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Although there are numerous people on Elon Musks X, Truth Social and many other social media platforms that share JD vances trans enemy rhetoric, the Vice President decided to celebrate his triumphal procession after a judgment of the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The court had confirmed the constitutionality of a law from Tennessee that banned gender -accumulating treatments for minors in the state. In a surprising step, Vance took the Bluesky website. A platform that has taken millions of users who fled to X before the right -wing extremist climate. Among them many trans people who were tired of harassment and abuse there.
Vance trolls bluesky community with the first post
Vance did not lose time to provoke this community. “I was told that this app had become common sense for political discussions and analyzes,” he wrote in his first bluesky post on Wednesday. “So I’m happy to be here. To get into conversation with all of you.” The picture shared with this comment was a screenshot from the unanimous opinion of judge Clarence Thomas for the 6: 3 judgment in the Us v. Skrmetti.
In it, Thomas argued that “there is no medical consensus on how to best treat gender dysphoria in children”. And that “the latest revelations indicate that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence and have had their medical advice on ideology influenced.” (In contrast, leading medical organizations and LGBTQ advocates constantly emphasize that the data supports the use of sexual medical measures such as puberty blockers and hormones in trans-young people. And such decisions should be left to patients and their parents.)
Vance spreads pharmaceutical conspiracy and is suspended
Vance again commented on Thomas’ opinion. And added a conspiracy theoretical turn in a third article. He claimed “many of the scientists [die geschlechtsangleichende Behandlungen für Minderjährige befürworten] Get considerable means from Big Pharma to impose these medication to children. ” As expected, the vice president received thousands of hostile answers. Briefly marked by our automated systems that try to recognize identity theft. “The account was quickly restored and verified. So that people can easily confirm its authenticity.”
JD vance breaks block record on bluesky
After his reinstatement, Vance quickly set a record on the website. He now operates the most frequently blocked account on Bluesky. This dubious achievement was noted with sarcastic regret by journalist Jesse Singal, who was the most blocked user of the platform before Vances debut. (Singals, highly skeptical reporting on gender treatments for trans youth, was cited in an amicus letter in the Skrmetti case of the family research Council. An evangelical think tank, the abortion and LGBTQ+rights rejected.) Vance is currently blocked by more than ten times as many bluesky users as he has follower there. And approached the milestone brand of 100,000 blocks on Thursday. The platform has a total of over 36 million users.
Uncertain future on the platform
Vance has so far not followed anyone on the platform. And it is unclear whether he will ever use it again. Be it to provoke trans people or for other reasons. But if he returns to express his opinion, there will be significantly fewer people.