# 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:** 93
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1841 "2025-03-11T18:32:54Z")
^ This. The end result is that anyone who isn’t properly “a man” will have to show their medical history and/or genitalia just to use the goddamned public toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1842 "2025-03-11T18:45:04Z")
I am of course open to correction, but: 1. You can be born appearing female, but have a 5-alpha reductase deficiency and grow a penis at age 12. Medically, this condition is known as “5-alpha reductase deficiency. 2. You can be born legally male with an X and a Y chromosome, but your body is insensitive to androgens, and you appear female. Androgen insensitivity syndrome is a condition that affects sexual development before birth and during puberty. 3. You can be born legally male with an X and a Y chromosome, and have a penis and testes, _and_ a uterus and fallopian tubes. This another form of androgen insensitivity syndrome. 4. You can be born legally male with an X and a Ychromosome, but your Y chromosome is missing the SRY gene, which gives you a female body. This is a condition known as Swyer syndrome. 5. You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes, but one of the Xs has an SRY gene, which gives you a male body. This another form of Swyer syndrome. 6. You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes - and also a Y chromosome, which gives you a male body. This child would be “intersex”, another form of Swyer syndrome. 7. You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes, but your adrenal gland doesn’t produce enough cortisol, and your body develops as a male. This is a condition known as X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita and affects the development of the adrenal glands. 8. You can be born with XX chromosomes -_and_ XY chromosomes (chimerism). ---
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1843 "2025-03-11T19:30:25Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Yeah, I don’t buy the idea that the current anti-trans-rights backlash, like the similar anti-gay-rights backlash thirty-plus years ago, is just a spontaneous expression of public concern about the transgender rights movement allegedly “going too far”. I remember being inundated with anti-trans attack ads during the last presidential election. This is a coordinated campaign to attack a vulnerable and long-persecuted minority in this country for political gain. Create an enemy to get people to unite against because they are different and being different is evil. And once people are united against this enemy, they will obey and support you if you continue to attack the bad people. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1844 "2025-03-11T20:04:54Z")
This is exactly what Brittney Griner had to do more than once to prove that she was a woman when she went to the toilet. I remember an interview where she related how embarrassing an humiliating it was. But is OK to humiliate a woman because she don’t look feminine enough right? `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1845 "2025-03-11T20:14:43Z")
[Moderating] I’m temporarily closing this thread while we work out how to handle the moderation of a particular poster. I will reopen it after we’ve settled on a consensus. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1846 "2025-03-11T20:14:55Z")
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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1847 "2025-03-16T02:15:08Z")
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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1848 "2025-03-16T21:43:04Z")
What’s the over/under on how long until that topic ban becomes a full ban? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1849 "2025-03-17T00:49:50Z")
This White house war against transgenderism in Maine is a nasty little thing with no end in sight: [How Trump Is Pressuring Maine to Comply With Transgender Sports Order — ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/article/maine-trump-janet-mills-transgender-girls-sports-education-social-security) Several federal investigations, a research stoppage…and only two transgendered girls in the whole state of Maine competing in school events this year. Just curious-Has the name “Operation Overkill To The Extreme” been taken yet? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1850 "2025-03-18T13:01:05Z")
Of course you realize it’s not really about those girls it’s about making an example of any who would offer even the slightest resistance against the Der fuerer. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1851 "2025-03-18T14:42:21Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > the Der fuerer. The Diet (Coke) Fuhrer? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1852 "2025-03-18T14:53:25Z")
Duh Fuhrer. ---
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1853 "2025-03-18T17:18:51Z")
Looks like they are targeting us veterans who get our gender affirming care at the VA now. > **[VA to phase out treatment for gender dysphoria - VA News](https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-to-phase-out-treatment-for-gender-dysphoria/)** > > Any and all savings VA achieves by stopping specific medical treatments for gender dysphoria will be redirected to help severely injured VA beneficiaries – such as paralyzed Veterans and amputees – regain their independence. When I first started transitioning, I did so through the VA and they have been very supportive of me throughout. Looks like that will change. This might not affect me personally, since it seems like those of us who have already been treated through the VA can continue to do so, but this is really bad for veterans who want to transition through the VA in the future. Now I’m just wondering how long it will take Trump and Musk to cut off my medical benefits and disability pay as well… ---
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1854 "2025-03-19T18:06:22Z")
That’s fucked up.afyer everything veterans do for our country, providing them with proper medical care is the least we can do. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1855 "2025-03-19T18:22:36Z")
There’s the problem: You see it as “the least they could do”, and they see it as “the least is what they will do.” ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1856 "2025-03-19T18:44:01Z")
We see “the least we could do” as a responsibility. They see “the least we could do” as a challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1857 "2025-03-19T23:29:29Z")
I have always hated how so many troops and vets vote for Republicans. They claim they support us, but they constantly vote against things that will benefit us, and generally treat us like shit. They only support us in the sense that they like having us around to fight and die in pointless wars, but they couldn’t care less about us afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1858 "2025-03-20T00:03:12Z")
> **[Trump administration suspends $175 million in federal funding for Penn over...](https://apnews.com/article/penn-transgender-swimmer-trump-federal-funding-2416de5d0abee40163a25294e8a72442)** > > The Trump administration suspended $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas. I expect the University to fold. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1859 "2025-03-20T00:11:19Z")
Thomas last competed for the school in 2022! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1860 "2025-03-20T00:12:19Z")
Lawsuit in 3, 2, 1, ETA: This is in addition to the $240 million cut by the NIH for Penn’s research grants. ~Max [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609.md?page=94)