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Apr. 16th, 2021 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotessean interesting essay on the politics of cruelty to and stealing of children by religious and authoritarian powers, wrt current cruel anti-trans legislation: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2021/04/13/the-war-on-children-historical-context-for-the-assault-on-trans-rights/
"It’s no coincidence that religious conservatives target children for conversion, indoctrination, kidnapping, or punishment. The same logic that told them that it was acceptable to take children from their families for the crime of being republican is the same logic that said it was justified to punish girls for the crime of being raped with hard labor is the same logic that demands that trans children be banned from playing sports, denied appropriate medical care, and forcibly converted from their chosen identities."
"It’s no coincidence that religious conservatives target children for conversion, indoctrination, kidnapping, or punishment. The same logic that told them that it was acceptable to take children from their families for the crime of being republican is the same logic that said it was justified to punish girls for the crime of being raped with hard labor is the same logic that demands that trans children be banned from playing sports, denied appropriate medical care, and forcibly converted from their chosen identities."