# Republicans' war on transgender people: Omnibus thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 3, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609 "2022-06-03T02:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/241 "2022-07-15T17:05:16Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The things you would tell the Germans if you could go back in time to 1933 are the things you should be telling Americans now. I’d ask my cousins in Germany what they think about all this, but their ashes are at the bottom of a lake in Poland. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/242 "2022-08-21T02:40:06Z")
Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill that would make it a class C felony punishable by 25 years in prison to provide gender-affirming care to trans minors. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/243 "2022-08-21T02:54:37Z")
26 years if theyre a democrat. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/244 "2022-08-23T01:05:15Z")
Christian Florida school tells parents that gay and transgender students must leave immediately. Gotta love the email they sent to parents, putting being gay and transgender in the same category as such grievous sins as bestiality, fornication, and incest. > **[Christian Florida school tells parents gay and transgender students must...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/08/22/christian-florida-school-lgbtq-gay-trans-students-banned/7863198001/)** > > A top administrator at Grace Christian School in Valrico, Florida sent out an email to parents condemning trans students and banning them from school. I’m telling you, identity politics and culture wars are all these people have left. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/245 "2022-08-23T11:14:03Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > bestiality …does that happen a lot in Florida schools? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/246 "2022-08-23T11:15:17Z")
I mean, probably not. Those gators are more likely to bite off your dick than to take it up the butt. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/247 "2022-08-23T11:28:47Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > than to take it up the butt. Nitpick: take it up the cloaca. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/248 "2022-08-23T11:45:51Z")
God, I love this place! ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/249 "2022-08-23T12:16:42Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Nitpick: take it up the cloaca. I would argue that ‘butt’ still works. If he’d said “take it up the anus”, your correction would be indubitably correct, but I think ‘butt’ is generally a body position and although it often is a synonym for anus, it is not always so. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/250 "2022-08-23T12:55:17Z")
Proving once again that while some Debates are Great, others… not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/251 "2022-08-23T14:53:25Z")
Is an alligator being an asshole just a cloacadile? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/252 "2022-08-23T16:41:33Z")
Wrong species. Alligators and crocodiles are two different things. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/253 "2022-08-23T17:12:50Z")
Which is irrelevant for the joke. Of course they are. 😆 Or were you thinking that was a serious question? 😜 ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/254 "2022-08-23T19:53:52Z")
_eyes_ Oh! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/255 "2022-08-23T20:20:34Z")
In keeping with the low note struck here - alligators have what this article describes as a “permanently erect bungee penis”. > **[Why Do Snakes Have Two Penises and Why Are Alligators Always Erect?](https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/why-do-snakes-have-two-penises-and-why-are-alligators-always-erect)** > > More than 10,000 reptile species in every shape and size live on Earth, from garter snakes to crocodiles, and their nether regions are just as varied. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/256 "2022-08-23T20:36:46Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > bungee penis That’s just begging to be a band name. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/257 "2022-08-23T20:57:18Z")
Alligators are one kind of crocodiles. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/258 "2022-10-29T01:04:04Z")
…the Florida Board of Medicine has just voted to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers. > > [@Erin](#): > > The leader of this hearing told activists “don’t worry, you are not going to win” immediately before cutting the vote short. > > … > > Florida board of medicine is cutting off comment early. > > They tell the crowd “you can have our email.” > > … > > This is genocide. It is happening now. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/259 "2022-11-15T23:04:17Z")
…more on the war. > > [@](#): > > Texas has filed a bill that would make “consenting to gender affirming care” child abuse with prison sentences for parents. > > HB672 will mean a mass rounding up of trans kids if passed. Trans refugees forced to leave the state. > **[Texas trans activist, 11, flees the state after years of advocacy](https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-community-voices/texas-trans-activist-kai-shappley-flees-state-years-advocacy-rcna37000)** > > Kimberly Shappley said she’s moving her family out of Texas to protect her 11-year-old daughter, Kai, who has become a prominent trans rights activist. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/260 "2022-11-15T23:23:10Z")
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