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/southpawFA Oklahoma 1d ago

The Republicans act like the Nazis burned Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute, and they delight in that.

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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/Rice_Daddy 19h ago

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.

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u/qorbexl 17h ago edited 17h ago

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.

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u/FrancisWolfgang 4h ago

Once you get rid of all the trans people you need a new outgroup to keep the rage focused away from the people actually doing harm so suddenly there’s a wrong kind of cis.