For the last month I have had this perpetual conflict about whether to Post Things because I don't want trans people following me to panic but I really, really want cis people following me to know how much we legitimately have to panic about
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the good news is that trans rights are winning in the courts and the Trump Administration is not abusing trans people that would otherwise be abused by them.
so in that sense the courts are real.
but it feels to me like, as a result, Skrmetti is going to be the flashpoint one way or the other.
Until the administration demonstrates they are willing to be bound by the courts or the rest of the government forces the administration to follow the courts in some fashion, what the courts do doesn’t give me much hope.
well, they are demonstrating that they feel bound enough by courts to beg for relief from potential criminal contempt (retroactively, which is not a great tactical decision for them); embeded in the post there's an excellent longer discussion of how binding the courts are right now.
It's hard to say because on one hand I feel like a lot of people know how screwed we are, but on another hand there's truthfully not much that can be done
The US government has fallen into oligarchy. I want to say "hold out for four years" but that assumes we ever have a real election again.
what i'm honestly most worried about is the next election happens, the democrats win, and they don't bother rolling most/all of the stuff trump did back. when labour took power in the uk last year they kept the conservatives' last minute trans elimination policies
That's another distinct possibility because lets be real here, most of the Dems in the US government are going to benefit from this.
This is why holding politicians to account is so important, because none of these people are our friends. The threat of loss of support keeps them in check.
We need a word or phrase that turns trans people away instantly so we don’t read on and get psychic damaged. Maybe start posts with “as a mother of three rowdy boys”?
Those 2 links. I've had them staring at me in Simplenote for a week. I want to shove them in every cis person's face and start screaming *we are being erased, they're trying to erase us from the planet*. They're trying to establish we are not people, that we don't deserve the empathy you give dogs
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threats to SSN identities
threats to vital records in general
threats to access to care generally
actual bans on care for some kids
general argument that trans people are inherently deceitful
weaponized against trans military members
already causing suicides
and more
so in that sense the courts are real.
but it feels to me like, as a result, Skrmetti is going to be the flashpoint one way or the other.
The US government has fallen into oligarchy. I want to say "hold out for four years" but that assumes we ever have a real election again.
This is why holding politicians to account is so important, because none of these people are our friends. The threat of loss of support keeps them in check.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhgxogdqxt2o
Or a Congresswoman being misgendered by the Congress *itself*
https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3lho3frj2hs2m
I start typing what I want to say and I just want to vomit