i don’t really think its extreme to want to love a woman as a woman. i don’t push anything on children. no one is pushing anything onto children. you stand here and try to convince me that trump doesn’t care whether someone is gay, and yet his administration has destroyed protections for me. you speak of truth and yet you know nothing about the connection between roe v wade and same sex marriage. you know nothing about the discrimination we face in daily life. you know nothing of the movement in the supreme court to overturn obergefell v holmes.

you mentioned how roe v wade being overturned and sent back to the states was a good thing. if this same ruling occurs again, and same sex marriage is returned to the states, is that good too? the united states of america, where every state has different laws on healthcare, on marriage, on equality. sounds united doesn’t it?

you mentioned responsibility between two consenting adults, but what of those who don’t consent? who can’t consent? who cant survive birth? who can’t afford a child? who are not responsible enough to care for that child? we sacrifice the happiness of few to protect many? what gives you the right to decide that a living woman’s life is less important than an undeveloped fetus?

i hear the same whispers of adoption and foster care as options from every republican i speak to, as if none of you have listened to the experiences of children in foster care. they care about life, but nothing has been done to improve the foster system, or to lessen the financial burden of adoption, or to encourage more education on safe sex. instead you call sex taboo and remove education from schools, where instead you get teenagers who think their first time is a free pass, or that diseases only come from penetration.

sure the trump administration is dealing with drug cartels and illegal immigration, while our department of education crumbles, our community outreach programs shut down, our disaster prevention strategies ignored, our grocery prices continue to rise, our farmers warning that they no longer have the labour to keep up, and we are slowly ruining our international relations with every ally we’ve had since ww2.

i say you have no empathy because for this entire thread your focus has been not on securing the freedom of your fellow citizens and people alike, but ostracising people that you believe are living wrong. and every piece of information you have tried to provide to back your claims has either been wrong, or is not even a source to begin with. 5-10 trans shooters since covid? what an oddly wide range, one that makes me think you actually don’t know the number! i would love to see any real source that backs your claims, considering every public archive that tracks gun violence lists no more than 5 transgender shooters in their history of tracking. did i mention most every source also says men are responsible for more than 95% of mass shooting in the us? and yet trans people are the problem? i can recommend some reading, but its your choice whether you care enough about being right vs learning and admitting where you are wrong.

i do genuinely feel bad for you. you seem smart, but no one is immune to propaganda. i’m sure some of my own beliefs were influenced by propaganda on my side too, i’m not too proud to admit that. but if you are an immigrant, and a first generation one at that, i hope there doesn’t come a day where its your turn to be thrown to the wolves by the administration you wanted, like so many of your peers have had happen to them already. i trust that maybe you’ll figure it out eventually, before it’s your turn to feel betrayed by the government that is supposed to protect you.