Sep 5, 2025 · 14 min · 10 segments
Cameron Kasky and Tim Miller take a look at the latest right-wing push to ban gun ownership for trans people. It’s a move that exposes both the hypocrisy, and cruelty, at the core of the GOP playbook…
Cam KaskyHost
Tim MillerHost
Federal law requires a judge declare somebody, quote, uh, "mentally defective" before being stripped of their right to own firearms, but Republicans in this situation are saying, "We used to draw the line at any sort of gun rights being infringed, but now what we are going to do is go after trans people." And this should be no surprise to anybody because going after trans people is one of the key parts of the Republican playbook.
But there goes any conversation about the Second Amendment, and it's important that we not try too hard to call out the hypocrisy, because hypocrisy is the only thing these people deal in anymore.
They talk about how being trans is a mental disorder, and they love to cite stats about how many trans people deal with mental health issues.
They talk about how gender dysphoria is considered to be a mental illness in this country by the American Psychiatric Association.
You wanna know why a lot of trans people deal with mental health issues? It's 'cause people like you make being trans in this country-
That's why trans people are constantly dealing with this type of thing, is th- there's trans people who deal with gender euphoria, and when they become themselves the way that they see, they are so terribly happy.
My best friend from college was somebody who was struggling with identity and dealt with something like gender dysphoria.
But that's largely because, in this country, being trans is such a fucking terrifying thing that, of course, if somebody feels as though they were born in the wrong body, they're gonna deal with mental health issues, because they are stepping into a fucking human nightmare because of people like the Republicans.
Federal law requires a judge declare somebody, quote, uh, "mentally defective" before being stripped of their right to own firearms, but Republicans in this situation are saying, "We used to draw the line at any sort of gun rights being infringed, but now what we are going to do is go after trans people." And this should be no surprise to anybody because going after trans people is one of the key parts of the Republican playbook.
But there goes any conversation about the Second Amendment, and it's important that we not try too hard to call out the hypocrisy, because hypocrisy is the only thing these people deal in anymore.
They talk about how being trans is a mental disorder, and they love to cite stats about how many trans people deal with mental health issues.
They talk about how gender dysphoria is considered to be a mental illness in this country by the American Psychiatric Association.
You wanna know why a lot of trans people deal with mental health issues? It's 'cause people like you make being trans in this country-
That's why trans people are constantly dealing with this type of thing, is th- there's trans people who deal with gender euphoria, and when they become themselves the way that they see, they are so terribly happy.
My best friend from college was somebody who was struggling with identity and dealt with something like gender dysphoria.
But that's largely because, in this country, being trans is such a fucking terrifying thing that, of course, if somebody feels as though they were born in the wrong body, they're gonna deal with mental health issues, because they are stepping into a fucking human nightmare because of people like the Republicans.
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