So much this. Our rightwing is hellbent on importing every single moral panic from the US to detract from their blunders and authoritarianism.

Trans people and cross dressers are EVERYWHERE (I mean worldwide). It feels like they have only been newsworthy for the last decade or maybe even less.

You might say this is a stupid analogy but when the US comes up with a bad political idea (like making transgender people front and center) it kind of feels like that US politicians are the "Apple of their industry" and many of the Android OEM (other politicians) just copy their bad ideas without understanding the intent Apple had.

By the way, I miss headphone ports on smartphones.

i don't think it's so much americans as it is the rise of the european populist far right seizing upon a vulnerable minority to get into power.

yes they share a lot of the same funding, but you shouldn't ignore europe's role in this

but when the American right made trans people their next target after their abortion win

WTF? When were trans people not the target of the american right?

As if liberals and socialists haven't tossed everything else aside to try and be as 'good' as possible by the standards of the american left/liberals twitter brigade

Damn right. They take away Union benefits from one worker the rest of them shut down the Country!

In USA they fire half the staff, double the workload for no extra pay for the remaining and they think “at least I still have my job…”

I mean the recent university protests in the US are a good first step. To socially normalize protesting there is no other way than just doing more protesting.

Always have been. Even the one thing they always claim they are better for they aren't. Conservative policies have always led to weaker economies, not stronger ones. In every single objective metric, they are bad for society as a whole. Great for a few individual people and their bank accounts though.

I swear that country/culture has zero volume control. You are either the most nationalist French person who ever frenched and the rest of the world is anglo swine who have contributed nothing of value or you are so international and progressive you worry that a red flag doesn't include the colorblind.

Come on guys, chill the fuck out. You can have a protest without burning a thousands cars and you are allowed to be indecisive wishy-washy moderate.

I asked a friend of mine who had immigratied from France about this once. He told me all their normal boring political types just spend their entire career in local office. That's why you don't hear about them. Which fine whatever.

And France is Islamophobic because...?

May the testiest tester win!

Banned for minors.

For now, in France, minors can have puberty blockers, hormones, and breast surgery (it's quite rare, needs parental consent, and the process is so long that the surgery usually happens after 18).

I say "for now" because many of us fear that the ban will be extended to adults sooner or later. Transidentity is the new moral panic in France, and the far right is getting dangerously close to power.

There's a bill proposal to ban HRT for minors. But we know that it's how that begins: you start with minors and you go as high as you can until you can ban it for everyone...

What an excellent question