Judgment

Some liberal lady in FL should use DeSantis' banning laws to demand that KISS and Rudy Giuliani be banned. https://t.co/HMkh3JJ6PD

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 30, 2023

The way Chuck Todd went after Ramaswamy:

CHUCK TODD: Are you confident that you know gender is as binary as you're describing?

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: I am pic.twitter.com/ONPvPLvPzO

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2023

(I’m sure it was somewhat like being gummed by a newt, but for Todd it bordered on real journalism)…I thought he had some close experience with transgendered people, like family or a good friend.

Which is to say “the way I see it” is all well and good, and you can even prate like the rest of us on the internet and show your ass. But it should never be the basis for public policy.

Todd asked a sound policy question; Ramaswamy answered like a dumb ass. I feel the same way about abortion. Everybody knows why “women” (in the abstract) get abortions, and it’s always for the “wrong” reasons. But what do you do when someone you know has gotten an abortion? Question them closely? Decide they are damned? Refuse to see it as they do?

Would you do the same to married friends who’ve decided not to have children? And the first question there is: why is that your business? Do you equally accept their moral authority over your decisions?

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged.

Ramaswamy is clueless. Paul Stanley is clueless. He betrays no real understanding of being transgendered at all. The same way people imagine women getting abortions as casually as they trim their fingernails, the easier to be against it. You’re entitled to benighted opinions.

You aren’t entitled to just turn them into public policy.

Therein lies the problem.