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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican nominee for governor of Alabama, criticized transgender people, their parents and their doctors on the Senate floor Thursday.

Tuberville claimed transgender people are mentally ill and a danger to others.

He said that airline pilots who are transgender or wear fursuits are “deranged” and suggested more LGBTQ people should be institutionalized.

“It is the best interest of our country to bring back mental institutions as a normal part of our society, instead of sweeping it under the rug,” Tuberville said, standing next to a sign that said “Transgenderism is a Mental Illness.”

“I want to be clear about this gender confusion,” he said.

“It is not normal. It is a cry for help, and our society needs to stop affirming people who are suffering from this mental illness.”

Its creepy how obsessed they are with transgender people. Why are they so obsessed? To what point and purpose would institutionalizing these people solve? Like, I’m not seeing how transgender people existing harms people.

Also, who’d pay for this? We don’t even have universal health-insurance in America. So, what? We involuntarily incarcerte transgender people and then charge them for their own extermination treatment?

Also also, how would the 5th Amendment come in?

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Came here to say this. People that obsess over trans that have no real skin in the game are the truly demented ones.

    I remember Leary used to say this about acid: “LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

    For some reason, I’m reminded of the way cons process things like gays and trans. They seem to drive themselves into a frenzy over it. This is not even close to a healthy mind.

    I think about either topic almost never. Probably because I’m neither, and my brain is not the broken brain of a conservative. I worry about the trans in my life - but I worry only because there are so many crazy people obsessing over trans.