unfortunately for many of these red states, they’re landlocked and low GDP so it’s a losing proposition either way. They wanted the South to rise again, but apparently didn’t learn any lessons since last time, content to be kings of a failing depressed hateful anthill.

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        The civil war was similar in that way, they were landlocked with low population and poor access to resources back then too. A losing proposition from the start.

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          It’s interesting how “minor” conditions can have huge effects on conflicts. Apparently the South thought they could leverage their cotton (“cotton is king”) and use it to convince England/Europe to back them, but not only did Confederate diplomacy suck but other countries did the math and decided they didn’t need Southern cotton bad enough to piss off the Union.

          It seems these guys and their spiritual descendents have a long proud history of overestimating their importance and worth while antagonizing everyone else and behaving like idiots.

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    Look, I don’t pretend to understand the issues trans people face, but I can’t imagine what reason they could reasonably have for preventing adults from accessing medication. If someone wants to use a drug, they should be allowed to.

    I thought conservatives were in favor of small government? Surely that means the government should restrict as little as possible, no?

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      Conservatives are in favor of small government in the same way Republicans are the party of Lincoln; it’s something that may have been true once, but lacks any evidence of being currently accurate. These sayings are just vestigial phrases that became irrelevant once electing a black man as President broke the minds of a significant chunk of the nation.

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        I don’t think it’s that. I think conservatives just really don’t like the ACA. I don’t think it has anymore to do with race, they just don’t want their tax dollars funding things they’re morally opposed to.

        And to that my response is, how much is actually being spent on the specific things you don’t like? And how much would an alternative option cost (e.g. therapy for trans people who can’t get the medicine they need)? I think the costs for those medications are so low that it’s really not worth arguing over. I see it the same way as anti-depressants or ADHD medication, if it improves the quality of your life and it doesn’t impact others, it should be available.