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.
Twitter thread talking about this
I feel the most evergreen quote in American history is appropriate here:
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood.
There are trans people in Texas who are stealth, completely live as their gender, 15 years old… who under this bill, in front of their friends and classmates, will develop a deep voice, facial hair, etc. after living their lives as their gender.
This makes me want to cry.
:amerikkka: :amerikkka: :amerikkka:
Edit: Also we need a :texas-cool: emote
Death to Texas. We need a burning Texas flag.
One thing positive about CA is how solid and actually free their MediCal health coverage is. It saved my life and also my brother who had leukemia. Without it things would be so much worse for millions of people. Lots of bad things about California but it really is one of the best states. Not that the bar is very high tho
I think what a lot of people don’t realize is that despite being a rich neolib state California probably has the highest chance of being an actually nice place to live (minus the water thing, LOL) if the US ever balkanizes because the social attitudes here are much less backwards than the rest of the US. I remember my white boomer music theory professor who grew up here say that the rest of the US is like a completely different country in terms of social attitudes such that he could not stand living in Boston for the time that he did. Guy is in his 70’s so he is probably an outlier in many ways but the diversity here tends to serve as a bulwark against brainworms. It’s difficult to become an outright blood and soil fascist when all of your friends growing up were minorities, and back during both Bernie campaigns there were was Bernie shit EVERYWHERE
I like to maintain the hope that there will be enough people on the precipice here that they radicalize into unironic communism and be able to sufficiently push back on the large right wing in this state. It doesn’t really help the right here that they can’t go full 1488 because there are more non white people than there is Aryans so a lot of their program hinges on being able to court Gusanos
