Senate Bill 14, which is set to take effect on Sept. 1, bans transition-related care for minors. Parents of transgender kids say it blocks their ability to support their children.
“The other side is hypocrites” is the weakest argument. Conservatives want parental rights on books in schools and no parental rights on trans medical procedures…sure, that could be hypocritical, but only if you’re saying “books in schools” and “trans medical procedures” should be in the same category.
No one is saying literally everything needs to be allowed as a parental choice, so it’s just a straw man to complain about hypocrisy when any given thing is banned instead of a parental choice.
Ostensibly, too, you the author think the conservatives are wrong on…both counts, right? Parents shouldn’t be able to ban books and they should be able to help their trans kids if they think it’s appropriate. So…aren’t you calling yourself a hypocrite too?
Progressives don’t think conservatives are hypocrites because we don’t believe they care about rights, choice, or freedom in the first place. We point out how quickly conservatives jettison their “values” not to prove hypocrisy, but to prove they didn’t value those ideas in the first place.
We argue that it is all a stalking horse to use the government to oppress people that conservatives hate. That’s the position as the position.
“The other side is hypocrites” is the weakest argument. Conservatives want parental rights on books in schools and no parental rights on trans medical procedures…sure, that could be hypocritical, but only if you’re saying “books in schools” and “trans medical procedures” should be in the same category.
No one is saying literally everything needs to be allowed as a parental choice, so it’s just a straw man to complain about hypocrisy when any given thing is banned instead of a parental choice.
Ostensibly, too, you the author think the conservatives are wrong on…both counts, right? Parents shouldn’t be able to ban books and they should be able to help their trans kids if they think it’s appropriate. So…aren’t you calling yourself a hypocrite too?
Just argue the position as the position.
Progressives don’t think conservatives are hypocrites because we don’t believe they care about rights, choice, or freedom in the first place. We point out how quickly conservatives jettison their “values” not to prove hypocrisy, but to prove they didn’t value those ideas in the first place.
We argue that it is all a stalking horse to use the government to oppress people that conservatives hate. That’s the position as the position.