Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

banned unmarried women from purchasing contraceptives

Give people an inch, and they’ll claim the world is their right.

Let me end this essay with a few points that I want people who believe in liberty for all people to ponder: 1st off, true Liberals & Libertarians have been far too lax for far too long. They have let the lying Anti-Abs terrorize them in to silence. They even have ceded the terms of the debate. Witness how Pro-Abortionists don’t even call themselves Pro-Abortionists- as if the word abortion is dirty. This is a victory for the Gyno-Nazis. By using the euphemism Pro-Choice they have wimped out. What are they Pro-Choice about? Free Linoleum for all? No. Abortion. Say the word & say the term Pro-Abortion with pride. YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT. All of time & human history proves that those with the more Liberal & Progressive agendas win in the end. In 30 years, when the Anti-Abs are a relict of the last century, how will future Progressives & Libertarians judge those who had to fight if they could not even vocalize their beliefs? That said- I am Pro-Abortion, not just Pro-Choice- we need less people in this world. 2ndly, Pro-Abortionists must be on the offensive, not simply reactionary to the vile tactics of the Gyno-Nazis. A fetus is not a human being because it’s a non-autonomus being, totally dependent on its mother. Most Pro-Choicers wimp out & say a fetus is not a human being because of (mumble, mumble, mumble….). STOP IT! What’ll happen in a couple of decades when all pregnancies can (for a cost), for their full 9 months of gestation, be done without a body- i.e.- be done in a laboratory? You will need a SPECIFIC reason(s) to be Pro-Abortion. Reason 1 was the aforementioned autonomy argument. Reason 2 is that every human being has an absolute right to determine whether or not his/her genes get passed on- or not. Point #3- as part of pre-emption Pro-Abs should point out over & again the intimate connections the Anti-Ab movement has with both the scurrilous pedophilic Roman Catholic Church, &- even more chillingly- with White Supremacist/Neo-Nazi movements who believe abortion is a plot to genocidally wipe out the GREAT WHITE RACE! In short, these are not peaceful, smiling old Grannies, but KKKers a generation or 2 removed. & a 4th & final point to consider is this: deep down, in the very core of the Republican Party, there’s not a politician who truly wants Roe vs. Wade overturned. Huh?, you say. That’s right- real Conservatives, & their more reasonable counterparts, are just throwing a bone to the fanatical Christian Rightists, so that their support remains intact. But why? Because the real Republican power brokers know that the day that Roe vs. Wade is overturned will mark the beginning of the end for the modern Republican Party as we know it. The backlash from Liberals & feminists, not to mention moderate Republican women who would leave the GOP in droves, would be a Death Blow the Republicans could not recover from. It would be the 1968 Democratic Convention x 100 on the political self-immolation scale. It would not only doom the Republicans, but unleash a firestorm that would spell the end of the Conservative movement. The GOP would fracture into at least a ½ dozen smaller parties which would be a cacophony of permanently minority voices which would make the diversity of the modern Democratic Party seem harmonious by comparison. These are the realities. The future is far brighter, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling which overturned the application of RICO laws to the criminal Anti-Abs, than Pro-Abs realize. In a few decades people will be wondering what all the BS was about- just as people today wonder what all the BS about Civil Rights was about. After all- it seems so manifest, in retrospect, that only a true psychotic could deny its truth; almost as manifest as a young teenager’s seeing an actual human fetus in formaldehyde & realizing he’s never run into someone like that on the street. Thanks, Mr. Wallenfels!

I struggle to have sympathy for transphobes who are concerned that they will get shouted at for their views when I’ve lost family, been refused banking services, healthcare, and housing, had my head kicked in, and a tonne of other grim stuff just because I’m trans. You know?

Like, my dude, if you wanna give it (transphobia), then you’ve gotta learn to take it (being told that transphobia isn’t acceptable).

The cultural conversation around trans people in this country is heinous and we need to do better. A good starting point would be “having human decency”, but what do I know, I’m just a trans guy with a journalism degree.