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Hello Out readers, welcome to another Friday!
One of the unfortunate results of Trump's recent election win is that many Democrats are already starting to throw queer and trans people under the bus and say that trans issues are the reason they lost.
Sadly, even some trans women are getting in on the scapegoating, including former Drag Race star Kerri Colby, who tweeted "I don't believe children should be medically transitioning" and "I think affirming them to outwardly express the gender they identify with until adulthood is plenty. Period."
Immediately, other trans people and people who are more educated on issues around trans youth started jumping in to correct her, with Bosco, another trans woman queen from Drag Race giving one of the best responses.
"Children are not medically transitioning. Children are not having gender affirming surgeries," she wrote. "These are conservative lies created to drum up transphobia with voters. HRT is only available to teens ages 16-17 after EXTENSIVE amounts of therapy. Puberty blockers are safe."
"The boogieman of 'children having transgender surgeries' is a Trojan horse to lay the grounds to take away access to gender affirming care for all trans people," she continued. "The right has already very successfully used this tactic by over-representing the impact of trans women in sports. Whipping up frenzy to gain voter support to legislate against trans people. Democrats are already gearing up to throw the trans community under the bus because this kind of bullshit is turning the median voter against trans people. We have to be able to identify the talking points that are being used against us."
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