Link: https://www.advocate.com/politics/heritage-foundation-trans-care-adults

Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts recently endorsed taking care away from transgender adults, saying in an episode of the PBD podcast that the organization is currently "running the numbers" on the supposed correlation between gender-affirming surgeries and violence. His proposed solution? "You outlaw it."

"But where there continues to be disagreement is on what you do with adults. At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday," Roberts said, referencing the Monday mass shooting that left three people dead, including the shooter, and three others critically injured, all of whom were related to the shooter. Police have described the attack as targeted and domestic in nature.

"There does seem to be a mounting body of evidence that suggests a correlation between that surgery at any age, mental health issues, and increasingly, although we're running the numbers on this at Heritage, acts of violence," Roberts added, falsely.

We should just ban white men then too, eh?

Why is it this? Why do we have to make this shit news? Why not “Young Doctor Wants to Improve Healthcare”, or “Environmentalist Wants to protect Our Forests”?

This shit gets shared everywhere because we seem to love using these assholes to piss each other off. It’s like everyone wants to be angry.

He’s a piece of shit racist homophobe. Who fucking cares what he wants?

Can we?

Are you fucking kidding me? Evil people are publicly stating their planned intentions to harm people and you’re asking why we don’t ignore it to focus on fucking sunshine and rainbows?

Sticking your head in the sand will not protect trans people from one of the most influential policy makers in the US.

People in power are following the plans laid out by this group. So, it's kind of important that we know what he's saying so we know what to expect and fight against.

I agree that no one should be giving him or what he has to say attention, but under these circumstances, I think that would be dangerous.

Breaking News: Inch Given, Mile Taken, more at 11.

Excluding the fact that banning something only serve to make a less safe black market thrive be it drug, liquor, sex or gambling

White man are the biggest source of violence in the USA at least, so should we also ban manosphere cult leader like Tate and his other rapist friend and other white nationalist discourse?

To be fair, they took the inch too.

Shows how much he speaks bullshit here, considering there is no such thing as "transgender surgery" and it is too vague term to connect with any violence.

He goes by supposed correlation between surgery and violence, which even if correlation is true does not mean there is causation and does not justify outlawing it for everyone.

There are no numbers. There is no correlation. This is a lie. But the harm caused to impacted people in the population will be real.

I wish his anal.cancer would hurry up and kill him.

literally lying in order to pass policy meant to control a population should result in harsher punishment than federal prison. there is, quite literally, zero evidence to suggest trans people are more violent than cis people. these motherfuckers know that and do not care. okay, then we need to. we can't allow this to come to fruition.

He's making policy! I wanted to put that in all caps, but I didn't. Outta respect, 'cause I understand.

Buddy, I don't like the culture of ragebait that the Internet has fomented either, but this isn't that. This is an LGBTQ magazine reporting on an influential figure's intentions to disenfranchise every trans person in the US.

The news in its ideal form exists to tell you about important things that are happening, not to balance itself to make you feel better about the world (and things generally are pretty terrible right now).

The examples of "Young Doctor Wants to Improve Healthcare" or "Environmentalist Wants to Protect Our Forests" are totally nebulous in what they want to achieve, ambiguous in how they plan to achieve it compared to an org that's been systemically dismantling the US from the inside for over a year, and a type of story that gets reported on all the time when it's actually consequential.

Caked-on Orange makeup for guys, and botox fish face for women still good though, right?

He’s a piece of shit racist homophobe. Who fucking cares what he wants?

A piece of shit racist homophobe who is DIRECTLY AND INTENTIONALLY WRITING US POLICY FROM AN UNELECTED POSITION. Trump is enacting all of project 2025.

If you can't figure out why this matters, idk bro.

Bullets work wonders on these useless pieces of shit.

Excluding the fact that banning something only serve to make a less safe black market thrive be it drug, liquor, sex or gambling

They probably want the black market for gender affirming hormone therapy to be a dependency, as that means they'll be in control of the goods and prices. They also have a history of trying to extort the transgender community to force them into work as sex workers, see Epstein emails for context on this.

Amazing how the party of "freedom" chooses to ignore the nazi obsession of the shooter and instead focus on the gender identity of the shooter. How very "woke" of them.

However, let's be real here, they just want to make us all mad about this. They wouldn't go through with this as they don't really have the means to do it on a federal level. This is the issue with governance by trolling; It's pretty weak once you realize most of it is dog and pony show nonsense.

Regardless, let's all stand along the transgender community and call this shit out as it is: News manipulation to make a minority feel further unwelcome and create fear mongering around the misunderstood.

A number of them beyond reckoning. Thousands.

Tens of thousands.

Heritage Foundation should collectively off themselves publicly.

Sooo... This guy planned a fascist takeover of the American government. He is going to be held liable for what he did right?

Right?

"running the numbers" more like "transgender people make me feel funny so me and all my other pals who feel funny about it reckon the transgender people must be bad and violent, why else would I feel funny about it, papa always told me feelings were for women and degenerates"

It's probably for the best .. we have not done a very good job with most things ..

#HeritageFoundationAreDemons

Arguably Botox fish face for women (and boob/butt/lip/cheek surgery) is also gender affirming care .. not sure what the orange make up is .. clown affirming care?

ok fuckhead, but make it include all gender-affirming care for everyone, trans or not.

no boner pills, no hair transplants, no leg-lengthening, no plastic surgery to change your appearance. be hypocritical more you rat fuck.

A Kirk if you will

Hey!!!

.........I actually did kinda ok with the grilled cheese I made last night. I mean, it wasn't great. It was still burnt, but it was considerably less burnt!

They wouldn’t go through with this as they don’t really have the means to do it on a federal level.

ORLY?

Why are you people downvoting him? He's right! The more publicity we give these assholes, the more power they get.

Wouldn't you much rather see The Dodo run the news? Wouldn't you rather see "Kitten cries for help and finds new forever home" in the news?

Wouldn't you rather see "Former president trump, now homeless, shits himself and dies alone"?

No. You guys give engagement to the negative stories. So thats what they report. Thats what gets controlled to be reported. And now we're all here. In 2026.

Ya know, when I was a kid, we were talking about the future with flying cars that ran on water, and anytime it rained was a free fillup for your Fcar. That's Flying Car. "Fcar".

But NOOOOOOOOOO. You guys just had to ruin it with 9/11, and the oil wars that followed. Well oil would be near worthless if cars ran on rain water. And we can't make them fly, or there'll be 9/11 everyday.

And now? Now we're at a point where food costs a mortgage, nobody can own anything, and the local hobo gets laid more often than you.

The sad part is, I'm BARELY being absurdist here.

Time to close all the gyms nation wide. Whatever will the gym bros do?
Oh and no more cosmetic surgery for anyone.

I like that it didn't result in a mass shooting =)

Baby steps.

How does this help the harvest?

How about we stop gender affirming care for cis adults? Banning ED pills ought to do it. Also works to solve the problem of these fascists reproducing.

I’ve been shouting from the fucking rooftops They will come after ALL trans healthcare, and indeed all other rights. No one cares. They are mostly totally ignorant of us, so they believe whatever bullshit they read.

Just like the republicans will come, and likely succeed, in overturning Obergefell.

I won’t be able to legally access healthcare, nor will I be able to marry.

Remember, all of our “activism” is because we want special rights, not the same ones that cishet white people take for granted every goddamn day.

I feel like a large celebration is in order for this milestone in our demographic's development, white men need constant positive affirmations or we rapidly fall back into old ways and start checks notes murdering everyone who doesn't look like us ..

Viagra is gender-affirming care.

Of course he does. He undoubtedly wants to mass-murder trans people, too. Baby steps.

Preventing trans people from physically transitioning isn't going to make them not trans.

One of the first groups the Nazis targeted even before the night of broken glass were the LGBT. They're foaming at the mouth with rage about the LGBT, and they operate on a last-hired-first-fired basis. They'll work their way up to the Ls, Gs, and Bs eventually.

No, but they're trying to exterminate the groups. Once they're done genocide-ing the immigrants, they'll add on the other undesirables. That's why they're making the camps so big.

This man does not deserve the right to life.

Man, if only someone was warning everyone that the Heritage pigs were pulling the strings of the Republican Party, and planted their sockpuppet as the VP candidate.

If only there was a way to stop them from getting more power. Some way that wouldn't require desperate violence.

Like, yknow, putting a cross on a fucking piece of paper.

At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday," Roberts said

He conveniently doesn't mention that the shooter was also a Trump supporting Nazi.

The mass shootings are all just blending together. Which one was this?

They’ll work their way up to the Ls, Gs, and Bs eventually.

That's all still just parts of phase 1.

February 16 at a high school ice skating game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Not surprised, this is the main reason why I never said "Well I guess you should be 18 to transition", I knew gender affirming care bans were never going to be just for minors.

Trump himself gave up the game when he made 19 the minimum age for federal plans.