on top of all that, the only medical gender-affirming care minors are allowed to access is puberty blockers. a select few might be able to start HRT at 17. everything else, including the puberty blockers, is fully reversible. this "kids who thought they were trans then changed their minds" rhetoric is pure propaganda to deny medically-sanctioned and safe gender-affirming care to kids (and adults). it is bigoted, transphobic, dangerous PROPAGANDA.
this is transphobic propaganda. people who detransition represent less than 1% of all trans people - the single lowest regret rate for any medical procedure on record - and of that 1% who detransition, less than 1% cite "no longer identify as transgender" as their reason. and considering what a tiny minority trans people already are, you're talking about like 20 people out of hundreds of millions. (cont'd)
except we've already seen that even when someone WANTS to quit, these chucklefucks are like "no, don't!" who's funding them? shut these dipshits down.
also, how can you claim to be a leader in harm reduction when you're also a leader in overdose deaths? doesn't seem like you're actually reducing harm if you ask me.
what a bunch of bullshit. he targeted a sitting president WHO SAID HE WAS GOING TO RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS AND DIDN'T, when every other modern presidential candidate has made their tax returns public, and showed how thousands of the richest people in the country are SCAMMING THE TAX SYSTEM. he did a public service, that judge acts like he was planning assassinations.
firstly: no, Abbott is not right. there is no "invasion" & states do not have sovereignty to supercede the federal govt, which IS enforcing the law.
second, note that NYT quoted the right-wing Ft Worth paper but not the left-leaning Texas Tribune. a mealy-mouthed "what if" is hardly a rebuttal to the racist rhetoric of the right.
it doesn't seem to me like the Chinese audience has changed at all. what changed was that studios gave up catering to Chinese audiences because they still weren't seeing the movies - like Abominable, US audiences can tell when a movie has been targeted more to China than the US & China seems to feel these movies still aren't Chinese enough, so nobody sees them. studios should recoup their losses by not making big-budget stinkers in the first place.
lol, the only ones "on a high horse" are the ones expecting expecting another country's movie studios to completely change how they make movies to cater to the tastes of a foreign market. clearly Chinese audiences like the polar opposite of American audiences, right down to reveling in stories of American military defeat. do you think US studios are going to make those movies, or that US audiences will watch them?
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