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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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.