Bills targeting the transgender community have stalled all over the country this week as legislators debate the effects these laws will have on trans youth. 2021 has marked an onslaught of hate in state legislative sessions across the country as Republicans sponsored bills that seek to limit trans youth’s access to gender affirming health care as well as prohibit their ability to participate in school sports. While several have passed, multiple bills in at least six states have been set aside or gotten veto threats from governors this week. In Missouri, after a contentious debate between Republicans and Democrats, the state house agreed to put a proposal on hold that would require athletes to participate on sports teams based on the sex written on their birth certificate.
  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Anti-trans bills are a losing issue politically outside of insane GOP primary voters.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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      3 years ago

      Especially because anyone who goes outside knows someone who's trans or mas met and spoke with someone who is.

      It's not as easy to demonize people when most people can now put a friendly face to the group they're oppressing. Not saying it doesn't happen, but normal humans with healthy social behaviors tend to adapt to changes like that pretty well.

      Even my mother who was super homophobic when I was a kid has mellowed out as she left her christian cult and rejoined the workforce where people who are gay exist.

      • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah exactly. Most people who have met trans people have at least some ability to emphasize and most people who haven't don't give a shit and think the bathroom bills and stuff are needlessly cruel.

        Like a good example of this was the 2016 governor's race in North Carolina. The incumbent GOP governor signed a cruel ass bathroom bill in 2016 and then during his reelection campaign a bunch of companies pulled out of NC and he literally lost reelection despite Trump being at the top of the ballot and carrying the state by 3 points. Like the guy got wiped specficially because a small but electorally significant group of fucking Trump voters thought the bathroom shit was insane and voted for a Democrat instead.

        This shit doesn't work outside of super red states where the only thing that matters are Republican primaries, because your average GOP primary voter is a maniac.