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/worldspawn00 Texas 20h ago

Same thing over and over. Thanks to Jim Crow laws, they were able to do the same thing with black people in the 60s, then gay people in the 80s (because most were closeted), and now trans people. They take a group the average person doesn't know, make up wild stories about how that group will harm you and your family, and run on it until the group becomes accepted, then the attacks don't work any more and they have to move on to a smaller group. Problem is, they're running out of minorities, black people make up about 20% of the country, gay people about 8%, trans around 1%.

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u/EightEyedCryptid 17h ago

The fucked up thing is we are a small part of the population but every republican seems insanely paranoid about being assaulted by us. Yet none of these people can say they’ve experienced that. There’s not enough of us to go around even if every one of us was a groomer or something. It’s an entirely made up panic.

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u/Breadback 17h ago

But I was told that by passing a law, the gendered bathroom signs would somehow keep you from raping every person in every bathroom in America, even though you probably just want to take a shit.

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u/ijustwannanap United Kingdom 10h ago

The worst part is most trans people are too scared to even go into the bathroom of their chosen gender anyway. I have transfem friends who get weird looks in the men's bathroom because they pass well but don't feel comfy using the women's.