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Mamdani’s ‘gender-affirming care’
plan surgically erases gays — just like Iran

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 11/18/2025 2:50:11 AM

The New York Times reported last month on the dire situation for gay people in Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death. Many are pressured to undergo brutal reassignment surgeries to live as the opposite sex. Now, instead of effeminate gay men, they’re just run-of-the-mill straight women. Problem solved. What Iran has effectively built is a medical system that treats homosexuality as a defect to be surgically erased. The goal isn’t self-expression; it’s social conformity. Transition becomes a tool of state-enforced heterosexuality. As a gay man myself, I think that sounds pretty barbaric. Though you could say that what’s occurring in the United States is arguably worse. Here,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: vrb8m 11/18/2025 6:26:13 AM (No. 2031213)
Yet they voted for him in droves -- and very probably would again.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley 11/18/2025 6:59:30 AM (No. 2031227)
I could not be single nowadays. How would you know you arent asking out some sick and mutilated weirdo? Would you insist on a physical examination ahead of the date? Ask to see childhood pictures? The world has become a horrible place when you cant even be sure what someone's sex is.
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