#woah maybe if you'd listened to the trans people who said heavy transition restrictions were setting a dangerous precedent on

[mythicalcoolkid]

If I had a nickel for every time I had to watch "I can't believe they're doing this!! This is heinous, who could have seen this coming?! <thing a minority group repeatedly and explicitly said would happen if x other thing went unchallenged>" I could afford to live somewhere with fewer human rights violations

#m/cc #negative #'transition and abortion restrictions I understand but criminalizing transition and overturning Roe v Wade?!' #'and NOW talking about overturning gay marriage?! and interracial marriage??' #woah maybe if you'd listened to the trans people who said heavy transition restrictions were setting a dangerous precedent on #bodily autonomy and LGBTQ rights you could've maybe made a plan for what to do if these things were proposed #this is also specifically about everyone shocked and horrified that medically assisted death is being pushed on people with depression #WE TOLD YOU THIS. WE TOLD YOU EVERY TIME THAT IT WON'T BE USED ALL IN GOOD FAITH #DISABLED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR DECADES. YOU HAVEN'T BEEN LISTENING #THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you ignore disabled people's warnings about eugenics because you're not disabled #EVENTUALLY IT WILL EFFECT YOU #and you will be shocked every time!! #eugenics will not stop at the smaller subgroup you aren't part of. it's the testing ground for tolerance #you think they're really like 'oh trans people are gross but gay people are a-ok' or 'the person who's terminally ill deserves to die (!!) #but certainly not the person with painful cancer treatment #or permanent disability #or chronic illness #or serious long term mental health problems #or intellectual or cognitive disability #those people OBVIOUSLY can find quality of life still. it's ONLY these specific people that should be offered death as a solution' #I'm just exhausted. I feel like my voice is hoarse from screaming about this. conservatives do not see a difference between #killing a future baby via 'sterilizing' HRT or surgery and abortion or birth control #or gay people vs trans people as a risk to children #ableists see 'no possible quality of life' in both constant unbearable physical agony without ease and in treatment resistant depression #no difference between the prototypical Right to Die patient and someone who can absolutely have high quality of life #and with the last one any US people who didn't see this coming have never dealt with the US healthcare system long-term #when I took my medical and healthcare ethics course I was So uncomfortable because it was. so clearly written by someone not a part of it #'hospitals would never WANT someone to use euthanasia.' I can think of five reasons off the top of my head for why they would #politics #current events