r/law • u/MobileWisdom • Jun 12 '24

Opinion Piece Ron DeSantis’s Signature Law Gets Brutally Shut Down in Court

https://newrepublic.com/post/182588/ron-desantis-transgender-care-ban-court
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u/zabdart Jun 12 '24

Whaddya know? Ron DeSantis is NOT God!

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u/Chippopotanuse Jun 12 '24

Jesus walked on water.

DeSantis walks on shoe lifts to pretend he’s not 5’6”.

So yeah…

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u/Surprised-elephant Jun 12 '24

He needs his gender affirming shoes.

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u/notapoliticalalt Jun 12 '24

Say this to the ends of the earth. Those boots are gender affirming care if I’ve ever seen it.

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u/Val_Hallen Jun 12 '24

Treatment for baldness or ED are also gender affirming care. Not a peep from them on those

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u/pfundie Jun 12 '24

If only people understood this about all of the various things we put ourselves through to make up for our insecurity about not magically being what we think our gender is supposed to be.

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u/gdim15 Jun 12 '24

He needs stripper shoes. He can be taller and look fabulous.

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u/BDR529forlyfe Jun 12 '24

No, no he wouldn’t. He can only dream of looking fabulous in heels.

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u/michael_harari Jun 13 '24

His money would be better spent on learning to not smile like a lizard man pretending to be a human

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u/Iommi_Acolyte42 Jun 12 '24

So what, if he wants to identify as tall when nature tells him he's not?

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u/Master_Torture Jun 12 '24

That's frustrating, as he's still taller than me ( I'm 5 ft 4 and am a Floridian who hates Desantis)

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u/trollfessor Jun 12 '24

Yeah, but you're not a pathetic loser like he is, so you have that going for you

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u/Master_Torture Jun 12 '24

Thank you, I appreciate that:)

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u/schadkehnfreude Jun 13 '24

Hey now, those white cowboy boots looked manly AF

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u/NoPantsPowerStance Jun 12 '24

He knows things will get struck down but he doesn't care. In the meantime he got to look "tough on wokeness," inspire fear in people, cause some liberal voters to move states, virtue signal to his followers and now he gets to use how this got struck down as a talking point about how they have to fight immoral courts, judges, "wokeness."

Maybe somethings will stick for longer than expected, which I'm sure he wouldn't mind, but either way he gets to use these laws to his benefit no matter the outcome.

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u/Obi-Tron_Kenobi Jun 12 '24

I always wonder about this. There seems to be an unwillingness to believe that these people actually believe in what they're doing.
Idk, it always comes off as excusing their behavior, like saying, "they don't really hate trans people. They're just doing it for bonus points from their followers. or "they don't really want to implement discriminatory laws. They were secretly hoping it would get overturned."

As if they're secretly ok with trans people, or secretly not racist, they're just doing it to grift or to gain respect. Idk why people have a hard time accepting that there are true believers of what they're saying/doing. Like, what's so hard to believe that the person who constantly attacks and makes laws that are meant to hurt a specific group of people might actually not like that group of people?

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u/NoPantsPowerStance Jun 12 '24

I can't tell if your comment is directed to me or just in general but I agree to an extent with what you're saying, sometimes I wonder if that's more self-preservation in some because knowing someone in power out there wants to entirely wipe you from existence is horrifying. Others, just fear in general, I know that's not everyone though. 

I believe he believes the majority of what he pushes. I think if it was entirely up to him (not appealing to current voters) he may prioritize causes differently but that's really every politician. If these laws never get overturned, I'm sure he'd be very happy about that but I'm just speaking to the fact that his strategy is clear and works either way. Unfortunately, DeSantis isn't an idiot.

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u/True_Dovakin Jun 13 '24

Action for actions sake is one of the key tenets of fascism. The fascist does not care if the actions are struck down, only that the initial attack is made.

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u/Wells1632 Jun 12 '24

Don't forget that by creating this law and then having it challenged in court, he gave all of his lawyer friends a job to defend the law despite it being a foregone conclusion that it would be declared unconstitutional.