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The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

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[-] baka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 minutes ago

Fucking monsters. We are not your fucking Goyim

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

If I have not mistaken, the nazis did experiment with conversion therapy in the camps. Since it didn't work, they instead killed the trans people in the camps.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

We have now reached the Josef Mengele stage of the US government.

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Google "Unit 731." If you have a strong stomach. That's where we're headed, and this time there won't be a war to stop them.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 15 points 1 day ago

The conversation about wether or not they ARE nazis has concluded so hard that I never want it heard put into question again.

[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago

They aren't Nazis, they are MAGAs, and that is just as bad. It's probably going to be worse considering MAGA US has a larger military than Nazi Germany did.

When all this is over, calling someone a Nazi will sound quaint and outdated, like a pox on their house. Calling someone a MAGA, now that'll be a trauma-stained curse.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

just like how gay conversion therapy doesnt work, and they have lots of gay sex in those camps.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago

just like how gay conversion therapy doesnt work, and they have lots of gay sex in those Republican conventions.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

They also kill themselves over the trauma from the camps regularly.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a human rights violation akin to chemical castration

[-] Amberskin@europe.pub 21 points 1 day ago

So the US administration has entered its Mengele phase?

[-] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 2 days ago

3 people out of thousands de transition in an attempt to preserve sanity in the torture house

Transphobes: see, there's a chance!

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 54 points 2 days ago

I think they see suicide rates and that's what they're hoping for with policies like this.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 60 points 2 days ago

Literal Nazis in all but name.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Mengele vibes ☹️

[-] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

I had to verify this one for myself... It's true.

Why not link to the .gov domain though?

https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5260_001.pdf

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"The Bureau will not provide social accommodations, including to inmates diagnosed with GD, and the inmate will not receive social accommodations. If the inmate currently has social accommodations, the Bureau shall no longer provide the social accommodations"

So all bets are off and it is time to ignore the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

[-] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

What is the advantage? The article explains the context much better than the PDF and contains a link to the document in the first paragraph.

If I see a link to a copy of the document, it makes me doubt the validity of the information. If I don't have the time or energy to verify it, I'll just disregard it and move on. But if I see an "original" copy linked, it's a lot easier for me to trust and verify.

[-] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is a fair point on a personal level, but many people (myself included) appreciate a digested version of an official document and additional context for it provided by a journalistic article. Overall there is no reason to disbelief the detailed information provided in the article and assume that the reporter faked the document, unless someone wants to cast doubt on the unjustifiable treatment of trans people by the Trump government.

They're saying the link at the start of the article should have just been the official link. There's no point in having it downloaded and linked to another website (including it in addition as an archive would make sense though). Downloading it and reuploading it could be entirely fake or modified. So you have to dig around for the original.

[-] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, basically this. Thanks!

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