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U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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254 points perihelions | 2 comments | 27 Apr 25 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lawn ◴[27 Apr 25 09:42 UTC] No.43810630[source]▶
This is just another angle of placing people in camps.

Combine this with the overzealous focus on transvestites and the so called "illegal aliens" you should see a pattern with where the Nazis began.

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Spivak ◴[27 Apr 25 10:14 UTC] No.43810780[source]▶
Nit, nobody actually cares all that much about transvestites. Vest like from vestments meaning clothes. They're cross-dressers. Historically transsexual or transgender (depends on the country which one is the more prominent term) people have been called transvestites but it was a mischaracterization. Someone born with XX chromosomes but who lives his life full-time as a man is very different from a woman who likes to dress up like a man for sexual or other pleasure.
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1. tsimionescu ◴[27 Apr 25 10:55 UTC] No.43810974[source]▶
While you're right on the terms, you're wrong about the stigma on cross-dressing. There is really very little distinction bigots make between their hate for cross-dressing and their hate for trans people. It all falls under a big umbrella of "degeneracy" to them. Even actors in cross-dressing roles are often hated by these people.
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2. Spivak ◴[27 Apr 25 11:39 UTC] No.43811194[source]▶
I mean there certainly is a stigma, the stigma is probably on average greater than the current stigma surrounding trans people because even Republicans understand gender dysphoria as an illness. Ohio's Republican governor DeWine is, even by Democrat standards a huge trans rights and treatment supporter even for minors. It's legitimately uncanny to read stories about him from back home. But cross-dressers occupy an almost exclusively sexual connotation now that femboy/butch/tomboy/andro occupy the common term for just casually dressing in a manner defying gender norms.

But when it comes to policy actions taken by bigots they pretty narrowly target transgender people. If for no other reason than trying to legislate dress is going to (and has) run into 1A issues for anything not extremely narrowly scoped. Project 2025, arguably the comprehensive policy manifesto for the new GOP only really outlines policy targeting transgender persons.