r/politics • u/HyacinthFT • 5h ago

No Paywall Donald Trump says transgender people will "end" if GOP keeps Congress in midterms

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/donald-says-transgender-people-will-end-if-gop-keeps-congress-in-midterms/
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u/JMurdock77 4h ago

Notice how smoothly repealing the 19th amendment entered the mainstream of their discourse with people like Joel Webbon taking the stage? The Overton window has shifted so far right I have no idea how our society is supposed to keep functioning like this.

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u/TripleJess 3h ago

Pretty sure we've got front row seats to the decline and collapse of America happening all around us.

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u/proteannomore 3h ago

Yep, and I can’t say I saw it coming, but it made the idea of being childless a lot more appealing. I can’t imagine trying to guide a child into life with this insanity.

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u/TripleJess 3h ago

I saw the collapse coming, I did not see the hatred towards trans people being so central to it all, or that I would be one of those hated.. but here we are.

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u/Its_Pine New Hampshire 2h ago

It was a pretty big topic during Hitler’s rise as well. It tends to be a convenient group to target for hatred to grow.

For those not aware, the early Nazis framed gender nonconformity and homosexuality as "sexual Bolshevism" and a plot by the Jews to destroy traditional family values, lower white birth rates, and cause whites to be replaced.

You know, the same stuff many prominent figures in the US government now espouse

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u/TripleJess 1h ago

Yeah, the German Institute of Sexology was one of the first places burned, and they were the leading group for transgender care and research. History loves to repeat itself.

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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 1h ago

only because idiots can't learn from it.

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u/Cryowulf 31m ago

I find it explains a lot that November 11th here in Canada is Remembrance Day, where down there in the states it's Veterans Day.

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u/bottlebabycatfeeder 2h ago

Well, not all of us are insane. And i hope all us non insane people protect you when it comes down to it .

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u/TripleJess 2h ago

Thank you. I truly appreciate that sentiment.

But.. it has already come down to it. It's happening, as we speak. Violence and murder against trans people is high right now, justice for us is nonexistent most of the time. Being victimized can land us in jails that institutionalize our rape, torture, and murder. Hundreds of laws are pushed every year to strip away our rights and criminalize our very existence. Hospitals are preemptively refusing us care out of fear of what -might- happen to them if they give us medical care.

We're already dying.

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u/DesecratedPeanut 1h ago

And they're already doing nothing about it right now of course.

I'm sorry this is happening to you (from the UK) and similar is happening to trans rights where I am. Disgusting ignorant fools in charge everywhere. Though no where near as disgusting or ignorant as the US for some reason anti-trans is just as strong in the government here. I don't understand it other than the obvious culture war misinformation anger cycle gets clicks that turn into votes I guess. I'm just figuring out I'm non-binary during all this and it feels like the worst time for that too. It's insane that we'd both have been much safer and accepted 20 years ago.

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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 1h ago

well the thing is if you have trans people they aren't going to make babies. if they don't make babies then the free supply of workers dries up. if the free supply of workers dries up they can't live their extravagant lifestyle anymore.

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u/TurnipGirlDesi 1h ago

Ironic people genuinely think this even when so many trans people are parents. Ig when that happens we’re just accused of being groomers though

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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 57m ago

pretty much. I forgot to include the /S because this is what they actually think.

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u/crimson23locke 49m ago

At the risk of sounding like an idiot preaching to the choir - if you haven’t already please check your area for mutual aid groups / other organizing. All the online discourse pales in comparison to physical community that has your back however they can. You’re absolutely right, you deserve none of this, and I hope you get a crowd of amazing people around you, shit has indeed already hit the fan.

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u/proteannomore 2h ago

Yeah, I didn't have "becoming a part of a highly politically persecuted minority" on my transition radar. Kind of ironic given how desperately I'd try to fly under everyone's radar while I was in the closet.

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u/TripleJess 1h ago

Right? I know exactly what you mean.

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u/ShirtStainedBird 1h ago

Man it’s wild. I tried to explain this to a fella, in Canada mind you.

All riled up about non existent litter boxes and ‘transing’ kids. Like buddy I have 2 school age kids these things are not happening lol.

Meanwhile there’s like 100 people in town that have nowhere safe to sleep to night.

But a kind of person you’ve never even met doing something near as I know they have never done is what gets all your attention.

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u/Chaiyns 19m ago

Good ol' Alberta lol

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u/istoomycat 1h ago

More projection from him?

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u/TripleJess 1h ago

Hmm?

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u/istoomycat 1h ago

Maybe he doesn’t like it about himself so wants others hurt.

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u/michaelfrieze 3h ago

I’m 38 and me and my wife really wanted a child but I don’t think it’s going to happen. She’s 36 so we really need to make that decision now and things just don’t look good.

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u/Reasonable-Leg-2002 2h ago

A suggestion: adopt. Lots of unwanted babies need families. And trust my experience, adoptive families have the same bond as fully blood related families.

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u/michaelfrieze 2h ago

This is most likely our plan.

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u/DesecratedPeanut 1h ago

This. I couldn't bring a child into this world even if you just choose to consider proven facts about whats going to happen (climate change) its going to be shit for them regardless of if the world gets its act together now. Adopt and you can give a child the best chance they'll get with non of the guilt of leaving them worse off than yourself.

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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 1h ago

one of the few choices I have made that I am genuinely happy about. I will never feel bad about not bringing a child into this hellscape.

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u/Saxopwned Pennsylvania 17m ago

Yeah, I have a four-year-old. The only thing I can cling to is that the society that succeeds the United States will be better for people.

But a lot of people are going to hurt before that happens.

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u/Even_Establishment95 13m ago

And people just keep going out to eat and buying gas cars and shitting on the poor and unfortunate while the world burns.

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u/Squid_of_the_Now 3h ago

It's not. They outright said it before the 2024 election: Trump and Revolution. This is a coup. They have completely rejected the existing society and want to replace it with their own.

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u/Embarrassed_Deal3284 42m ago

They already have, that’s the funny thing. Supreme Court, presidency, senate, congress, vast majority of state governments: all conservative. Even declining IQs.

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u/JUST_GIVE_IT_A_SNIFF 1h ago

Less important than the obvious issues but also telling, I’ve seen a ridiculous amount of discourse about bringing back incandescent light bulbs and less fuel-efficient cars.

It’s really bizarre.

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u/ElonMuskyOdor 2h ago

Spoiler alert: it can't

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u/Kup123 1h ago

Its not that's the whole point.

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u/1Dunya 1h ago

I agree and I think the only option left is a complete collapse of the system which is hastened by the selfish and idiotic policies of the elites in the US. I cannot see how the system can be reformed or changed, do you have any ideas? It seems like it is too far gone to be changed from the inside. I am not in any way suggesting a collapse because let's be honest it is always the regular folks who suffer.