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Vice President JD Vance’s Bluesky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform. His posts criticized medical treatments for transgender youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/jd-vance-suspended-from-bluesky-minutes-after-joining-what-was-his-first-post-article-152105999

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 73 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

Do you think JD understands the irony that posting an exerpt from Justice Thomas that is against appealing to the authority of "experts", is, in itself, in fact appealing to the authority of an "expert", Justice Thomas, to support his stance? His stance of course being that medical treatment of minors with gender dysphoria in a way that does anything but reinforce the gender on their birth certificate is bad medicine/science. And both Vance and Justice Thomas also, being... I see here "not experts in anything remotely to do with medical science, gender dysphoria, adolescent development, or any field at all that would inform any semblance of a valid opinion on the matter of how to properly treat these kids medically" might, in fact, make their stance a little bit non-authoritative. Maybe both of them should stay in their lanes of bad faith partisan political theatre, bribery, and forcing the sprint we are all on towards fascism. That seems to be where their real skill sets are.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 59 minutes ago

Vance isn’t talking to us. He’s talking to his supporters.

In their world, scientists are icky, and therefore can’t be trusted by red-blooded conservatives. Clarence Thomas, however, is GOP Approved.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

it's not even factually accurate since the majority of medical organizations agree there's no harm in transitioning.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

But what about the harm done to some other random dude who might find "a man in a dress" attractive and now questions his sexuality which is against God's will?

/s

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

What about when a uh.. random dude.. finds a trans person attractive and likes what it does to his concept of self and sees it being "against god's will" a bonus

asking for a friend

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Those are the ones they are putting air quotes around as "experts" because they disagree with them, and therefore must be crackpots.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 40 points 12 hours ago

Do you think JD understands

I'mma stop you right there and say no

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 12 hours ago

Vance is somewhat of an expert on gender and sexuality though, being the cough fucker he is...