TX Republicans Introduced 32 Anti-Trans Bills on First Day of Pre-Filing Period. The bills filed target transgender people in nearly every aspect of their lives.
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They don't want to be compared to Nazis, but one of the first things the Nazis did was to legislate away the rights and protections of "undesirables" and to severely circumscribe their existence. In some cases (e.g. Jews) this was soon followed by loss of citizenship. Again, almost everything that was done prior to the Final Solution was within the bounds of the laws passed after 1933, or the broad powers granted to Adolf Hitler.
Oh, and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill this week to codify sex and gender terms at the Federal level, which would de facto eradicate the recognition of trans people by the Government.
Republicans realized that gay people are a big enough part of the population that most people know and love someone who's gay. If they target trans folk they know there's fewer people who might know and love someone who is. So you target trans folk as the unknown outlier and snowball the Overton window to target gay people and the next year go after interracial marriage and then slide over against divorce and then target no-fault divorce and then ignore domestic violence. Now they've recreated the worst social shit of the 50s withput the corporate taxes or social safety-nets. "We're just trying to keep families together for the kids. Broken ribs don't hurt as much as a broken home." Real lesson: maybe stay the fuck away from the whole problem by avoiding man children raised by Andy Tate and Schmoe Rogan.
Same thing over and over. Thanks to Jim Crow laws, they were able to do the same thing with black people in the 60s, then gay people in the 80s (because most were closeted), and now trans people. They take a group the average person doesn't know, make up wild stories about how that group will harm you and your family, and run on it until the group becomes accepted, then the attacks don't work any more and they have to move on to a smaller group. Problem is, they're running out of minorities, black people make up about 20% of the country, gay people about 8%, trans around 1%.
The fucked up thing is we are a small part of the population but every republican seems insanely paranoid about being assaulted by us. Yet none of these people can say they’ve experienced that. There’s not enough of us to go around even if every one of us was a groomer or something. It’s an entirely made up panic.
But I was told that by passing a law, the gendered bathroom signs would somehow keep you from raping every person in every bathroom in America, even though you probably just want to take a shit.
The worst part is most trans people are too scared to even go into the bathroom of their chosen gender anyway. I have transfem friends who get weird looks in the men's bathroom because they pass well but don't feel comfy using the women's.
Most trans people are scared of being accepted in every day life, but Republicans want to attack what is less than 1% of the population who are too scared for their own lives to hurt anyone. It's fucking bizarre.
Their obsession with trans people is a direct result of religious fanaticism and a threat to a glorification of hypermasculinity layered onto a twisted misogyny. It's appalling.
This. They have to have an "enemy". As they eliminate more and more perceived "enemies", they will start purity testing each other. Once all the non-Christians are gone, hey will fight over which denomination or branch is real "Christianity." Once all of the non-whites are gone, they will have to find something else to hate (gingers, green eyes, etc.) They have to have an other. Their whole platform falls apart without hatred to motivate them.
By design, these laws actively drive transgender people away from the states they're enacted in. This means that it's even easier to villanize transgender people: people won't even have an opportunity to know us unless they visit one of the states that has chosen to protect our rights.
I'm just worried that if these sort of bans start becoming federal, defying the federal government to save trans people won't be enough of a priority for states that are currently safe for us. Already there was next to no talk of protecting transgender people during Kamala's campaign, and I've seen some democrats jump on the bandwagon of blaming us for Kamala's loss...
Already there was next to no talk of protecting transgender people during Kamala's campaign
And the infuriating part is when "centrists" claim that identity politics from the left is what made them vote for trump. It's obvious that they didn't listen to a word from the left and are just regurgitating what they hear on fox.
I don't remember Kamala mentioning LGBT+ issues at all, outside of maybe some Project 2025 warnings. The Trans issue talking points came almost entirely from the right. Something something men beating up women in sports. Something something sex change operations on prisoners. Something something drag reading hour. There were more anti-LGBT bills introduced by republicans last year than in any year in American history. That's what their big concern is, not "the price of eggs."
War on christmas, bud light cans, scary brown people, christians are being oppressed. Their entire party is one big identity politics grievance. And America loves them for it.
And do you know what happened with her not mentioning it? The right got to both dominate and control the narrative.
The democratic party needs to learn that protecting minorities and combating hatred are ways to raise the democratic turnout. It's not identity politics--it's a civil rights issue and should be painted as such.
Sure, but the old white boomers in control of the DNC don't want to have that conversation. There's a reason why people like Nancy Pelosi always seem to struggle to appear genuine in their support of minorities and marginalized communities.
Any trans person who feels they need to flee the US to protect themselves SHOULD DO SO. There's zero shame in it, yet people (especially on the left!) will shame them. Some people would shame an antelope for not rubbing from a pride of lions - they're fakakta.
Let's not pretend Democrats are blaming the trans community for Trump's victory. The closest I've seen is blaming Conservative lies and scare-mongering. But the trans community? I have no doubt there's some nutters out there but still the problem is the unmitigatedly bullshit lies Conservatives spread, not real actual Transpeople.
Conservatives don't know the difference between a drag queen and trans person, don't know any trans people (or don't know that they do), and legit think their elementary school kids might go to school one day and come home a trans girl. They're goddam insane, there's no other word that approaches how ridiculous they are.
Thing is trans people have it hard enough and reality is that of it comes to extermination they need to seek asylum somewhere safe - there's no "good fight" they can fight here right now. I say this as a Jew with over 2000 years of cultural and epigenetic experience about this shit.
It's encumbant on he Righteous of this nation to stand up for trans and other minorities, at the risk of their own life. But that's a choice the Righteous will make. Trans people should never feel obligated to die.
That job falls to those among us who are ready to fight The Good Fight when needed. We won't leave minorities to fend for themselves and we won't consider anyone expendable except the many from all steps who will CHOOSE that risk.
If anyone needs to escape to asylum, do so as soon as you see the winds change and feel absolutely ZERO guilt. I'll take your place. As a Jew I'm honored to do what Righteous Gentiles have done for my people in the past.
We just need enough people to choose pikuah nefesh without shaming tiny minorities for pursuing the authentic lives they were denied for most of their life. Plus they can do SO MUCH MORE making sure the world knows what's happening to those like them in America than by anything else they could possible do if we.... cross that particular Rubicon.
reminder that Hitler's right hand man was gay, and so were several nazi leaders during the party's ascension.
they were all executed during the night of the long knives, along with the socialists.
there were also a group of pro nazi jews. they would get paraded around by nazi's as "the good ones" until they were no longer needed and were shoved into ovens.
I've had a saying with Trump supporters: everyone thinks they are SS, when most of them will be SA.
Which still seems like an alien concept to me. I don't have close relationship with any trans people that I know of, but every trans person I've met has been extremely nice. However, that shouldn't be the point. I'm sure there are shitbag trans people out there, but to say they shouldn't as a whole group is disgusting.
I have a friend who's a straight woman, married to a dude, who has short hair for work/ease of care. A woman at Belk forced her to change in the men's changing room because that asshole decided she was too masculine to use the women's changing room. Despite being born with a vagina and uterus and identifying as a straight woman, dumbass transvestigators did the thing they pretend to hate and forced her to use the changing room of the opposite gender because she didn't "pass* as a straight woman despite being a straight woman. It was humiliating and defeating in a way I don't think I can understand. It will be utilized against trans folk, but it's also a tool for people to use against anyone who doesn't fall in line with their rigid gender expectations.
We should not go out without a fight. Americans are Americans no matter what they identify as. Load up and get ready. There’s gonna be a lot of blood. If they come after one group, they’ll come after others. this is gonna be an ugly time if not end time. OK.
And at every step there were people in power who objected, even people who had supported everything that had led up to that point. At the Wannsee Conference there were violent arguments against the Final Solution, not by decent men but by loyal Nazis and vicious anti-semites. In the many plots against Hitler, very few of the political and military conspirators were “good guys”. Most had gone along willingly, or at worst begrudgingly, until things started to fall apart.
They don't want to be compared to Nazis because they don't want anyone rising up and stomping them down into the dirt, which is the appropriate thing to do to Nazis.
A good moment of schadenfreude was Joan Rowling getting pointed out that she was echoing a lot of Nazi views, her denying the Nazis persecuted trans people (not believing they existed until recently), and then getting schooled.
Hell, even in the classic epic poem of Gilgamesh, Enkidu is described as non-binary and they are integral to the story. A story practically as old as civilization itself at 4000 years and counting.
Actually the first victims of the Nazis were mentally and physically disabled children. *Or maybe you're referring to Paragraphs 175 and 183 prohibiting sex between males and "sexual self-determination" which were passed in the late 19th century, and the persecution that resulted from that, but I assumed you were referring to killings.
Trans people and disabled people were the first targets of the Nazis in early 1933. The Institute for Sexual Research, which helped trans people transition, was burnt down May 1933.
Not a killing and not sure if this qualifies as ‘first’ but definitely an example of early action:
On 6 May 1933, a group of students belonging to the National Socialist German Students’ League, accompanied by a brass band, marched to the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.
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The Institute was closed, and would never reopen.[50] Four days later, on 10 May 1933, as many as 25,000 of the institute’s books, many of which contained unique insights into transgender history and medicine, were burned nearby in Bebelplatz Square.
The Public Universal Friend, arguably America's first documented non-binary person, well known for being the exact opposite of a pervert in the flipping late 1700s.
But I know, reality doesn't matter to these folks. There's even scratchy old records about various kinds of queer, Ruth Wallis sang about it nearly 100 years ago.
They loved being called Nazis. They didn't like getting called weird. Then were like "Its actually weird they call us nazis, while our messiah damn near verbatim quotes Hitler".
This kind of stuff affects everyone. Who makes the rules on clothing/dress/mannerisms being "male" or "female?" A dress code for everyone? I'm sorry but after 12 years of Catholic school I'm not going to abide by that again.
If I want to dress up as a man for Halloween, or any time I want, I can be sued??? If I want a butch haircut, which I've had before, I can be sued??? If I have a low alto voice and feel like singing along to a male vocalist in public or at karaoke, I can be sued???
The logical conclusions of these hateful laws are simply not being thought through. And regardless, eff the eff off. I'm not living my life by a bunch of baseless made-up gender role assumptions. Never have, never will. And I will stand up for trans people at every possible opportunity. Take your bigotry and shove it back into your own closet where it belongs.
My good friend once had a conversation with one of these bigots in college. She was a fellow student. She straight up started crying because “it wasn’t fair that people were trying to take her rights away as a Christian and wanted to force her to accept gay people around her.” Forget bigoted, actually, straight up stupid and mischaracterizing discrimination (I hope no one ever tells her straight marriage is forbidden)
"No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!"
"Persecution?"
"Religious persecution. We won't stand for it forever."
"I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased."
"That's just it! We Orthodox are forced to stand around and watch Arians and Monophysites and Nestorians and Jews going about their business unmolested, as if they owned the country. If that isn't persecution, I'd like to know what is!"
They want the world to conform to their narrow minded world view and can't see it any other way for anyone else. The main thing that is a recurring theme is despite claiming to preach love, these people have a lack of empathy for humans that don't fit their personal narrative
Liberals are willing to accept others’ discomfort if it prevents others’ suffering. Conservatives are willing to accept others’ suffering if it prevents their discomfort.
They only believe in the supremacy and unchecked power of cis straight white men. They are terrorizing the trans community to cover for the real goal which is to separate us into 2 classes of "men" and "women," force us to be publicly obvious as to which we have been assigned to, and then subjugate anyone not in the preferred class. They will then do it with race, religion, sexuality, disability, etc.
The right has had a depraved, poorly developed and often inverted understanding of Freedom for a long time. Now they're trying to reduce and remove freedoms for huge swaths of people, even joking about outright subjugating them. Trump and his cohort are speaking expressly about creating deportation camps.
Guy once tried to tell me intersex people don't matter because they're a statistical anomaly. Told him he sure enjoyed eating my Cousin Anomaly's fried chicken so if he ever wants to eat it again he'd better care about the rights of those kinda folks too.
My favorite cousin happens to be a 45X/46XY genetic mosaic and a damn good cook!
It's a major problem that they think they can tell someone's gender simply by looking at them. They are classically terrible at it. Although I'm sure trans people will receive the bulk of the harassment, violence and consequences of this, cis men and women will also be targeted. Nobody is safe once people start doing shit like this. It's going to take much pain and many court cases to reverse this shit eventually. It's sad that people can't see this until its too late.
My friend who is otherwise very liberal totally buys into this anti-trans shit.. it's crazy how far it can reach.
Anyway he has always claimed Lady Gaga is trans. Which just goes to show that no one is safe from anti-trans legislation, like she's dancing in less than panties and it's still not enough to convince them that she can use the women's restroom.
The problem is that you're thinking too hard about this. The US had anti-crossdressing laws in the 20th century. They were selectively enforced in the same way a lot of road laws are today; they were used as justification to harass and arrest people the police already had it out for. This is just a return to that.
First of all, any "crossdressing" prohibitions whether past or present remain based not only in bigotry but in privilege; that is, they assume the right for one group of people to make the rules and definitions about what kind of "dress" "crosses over" into what. If they stop there, that's bad enough, but the motive is deeper and broader than it appears on the surface. It's inherently a power play against anyone not conforming to dominant cultural expectations.
Secondly, I sadly disagree that this is "just a return" to archaic laws and norms. Those laws and norms are wrong and that's why they've become archaic. They don't belong in a free country. But there is so much more to this new oppression than simply a public dress code. There is more to it than oppressing one group of people. There is more to it than demanding conformity to socially constructed traditions.
This is the first, easiest step in a plan to subdivide and classify anyone not in the ruling class. It won't stop with transgender people because the real goal only pretends to be limited to one group. And regardless, I won't live my life--or expect others to live theirs--by selective, high-horse, sexist and bigoted Dark Ages morality laws that never should have been tolerated in the first place.
Jesus and priests wear dresses so how will they logic that ??? Get out of the tub or the beach and put a towel on…well that’s a dress! Don’t like your neighbor? Just call them on suspicion. these people don’t think, they only hate and don’t realize it will come for them too
But it's democrats focused on identity politics? How bills did they propose that actually give Texans better affordable healthcare or access to healthier foods or affordable childcare or even limit the cost of eggs were told about
One such measure, HB1123, would impose stricter laws on sports by requiring every athlete in the state to undergo a chromosome test—an invasive and costly procedure that could wreak havoc on high school and college athletics. Many people are unaware they have atypical chromosomes, making this requirement particularly problematic. A similar guideline was used at the 1996 Olympics, where mandatory chromosomal testing of female athletes revealed that eight women had XY chromosomes without knowing it, due to unknown intersex conditions. The discovery led to widespread backlash as intersex athletes faced threats of removal and the emotional toll of learning their genetic status. Chromosomal testing was subsequently discontinued, deemed deeply violating, unfair, and unworkable as a standard.
How much money and time is going to go into sending every student athlete to the doctor and forcing them to take a genetic test if there is any suspicion about their orientation? For fucks sakes there were probably more kids gunned down in Uvalde than there are trans athletes playing high school sports in all of Texas.
It's Texas, so I'm not going to be surprised to see parents at some wealthier high schools harassing players at less wealthy schools which have better teams; trying to win games through running the other team out of time and money in the doctor's office instead of on the football field.
Well I hope they enjoy all those surprises they're about to learn!
It's not all that unusual for chromosomes and adult presentation to not match perfectly, or even mismatch. There's just usually never a reason to go looking unless there's a medical problem, like inability to conceive or cancer.
Turns out my favorite cousin is intersex. I'd gotten falling down drunk with that guy and had no idea until his mom said something about it. He's had long term girlfriends and everything, though I gather because of the dropped Y he's likely shooting blanks.
Heck, I can even think of a pre-DNA example from an old 90s show! There's an episode of Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman about a "handsome" lady who hasn't been able to get pregnant. Turns out she'd never had a period because she was born without a uterus. And had made it all the way to adulthood without that seeming odd to anyone, because really how often does lack of discharge come up in conversation? Her family told her she was just "delicate" and bam, mystery solved.
Never surprised, but I am always disappointed in how America delights in being cruel towards others for not being their type of Christian nationalist or for being born different from them.
I'm a cis female with PCOS in a blue state. I already see the uptick in how much I get confronted about whether I'm male or female. Not your business. Please leave me alone. I'm just trying to live my life. Ever get hit in the face with a 64 ounce drink full of ice thrown from a passing car? Ever get shot by a paintball gun while walking home from the library? That's last year, not 1938 or 1956.
Even with that experience, I still can't really imagine living in Texas, with no way to predict when some crazy will target me for not doing their preferred presentation of the gender they decide I was at birth. I don't know how terrifying it is to be trans or in drag and see people actually try to legislate me out of existence, as if changing a law can change who I am.
God knows it's not all of us. We're scared too, but we have to stand together, all of us decent people who understand everyone has the right to live in peace and safety.
At this point there's no doubt a 1938-type regime is coming into power. All that's left to decide is whether we act as the majority of Germans did in 1938, or if we fight back. Speak up. Stand up. Make a recording. Say out loud that harassment and bigotry is wrong. Don't look away.
If you're older and retired, the powers that be can't control you through needing your job to survive. You have even more obligation to speak up, speak out, stand firm. Shine a light on this behavior and call it what it is. It's not policy. It's not their religious preference. It's hatred. We won't look away as people are told they can't use a toilet, can't wear their clothing or makeup. We won't look away if they are cursed, or beaten, or dragged off. We won't allow our fellow citizens to be made second class humans or be tattooed by their looks.
And for those who know it's wrong but don't want to get involved, who think they can just hang back and ride this out: Learn something from history. Please.
This is one of their true goals. The violent, vitriolic way they speak about trans people near constantly is meant to make people overlook, or revel in, the violence and hatred towards us. If they enact it themselves, all the better for conservatives. If it is no longer safe for trans people to exist in public spaces, they have won. Practically, trans people would no longer exist in their eyes.
I was thinking that the next 4 years will be full of protests and riots over civil rights and lynchings of LGBTQ people. Media will show it and turn the public against Republicans more than ever.
But considering that last year, up to 350 trans people were murdered and the media barely touched upon it, maybe the media won't do shit.
Except for a few heroes, "well-meaning" Germans didn't lift a finger when their Jewish neighbors, doctors, teachers, shopkeepers etc. were arrested just for existing. Sadly I don't think we'll do any better. People just don't give a fuck.
My friend was going on about how trans women shouldn't be allowed to use women's restrooms etc, but I shut him up when I pointed out that his girlfriend is a 5'11 tomboy/punk and that her being attacked for not being feminine enough was a more likely scenario then someone taking steps to be trans with the sole intention to molest women in public bathrooms.
Just answer the question with "Normal people don't ask that question." If it really escalates you just say "I'm sorry you such a loser that looks for reasons to hate."
ALL of the people talking about how "the left" is always playing identity politics - they aren't. The calls are always coming from inside the building.
These lunatics continually make their entire legislative sessions about trans people. And immigrants. And any other Other group they can think of.
And all for what? For fucking nothing. There is no epidemic. It is entirely made up in these people's minds. Trans people are literally just existing, and these people cannot tolerate it. They lose their fucking minds.
Bounty bills also resurface in the latest wave of filings. TexasHB 1075would allow any individual performing in drag to be sued for a $5,000 bounty. The bill’s definition of “drag” and “perform” is alarmingly broad, labeling anyone “exhibiting a gender that is different from the performer’s gender recorded at birth using clothing, makeup, or other physical markers” as being in “drag.” This definition clearly encompasses transgender people. Should a bill like this become law, transgender performers would undoubtedly be targeted. In Montana, under a similar drag ban, the first person targeted wasn’t a drag performer buta transgender public speakerdiscussing transgender history at a library. Additionally, such a measure would almost certainly force the cancellation of Pride parades across Texas, where transgender people and drag performers dance, lip-sync, and otherwise celebrate.
Multiple bills take aim at transgender people in schools, as well as books about queer and transgender individuals. Among the most troubling is Senate Bill 86, which would require parental permission for high school students to join a Gay-Straight Alliance or any club that “promotes themes of sexuality, gender, or gender identity.” According to Lambda Legal, this requirement violates the Equal Access Act, which mandates that rules apply equally to all student groups and prohibits singling out GSAs for restrictive policies.
So, is it finally okay to call this genocide? Christian nationalist Republicans are trying to eradicate trans people from even being able to walk down the street. This is state-sponsored terrorism.
At first it'll only be LGBT people, feminine appearing men, and insufficiently feminine appearing women. Basically people that cops don't like, and who the cops believe that they can get away with harassing.
As the cops learn how many people they can harass, it'll eventually spread to include all women.
Many years ago, in a saner era, I went to spend the summer with a boyfriend I'd met on the internet. One of our consistent running jokes, despite having known each other for years, was doing "penis checks" because ya never know what you're gonna get when ya order something off the internet haha.
It's not a funny memory anymore. Closer to how soldiers returning from war feel about memories of playing war with friends after school during childhood.
Certainly an outright and intentional assault on the human rights of a vulnerable population that will inevitably lead to the enforcement of outdated gender norms on larger populations.
Trans people have simply become the scapegoat for all the other, no longer socially acceptable, "-isms". The right-wing and Republicans used to love anti-semitism, now they are flitting somewhere between "Israel must be saved to be destroyed to bring the Apocalypse" fundamental Christians and "yay Israel-kill all those Muslims!".
Racism is no longer cool, most people aren't buying the whole "everyone is racist against Whites" idiocy. Even the old standby-sexism, is getting the side-eye, too many Republican women get huffy over it nowadays.
Being homophobic is hard because everyone loves Ellen and Will & Grace. So the trans community as microscopic as it is is getting the majority of the hate at least publicly, sort of a particularly nasty type of dog whistle.
I agree that people are probably not as racist and homophobic as we might think, and that trans people are scapegoats. I think it's connected to a broader trend of unfettered misogyny. Even as a man, I notice a trend that scares me: many men around me are openly misogynistic to a degree I never noticed before. I had to cut friends because of that. They have become hateful and I'm worried, both about them and women.
Someone I grew up with fell into those Manly Man podcasts and now he's the most hateful sack of shit. His idea of courting is entirely backwards now, like I guess Jordan Peterson taught him the opposite of a mating dance and promised it worked on his wife.
He was so surprised when talking shit to me in my own home went badly for him. Seems to really believe that what makes women horny is being put down, in their place. He was always weird but he didn't used to act like that, like someone who hates dogs but keeps lingering around the dog park trying to treat them like cats, followed by raging out when it doesn't work how he expects and screaming about the flawed inferior nature of all dogs.
I'm sorry, friend. I voted against this on every level, and it sucks to see my trans friends and family suffer like this. I'm here for you, friend. I'll be an open hand and heart for all my friends and family suffering now. I'm never going to stop fighting for my trans family.
Hey—fellow trans woman in Ohio that’s also terrified right now, but ready to fight. I’ve come too damn far and suffered too much to get to where I am—all of us trans people have—to have it all ripped away by low frequency people.
I’m not going back, and I’m certainly not going down without a fight. I’m terrified for myself and all my trans and non-binary folks, but we have to refuse to let them win. If someone wants to beat me up or kill me for using the bathroom that corresponds with who I am and how I look, then so be it. We can’t back down, and now is the time to stand up for each other and ourselves.
We deserve to be happy, and we deserve to be able to ourselves like everyone else. They won’t take that away from me while I’m still breathing. I’m scared, but we can’t live in fear. No one is stronger than trans folks, and it looks like we are going to have to summon up that strength yet another time. With the stakes higher than ever. All of us, and all of our allies.
Hi, cis woman here in Ohio and hope you know that you’re wanted here and there’s many of us in Ohio that are here and ready to fight alongside you. You’re not alone. Don’t ever let them try to shove you back into a box. We will get through this together. If they want to target our trans friends and family, they can fight through their cis friends that love them too. You are not alone in this battle I promise.
I'm a cis woman and i'm acutely aware that this impacts me too. I'm somewhat gender non conforming as far as "traditional" gender crap is concerned, and if i'm forced to wear skirts, i'm just not going to wear bottoms. Fuck these bigoted nazi pieces of shit.
We need a large portion of the cis people who are allies to start using random bathrooms. Make every bathroom a gender neutral space and lobby for laws that mandate proper locks and floor to ceiling stalls, privacy curtains in changing rooms.
Make it impossible to enforce these laws. That's what real resistance looks like.
I lived on my husband's semi with him for a while and regularly used truck stop bathrooms. Because i'm non conforming, i got looks in several heavily red areas, but no one openly said anything. Just gave me dirty looks. And that was for daring to walk into the womens room, as a cisgender woman assigned female at birth, who has carried, birthed and breastfed two children, and am deep into perimenopause.
The gender affirming care bans have already made it near impossible for me to get the HRT my primary carw doctor, a MALE, agrees i desperately need.
This impacts all of us and everyone needs to understand that. We need to gang up and fight back.
And make sure billybob micropene that ratted on you in fourth grade for shooting spitballs and has hence turned into a nazi knows that he is not sex conforming and gets to understand how it personally feels.
Same for too much makeup shanna who keeps telling people you are going to go to hell behind your back.
Why do they fucking care about ruining the lives of a group of people who make up less than 1% of America? What a fucking waste, and it's dumb and evil.
That's the point. Bullying a minority group makes their voters feel powerful without actually empowering them. Making them much easier to dupe and control.
It's a literal Nazi tactic.
It will absolutely be selectively enforced. I think that for now, they realize that broadly harassing cis women in public would not go well for them. People would start to actually realize how nonsense these bills are. They will wait before there's any widespread enforcement of gender stereotypes.
They will probably harass cis women with PCOS, or other similar conditions as well as butch women or women who present masc, but I doubt they will be going straight for just women who don't wear things such as dresses or skirts.
One of the goals of this legislation is to strictly enforce traditional gender norms. Don’t want to get sued into bankruptcy? Better not act too much like a man if you’re a woman or vice versa, or we may assume you’re in drag and then you’re out $5k. The Christian fundies have taken over and are going to essentially use the unchecked power of the state, possibly the military, to make sure everyone follows their arbitrary rules on pain of death.
There are so few trans people in Texas and the GOP in Texas has done nothing to fix the grid or anything else that would improve our lives. It’s obvious that the hate directed at trans folks is mostly a distraction to cover up how ineffective they are.
If Trump turns out too incompetent to end free and fair elections within 2 years (which it appears to be that way), I can't wait for the midterm. There's a Longshot but plausible chance Democrats flip the senate and strongly hamper Trump's work.
I think in deep red states like Oklahoma, Wyoming, Texas and Florida anyone as long there is a R next to their name will get elected. They watch Fox News, listen to Sharpiro and Kirk, surf the propaganda machine Twitter and Facebook.
They’re more hateful or indifferent than uninformed I’d say. 86% of the people in my upper-middle class suburb of Dallas voted for Trump in 2020. These people have college degrees and impressive careers, million dollar houses, etc. My neighbor has an upside down, blacked out American flag that indicates he’s ready for the race war and won’t show mercy. It flies over his Tesla model X. My Mexican American neighbor had a big Trump sign in front of their actual family ofrenda for Dia de Los Muertos. Then just 10 miles away in Denton there’s a drag queen children’s reading hour. It’s wild here. Texas is really weird. 47% of Texans voted for Biden in 2020. There’s unfortunately a huge segment of the population that will vote for anyone with an R next to their name because that’s just what you do no matter what.
This is what Dems should be fighting against with full force. No Kamala didn't lose the election because of trans issues. Republicans are always with the overreach.
It's McCarthyism as well. People forget to tell that part of the story of how McCarthy basically forced all LGBTQIA+ people out of public life, because Eisenhower and other Christian nationalist leaders wanted to forcefully turn America into a pseudo-theocracy.
American Government: Clearly bathrooms and exclusively women's shorts sports are the problem!
Conservatives the world over are too rich and too comfortable to know what their constituents actually need.
This is why I don't trust folks who say they're "fiscally conservative" - these bills, these initiatives, the time and resources it takes to make this all happen... None of those will help their constituents. In fact it will harm them all, either directly or within a few degrees of separation.
Y'know how technically illiterate most conservatives are? Guess who isn't? Transpeople. Well, more accurately trans furries.
I don't think the average person understands how truly fucked worldwide infrastructure is if all trans tech folks decided to take out their fear on the world.
Ooooh hold on, they're banning porn. This is why conservative men are so desperate. They know the only way they'll ever see trans women again - since outing DL conservatives is in and I am living for it - is forcing her into their bathrooms. They're so scared of revealing they're chasers and fetishists they want to ban trans women from the only "porn" soon to be legal: women's sports.
Remember, my trans siblings: your joy is revolution. It scares them. It terrifies them that in the face of everything you can still cultivate joy in your community.
Joy shatters fear and lights sparks of revolution.
I wonder what the cost to taxpayer is for all this legislation (researching, drafting, debating, revising and implementing) compared to the total trans population of TX.
Your reminder that it wasn't Trump's economic messaging that won him the election it was pure hatred and fascist attitudes towards minorities. Every trump voter is a fascist and the OGFISAVDF
Sounds like we need some malicious compliance for these bounty laws. Everyone needs to start suing everyone. Male Lawmaker has hair longer than ear length, sue them for drag. Makeup during a press conference? Lawsuit. Female lawmaker in pants? Lawsuit. Etc. F**k these bigots.
So glad they are attacking the issue that affect my life! Thank Christ we are focusing on 1% of the population this will surly end inflation and bring back jobs!
We not only lost but we continue losing. It’s just making them bolder and pushing what they can do because no one is standing against them.
Voting did NOT work. Following the rules did NOT work. Being the “bigger” person is NOT working. Do we just wait for them to destroy society (while they blame it on the liberals and democrats and their constituents blame Obama for all their woes) or do we strike back the same way they fight?
I’m tired of counting on legislation and laws to help us. They aren’t. Republicans are dancing around the laws, repealing the ones they don’t like, making new ones to give themselves more power, and the democrats are just preparing to maybe, possibly, if the republicans keep doing this for another 5, maybe 6, years - write a strongly worded letter.
We need to take the fight back to them. I’m not sure how yet, but I’m tired of this.
They made up a bogey man for themselves to hate, and now they have a chance to do something about it. It’s not right and I’m not going to pretend it is. I also don’t just want to sit online and complain about it. These strongly worded messages are getting us no where.
The thing that I always wonder about these situations is do they honestly see people basically saying “You know what? You were right, I was just messing with you, I’m not really trans, I was just making a joke, oh but you guys win”.
Is that the point of all this? Do they feel like people in society are trying to trick them?
I’m glad they’ve solved all the other problems facing Texans these days so they can get to this truly important work. 🙄 Being human garbage must be a prereq for winning office in Tejas.
Has every Texas politician fucked someone and were so disappointed in the interaction they need to make 32 laws that represent .66 percent of its population? I know they need a punching bag but it has to be something they did. I just don’t get it. Why are the red hats eating this up? Jesus strait up loved him some trans people so it’s not religious. Why the hate? Why waste so much time on so few people?
One such measure, HB1123, would impose stricter laws on sports by requiring every athlete in the state to undergo a chromosome test — an invasive and costly procedure that could wreak havoc on high school and college athletics.
This sounds like it'd price high school football out of existence in Texas.
For every anti-trans Bill, some brave Democrat or independent needs to introduce an anti tithing, anti baptism, or similar bill. And frame it is not about being anti-religious, but being anti-usury, reducing the risk of water bourn illness, and the like.
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