Tennessee has recently passed a bill, effective July 1st 2024, declaring it a class-C felony to "recruit, harbor, or transport an unemancipated minor within this state" for transgender healthcare procedures, carrying a sentence of 3-15 years in prison. This applies over state lines and states that do not have anti-extradition laws relating to trans rights can extradite you to Tennessee.
Notably: the bill is vague. This means: telling stories of your own transition, describing your healthcare experiences to an open group chat, describing your trans experiences on a public website, creating trans health guides online, describing how you have gotten DIY HRT, describing anything to do with trans healthcare, even as a cis person, can result in a class-C felony conviction.
Given that being arrested in any capacity for transgender people can be an incredibly dangerous experience (CW: SV), I strongly suggest you begin caring about opsec, stop referring to where you live, use VPNs, stop using apps like Discord, and stop using social media sites that track your IP or user agent fingerprint while unprotected. Remember that for a bill like this to be challenged in court, you have to be arrested first.
Will discuss creating / linking to a transgender matrix chat so that we can help people to move off of things like discord.
So, if I live in a non-explicitly-transphobic state, can I be extradited to Tennesee for say, posting advice about HRT online, even though I’ve never been to or directly interacted with anyone in Tennessee?
Fugitive Trans Act of 2025
If a minor from Tennessee reads it, it's possible if it's not on that map. I'm sure some psychoes might use their kids to try to mess with trans people in this way
Technically if you ever travel to one of the bad states you could also be extradited. Only 14 states have protection
What the fuck, isn’t that unconstitutional?
there's no point asking that question, the supreme court just does the mental gymnastics necessary to make something constitutional or not.
Fascism doesn't care, and the supreme court is full of em.
US Supreme Court ruled back in 2022 that migrants can be detained indefinitely
It don't matter
What the fuck
That's old hat now
I don't think I need to tell you what the aggregate meaning of those two decisions is
IANAL, if it's like recording laws (basing on swift v Kanye) then no, as long as you are not in TN a when you post it's not a crimeI didn't read the op well enough 🎵
This law is based on abortion extradition laws