"In the marble halls of the battle dome of American lawfare on December 4, Tennessee's deputy solicitor general performed a brazen act of legal gymnastics:

He argued to the Supreme Court that protecting transgender children requires denying them health care.

That same day, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson"architect of an AI-powered claims denial system with a reported 90 percent error rate"was shot, allegedly by a man driven to desperation by America's predatory and labyrinthine health care system, which causes as many as 66.5 percent of American bankruptcies.

The grim symmetry was impossible to ignore.

The parallel path of these two events perfectly encapsulates the cynical sleight of hand at the heart of the American establishment's current political strategy.

While millions struggle under the weight of medical debt and economic precarity, our political class has masterfully redirected public anger toward a manufactured crisis:

the supposed threat of transgender Americans."

the article isn't long, but worth the full read

- Less than 2% of people are transgender?

It's something like .5 percent of adults and less than 1.5 percent of teens.

It's obviously problematic, it's just not something worth being distracted from our new Fascist Government leaders; from the Oligarchy being put in charge of the Government by rwingers, which is the very definition of Fascism.