Likely emboldened by their success with the recent anti-abortion bill, Texas has introduced a bill which would criminalize helping trans kids transition. It goes so far as to actively pull trans youth from puberty blockers, and effectively force them to detransition against their will by making it illegal to give them hormones. As if to hammer home exactly who it is targeting, the bill makes one exception, that being kids born as intersex, who will continue to be allowed to access the treatment being actively denied to trans youth.
What the fuck. The cruelty here is unbelievable. Make no mistake, this will kill trans kids. There will be deaths caused by this if it passes. If you know any trans folks living in Texas, make an active effort to lend them your support. I fear this is just the beginning of a new legal assault on trans rights in this country.
My heart is filled with rage and sorrow from this. I will never stop being infuriated by how our society treats trans folks. Solidarity forever, and I hope every single person who votes in favor of this bill catches COVID and dies choking on their own lungs.
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Let’s pretend you can judge a state by economic and social factors (I know that’s PCM bullshit, but let’s just use it for now). Social policy in California is legitimately better than much of the country. And not just policy, but in the actual attitudes of people. Honestly I would suggest CA is among the more socially tolerant places on earth.
On the economic side, obviously the state buys into neoliberal imperialist capitalism. But taxes are relatively progressive and there actual is a modicum of social welfare here.
Of course it’s still just as rooted in settler colonialism as any other state. But I think it’s way too reductive to just say all states in the US are equally bad.
Subjectively, I moved from the Midwest to CA. I think socio-politically, things are better here materially.
Where do homeless people fit into this equation? From what I’ve seen, the average Californian is about 10x as likely to want to do homeless genocide as someone from like Oklahoma or whatever.
My personal experience is the exact opposite. Damn near everyone in my hometown just wants homeless people to disappear and don’t care how it happens. There is one person who runs a homeless shelter there and while he certainly is flawed, he at least just wants to see homeless folks treated like humans. He’s seen by libs and conservatives alike as public enemy #1.
A lot of people in CA feel the same way but a large number want actually help homeless folks - they see it as a social problem to solve, not just some annoyance they want to just go away.
