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Right, I’m asking how that doesn’t follow. You don’t have a right to force doctors to specialize in something you want them to, but being restricted by your government from accessing modern healthcare endorsed by the AMA and APA doesn’t seem like liberty to me.
Let's take it from the other side.
Should I have the liberty to not pay taxes? The liberty to dump my garbage into a lake? The liberty to burn a forest down?
You're flexing words into meanings that suit you, but if they actually were possible to be interpreted this widely, it'd be chaos.
Those each hurt third parties, which is a very good reason to restrict a liberty. This one doesn’t, so I don’t really see how it fits with the others.
But that's an opinion, isn't it? We all don't have the same opinions, that's why politics is a thing?
Maybe transcare hurts someone's feelings, you might not agree with that, but we live in a world where their opinion matters, too, for better (or in this case) for worse.
Feelings being hurt does not meet the standard of restriction outside of abuse or harassment, which this is not. That’s not a political opinion, and anyone telling you it is is trying to distort your view of reality. Being trans, gay, or having any immutable characteristic cannot possibly have the same effect on people as targeted abuse or harassment.
"cannot possibly" is your opinion, it's just not a fact. Look at how hard they're trying to ban it, it clearly matters a lot to some ppl for some reason
No you’re right, I’m actually incredibly affected by people having the immutable characteristic of… what’s your eye color again? Is it simply politics to decide that you don’t get health care because your eyes are creepy and I don’t want them around my kid?
Trans people are strongly negatively affected by not being able to transition, more so than the people against trans rights are by them transition. This is very easily determined by looking at suicide rates pre and post transition for the trans and terrified of trans groups.
It’s not politics to try and get rid of a group of people for being something they didn’t choose to be.