Florida continues it's increasing momentum into ever more unhinged fascist lawmaking.
The bill allows the state to remove children from their parents or other family members if they're "at risk" of being given access to trans or gender support services. This even applies if they're in another state.
So not only is the state able to kidnap children in Florida, but a chud without any legal custody over the their child who lives in another part of the country with a less shitty parent, could kidnap that child and bring them back to florida - legally.
I'm really fucking concerned for trans people in the USA as I can see so many parallels between them and black slaves in Jim Crow south or jews in nazi germany, no joke this is all really worrying and ramping up.
Trans people were targeted by nazis before they went after the jews.
Feels like Floridians want to do the Elián González affair every day
It seems like conservatives were angry about something else and not states’ rights being violated during the civil war
:NOOOOO: STATES RIGHTS!!!!!!
:stupidpol: civil war was over statesrights
:sus-deep: it was states rights
And of course it was the slavers who were the using the federal government to violate free states' rights to not be involved in the slave trade in the first place, and the Confederate constitution was literally just the US constitution but with extra bits prohibiting individual states from abolishing slavery within their borders. They were in every regard the anti-states-rights bloc, and it was only afterwards with the Lost Cause narrative that apologists started trying to frame the conflict as about states' right to secede in order to muddy the waters.
Fuck it, anything other than the fed sending in the fucking troops is too lenient at this point.
This definitely pits federal and state law enforcement against each other directly, which would be :watanabe: if it wasn't for kids being caught in the middle. Yet another law that seems designed to speed up US balkanisation.
I honestly can't think of any other reason they would try to pass this law. They have to know this will force some sort of conflict. The bigotry and state-sanctioned violence are just their favorite tools to accomplish this.
I do think that's part of it, but mostly I just think it's Klan terror shit, telling people that even if they've escaped to a more supportive state with more supportive parents or people, they can still be hunted.
You're probably right, I'm just not used to seeing them be so brazen about it in my lifetime and I sometimes forget that these politicians don't just see as disposable, they truly hate us.
Anyone who tries this
shouldmust get shot with a gun, in the head, in real life.Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
( a ) Killing members of the group;
( b ) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
( c ) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
( d ) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
( e ) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Laws that have already been passed in the United States, to speak nothing of the literal hundreds already proposed this year, satisfy the definitons in B, C, and E. A is covered by right wing media fueling stochastic terrorism. This is a genocide. Erin Reed has a twitter thread that is already out of date that goes into more detail as to which specific laws are meeting these criteria. https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1628486307931381763
Oh god don’t read the responses to that 🤢
Transphobes get re-education or the :pit:
I hate Florida so goddamn much. My friend's brother went there for school and got turned into a MAGA dipshit. Cursed place.
The feds can turn off funding to states that don't follow federal laws for funds related to that law. The feds cut Louisiana's highway funding over it's drinking age. They could cut Florida law enforcement's funding over this law.
Not gonna happen. The democrats tried to prohibit funding for states that didn’t follow the most milquetoast gun control laws (something like waiting periods and ending ‘gun show loopholes’)
The republicans protested, and at the end the democrats gave and put in a clause for “special exceptions.” In other words, republicans get to just keep doing what they do, and democrats get brownie points from idiots in the media and the voting base, which lauded it as “the most comprehensive gun control bill”
Is their adherent to the letter of the law stronger than their homophobia?
Oh good. I wrote a script about this. I’m sorry. I’ll stop lathing.
Running vehicles with florida plates outside of florida off the roads protects trans kids.
More importantly, what's wrong with Liberals who are beating the war drum over "fascist" Russia/China while shrugging at this?
https://archive.org/details/umberto-eco-ur-fascism/umberto-eco-ur-fascism.lt/
Hurting people makes them feel good.
Dear god I do not want to be on this side of the line when that happens
The US federal government doesn't give a shit about trans people's lives but is there a chance of one state stepping on the toes of other states by encouraging people to do crime there and harbouring the fugitives something that would ruffle the feathers of the rules and norms liberals in Washington?
I would guess yes, but only if it becomes widespread rather than a few incidents, and even then it'll be about the egos of federal agencies like the US Marshall's Service rather than any concern for at risk youth.
There’s a reason that the fugitive slave act was one of the big dominos leading to the civil war.
