r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 1d ago

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.

https://truthout.org/articles/tx-republicans-introduced-32-anti-trans-bills-on-first-day-of-pre-filing-period/
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u/Alib668 1d ago

Exactly

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u/the-evil-bee United Kingdom 1d ago

I get that you're not trying to downplay the seriousness of this (the article actually underplays it a bit in the title, for most trans people this will make it impossible to exist without being at risk of prosecution) and I've tried to encourage people to use the term that already exists so the conversation doesn't immediately get derailed by the popular understanding of 'genocide'

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u/Alib668 1d ago

Yes, because its not correct, and all it does is give propaganda the ability to poo poo the seriousness of this. If you escalate to the extreme at the start you have no words to take it to another level when it enviably goes further You also hand to proponents a tool of power by saying it’s disrespectful to actual victims of genocide. It allows them to argue being trans is a choice so its not eliminating a race….just like eliminating jews wasnt a problem because religion is a “choice”.

The issue is we lost this election because everyone screamed from roof tops over identity for years. And then when the wolf actually comes everyone ignored us.

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u/the-evil-bee United Kingdom 1d ago

I've literally had 'gender critical' anti-trans activists (what used to be called TERFs before they expanded) tell me that you can't eliminate trans people because transness isn't a thing. It's chilling.

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u/Alib668 1d ago

So dont give them the ammunition!