Clay Bennett for July 16, 2023

I doubt they would even allow an empty case; that should show too much compassion.

To any empathetic person, this is horrible. Want to know how many non-empaths there are in your community? Count the “dedicated” Rethuglicans.

Imagine they are just 1% of population and you are saying

We dont care about you you not deserving of anything

The G Q P rethuglicants….the party of abusers, torturers and sadists. If they can think of or are told of a way to cause the max pain to the max number of people, then they will do their utmost to see that it gets done. Time and past time to kick them back down the sewer that they crawled out from, doncha think?

Let’s think about this logically for a second, and I know I’m going to get hate for this and told that I’m being hateful, but here we go.

If a person has delusions of grandeur and believe they are the president of the United States, do we affirm this delusion just because they believe it’s true? No, that could get them hurt. If a person is anorexic, do we ignore this and allow them to continue in the delusion that they are far? No. We get them help so they don’t diet themselves to death.

Here now are a group of people who believe they were born in the wrong body. It is the only delusion that we as a society affirm.

Now this is where everyone shouts out that he affirming care prevents suicide. Unfortunately, the data doesn’t actually support this conclusion. When factoring out biased sources the results are actually neutral. I’ll link that study after I pull it up on my computer tomorrow for anyone that is a college student or associate.

In summary, fever affirming care is not live saving, not in the long run anyway. It may be for a while, but eventually those feelings that caused those feelings of needing to commit suicide well creep back up. True care, it seems, will be to test the delusion as a delusion and help them be comfortable in the body that they have and teaching them that is ok to be a boy who likes to play with dolls, or a girl who likes to play sword fight with sucks.

That’s all I have to say. This is where you all call me a bigot.

The QOP doubles down on its bigotry and hate. They need to go.

Whenever someone complains about Liberals and Democrats, always remember just how proudly uncaring, unfeeling, and completely un-Christlike christian conservatives work so hard to be.

I’m surprised it’s a metal case. I figured it would be an empty paper bag. CHEAP, just like the GOP!

There’s a lot of things minors would like to do that we restrict or ban. Drinking. Illegal drugs. Steroids. Plastic surgery. Just some examples based on the premise that minors cannot have the ability to make rational decisions early in life but are free to do as they will when of age.

How is gender affirming care any different? Steroids for affirming care but not bulking up? Gender affirming care surgery but not unnecessary plastic surgery with no medical reason? If a minor thinks their feet are ugly and they could gain significant benefits in life by lopping off their feet it’s banned. But not so for breasts?

Slapping a nice label on horrific procedures for minors does not make it right. Let them wait.

Take away the labels and it becomes a GQP birth control kit.

When [and how] are we going to stop these hateful insular crazies from hurting those who don’t conform to their greatly abridged understanding of the world and its people?

Demonization of those who are different in race, sex, skin color, etc. and then depriving them of basic rights, yep, the Repub playbook.

Seriously, there are real people out there with real struggles, and in need of real care. Banning health care only creates a different set of serious problems and shows how cruel and inhumane you really are while hiding behind a Bible

Shameful.

Back in my day we “took a walk on the wild side”, now rabid squares rule the world.

What is wrong with letting the children grow up without trying to change them?

Like Constantinople. (Or abortion, or…..) “Ain’t nobody’s business but the Turks”

Some Red states just get rid of Medicaid altogether. Stalwarts like Abbot make it almost illegal to give workers water in 100+ heat because he is so Pro Life.

Home of the right wing narrow minds.

Today’s Republican party only picks fights with those they can bully and dominate. It must make them feel pretty special to attack a sixteen-year-old kid that is not bothering anyone and can’t fight back.

This is beginning to look like the Satanic Panic from the 80s, but with more of a foundation in reality. Meanwhile, where’s the panic over the flood of endocrine disruptors that cover the world and can scramble sexual development? Apparently, we’d rather focus on the end result, than attack a problem at its source. How about we immediately ban atrazine, for example? PFAS?

‘gender affirming care’ is newspeak for ‘please support me in my neurotic belief, that I was born as the wrong gender.’

As gender is a sociological construct how the hell is looking at one’s genitals (anatomical) going to tell you what gender they are? Gender was a linguistics’ term up until 1955 when a New Zealand endocrinologist by the name of John Money wrote his doctrinal thesis on gender identity at John Hopkins University and associated gender with humans, it has gone downhill from there. What gender was I born with, I was a baby! When babies are born the delivery person looks down and says there is a spigot it’s a boy, no spigot it’s a girl, then someone like me comes along and they go oh sh!t, both! There is a big difference between gender and sex, as a society we engender people with certain characteristics, and it is fluid, with sex you are or you’re not, in gender you can be more or less masculine or more or less feminine, so saying gender bending is a joke at best.

The joke’s on Clay Bennett: Tennessee doesn’t offer medical care to ANYONE but twice per year, and only if you win the (medical) lottery

I had a lot of fun going to Bonnaroo this year, but with Tennessee’s obsession to become as cruel to people as they can, I don’t see me wanting to go back anytime soon.

I think that they ought to make treatment for serious infectious diseases illegal. After all if the disease is fatal it removes those who aren’t immune from the gene pool. Also, it’s their fault that they got it so individual responsibility demands that they suffer the consequences.

A No-Aid kit.

When I was around 7 or 8, all the kids on my block my age were boys (I’m female). We used to play together every day. Then the boys all joined Little League baseball, which at that time was for boys only.

I started telling everyone. I mean parents, teachers, aunts and uncles that I was a boy. I had no real knowledge at that age of what that meant. I did know the physical difference between boys and girls, but that wasn’t at the top of my 7/8 year old mind. I just wanted to play with my friends.

Quit screwing around with kids. You have no idea what the real issue is. I did not want to be transitioned into a boy. I would have not even known what that meant. I was a little kid. I wanted to play with my friends

Thank God the adults in my life at that time were not a bunch of screwed up idiots that wanted to ruin a kids life.

Why would it even need to exist?

My home state and there is reason why I left there 60’s years ago and have absolutely no desire to go back. Too many f*****g crazy people.

Why is it so important for you special wonderful people to cutup children