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.
Twitter thread talking about this
Why do trans people live so rent free in the right wing brain
like aren't trans people a vanishingly small percentage of the population? for all their talk of being super stoic and shit I find it absurd that like these people have this overwhelming hatred of a group of people they're statistically likely to never run into
They're the perfect imaginary enemy
As a conservative you can point to them as proof that America isn't religious enough, you can claim they're corrupting the youth, you can use their suicide rates as proof that it's immoral, you can say it's a way for men to prey upon women (as if men needed help in that regard)
It's a small number of people with no financial power, no military power, no social power; all 'power' they have is from the Democratic establishment using them as a cover for neoliberal sociopathy
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Because they're an easy, but very visible target. The whole playbook of the rightwing legislators is to find any minority, any at all, point fingers at them and loudly shout "THESE PEOPLE MUST BE STOPPED" while in the meantime quietly siphoning as much money away from as many people as possible.
Trans people are just the perfect target because they're relatively few in numbers, very clearly visible and the concept is really hard for the average person to understand. So the right winger can convince their moron followers that trans people using bathrooms is the biggest problem threatening America and they're the only one who will stand up against this menace, and they'll continue to be a bloodsucking ghoul while occasionally fucking over minorities to assure their followers that the "problem" is being dealt with.
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it's a defense of the ideology of hegemonic masculinity. the cisnormative, bioessentialist model of gender is critical to patriarchy.
ask them and they're not shy about this either. it's the same motivation behind homophobia.
because they think puberty blockers in children is abuse of children despite it being seen as helpful by medical professionals
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