Ohio has banned gender-affirming care for minors and restricted transgender women’s and girls’ participation on sports teams, a move that has families of transgender children scrambling over how best to care for them.
The Republican-dominated Senate voted Wednesday to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto. The new law bans gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapies, and restricts mental health care for transgender individuals under 18. The measure also bans transgender girls and women from girls and women’s sports teams at both the K-12 and collegiate level.
is that kind of the definition of out of touch, though? The world has changed around him. Just some quick for examples. the World Wide Web wasn’t first proposed as such until 1990, by Burners-Lee. Over half his life predates the modern internet as we know it. Friendster was in 2001, myspace in '03, facebook in '04. Social media as we understand the term has only existed for the last quarter of his life.
and lets not forget, that he’s been a politician for longer than millennials have been alive. He’s a very large part of how we came to be here. I will say this, he’s far less out of touch than Trump, or somebody like removed McConnel; they’re still stuck in that period of time were Fascism was “cool”… (well, for assholes.)
Sure, if he still held the beliefs, but as you’ve pointed out he has come around on a lot of these things, making him not out of touch (in context).
I don’t know how old you are, but back in the 90s only a small percentage supported things like gay marriage. I remember in college becoming convinced that it should be an equal right for all, and white often getting pushback from liberals.
He was basically “in touch” with the dominant opinion back then, and is now.