Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts recently endorsed taking gender-affirming care away from transgender 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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.