parents’ rights are sacrosanct (unless you do a thing the state doesn’t like)!
maybe you don’t give a fuck about trans people. fine. how comfortable are you with your current governor or attorney general deciding how you raise your kid? how about the next one, who you don’t know yet?
maybe you don’t give a fuck about trans people. fine. how comfortable are you with your current governor or attorney general deciding how you raise your kid? how about the next one, who you don’t know yet?
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Jessica Kant
The last provision also appears to stipulate that parents cannot consent to their kids being affirmed, as only the original birth certificate can be used to determine sex.
Comments
https://legiscan.com/SC/text/H4707/2023
HB 1405
https://legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB1405/2024
it is…disappointing how effective the “okay, but see how much more reasonable this one is?” approach to legislating has been.
oh, right! when they bother to talk about us at all, they’re just asking questions about how many trans kids is too many trans kids. just asking questions about the hypothetical bone density of trans women in 2073.
• passage would have a chilling effect—would you risk your job if you didn’t know who’d rat you out for what?
• the US doesn’t enforce laws equally—never has
https://bsky.app/profile/jessdkant.bsky.social/post/3kgtgxok5gt2t
“we need to take this seriously. in 2018 there were ~20 anti-lgbtq bills, this year, it’s been 300 [march]/425 [april]/537 [june].”
“sure, but thankfully none of this will ever pass. it’s too crazy.”
“some of it already has”
“in bad states, though. but not most!”
“fuck texas. let em rot.”
“aren’t there women & trans people in texas?”
“yeah. i guess. but.”
“but what?”
“they shouldn’t have voted for abbott & cruz & whoever!”
“*they* didn’t”
“yeah, well. play shitty games, win shitty prizes.”
“wtf does that mean here‽”
“…”
Party of limited government-smh
never angrypost, people.
Give us the fuck! We want the fuck!