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
I feel the most evergreen quote in American history is appropriate here:
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood.
There are trans people in Texas who are stealth, completely live as their gender, 15 years old... who under this bill, in front of their friends and classmates, will develop a deep voice, facial hair, etc. after living their lives as their gender.
This makes me want to cry.
:amerikkka: :amerikkka: :amerikkka:
Edit: Also we need a :texas-cool: emote
California
rich neolib state
how about puerto rico, literally a colony?
That, and it’s the most hated state because it makes the rest of :amerikkka: seethe for not being racist enough.
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
California state employees can have their transition treatments and surgeries covered by health insurance.
If this passes I sincerely hope someone changes that :trans-gun:
Broke: we need to bomb Afghanistan to save LGBT+ people
Woke: we need to bomb the Texas senate to save LGBT+ people
Make no mistake: If they succeed at this, the next step will be trans adults.
Oh, absolutely. This is 100% meant to snowball into a legal attack on trans rights in general. We have to stand up for our trans comrades and provide support however possible.
I feel like it's important to point out this bill was introduced in a special session. That means these fucking subhuman scum literally convened outside of their normal legislative session to do this. They worked fucking overtime with the specific and explicit purpose of hurting trans kids.
Every one of these motherfuckers deserves a bullet.I wish those oligarch politicians would work one day of their lives
monkey paw curls
I think Texas is just seeing what it can get away with now. Unironically we should do an invasion
SCOTUS showed their hand that they will let a state become as repressive as it likes, so long as they have a fig leaf of "well technically this isn't against the letter of the constitution".
The supreme court is the last line of defense for blocking human rights being enshrined through the legal system
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
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.
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
The cruelty is the point. Abuse people enough and kill them enough as a warning to the rest.
If this is the same law that was proposed a couple months ago, I believe it criminalizes parents giving their under-18 kids hormone treatments and includes potentially removing kids from their homes and parents.
It does seem to include that, yes. Which is monstrous. Knowing Texas the intent is likely to remove trans kids from supportive parents and force them through conversion therapy
"family values" now somehow includes destroying any families that support their trans kids.
Am I reading this right? Are they bundling this with real types of child abuse like
TW
Child Pornography
so they can say the dems are pro child abuse when they oppose it?
Actually a brilliant play considering Q-anon.
Tomorrow we will see them bundling already illegal forms of child abuse with a tax exemption for landlords bill :freedom-and-democracy:
They bundle that with everything. Every digital anti-privacy bill or whatever too. Their go-to for justifying increased use of state power!
United Nations intervention led by China against this dystopia when
