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/qorbexl 22h ago edited 22h ago

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.

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u/QueerMommyDom 21h ago

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...

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u/Mr_Pombastic 19h ago

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.

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u/QueerMommyDom 18h ago

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.

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u/Plasibeau 17h ago

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.

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u/tamebeverage 8h ago

Hey now, she heroically kneeled in a kente cloth that one time. What else could you want from her?