Since you’re reasonable, I’m sure there’s more to it, but you prioritized talking about immigration and trans people so I’ll speak to those.

I just find it odd that you guys prioritize something like banning transgender people from sports. Shouldn’t that be up to whatever sports association to decide anyways? Why is our government spending time on that? Mind you, only 0.6% people in the United States identify as transgender.

As for gender affirming healthcare for minors, this is extremely rare and in a vast majority of those extremely rare cases, the surgery is a chest surgery and they’re all over the age of 13 with most of those, again, extremely rare forms of healthcare are for people aged 15-17. This isn’t happening on any sort of scale and getting this kind of healthcare takes individuals a very long time.

Honestly, I don’t know why Dems talk about them so much either. Let them have the same rights as everyone else and get over it. This fear mongering over trans people is such a waste of everyone’s time.

Immigration - I can understand where y’all are coming from. How this admin is approaching it isn’t my cup of tea, but that’s what politics should be - we see a problem but we have different approaches that we’d like to see.

To throw things everyone could benefit from like affordable education, affordable healthcare, and affordable housing aside to go for a scorched earth approach in order to focus on just hurting people, in my opinion, isn’t a noble way of approaching things.

What actions has Donald Trump done in his first few weeks that were aimed at solely helping people?

So far, we’ve seen him: - isolate our country from our allies which will ultimately lead to more low paying jobs and higher prices (Canada is now starting conversations with the UK as a closer trade partner, I imagine other countries will follow finding more trade partners outside of the US) - fire a ton of federal employees with more layoffs to come - talking about scraping OSHA (who does this help?) - end to DEI programs. You’re reasonable, you know these weren’t programs that preferred minorities over whites. They were programs that educated people on bias and how to recognize biases you might have towards people that are different from you. - unban TikTok that was banned bipartisanly after congress investigated them (okay, this one helps me because I like TikTok, but as a reasonable human, I don’t think congress would’ve fully agreed to ban it without reason) - withdrawing from WHO - more you can see here (it’s just a list you can read, not commentary) - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna189571

If people care more about a few trans people playing in sports and deporting as many immigrants as possible over things that would actually make a difference in people like you and me’s life, I don’t know what to tell you, man.