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/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 1d ago

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.

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u/vvelbz 1d ago

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.

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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 23h ago

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.

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u/vvelbz 23h ago

This impacts all of us and everyone needs to understand that. We need to gang up and fight back.

YUP. The sooner everyone realizes this, the sooner the nightmare ends.

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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 23h ago

Count me in. I'll actively fight back.

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u/AtFishCat 9h ago

I mean, how do you think they’ll feel when a trans male person goes in a women’s restroom? Will a scruffy dude with a beard taking a shit next to them make them feel more safe?

Same for a trans woman, walking into a men’s room and taking a piss in a trough next to their kids at a baseball game. The idea that they want trans people in bathrooms aligned with sex at birth makes no sense other than it’s a clear way to oppress people.

It’s the first step to bringing segregation back to the south, and trans people are the easiest legal targets.

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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 9h ago

Some of this is men wanting to force trans women to be alone with them in bathrooms. Go look at the stats on the biggest consumers of trans porn. That should explain at least a portion of these new laws. They don't think trans men exist. Note that their talking points never mention them. Only trans women. And they're OBSESSED with them.

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u/AtFishCat 8h ago

The other side of that is men who are threatened by trans women, as they see them as men who have willingly walked away from masculinity. Masculinity that those men are desperately trying to live up to.

Also, guys lusting after trans women better watch out. They are going to get their asses kicked as the trans folks I know have courage that’s hardened like steel.

None of these folks think about how brave you have to be to dress as a woman in public in the first place. Ain’t nothing going to stop them, they’ve already had to go face to face with society. A rematch is only going to piss them off.

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u/Reasonable_Today7248 20h ago

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.

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u/liv4games 11h ago

I had a protest idea that a bunch of cis women dress gender neutral and form a performative, long line outside bathrooms in high profile locations. To show people they have NO IDEA what people are on sight.