i know some cis folks on here are at least kinda aware it’s bad right now for trans people in america, but sometimes it’s worth calling y’all back to 2016 when a single “transsexuals have to use the wrong bathrooms” bill cost north carolina the nba all-star game & $400 million.
this is normal now.
this is normal now.
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gwen howerton
NEW - Texas Rep. Tom Oliverson has filed HB 3817, which would make it fraud to identify as a gender different from the one assigned at birth.
While it stands little chance of passing, it fits into a wider narrative that casts being trans as deceptive and fraudulent:
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
While it stands little chance of passing, it fits into a wider narrative that casts being trans as deceptive and fraudulent:
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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That's how you criminalize an entire population, jail them, torture them, and kill them.
Do TX legislators ever write bills that help people, or are they like the MAGA Congress, investigating interpersonal bullshit gripes and creating DOGE as an official dept without protecting their prerogatives on, say, Ukraine spending?
They're currently working to re-criminalize hemp in TX, something literally no demographic wants here. Pretty sure R voters are over 60% opposed to it. But it's gonna happen.
I sadly saw this shit coming from a long ways away. Looking those sycophants smug looks as I told my story... it was always about control and cruelty
https://readalberta.ca/articles/drag-queen-storytime/
it also matters that this is being pitched & it won’t cost anyone anything. that’s real real bad!
it was never about sports or peeing. this is normal conversation now. look at what one bathroom bill cost them then.
“adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual's sex conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one's personal life.”
America doesn't approve of all the sadism. 30% does. The rest doesn't know.
It's tricky bc I know people who've deliberately tuned out to "maintain their peace." If you're not paying attn you don't know.
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A teacher told me a lot of what she reads/hears/watches is contorted by spin from both sides, so.
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Lady who doesn't think critically believes she's going above & beyond here. Her takeaway right now is "they all do it, I don't know who's lying, I don't like all the anger, I don't want to know about it." It's demoralizing.
His own sister had to testify to how he terrorized at least one of this throwaway wives. Honorable?
The white men who confirmed him were bemused . . . what did he do wrong?
“a man's assertion that he is a woman, & his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with…humility & selflessness.”
1 bathroom ban cost $400m & a governorship.
“all trans people are inherently deceitful & criminal” costs nothing now.
there will be many more dead trans people before this is over unless a lot of cis folks quit saying “this is a distraction” & decide to stand with us.