Likely emboldened by their success with the recent anti-abortion bill, Texas has introduced a bill which would criminalize helping trans kids transition. It goes so far as to actively pull trans youth from puberty blockers, and effectively force them to detransition against their will by making it illegal to give them hormones. As if to hammer home exactly who it is targeting, the bill makes one exception, that being kids born as intersex, who will continue to be allowed to access the treatment being actively denied to trans youth.
What the fuck. The cruelty here is unbelievable. Make no mistake, this will kill trans kids. There will be deaths caused by this if it passes. If you know any trans folks living in Texas, make an active effort to lend them your support. I fear this is just the beginning of a new legal assault on trans rights in this country.
My heart is filled with rage and sorrow from this. I will never stop being infuriated by how our society treats trans folks. Solidarity forever, and I hope every single person who votes in favor of this bill catches COVID and dies choking on their own lungs.
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Death to Texas. We need a burning Texas flag.
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rich neolib state
how about puerto rico, literally a colony?
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Critical support lmao. But I seriously doubt California is less of a settler-colonial mess than every other state when you really dig down. Anyone who might know better feel free to correct me.
Let's pretend you can judge a state by economic and social factors (I know that's PCM bullshit, but let's just use it for now). Social policy in California is legitimately better than much of the country. And not just policy, but in the actual attitudes of people. Honestly I would suggest CA is among the more socially tolerant places on earth.
On the economic side, obviously the state buys into neoliberal imperialist capitalism. But taxes are relatively progressive and there actual is a modicum of social welfare here.
Of course it's still just as rooted in settler colonialism as any other state. But I think it's way too reductive to just say all states in the US are equally bad.
Subjectively, I moved from the Midwest to CA. I think socio-politically, things are better here materially.
I don't disagree that California is better socially, but it's better based on brutal exploitation of workers, both foreign and domestic.
Liberals are socially progressive in good times. Take away that imperial cash and see what happens.
Where do homeless people fit into this equation? From what I've seen, the average Californian is about 10x as likely to want to do homeless genocide as someone from like Oklahoma or whatever.
My personal experience is the exact opposite. Damn near everyone in my hometown just wants homeless people to disappear and don't care how it happens. There is one person who runs a homeless shelter there and while he certainly is flawed, he at least just wants to see homeless folks treated like humans. He's seen by libs and conservatives alike as public enemy #1.
A lot of people in CA feel the same way but a large number want actually help homeless folks - they see it as a social problem to solve, not just some annoyance they want to just go away.
One thing positive about CA is how solid and actually free their MediCal health coverage is. It saved my life and also my brother who had leukemia. Without it things would be so much worse for millions of people. Lots of bad things about California but it really is one of the best states. Not that the bar is very high tho
Yeah, there's a lot of good aspects, but it's like European social democracy - built on the hard work and corpses of people who don't benefit.
I think what a lot of people don't realize is that despite being a rich neolib state California probably has the highest chance of being an actually nice place to live (minus the water thing, LOL) if the US ever balkanizes because the social attitudes here are much less backwards than the rest of the US. I remember my white boomer music theory professor who grew up here say that the rest of the US is like a completely different country in terms of social attitudes such that he could not stand living in Boston for the time that he did. Guy is in his 70's so he is probably an outlier in many ways but the diversity here tends to serve as a bulwark against brainworms. It's difficult to become an outright blood and soil fascist when all of your friends growing up were minorities, and back during both Bernie campaigns there were was Bernie shit EVERYWHERE
I like to maintain the hope that there will be enough people on the precipice here that they radicalize into unironic communism and be able to sufficiently push back on the large right wing in this state. It doesn't really help the right here that they can't go full 1488 because there are more non white people than there is Aryans so a lot of their program hinges on being able to court Gusanos
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California state employees can have their transition treatments and surgeries covered by health insurance.
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