Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts recently endorsed taking care away from transgender adults, saying in an episode of the PBD podcast that the organization is currently “running the numbers” on the supposed correlation between gender-affirming surgeries and violence. His proposed solution? “You outlaw it.”

“But where there continues to be disagreement is on what you do with adults. At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday,” Roberts said, referencing the Monday mass shooting that left three people dead, including the shooter, and three others critically injured, all of whom were related to the shooter. Police have described the attack as targeted and domestic in nature.

“There does seem to be a mounting body of evidence that suggests a correlation between that surgery at any age, mental health issues, and increasingly, although we’re running the numbers on this at Heritage, acts of violence,” Roberts added, falsely.

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    Wow, is it too much to ask that our big evil movements to dismantle decent society and drag us into fascism have some decent leaders??

    /s

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    By his logic, if one trans person shooting folks should make all trans medicine be banned, the ridiculous amount of white male mass shooters should see them all white dudes put into prison camps at birth.

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      Not only that, but us straight, white dudes do so many shootings that despite there really not being that many trans people they’re still under-represented. It’s not like there were only five shootings and so 20% was by a trans person, there were so many that it’s less than a percent.

      It’s not just the flat numbers, but the percentages, too.

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    At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday," Roberts said

    Conveniently doesn’t mention that the shooter was also a Trump supporting Nazi.

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    Are they going to ban balding treatments for cismen too? That’s gender affirming care.

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    I am a cis gender woman.

    I just found out one of my prescriptions is for a drug that is also used for gender-affirming care.

    It made me so angry. I didn’t know much about that kind of care. It wasn’t my business and didn’t affect me. A patients care is between them and their doctor. Now, that I actually know what is prescribed, I realize how much stupider the whole debate is.

    Just let doctors do their job. If a legitimate doctor prescribes a healthy patient something, it’s not any of our god damn business. Leave trans people alone and let them live their lives.

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    Not surprised, this is the main reason why I never said “Well I guess you should be 18 to transition”, I knew gender affirming care bans were never going to be just for minors.

    Trump himself gave up the game when he made 19 the minimum age for federal plans.

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    I’ve been shouting from the fucking rooftops They will come after ALL trans healthcare, and indeed all other rights. No one cares. They are mostly totally ignorant of us, so they believe whatever bullshit they read.

    Just like the republicans will come, and likely succeed, in overturning Obergefell.

    I won’t be able to legally access healthcare, nor will I be able to marry.

    Remember, all of our “activism” is because we want special rights, not the same ones that cishet white people take for granted every goddamn day.

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    Of course he does. He undoubtedly wants to mass-murder trans people, too. Baby steps.