# 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:** 83
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1641 "2023-09-19T20:04:23Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The two maps are clearly related, enough that you can look at the second map and easily point out on the first map the various names of things and borders using the second map as a reference. Like people in Michigan using their hand to point out where certain places are in their state! ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1642 "2023-09-19T20:06:32Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Like people in Michigan using their hand to point out where certain places are in their state! I didn’t know that was a thing, but that’s awesome. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1643 "2023-09-19T20:16:41Z")
When I was visiting in the late 90s I can’t tell you how many people raised their hand when giving me directions. Also, I read an article in a hotel magazine about Michigan. One of the American astronauts on the space shuttle showed his Russian counterpart how to recognize the mitten shape of his home state. Later, the Russian yelled “Jay-ree, there’s Meecheegan!” I loved that. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1644 "2023-09-19T21:21:39Z")
I met a MIchigander once after I had learned the “raised hand” tradition, so I raised my hand and asked where they were from. They put their right hand up, fingers together and pointing to their left, palm down, and pointed to the approximate position of their second pinkie joint. “Ah, a Yooper!” ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1645 "2023-09-24T17:41:38Z")
Yeah, sometimes you need two hands for a Yooper. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1646 "2023-09-27T23:08:40Z")
> It’s really something seeing these “experts” go on about finger length and posture and such with all the confidence of a 19th century phrenologist when they’d probably be disgusted by the sight of a real woman who doesn’t look like the Barbie dolls from which they learned everything about female anatomy. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so frightening. (The “old woman on the left” who’d be “a perfect companion for a gay” is her boyfriend’s mom, BTW, and the photo of him kneeling is six years old. Also, upon examining the length of my fingers, turns out I’m a woman. I’m not sure how to handle this news. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1647 "2023-09-27T23:41:18Z")
To be fair, Taylor probably has a bigger dick than any of those guys. I love all the Twitter jackasses who are questioning Kelce’s sexuality after he (checks notes) led his NFL team to a 41-10 victory and left the stadium with Taylor Swift. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1648 "2023-09-27T23:47:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so frightening. This. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1649 "2023-09-27T23:53:03Z")
They’re very mad at Taylor because they feel betrayed. They believed her to be a champion of White supremacy, but she flat out stomped that bullshit into the ground ---
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1650 "2023-09-27T23:53:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Also, upon examining the length of my fingers, turns out I’m a woman. I’m not sure how to handle this news. Whereas I can apparently change my sex at will just by wiggling my fingers back and forth. One of those anti-trans bigots was spouting something about how there are 5000 known differences between men and women. To which the logical response is “So, that means that everyone is trans, then?”. Because there’s no way that everyone has all 5000 traits agreeing. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1651 "2023-09-27T23:54:26Z")
Well, there you have it - there are exactly 5,000 genders. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1652 "2023-09-27T23:55:18Z")
Or maybe 2^5000 genders. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1653 "2023-09-28T00:01:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Also, upon examining the length of my fingers, turns out I’m a woman. On the one hand, I can see I’m a man. But on the _other_ hand… ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1654 "2023-09-28T00:27:16Z")
[![](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000556092930-fc7ux0-t500x500.jpg) ](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000556092930-fc7ux0-t500x500.jpg) > [@Chingon](#): > > They’re very mad at Taylor because they feel betrayed. They believed her to be a champion of White supremacy, but she flat out stomped that bullshit into the ground This. > **[Taylor Swift, Aryan Goddess?](https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/05/27/479462825/taylor-swift-aryan-goddess)** > > Haters (of a multicultural society) gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Meanwhile, Swift will continue to bask in her utterly unremarkable whiteness. From their perspective, she was meant to be the Chosen One - an attractive young woman with incredible star power, the perfect mascot to serve as the symbol of their Christian Nationalist fever dream. Only one problem - she turned up to be a woke liberal race traitor. So now they hate her, more than they could hate someone they didn’t love first. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1655 "2023-09-28T00:28:49Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > On the one hand, I can see I’m a man. But on the _other_ hand… Yeah, me too - my ring and index fingers are so close in length that on my right hand my ring finger is longer but on my left hand (where my wedding band pushes my ring finger slightly to the side) my index finger is longer. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1656 "2023-09-28T00:49:23Z")
My right side is male and my left side is female, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1657 "2023-09-28T00:49:52Z")
Ditto. I think that makes me non-binary? Hermaphroditic? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1658 "2023-09-28T00:58:08Z")
My golly! How could I be a manly man, based on my finger length, and not have realized it in over 70 years? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1659 "2023-09-28T02:22:07Z")
What’s funny to me is the bigots’ message boils down to “trans people are smart, beautiful, rich, famous, and date sports stars”. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1660 "2023-09-28T02:41:40Z")
I’ve seen some of these lunatics claim that all famous women are transgender and the government is recruiting them from… somewhere and pairing them off with famous men (who are all secretly gay) because… reasons. I’m not sure where they keep finding all these kids who look exactly like both of their alleged parents. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609.md?page=82) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609.md?page=84)