I just saw Trump’s latest executive order targeting trans kids and shutting down their health care. I’m asking all of us to stand up with one voice for the trans community.
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Thank you. We can all be there for each other. This is what America is all about. We cannot let Elon Musks and a few billionaires’ hate make these kids a target.
We all came together to build this country. We came together to fight COVID. Let’s do it again
Of course. People expressing their true gender identities is not scary. I support and celebrate anything that holistically improves the human experience. My counter to MAGA is DB - Do Better. Or WCDB but that does not exactly roll off the tongue. :)
Thank you, Rep. This EO conflicts with gender affirming care recommendations by America’s major medical and mental health care organizations and with Vermont state law and our state constitution. Denying affirming healthcare will kill many trans Vermonters. Terrifying for parents and trans kids.
Thank you for being outraged! I am thankful you are now our representative (we moved here to avoid this exact issue). Please don’t stop shouting for us and our kids. We need every voice. 🏳️⚧️
Thank you so much for your advocacy. You’re the first official I’ve seen making this statement and it means so much to know you’re fighting for our families.
Democrats in Congress, under the leadership of Schumer (Senate) and the Pelosi/Jeffries cabal (House), don't inspire confidence that they oppose Trump.
The plan seems to be to allow Trump to do so much damage that Trump creates an organic, unstoppable backlash to Trump.
Thank you for coming out and saying this, Representative Balint. I hope your fellow Representatives listen and that you all do as much as you can to fight for us. We won't forget your support.
We did. We overturned his military trans ban and fought off/overturned most of the 500+ anti-LGBTQ bills/yr the GOP introduced - only about 50 passed and in heavily conservative areas. But losing SCOTUS to hold up this protection is the most damaging, which is exactly what we warned about in 2016.
Democrats seem to owe the people--especially those at risk of being harmed by Trump policies--explanations of what progress the Democrats made "defusing" the risk of Trump & Trumpism while Biden was POTUS.
Thank you for standing up for transgender children. You’re one of the good ones unlike my dem rep who voted for transgender children of military families to lose their health care. ありがとうございます。
If they treat kids this way, I hope it extends to adults. Outlaw masectomies for manboobs and viagra for limp dicks. If there's going to be oppressive draconian laws, let them oppress old men too. Or else leave trans kids alone!
Thank you for speaking up. Trans Americans are terrified right now because there simply aren't enough of us to have any power or voice. We need you to help speak for us, and loudly say that transphobia is unacceptable
I'd also encourage you to make the case to the public that attacks on trans people are rooted in religion. This is the edge of an effort to codify christofascist notions of gender. It's trans people today, but it will be the length of your hair tomorrow
thank you so so much. we’re really truly just trying to live our lives here. and we deserve the care that medical establishments agree is life-saving for us.
As the mother of a trans adult, 18-year-old. I beg you to fight against this. My child would be dead right now if I had not been able to obtain the gender affirming health care and mental health care that he needed.
Democrats represent 75 million voters who voted against what's happening right now. Why aren't they stepping up to act like it?
And how can people outside of the US get involved? We don't have representatives to call, but we want to use our voices, not just our fundraising, to help.
This is critically important!!! We must defend Trans people and their right to live their truth.
Also, can we call out the seriously creepy obsession so many republicans have with the genitals of strangers *and children*?
This is sick.
Fortunately, they are not mutually exclusive. I have watched Rep. Balint defend trans kids in congress, and I am thankful she is also here responding with her thoughts. In a time where we have little political power, educating and mobilizing power from the bottom up is important.
That said, please Representative, fight back with everything you’ve got politically and legislatively and through the courts. How can we support you and stand with you? What else can we do? What can we do to stand with AG Clark?
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1939 'Aktion T4' "Euthanasia Order" for those gathered with mental and physical disabilities-1945
#mentalhealthawareness #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #disabilityawareness https://youtu.be/wNVmql6urhk?si=3TPe_sVgPW5PiImi
Every person should be protected. WE THE PEOPLE
What angers me is that people voted for him not in spite of but specifically because they knew this would happen, and they wanted it.
It's time we get mad and fight back. It's time we stand up for the trans community. This is more than an abstract argument on human rights. This is a danger to them.
If you want to know how miserable this makes young people's lives, just ask any trans person who suffered growing up without gender affirming care because it wasn't a thing.
Fox purposefully doesn’t invite/allow them on very often because that would expose Fox’s constant lies and propaganda to their audience. They rarely have ANY experts on (because they’ll correct Fox’s lies), which is why they’re an entertainment channel, not a news channel.
And there are so many more "variations" that happen. I'm so fucking tired of fighting for the right to freaking exist. It shouldn't matter if there's scientific, physical or mental "alignment" the fact is WE FUCKING EXIST!!
Allowing racists to advance policy by executive order and then expecting Congress to countermand by legislation (which can be thwarted by a small number of white people) is a view of the US Government that is biased & unfair.
Much of the evil proposed by Trump, eg ending birthright citizenship, could not navigate the processes under the US Constitution.
We should not accept executive orders that are illegal and couldn't navigate the processes in the US Constitution, under law & in compliance with court rulings.
I see what you’re saying and how it connects with ending birthright citizenship but I’m concerned this same response doesn’t hold up for ending federal funding for hospitals that provide healthcare for trans youth. Do you see an argument that the constitution protects this access?
Take every news spot you get. Make soundbites. Call them fucking amateurs. Call them pervy little creeps. Also admit some Dems and newsmedia are spineless and corrupt, and that needs to change too. Get it out there, be that person.
My teen and I just got home and I opened my phone and saw this. Now I have to go tell her to check on her trans friends. This Vermonter thanks you for standing up for trans kids, but damn these are dark days.
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8 days into this regime, our country is in a deep, and rapidly deepening constitutional crisis. DO something Democrat Party. DO something now. I beseech u!
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We all came together to build this country. We came together to fight COVID. Let’s do it again
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!
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The plan seems to be to allow Trump to do so much damage that Trump creates an organic, unstoppable backlash to Trump.
Signed,
Mama of a 24-year-old trans kid and good friend of a hilarious trans human who is Grace to my Frankie💜✨
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Centuries of Whyte cowardice, fence-sitting, centrism, etc brought us here
Look at ur own life & stop bolstering pillars of whyte supremacy: chrischanity, gender binary, patriarchy, & capitalism
You’ll roll your eyes at this… cuz u still don’t see ur role
Thank you for speaking up. Trans Americans are terrified right now because there simply aren't enough of us to have any power or voice. We need you to help speak for us, and loudly say that transphobia is unacceptable
And how can people outside of the US get involved? We don't have representatives to call, but we want to use our voices, not just our fundraising, to help.
Also, can we call out the seriously creepy obsession so many republicans have with the genitals of strangers *and children*?
This is sick.
1939 'Aktion T4' "Euthanasia Order" for those gathered with mental and physical disabilities-1945
#mentalhealthawareness #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #disabilityawareness
https://youtu.be/wNVmql6urhk?si=3TPe_sVgPW5PiImi
Every person should be protected. WE THE PEOPLE
It's time we get mad and fight back. It's time we stand up for the trans community. This is more than an abstract argument on human rights. This is a danger to them.
Disgusting creatures they all are.
I want all of them to suffer the consequences and backlash so much, they leave with handcuffs.
And, not every politician has the ability to go on Right Wing media and win the argument.
We should no accept attacks on human rights as being legitimate.
We should not accept executive orders that are illegal and couldn't navigate the processes in the US Constitution, under law & in compliance with court rulings.
We are counting on you all! Now is not the time for silence. We need you to LOUDLY FIGHT.
US Rep Becca Balint D-VT #VT00.
(I use spread sheets, so don’t use #VTAL)
Use my many best researched “by NP”feeds, lists, & starterpacks, to find your Dem Colleagues to follow them, to grow BlueSky platform for future Dem heavy use.
How long until American citizens are applying for political asylum?