Since the people who made that argument have nothing to do with each other, I have to assume that it comes from the right-wing media echo chamber. Given how readily right-wing politicians parrot their given talking points, I've made the logical leap that some Republican office-holder somewhere has repeated it.
Whether they care about not appearing to bully transgender persons is debatable. Republicans like to pretend that making it more difficult for darker-skinned persons to vote isn't racist (why, they're making voting more difficult for college students, people who don't drive, and recently married women, too! See?), but I guess they're more proud of being anti-trans.
Now, I realize that this week's cartoon might rankle members of the differently-abled community who are proud to be born this way or that. For that matter, LGB persons have used "Born This Way" and "God Doesn't Make Mistakes" to push back against the canard that we are unnatural, or not living as God intended.
So allow me to clarify that my imaginary Republican here is talking about conditions from the cosmetically challenging to the life-threatening. From cleft palates to congenital heart defects — if God doesn't make mistakes, you have to wonder what sort of god would think they're a good idea.
I referred a few weeks ago to this Twitter thread by a biologist explaining why there are any number of freaky things that might happen on a chromosome level to complicate whether a person is biologically male or female. We don't think of a piece of an X-chromosome breaking off as being a birth defect, but isn't their a degree to which it's as consequential as other chromosome changes?
And if so, isn't legislating against transgender individuals as wrong as legislating against persons with Down's syndrome?
I'm looking at you, Arkansas Republicans.
And wondering what's wrong with you.
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