Now, the fire department and cops all surrounded me, and they made it so difficult! I said, "don't worry, I can fly!" but nevertheless, they talked me out of it for now.
I went back down, and with all their help and support, I got scheduled for wing graft surgery . They tell me that they can't guarantee functional flight-ready wings just yet, but we're all so glad they support and affirm my aspirations to self-powered flight, so I can go back and try again.
Another day, another thinly veiled attack on the transgender community. Demeaning transgender medical care as if it isn't a massive personal choice, with tremendous cost and a huge emotional and mental ordeal to undertake, particularly in a place like America.
The oddest part is that one would expect the right should support the rights of inmates to receive trans care and surgery as men will be rendered sterile as a result of either medication or surgery, and I would have thought the claimed grim reality of trans surgery would appeal to those hellbent on maximizing misery and punishment on those in prison.
It's not veiled at all.
> massive personal choice, with tremendous cost and a huge emotional and mental ordeal to undertake
It is indeed a personal choice, and that's part of the argument against it being taxpayer-funded.
For example, do you think cosmetic surgeries should be taxpayer-funded? They are also often very important for the person who wants to go through them, are costly, and sometimes have long recovery periods.
> The oddest part is that one would expect the right should support the
You are, of course, making a grotesque caricature of your political opponents. Here, the issue is simply that they don't want to pay for a surgery they see as immoral, barbaric, and unnecessary.
And the right make those caricatures entirely on their own. They are indeed immoral and barbaric. Have you been amongst conservatives discussing prison sentences for pedophiles lately? They bay for blood, call for extreme, vicious violence and death against such criminals. If such talk is to be believed, then they do not believe in the justice system, but in vigilante justice. I feel no commonality with such unprincipled people, even if our views on other issues are not so different.