Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts recently endorsed taking care away from transgender adults, saying in an episode of the PBD podcast that the organization is currently “running the numbers” on the supposed correlation between gender-affirming surgeries and violence. His proposed solution? “You outlaw it.”

“But where there continues to be disagreement is on what you do with adults. At Heritage, we believe that so-called transgender surgery is bad for anybody because of what you saw in Rhode Island yesterday,” Roberts said, referencing the Monday mass shooting that left three people dead, including the shooter, and three others critically injured, all of whom were related to the shooter. Police have described the attack as targeted and domestic in nature.

“There does seem to be a mounting body of evidence that suggests a correlation between that surgery at any age, mental health issues, and increasingly, although we’re running the numbers on this at Heritage, acts of violence,” Roberts added, falsely.

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    Excluding the fact that banning something only serve to make a less safe black market thrive be it drug, liquor, sex or gambling

    White man are the biggest source of violence in the USA at least, so should we also ban manosphere cult leader like Tate and his other rapist friend and other white nationalist discourse?

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      Excluding the fact that banning something only serve to make a less safe black market thrive be it drug, liquor, sex or gambling

      They probably want the black market for gender affirming hormone therapy to be a dependency, as that means they’ll be in control of the goods and prices. They also have a history of trying to extort the transgender community to force them into work as sex workers, see Epstein emails for context on this.