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Right-Wing State Legislators Make Unprecedented Attack on Trans Kids
Just this week, the Arkansas legislature passed an extreme anti-trans bill barring medically necessary care for trans youth.
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Conservatives are obsessed with nonexisting children. This is nothing new: The paranoia is a central tenet of the modern American right. They worry about a zygote or embryo as if it were already a child (it is not). Then there was the whole generation of nonexistent children whose brains turned to fried eggs on marijuana. The murderous Satanic children. The Black “superpredator” children were a powerful racist fantasy. ....

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