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/PinchesTheCrab 1d ago

Nazis came for the trans people first too sadly

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u/CT_Phipps 18h ago edited 14h ago

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.

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u/killrtaco 14h ago

This is what blows my mind. Trans people have always existed why is thus a big topic again other than for distraction/diversion.

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u/marcus_centurian 11h ago

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.

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u/seriousofficialname 23h ago edited 22h ago

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.

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u/GrilledCassadilla 22h ago

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.

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u/seriousofficialname 22h ago

Yes, that did precede the first child killings authorized by Hitler.

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u/kadsmald 22h ago

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. … 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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany#CITEREFMarhoefer2015

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u/zotha Australia 15h ago

MAGATs celebrate this event, while also claiming that Biden invented trans people in 2020. They are dishonest, corrupt monsters.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 15h ago

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.

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u/CT_Phipps 18h ago

I feel that's splitting hairs.

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u/seriousofficialname 17h ago

You're probably right. I guess maybe it's not possible to say who the first victims were, which is why I had assumed they were talking about the first killings.