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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 60 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Trump's sudden obsession with transgender issue came out of nowhere but I have a theory. I think that he tried to sexually assault a woman during the campaign and when he grabbed her crotch he got a handful of penis.

[–] krebssteven@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago

It didn’t come out of nowhere and it isn’t surprising. It’s part of the fascist playbook to demonize that which they cannot subordinate to their cult of machismo and their fairytale of a golden past.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

OMG, that's literately the subplot of Too Wong Foo. A cop attempted to sexual assault one of the protagonists, who was a drag queen, and he goes on a search to arrest them after they fought back.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Literally Wesley Snipes' best movie, and one of John Leguizamo's best works.

As for Patrick Swayze, gone too soon, fuck cancer, man.

[–] miak@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Literally one of the best movies of all time.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 5 points 5 days ago

I used to watch it soo many times.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah he just realized they're a great target to attract a big crowd of bigots behind him. Once they've been dealt with he'll move on to another group to bully, maybe the rest of the LGBTQ crowd.

Then on to women!

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The amount of attention put on such a tiny fragment of society is astounding. If everything is transgender, try getting a fucking hobby. Oh wait you already spend an equal amount of time golfing on my dime while saying you're saving me money...

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Every time TFG goes golfing it costs you a quarter or so.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well, duh homie.

Through executive order, your dumbass turned us all into women.

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Technically he try ll turned is agender. At conception we are unable to produce any gametes so no person fits the declared fenders in that EO.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I think this was the plot of something I read ages ago.

I think it was a japanese comic of some sort.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Huh. Is HE transgender? Has he been looking at an unusually significant amount of trans porn lately? I don’t get it. It seems to be on his mind an awful lot.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These guys do project a lot.

They do indeed.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Literally nothing is. There are so little trans people in this country you could fit them all in an averaged sized gymnasium with plenty of leg room. More cis people choose self identifying names than trans do. This whole fucken bullshit is just bigotry and scapegoating so the elite can continue their 50 year old grift without having to adjust anything at all. Its controlling for the sake of controlling.

[–] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You are massively underestimating the trans population. It's estimated to be about .5% of the population, about 1 in 200 people. That's over a million in the US alone.

[–] RichardDegenne@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure you can fit a million people in a gymnasium if you try hard enough.

[–] mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

But then you lose the leg room. And I am fairly tall.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah its a bit of a hyperbole but I'm trying to high light just how little trans people there actually are. For instance, there are far more witnesses to mass shootings than there are trans people.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

It's more like 1%

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Merely days ago, this same man said everything is computer. Which is it Don?

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

Everything's transgender computer

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 points 5 days ago

The reality is that he's is just failing to grasp what "gender is a spectrum" means.

[–] kilo@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

But wait...I thought everything is computer

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Have you seen who's writing code these days? Everything is computer, computer is transgender, ergo everything is transgender.

[–] dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

If everything is transgender then that means trump is trans, so congratulations on coming out. Do you go by Daphne now?

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Did he just find out cars have transmissions?

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mebbies he means transgenic?

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

Trump is the sort of person who doesn't want schools teaching about homophones because he has no idea what homophones are

[–] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

It all depends on what media you consume. If you're on Fox, Daily Wire and X then you will think transgender people are everywhere because they tell you it is.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

maybe he means Transparent - Like the difference between what he says and what he means

[–] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 2 points 5 days ago

He got it right, the Universe has no gender, and has all genders, he just can't accept reality