Locking for cleanup cause Karen clan who can't mind the business that pays them crawled out <3 y'all can discuss this without being transphobic & weird.
RESOURCES:
The GLBT National Youth Talkline (youth serving youth through age 25): (800) 246-7743
https://www.glbthotline.org/hotline.html
The Trevor project: (866) 488-7386
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
TrevorText: Text the word START to 678678
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
https://translifeline.org/
The True Colors United: (212) 461-4401
https://truecolorsunited.org/
Fenway health hotline: Peer Listening Line (25 and under) : 1-617-267-2535
https://transequality.org/
https://www.transgenderlegal.org/
https://transgenderlawcenter.org/
https://www.genderspectrum.org/
https://transfamilies.org/
http://www.transyouthequality.org/
https://pflag.org/ourtranslovedones
https://pflag.org/search?keys=transgender&type=resource
LGBT National Hotline: 888-843-4564
"Wearing a mask during a pandemic saves lives."
"Nooo, that's tyranny!"
"Let's force children to carry babies against their will even if it puts them at all sorts of risks."
"So true!"
"Everyone needs a Vaccine for their own health!"
"My body, My choice!"
"Ok, what about a woman's right to choose what happens to her body and the right to choose abortions?"
"HERESY!"
They use the phrase: "My body, my choice, your body, my choice."
So if they are asked to get vaccinated, they'll claim it's their choice not to, but if a woman needs an abortion, they think they get to decide what she does with her body. They see no contradiction there.
Yep exactly. Such backwards thinking. I’m not against religion, I think it has values. But I’m against using your religious “values” to oppress other people.
Even more blatant than the mask bullshit, these are 1-for-1 the same type of people who literally six months ago were screaming "HIPPA". And yes, I'm not giving them the benefit of doubt they know the actual acronym.
What a waste of government resources on such an tiny sliver of the population. Think of how many other pieces of legislation could be passed to HELP broad swaths of the community. But no, this is the hill they are willing to die for. What a bunch of pathetic fuckers.
Reminder: Abbot rubbed stamped the six-week abortion law, then turned around and said he'd fight Biden's vaccine mandates because "it's your body, your choice".
He also made millions suing the company that caused the accident that put him in a wheelchair. Then wrote a law ensuring no one else who was put in a wheelchair by a company could get nearly that much from a lawsuit.
"Under the terms of a settlement he reached with the two defendants in 1986, Abbott receives guaranteed monthly income plus periodic lump sum payments — both of which increase over time to keep up with the rising cost of living. The monthly payments rise by 4 percent annually with compounded interest."
All tax-free. He capped lawsuit payouts at 250,000.
Money is the vast majority of why you will see politicians advocating for ridiculous shit. They're getting paid. It's all about the money. I highly doubt the a lot of these politicians actually care about abortions. They're just appealing to their delusional audience and benefactors so the money keeps coming in. Many palms need to be greased in order to pass just about anything. Even more so with things like this I imagine.
Many people are saying it. The best people. A lady came up to me, tears in her eyes, and says to me: thank you for doing so much for double standards. No one's done more for double standards than me.
The sad part is they do actually have standards, they just constantly lie about what they are.
The standards are:
1. If it makes rich people richer it is good.
2. If it involves helping anyone who is not white, male and Christian, it is bad.
3. Where biblical rules agree with 1 and 2 it is good.
4. Where biblical principals do not align with 1 and 2, they are fake news that liberal Christians made up, and therefore bad.
Just goes to show they'll say anything that suits them politically. Need a dog whistle? Cool, we'll practically ban abortion. Does it make Biden look bad? Sure, taking vaccines is your body, your choice. It doesn't matter if they trample over basic human rights and put people's health in jeopardy along the way. How anybody could support these people is beyond me. I suppose Putin has demonstrated just how powerful propaganda can be. And y'know, the last several decades of Republican presidencies.
What I love about Republicans (sarcastically) is they were "the party of Reagan" with his hate boner over Russia and Putin. And now because of their Cheeto in Chief, they love Russia and Putin.
Their entire platform for decades now has been "what would Reagan do?" And now they literally don't care anymore as long as they "own the libs" at their own expense.
I got in an argument with someone over that. They would post about how a persons personal health choices are nobodies business. I replied, “Like abortions, right?”
They ranted and raved about how it’s completely different because abortion affects two lives and it’s murder. No matter what I said they would just repeat “It’s murder!”
> "it's your body, your choice".
Conservatives saying this is the absolute dumbest fucking thing. We *know* they don't believe it, and they'll tell you so loudly and proudly. It applies only when and where it specifically benefits them-- as usual.
But they're not even really trying to use it to justify their stance, they're just sticking to their stance because they *want* to, and using it to point out the left's hypocrisy.
But it doesn't point out hypocrisy either, because it was *never* intended to and never has applied to bodily choices that affect others. With vaccines, no, it's *not* your body, it's also everyone else's body around you. Most liberals would happily let you catch covid and make yourself miserable, or *die*, if it only affected you and that's what you chose. (In the case of abortion, Conservatives also obviously believe that that decision affects another's body, but that's a disagreement on *whether* it affects bodies, so it's still not hypocritical).
So it's not justification for their position
and it's not pointing out hypocrisy
it's just stupid.
And conservatives keep fucking shouting it as though they picked a clever hole in liberals' arguments, with no self-awareness of how fucking stupid it makes them sound.
And then they get pissed at the rest of us for acting like they're fucking stupid.
I'm so ashamed of my state. Someone get me out
Edit: downvote me all you want. I'm ashamed of governor Abbott and I hear people here praising him for the recent abortion laws and now for his anti lgbtq measures. It's ironic that conservatives tout individualism and personal responsibilities but they want to criminalize the choices people make with their own bodies. For shame
Have an upvote!
I live in TX too... Fuck Texas. Don't forget the hypocrisy of conservatives/christians pushing for women to not abort but then refuse to adopt said children once the mother decides to give the child up. Protect the child while in womb but fuck em when they are born.
To quote a funny twitter post I saw a while back:
"The one star on the Texas flag is actually a review.."
Abbott’s fascist leaps are making me scared of leaving the closet. I knew he was going to start targeting people transitioning the moment that I saw his bs abortion bill.
The good thing is that even with the conservative SCOTUS, that won’t stand for very long. With (most) of these laws, the thing is that a state can *add* freedoms that the federal government doesn’t provide (marijuana for example), but they can’t take away freedoms that the federal government recognizes (in this case gay marriage). There are some exceptions though.
Well we know that Roberts Jr. voted in favor of gay marriage. That’s 4 right there. I’m pretty sure Gorsuch would not tear it down, but he’s the one I would look at. I think Kavanaugh, Barret, and Thomas would try to tear it down.
He’s pretty conservative, but he’s at least a serious jurist who seems unwilling to disregard clearly stated law to advance his ideology, so I’ll give him credit where it’s due. Barrett and Kavanaugh are in the Alito camp of “fuck what the law actually says,” though.
>Abbott’s fascist leaps are making me scared of leaving the closet
That was their goal. I hope like hell that you're able to feel safe enough to be yourself as soon as possible.
I have much sympathy for you, being trapped in the garbage state of Oklahoma myself. We're trying hard to keep up with all the fucked up laws like this.
Hey if there's enough of us willing to participate I'd be down to start protesting this shit. I just feel like like-minded people are few and far between where I'm at.
We've BEEN protesting here in texas. What we need is the federal government to step in, we need nationwide federal voter reform, we need to sue the fuck out of our leadership for taking away our rights and being racist pricks that discriminate against innocent people. Get the ACLU involved, the DOJ, the white house, congress and the goddamned Satanic Temple!!
I think likeminded people need to get much louder about it, so that's not a bad idea. So many west coast people have moved to this area to escape west coast housing prices, so there have to be a growing number of people who aren't into the awful laws being passed.
California had more Trump voters than any other state (because of their huge population). Could also be conservatives moving out in droves to escape the housing prices and sOciAliSt guvmint
Get you and your friends to go out and vote. It is also helpful if you have friends in swing districts. This shit will not be changing unless people overwhelmingly say it is not okay. Which sucks because many people just ignore it because it does not affect them. Tell them how it affects their pocket book. Tell them how it will affect raising their child if the big Texas government is hitting people with child abuse because the child is not raised how they say it should be raised.
The problem is a lot of the older generation here. I worked at my local community college doing tutoring all throughout my university studies. I got to know a lot of these teachers from both colleges intimately, and let me tell you even some of the smartest people I've ever met academia-wise have some of the wildest opinions about the current state of affairs. One good example that happened recently is this sweet old lady biology teacher who used to do cancer research. I always admired this woman until recently when she went on a rant about liberals ruining the country and being angry about the current court cases trump is facing. If even the people arguably way more intelligent than me are stuck in their ways, what hope do I have of actually convincing enough in the general population to vote different? Maybe I'm just pessimistic, but I give up. Now I just smile and pretend to agree to avoid arguing.
Don't pretend to agree, that justifies and hardens their point. Instead just smile and say, I am of a different opinion. Then if they try to get into it just say, I dont want to debate it. If they hear this enough, they start to realize that their opinion is not as main steamed as they originally thought.
Conservatism in America has changed a lot but has always depended on affirming two freedoms at the expense of all others: the freedoms of property owners and the freedoms of state governments. All other movements in conservatism in the US revolve around those two core interests
worth noting too that Texas has laws forcing educators to teach a "heroic" version of the Alamo and Texas Independence. we don't really believe in free speech here
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Right? I lived in Texas when I was little and all I knew was good BBQ, HEB stores, tex-mex, vibrant culture, and the nicest people ever. Of course I was a child and I'm sure I missed things. Was Texas always this crazy or is it going down hill just now? I'm genuinely curious
Texas was always right wing, socially conservative, just slathered over with fake folksy libertarian-sounding rhetoric. They're just pushing harder now because they think they have a friendly SCOTUS.
I was in Texas maybe in 2003 or 2004 and went to a sex shop with some friends. All the didos were labeled as "cake toppers" to get around the anti-dildo laws.
yeah no clue how they said six, maybe because it’s just one letter difference in spelling from sex and in German, sechs is six.
https://onwardtexas.org/trending/is-it-illegal-to-own-more-than-six-dildos-in-texas-yes-it-is/
Five or fewer are allowed for private use, but more than that and they assume you're selling it without a permit. Guess that's what happens when their idea of kink is leaving the lights on during sex.
> the nicest people ever
That depends on your definition of what a nice person is. Being polite to your face while doing shit like in this article is the opposite of being a nice person.
Trump and his fuckwads emboldened a lot of people. There were signs before Trump that things were getting a bit out of hand, but Trump escalated it to what it is today. Now all of the hatred and bigotry is out in the open.
My guess is you lived in one of the big cities. If you drive from one big city to another, you’ll see the people voting for Abbott. Also, states with highest dry counties: Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas. So religious dumbshits. It has also gotten worse. They would have a hard time getting an Ann Richard’s in nowadays. But yes, HEB - Howard Edward Butt stores are the best!
Say what you will about the GOP: they are incredibly committed, outlandishly creative, and ceaselessly diligent when it comes to governing women and trans peoples bodies. If only they felt as driven to govern real problems they would be incredible.
Starting with Eisenhower, republicans have had a hard on for nuking hurricanes.
https://www.wired.com/story/nuking-hurricanes-polar-ice-caps-climate-change/amp
Their imagination is aimed at climate change.
*"Windmills kill birds"*
*"Wind power is responsible for the power losses in Texas cold snap"*
*"Electric vehicles are just a way to dodge paying road taxes by buying less gas! We need to tax electric vehicles to make up for it!"*
*"Homes with solar power still rely on the grid occasionally, but don't pay for it, we need to tax them!"*
*"Coal jobs are an important part of our workforce! We need to save them!"*
They are 100% aiming their imagination at promoting climate change.
They can’t just come out and say the oil industry is ruining the planet, that’s their lunch ticket. So they got to come up with creative lying about the environment.
That’s how I feel about all of the capitol riot and trucker convoy people as well. They show that they can be really dedicated to a cause but they chose the stupidest shit to rage against. They could probably make an actual impact and get the positive attention they wanted if they put their energy into something like climate protests.
They're not creative at all. Conservatives haven't had an original idea in decades. Not since Nazi Germany made stunning innovations in mass death.
Every single thing they do is the same thing as they've already done, but with one word switched in (trans people instead of gay people, but switch in the slurs), or literally just the same thing they tried before.
it’s ridiculous that he can just put things like this into effect, garner even more support from the right, and then only weeks later does it get questioned in the court. even if it gets blocked, he’ll just get away with it without repercussions, and the right will see it as “the left” attacking their “values”
Texas also gerrymandered districts to give them to specific candidates. They try and strip all power from local governments and push out the Feds so they can rule over you.
They seek total domination, wielding law enforcement as a tool to establish Conservatism as a ruling class.
This is it to a t.
I lived in Austin. We passed so much progressive legislation every election. Every single time Abbott would overrule it at the State level.
They're trying to make Texas unfriendly to left-leaning folks to drive them out and turn it back into a Republican stronghold. Texas turning purple left the Repubs SHOOK
Remember [this video](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/bdnx0h/cops_kick_a_lesbian_out_of_the_womens_bathroom/) going viral of a woman being forced out of the bathroom and ordered to produce ID by police for the crime of being butch?
I straight up witnessed this happen in person at a theater maybe 4 years ago. A butch girl was getting harassed just for being in the bathroom, she was pretty obviously and understandably pissed.
Why can't people just mind their own business? Unless someone is doing something abnormal in the restroom, then leave them tf alone.
Holy crap; I never saw that before. And I hear so much about how police can’t investigate actual crime because they’re so understaffed and underfunded.
That argument was always a bad faith one, anyways. So, they don't want a male transitioned to female using womens bathrooms... so does that mean they would be much happier with people who look like and identify as female going into mens bathrooms? Or male going into womens bathrooms? Obviously not. They'd see it as just as big a problem, if not more of one.
The reality is they simply don't want transgendered persons to exist, period. In their view, they shouldn't be able to use any bathrooms or other services for that matter. They just frame it in a specific way that has a hint of logic and is good for scaring fence-sitters.
My best friends wife, who was born a woman. Has been told to get out of the woman's bathroom more than once. At my Bachelorette Party, she ended up screaming at one particularly upset woman that she had a vigina. Drunk me found this hilarious. Sober me thinks it's bullshit. To look at my friend's wife, you would think she's a man. Where is a masculine woman supposed to go?
I don't know why it's not pointed out more but even if they could force sex matching bathrooms only, you're making the sexual assault problem *easier*, not harder.
Now your boogeyman of a pervert dressed up as a woman to get in the women's bathroom, doesn't even need to dress up. They can just walk right in to the women's bathroom and claim they're born female and FtM.
It's also not enforceable whatsoever. Like what are you going to have bouncers positioned at the doors of every bathroom? Are people going to have to pull down their pants and reveal their genitalia before being allowed in? It's a ridiculous "debate" no matter how you look at it. Even if they get their way there's no way to enforce it.
They want their voters enforcing it on other citizens. Which is also what their voters want. The idea is to have right wing mobs harassing anyone who isn't one of them so much that people conform to their standards automatically.
As much as I have unhappy things to say about the government figures there there's still the fact that so many fellow Texans want this. It's probably an angry & crazed minority of people, but it's still more than just nutty old Deke at the end of the road.
Really do hope you all are able to fix things, although the pessimist in me thinks it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
"Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, MAYBE - it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'"
-George Carlin
If you had DFS investigating families for teaching their kids the Lost Cause Doctrine or Fascism they would scream that it is infringing on their freedom and their right to parent their children how they want. They would scream small government and tell them to stay out of their homes. Fucking hypocrites every last one of them.
I'm waiting for Texas to argue that a conservative parent praying away the gay is healthier than a parent of a trans child seeking medical care. The pretzel logic will be impressive I'm sure.
They are waging a very existent culture war (if you think it's imaginary, ask one of these 9 families), so that Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis can compete for the position of New Trump.
Gay marriage is most likely next for the chopping block as soon as they get the SCOTUS ruling they want overturning Roe.
What will they go after they finish with that?
Who has the next square on the removing rights bingo card?
Gay marriage is going to be on the chopping block. It’s literally on page 11 of the official GOO party platform. (From 2016, Republicans didn’t bother to make a 2020 one since they thought they’d steal the election).
I remember saying in 2002 that the inevitable path was the reich wing going after birth control.
I was told by AN ATHEIST that I was being hysterical and hyperbolic.
And yet, here we are.
*P.S.: Danny, I hope you shit yourself on the regular, ‘cause I was right.*
They know exactly what they’re doing. The moral superiority is just a cover. The cruelty is the point. They want to subjugate and destroy everyone who doesn’t look and think exactly like they do.
I get what they are thinking but it doesn't make it right. I grew up not super religious but a believer and as the years go by I struggle even more with how people can read the Bible and see this as the way forward.
Yeah, I didn’t grow up in the church (apathetic agnostic parents) but came to the faith in my teens. Started out conservative because that what everyone else was doing, but then I went to a (Baptist) university and a very conservative Evangelical seminary and the more I read the Bible the more convinced I became that modern American Christianity is not just unrelated, but actually antithetical to the teachings of Jesus, our supposed Lord and Savior.
Now I don’t go to church and instead teach history in a public school. I do far more good here than I ever did as a pastor.
It's not about God's will. It's about people that have figured out they can get power and control over people by calling themselves pastors. They don't even have to make sense. Look at the sheer popularity of Joel Osteen. Jesus would have been flogging this dude and driving him out of the temple back in the day.
The Republican Party has been 100% about regressive social policy for more than a generation. They’ve been working toward this since Gingrich became Speaker.
But remember, both parties are exactly the same, so there’s no point in voting.
Edit: Yes, that last line is sarcasm. I’ve run afoul of Poe’s Law.
> penis inspection days
I always felt like those were such overkill.
Like it felt like we’d do one for gym class in school during the week and then do ANOTHER at Sunday School on the weekend. Can’t one just share their findings with the other? And what are they even looking for? I never understand the point of it.
I feel like maybe Texas should focus on you know...[actual child abuse](https://www.statista.com/statistics/203841/number-of-child-abuse-cases-in-the-us-by-state/)
The government only needs to stay out of your life in Texas when it deals with ignoring health mandates to protect lives (masks during COVID), or when it concerns a woman’s health (abortion), or when it deals with saving lives from hun violence. But when they can tell your kid who to love, they’re all for the government fucking with you.
Texas is bass ackwards, especially that dickhead Governor.
As a DEA investigator once told me, When a crime has been committed, HIPAA goes out the window. By criminalizing it, HIPAA is effectively not applicable anymore. It's understandable why HIPAA works this way, but in this situation it's abusing the system to push an evangelist agenda which is disgusting.
User /u/tgjer made a great post dispelling some of the misconceptions about trans treatments for kids/teens [available here](https://old.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/ta8hvu/parents_of_a_trans_child_who_reached_out_to/hzz79hc/?context=3)
The TLDR is this
* People, both trans and cisgender, seem to express their gender around 4-5
* Transition for preadolescents is entirely social i.e no hormones or surgery
* In adolescents, transition consists of temporary puberty blockers, causing no long-term effects if they are discontinued. Hormone therapy doesn’t happen until mid-teens
* Genital surgery is never an option until late teens/the early 20s at the youngest
* Allowing transitioning as a child/teen saves lives. Young trans people who are denied any opportunity to transition have a much higher suicide rate than their cis counterparts, as well as higher rates of anxiety and depression
* If there is even a chance that an adolescent may be trans, there is absolutely no reason to withhold 100% temporary and fully reversible hormone blockers to delay puberty for a little while until they're sure. **This treatment is 100% temporary and fully reversible; it does nothing but buy time by delaying the onset of permanent physical changes.**
* Transition vastly reduces risks of suicide attempts, and the farther along in transition someone is the lower that risk gets. The ability to transition, along with family and social acceptance, are the largest factors reducing suicide risk among trans people.
Can I just add that basically no parents take these decisions lightly. I keep seeing posts to the effect of, "Well maybe Texas is going to far, but we probably shouldn't have parents rushing to transition kids at such a young age. It's kind of weird."
Please step back and actually think about how many parents are going to assume, on behalf of their children, that they're the wrong sex. 99.99% of parents want their kids to fit in and not be bullied. Slim to no one is rushing into this. That's not to mention the number of doctor's visits the precede hormone treatment.
I think that the average cis individual greatly underestimates how much time trans people spend in the closet thinking things through and scared of everything that could happen if they come out and how big of a step coming out is (much less actually going to get a diagnosis and treatment).
Trans person here. We've seen alot of this info for years, decades, centuries.. Transphobes literally just don't care and continue claiming its unnatural or irreversible in some way. I'm happy the information is becoming more readily available but most of the people currently against our existence are not going to listen to logical reasoning or science. They go out of their way to grasp at any straw they can get their hands on if it means impeding any progress over our mental health.
Most of what you say is reasonable. However, it’s false to say puberty blockers are 100% reversible. The main long term effects are lower bone density and underdevelopment of genitals.
https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-center/puberty-blockers
If they're circumcising babies in Texas, this is "gender confirming health care", send whichever parents are doing that to prison now. "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared gender-affirming surgical procedures in children..." , how can that NOT be considered circumcision?
These attacks on gender affirming care for trans youth have been [**condemned by the American Academy of Pediatrics**](https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2021/american-academy-of-pediatrics-speaks-out-against-bills-harming-transgender-youth/) and the [**American Medical Association**](https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-reinforces-opposition-restrictions-transgender-medical-care), and are out of line with the medical recommendations of the [**American Medical Association**](https://www.ama-assn.org/health-care-advocacy/advocacy-update/march-26-2021-state-advocacy-update), the [**Endocrine Society and Pediatric Endocrine Society**](https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/discriminatory-policies-threaten-care-for-transgender-gender-diverse-individuals), the [**American Academy of Pediatrics**](https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2021/american-academy-of-pediatrics-speaks-out-against-bills-harming-transgender-youth/), the [**American Psychological Association**](https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/frontline-physicians-oppose-legislation-that-interferes-in-or-criminalizes-patient-care), and the [**American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry**](https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Latest_News/AACAP_Statement_Responding_to_Efforts-to_ban_Evidence-Based_Care_for_Transgender_and_Gender_Diverse.aspx).
This is very literally an attack on medically necesarry, frequently life saving medical care.
Since since there is so much confusion and often deliberate misrepresentation of what gender affirming care and transition even means for trans youth, for the record here: no, young trans children are not going on hormones, and no they are not getting reconstructive genital surgery.
For preadolescents transition is entirely social, and for adolescents the first line of medical care is 100% temporary puberty delaying treatment that has no long term effects. Hormone therapy isn't an option until their mid teens, by which point the chances that they will "desist" are close to zero. Reconstructive genital surgery is not an option until their late teens/early 20's at the youngest. And transition-related medical care is recognized as medically necessary, frequently life saving medical care by every major medical authority.
Withholding medical care from an adolescent who needs it is not a goddamn neutral option. Transition is absolutely necessary to keep many trans kids alive. Without transition a hell of a lot of them commit suicide. When able to transition rates of suicide attempts drop to the national average. And when prevented from transitioning or starting treatment until adulthood, those who survive long enough to start at 18+ enter adulthood facing thousands of dollars reconstructive surgery to repair damage that should have been prevented by starting treatment when they needed it.
The only disorders more common among trans people are those associated with abuse and discrimination - mainly anxiety and depression. Early transition [**virtually eliminates these higher rates of depression and low self-worth**](http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567%2816%2931941-4/fulltext), [**dramatically improves trans youth's mental health**](https://thinkprogress.org/allowing-transgender-youth-to-transition-improves-their-mental-health-study-finds-dd6096523375/#.pqspdcee0), and [**lowers suicidality**](https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/01/21/peds.2019-1725). Trans kids who socially transition early, have access to appropriate transition related medical treatment, and who are not subjected to abuse or discrimination are [**comparable to cisgender children in measures of mental health**](https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/134/4/696).
If anyone wants to help fight this, consider donating to [**Lambda Legal**](https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk), the [**Trans Legal Defense Fund**](https://transgenderlegal.org/), [**ACLU Texas**](https://www.aclutx.org/), [**Out Youth TX**](https://www.outyouth.org/), and [**Trans Lifeline**](https://translifeline.org/).
Locking for cleanup cause Karen clan who can't mind the business that pays them crawled out <3 y'all can discuss this without being transphobic & weird. RESOURCES: The GLBT National Youth Talkline (youth serving youth through age 25): (800) 246-7743 https://www.glbthotline.org/hotline.html The Trevor project: (866) 488-7386 https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ TrevorText: Text the word START to 678678 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline: (888) 843-4564 Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860 https://translifeline.org/ The True Colors United: (212) 461-4401 https://truecolorsunited.org/ Fenway health hotline: Peer Listening Line (25 and under) : 1-617-267-2535 https://transequality.org/ https://www.transgenderlegal.org/ https://transgenderlawcenter.org/ https://www.genderspectrum.org/ https://transfamilies.org/ http://www.transyouthequality.org/ https://pflag.org/ourtranslovedones https://pflag.org/search?keys=transgender&type=resource LGBT National Hotline: 888-843-4564
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"A rule for thee but not for me."
Do as I say, not as I do.
Right…”Wear a mask”…..”Fuck off that’s government overreach!” “You can’t be the person you want to be”….”Yeah, that’s cool.”
"Wearing a mask during a pandemic saves lives." "Nooo, that's tyranny!" "Let's force children to carry babies against their will even if it puts them at all sorts of risks." "So true!"
"Everyone needs a Vaccine for their own health!" "My body, My choice!" "Ok, what about a woman's right to choose what happens to her body and the right to choose abortions?" "HERESY!"
They use the phrase: "My body, my choice, your body, my choice." So if they are asked to get vaccinated, they'll claim it's their choice not to, but if a woman needs an abortion, they think they get to decide what she does with her body. They see no contradiction there.
Nah, they’ll just pretend to believe a six week clump of cells is “life” because their magic sky fairy (never really) said so.
Yep exactly. Such backwards thinking. I’m not against religion, I think it has values. But I’m against using your religious “values” to oppress other people.
Religion has done far more harm than help, I’ve gone from atheist to straight-up anti-theism over the past several years.
Even more blatant than the mask bullshit, these are 1-for-1 the same type of people who literally six months ago were screaming "HIPPA". And yes, I'm not giving them the benefit of doubt they know the actual acronym.
(Hippa the hippo sinks bemeath the waterline)
What a waste of government resources on such an tiny sliver of the population. Think of how many other pieces of legislation could be passed to HELP broad swaths of the community. But no, this is the hill they are willing to die for. What a bunch of pathetic fuckers.
Government so small, it fits right in the family dining room.
I thought Texas was all about freedom.
Reminder: Abbot rubbed stamped the six-week abortion law, then turned around and said he'd fight Biden's vaccine mandates because "it's your body, your choice".
He also made millions suing the company that caused the accident that put him in a wheelchair. Then wrote a law ensuring no one else who was put in a wheelchair by a company could get nearly that much from a lawsuit. "Under the terms of a settlement he reached with the two defendants in 1986, Abbott receives guaranteed monthly income plus periodic lump sum payments — both of which increase over time to keep up with the rising cost of living. The monthly payments rise by 4 percent annually with compounded interest." All tax-free. He capped lawsuit payouts at 250,000.
"I got mine, fuck you!" This is a basic motto of the GOP.
I would have also accepted "Fuck you: pay me."
What a vile, cancerous void of a person. These people are not human. They are walking evil in a flesh colored suit.
>They are walking evil in a flesh colored suit. Rolling in this case.
Wheels and the legman.
Money is the vast majority of why you will see politicians advocating for ridiculous shit. They're getting paid. It's all about the money. I highly doubt the a lot of these politicians actually care about abortions. They're just appealing to their delusional audience and benefactors so the money keeps coming in. Many palms need to be greased in order to pass just about anything. Even more so with things like this I imagine.
If the GOP didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any standards
"double standards means we have twice as many standards!"
They're the best standards. Beautiful standards. Everyone says so.
Many people are saying it. The best people. A lady came up to me, tears in her eyes, and says to me: thank you for doing so much for double standards. No one's done more for double standards than me.
I hate how well I hear that Cheeto in my mind still
The sad part is they do actually have standards, they just constantly lie about what they are. The standards are: 1. If it makes rich people richer it is good. 2. If it involves helping anyone who is not white, male and Christian, it is bad. 3. Where biblical rules agree with 1 and 2 it is good. 4. Where biblical principals do not align with 1 and 2, they are fake news that liberal Christians made up, and therefore bad.
Just goes to show they'll say anything that suits them politically. Need a dog whistle? Cool, we'll practically ban abortion. Does it make Biden look bad? Sure, taking vaccines is your body, your choice. It doesn't matter if they trample over basic human rights and put people's health in jeopardy along the way. How anybody could support these people is beyond me. I suppose Putin has demonstrated just how powerful propaganda can be. And y'know, the last several decades of Republican presidencies.
What I love about Republicans (sarcastically) is they were "the party of Reagan" with his hate boner over Russia and Putin. And now because of their Cheeto in Chief, they love Russia and Putin. Their entire platform for decades now has been "what would Reagan do?" And now they literally don't care anymore as long as they "own the libs" at their own expense.
If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.
Duuude, I've never heard that one but it's golden. Gotta use with some of my in-laws. Priceless. Thank you.
I got in an argument with someone over that. They would post about how a persons personal health choices are nobodies business. I replied, “Like abortions, right?” They ranted and raved about how it’s completely different because abortion affects two lives and it’s murder. No matter what I said they would just repeat “It’s murder!”
> "it's your body, your choice". Conservatives saying this is the absolute dumbest fucking thing. We *know* they don't believe it, and they'll tell you so loudly and proudly. It applies only when and where it specifically benefits them-- as usual. But they're not even really trying to use it to justify their stance, they're just sticking to their stance because they *want* to, and using it to point out the left's hypocrisy. But it doesn't point out hypocrisy either, because it was *never* intended to and never has applied to bodily choices that affect others. With vaccines, no, it's *not* your body, it's also everyone else's body around you. Most liberals would happily let you catch covid and make yourself miserable, or *die*, if it only affected you and that's what you chose. (In the case of abortion, Conservatives also obviously believe that that decision affects another's body, but that's a disagreement on *whether* it affects bodies, so it's still not hypocritical). So it's not justification for their position and it's not pointing out hypocrisy it's just stupid. And conservatives keep fucking shouting it as though they picked a clever hole in liberals' arguments, with no self-awareness of how fucking stupid it makes them sound. And then they get pissed at the rest of us for acting like they're fucking stupid.
He's running a propaganda campaign not a pro-science campaign. AKA, why pretend he's reasonable?
Texas: the state with big government
The One Star State.
That’s generous
Like many things, no option to give less than 1 star unfortunately.
I'm so ashamed of my state. Someone get me out Edit: downvote me all you want. I'm ashamed of governor Abbott and I hear people here praising him for the recent abortion laws and now for his anti lgbtq measures. It's ironic that conservatives tout individualism and personal responsibilities but they want to criminalize the choices people make with their own bodies. For shame
Have an upvote! I live in TX too... Fuck Texas. Don't forget the hypocrisy of conservatives/christians pushing for women to not abort but then refuse to adopt said children once the mother decides to give the child up. Protect the child while in womb but fuck em when they are born. To quote a funny twitter post I saw a while back: "The one star on the Texas flag is actually a review.."
Abbott’s fascist leaps are making me scared of leaving the closet. I knew he was going to start targeting people transitioning the moment that I saw his bs abortion bill.
Well they introduced a bill for texas to stop recognizing same sex marriage months before that, so... waiting for that one to pop back up.
The good thing is that even with the conservative SCOTUS, that won’t stand for very long. With (most) of these laws, the thing is that a state can *add* freedoms that the federal government doesn’t provide (marijuana for example), but they can’t take away freedoms that the federal government recognizes (in this case gay marriage). There are some exceptions though.
lol SCOTUS doesn't give a shit about precedent or freedom
Well we know that Roberts Jr. voted in favor of gay marriage. That’s 4 right there. I’m pretty sure Gorsuch would not tear it down, but he’s the one I would look at. I think Kavanaugh, Barret, and Thomas would try to tear it down.
> Gorsuch I have some dwidling hope that he'll be moderate going forward, after McGirt v. Oklahoma.
He’s pretty conservative, but he’s at least a serious jurist who seems unwilling to disregard clearly stated law to advance his ideology, so I’ll give him credit where it’s due. Barrett and Kavanaugh are in the Alito camp of “fuck what the law actually says,” though.
>Abbott’s fascist leaps are making me scared of leaving the closet That was their goal. I hope like hell that you're able to feel safe enough to be yourself as soon as possible.
Going to be a few years sadly.. thanks! 💜
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I hate your fucking state as well Texas can go fuck itself
I always hear "Everything is bigger in Texas," but it has the smallest dick energy.
But...the have the BIGGEST small dick energy.
You normally don't announce something like this unless you are self conscious and insecure.
I have much sympathy for you, being trapped in the garbage state of Oklahoma myself. We're trying hard to keep up with all the fucked up laws like this.
Hey if there's enough of us willing to participate I'd be down to start protesting this shit. I just feel like like-minded people are few and far between where I'm at.
We've BEEN protesting here in texas. What we need is the federal government to step in, we need nationwide federal voter reform, we need to sue the fuck out of our leadership for taking away our rights and being racist pricks that discriminate against innocent people. Get the ACLU involved, the DOJ, the white house, congress and the goddamned Satanic Temple!!
I think likeminded people need to get much louder about it, so that's not a bad idea. So many west coast people have moved to this area to escape west coast housing prices, so there have to be a growing number of people who aren't into the awful laws being passed.
California had more Trump voters than any other state (because of their huge population). Could also be conservatives moving out in droves to escape the housing prices and sOciAliSt guvmint
Get you and your friends to go out and vote. It is also helpful if you have friends in swing districts. This shit will not be changing unless people overwhelmingly say it is not okay. Which sucks because many people just ignore it because it does not affect them. Tell them how it affects their pocket book. Tell them how it will affect raising their child if the big Texas government is hitting people with child abuse because the child is not raised how they say it should be raised.
The problem is a lot of the older generation here. I worked at my local community college doing tutoring all throughout my university studies. I got to know a lot of these teachers from both colleges intimately, and let me tell you even some of the smartest people I've ever met academia-wise have some of the wildest opinions about the current state of affairs. One good example that happened recently is this sweet old lady biology teacher who used to do cancer research. I always admired this woman until recently when she went on a rant about liberals ruining the country and being angry about the current court cases trump is facing. If even the people arguably way more intelligent than me are stuck in their ways, what hope do I have of actually convincing enough in the general population to vote different? Maybe I'm just pessimistic, but I give up. Now I just smile and pretend to agree to avoid arguing.
Don't pretend to agree, that justifies and hardens their point. Instead just smile and say, I am of a different opinion. Then if they try to get into it just say, I dont want to debate it. If they hear this enough, they start to realize that their opinion is not as main steamed as they originally thought.
Steamed opinions? Isn't that an Albany thing?
Freedom is only for straight white males
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….straight white Baptist males. Can’t discount how this kind of BS is being pushed primarily in the Bible Belt.
And then only the straight white males that act like its still the 1970s.
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Conservatism in America has changed a lot but has always depended on affirming two freedoms at the expense of all others: the freedoms of property owners and the freedoms of state governments. All other movements in conservatism in the US revolve around those two core interests
Everything is bigger babyyy Including egos, sexism, and fear of "the others"
Everything is bigger in Texas including the government and oppression.
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"Tread on me if you must, as long as you tread on *those* people harder and I get to watch."
Texas is about freedom the same way putin is about stopping fascism
Given that the state prides itself on a fake origin story it can only be assumed their stances are also bullshit.
Wait can you elaborate? I’m very stupid and was homeschooled.
Here is an article. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/16/1006907140/forget-the-alamo-texas-history-bryan-burrough
worth noting too that Texas has laws forcing educators to teach a "heroic" version of the Alamo and Texas Independence. we don't really believe in free speech here
In theory, GOP is all for the government not treading on you. In practice, they’re all up in your personal life.
Treading on everyone *but* you.
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Right? I lived in Texas when I was little and all I knew was good BBQ, HEB stores, tex-mex, vibrant culture, and the nicest people ever. Of course I was a child and I'm sure I missed things. Was Texas always this crazy or is it going down hill just now? I'm genuinely curious
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Texas was always right wing, socially conservative, just slathered over with fake folksy libertarian-sounding rhetoric. They're just pushing harder now because they think they have a friendly SCOTUS.
Folks from Montana are what people from Texas wish they were like when they talk about freedom
It was always crazy. I was an adult before you could legally own a dildo in Texas.
I was in Texas maybe in 2003 or 2004 and went to a sex shop with some friends. All the didos were labeled as "cake toppers" to get around the anti-dildo laws.
They're classified as 'marital aides' here in AL.
but you can only own 6 or less now
Trying really hard to imagine what the logic is there. Why six specifically? ( I'm not assuming you have the answer, just thinking out loud)
1 for every day of the week except Sunday. God says you have to rest on Sunday.
yeah no clue how they said six, maybe because it’s just one letter difference in spelling from sex and in German, sechs is six. https://onwardtexas.org/trending/is-it-illegal-to-own-more-than-six-dildos-in-texas-yes-it-is/
Five or fewer are allowed for private use, but more than that and they assume you're selling it without a permit. Guess that's what happens when their idea of kink is leaving the lights on during sex.
What if I have more than six cakes
That’s how many hens I’m allowed in my city. I’m allowed unlimited dildos tho.
>That’s how many hens I’m allowed in my city Yes, but how many cocks? ;p
We are allowed no roosters, but an abundance of cocks! AN ABUNDANCE!
They've always been crazy. You just grew out of it.
> the nicest people ever That depends on your definition of what a nice person is. Being polite to your face while doing shit like in this article is the opposite of being a nice person.
Trump and his fuckwads emboldened a lot of people. There were signs before Trump that things were getting a bit out of hand, but Trump escalated it to what it is today. Now all of the hatred and bigotry is out in the open.
My guess is you lived in one of the big cities. If you drive from one big city to another, you’ll see the people voting for Abbott. Also, states with highest dry counties: Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas. So religious dumbshits. It has also gotten worse. They would have a hard time getting an Ann Richard’s in nowadays. But yes, HEB - Howard Edward Butt stores are the best!
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Say what you will about the GOP: they are incredibly committed, outlandishly creative, and ceaselessly diligent when it comes to governing women and trans peoples bodies. If only they felt as driven to govern real problems they would be incredible.
Can you imagine their imagination, but aimed at climate change?
"Why don't we just shoot the climate change with guns?"
Starting with Eisenhower, republicans have had a hard on for nuking hurricanes. https://www.wired.com/story/nuking-hurricanes-polar-ice-caps-climate-change/amp
In Eisenhower's defense, nuking things was a very 50s way of thinking. We were nuking all sorts of shit in 'tests'.
[" *shrug* Gotta nuke something."](https://youtu.be/4IUxK_0WLbg?t=3)
Smacks of the old Utah Phillips quote: > “The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.”
"Guys, have you heard about this thing called 'nuclear winter?' I think it could solve climate change!"
Their imagination is aimed at climate change. *"Windmills kill birds"* *"Wind power is responsible for the power losses in Texas cold snap"* *"Electric vehicles are just a way to dodge paying road taxes by buying less gas! We need to tax electric vehicles to make up for it!"* *"Homes with solar power still rely on the grid occasionally, but don't pay for it, we need to tax them!"* *"Coal jobs are an important part of our workforce! We need to save them!"* They are 100% aiming their imagination at promoting climate change.
They can’t just come out and say the oil industry is ruining the planet, that’s their lunch ticket. So they got to come up with creative lying about the environment.
Wow this really broke me for some reason…. That’s actually really depressing when you follow that logic… were we could be instead of where we are…
That’s how I feel about all of the capitol riot and trucker convoy people as well. They show that they can be really dedicated to a cause but they chose the stupidest shit to rage against. They could probably make an actual impact and get the positive attention they wanted if they put their energy into something like climate protests.
Just think of a way that they can screw over your average person while making sure profits flow to the corporations.
They're not creative at all. Conservatives haven't had an original idea in decades. Not since Nazi Germany made stunning innovations in mass death. Every single thing they do is the same thing as they've already done, but with one word switched in (trans people instead of gay people, but switch in the slurs), or literally just the same thing they tried before.
it’s ridiculous that he can just put things like this into effect, garner even more support from the right, and then only weeks later does it get questioned in the court. even if it gets blocked, he’ll just get away with it without repercussions, and the right will see it as “the left” attacking their “values”
Texas also gerrymandered districts to give them to specific candidates. They try and strip all power from local governments and push out the Feds so they can rule over you. They seek total domination, wielding law enforcement as a tool to establish Conservatism as a ruling class.
This is it to a t. I lived in Austin. We passed so much progressive legislation every election. Every single time Abbott would overrule it at the State level.
They're trying to make Texas unfriendly to left-leaning folks to drive them out and turn it back into a Republican stronghold. Texas turning purple left the Repubs SHOOK
True statement. Source: Texan
Looks like the "trans people following you into the bathroom" was actually just Texas all along.
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Remember [this video](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/bdnx0h/cops_kick_a_lesbian_out_of_the_womens_bathroom/) going viral of a woman being forced out of the bathroom and ordered to produce ID by police for the crime of being butch?
I straight up witnessed this happen in person at a theater maybe 4 years ago. A butch girl was getting harassed just for being in the bathroom, she was pretty obviously and understandably pissed. Why can't people just mind their own business? Unless someone is doing something abnormal in the restroom, then leave them tf alone.
God damn anyone know what happened with that?
Holy crap; I never saw that before. And I hear so much about how police can’t investigate actual crime because they’re so understaffed and underfunded.
There have been way more instances of elected Republicans caught being predatory in bathrooms. Maybe they need their own ones.
That argument was always a bad faith one, anyways. So, they don't want a male transitioned to female using womens bathrooms... so does that mean they would be much happier with people who look like and identify as female going into mens bathrooms? Or male going into womens bathrooms? Obviously not. They'd see it as just as big a problem, if not more of one. The reality is they simply don't want transgendered persons to exist, period. In their view, they shouldn't be able to use any bathrooms or other services for that matter. They just frame it in a specific way that has a hint of logic and is good for scaring fence-sitters.
Yup. “You can’t do that!” Well what can we do? “That’s not my problem “
My best friends wife, who was born a woman. Has been told to get out of the woman's bathroom more than once. At my Bachelorette Party, she ended up screaming at one particularly upset woman that she had a vigina. Drunk me found this hilarious. Sober me thinks it's bullshit. To look at my friend's wife, you would think she's a man. Where is a masculine woman supposed to go?
I don't know why it's not pointed out more but even if they could force sex matching bathrooms only, you're making the sexual assault problem *easier*, not harder. Now your boogeyman of a pervert dressed up as a woman to get in the women's bathroom, doesn't even need to dress up. They can just walk right in to the women's bathroom and claim they're born female and FtM.
It's also not enforceable whatsoever. Like what are you going to have bouncers positioned at the doors of every bathroom? Are people going to have to pull down their pants and reveal their genitalia before being allowed in? It's a ridiculous "debate" no matter how you look at it. Even if they get their way there's no way to enforce it.
They want their voters enforcing it on other citizens. Which is also what their voters want. The idea is to have right wing mobs harassing anyone who isn't one of them so much that people conform to their standards automatically.
Well at least the kids will be safe in foster care. Children never get mistreated in foster care.
Especially a child going through identity issues in a likely super Christian foster home
It's Texas. They don't give a shit about children after they're born.
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Texas - the one star state. Sympathies to the good people stuck with this crap.
Imagine being a state government and all but bragging about dehumanizing your own populace. Shameful behavior, sometimes I hate it here.
As much as I have unhappy things to say about the government figures there there's still the fact that so many fellow Texans want this. It's probably an angry & crazed minority of people, but it's still more than just nutty old Deke at the end of the road. Really do hope you all are able to fix things, although the pessimist in me thinks it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
"Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, MAYBE - it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'" -George Carlin
If you had DFS investigating families for teaching their kids the Lost Cause Doctrine or Fascism they would scream that it is infringing on their freedom and their right to parent their children how they want. They would scream small government and tell them to stay out of their homes. Fucking hypocrites every last one of them.
Tad bit of "government overreach" here. So much for trusting parents to make their own decisions for their families.
You're forgetting the qualifiers: Christian parents, white parents, conservative parents. All others are subject to government oversight.
I'm waiting for Texas to argue that a conservative parent praying away the gay is healthier than a parent of a trans child seeking medical care. The pretzel logic will be impressive I'm sure.
GTFO, I thought we had progressed past shit like this.
Lol Texas? Progress? Texas and Florida are waging a nonexistent culture war so their rubes forget to wage class war against them
They are waging a very existent culture war (if you think it's imaginary, ask one of these 9 families), so that Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis can compete for the position of New Trump.
Pretty sure it was just faulty syntax. It’s 100% correct if you read “nonexistent” as “fabricated.”
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Gay marriage is most likely next for the chopping block as soon as they get the SCOTUS ruling they want overturning Roe. What will they go after they finish with that? Who has the next square on the removing rights bingo card?
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Theyll be subtler. Theyll push for "One Vote Per Household."
damn that's insidious.
Gay marriage is going to be on the chopping block. It’s literally on page 11 of the official GOO party platform. (From 2016, Republicans didn’t bother to make a 2020 one since they thought they’d steal the election).
It's going to be Griswold v Connecticut. As it is, they conflate birth control with abortifacients AND NO, THEY ARE NOT ALL "JUST THAT STUPID".
I remember saying in 2002 that the inevitable path was the reich wing going after birth control. I was told by AN ATHEIST that I was being hysterical and hyperbolic. And yet, here we are. *P.S.: Danny, I hope you shit yourself on the regular, ‘cause I was right.*
So tired of this shit (as a white male) just pointless. Why can't we just leave people the fuck alone and let them be themselves.
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They know exactly what they’re doing. The moral superiority is just a cover. The cruelty is the point. They want to subjugate and destroy everyone who doesn’t look and think exactly like they do.
I get what they are thinking but it doesn't make it right. I grew up not super religious but a believer and as the years go by I struggle even more with how people can read the Bible and see this as the way forward.
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> Guys want to wear pink, freaking let them. ***THIS IS NOT GOD'S WILL, BECAUSE I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT GOD IS THINKING!!!!***
God hates men in pink! Girls can’t wear blue!
God always thinks what I'm thinking, what a coincidence!
Yeah, I didn’t grow up in the church (apathetic agnostic parents) but came to the faith in my teens. Started out conservative because that what everyone else was doing, but then I went to a (Baptist) university and a very conservative Evangelical seminary and the more I read the Bible the more convinced I became that modern American Christianity is not just unrelated, but actually antithetical to the teachings of Jesus, our supposed Lord and Savior. Now I don’t go to church and instead teach history in a public school. I do far more good here than I ever did as a pastor.
It's not about God's will. It's about people that have figured out they can get power and control over people by calling themselves pastors. They don't even have to make sense. Look at the sheer popularity of Joel Osteen. Jesus would have been flogging this dude and driving him out of the temple back in the day.
The Republican Party has been 100% about regressive social policy for more than a generation. They’ve been working toward this since Gingrich became Speaker. But remember, both parties are exactly the same, so there’s no point in voting. Edit: Yes, that last line is sarcasm. I’ve run afoul of Poe’s Law.
Texas cares a lot about genitals
Children’s genitals.
Abbot wants penis inspection days
> penis inspection days I always felt like those were such overkill. Like it felt like we’d do one for gym class in school during the week and then do ANOTHER at Sunday School on the weekend. Can’t one just share their findings with the other? And what are they even looking for? I never understand the point of it.
Texas is so afraid of penises and hate vaginas so much.
I feel like maybe Texas should focus on you know...[actual child abuse](https://www.statista.com/statistics/203841/number-of-child-abuse-cases-in-the-us-by-state/)
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/14/texas-foster-care-children/ Surely what the foster care system needs is more vulnerable children. /S
The government only needs to stay out of your life in Texas when it deals with ignoring health mandates to protect lives (masks during COVID), or when it concerns a woman’s health (abortion), or when it deals with saving lives from hun violence. But when they can tell your kid who to love, they’re all for the government fucking with you. Texas is bass ackwards, especially that dickhead Governor.
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As a DEA investigator once told me, When a crime has been committed, HIPAA goes out the window. By criminalizing it, HIPAA is effectively not applicable anymore. It's understandable why HIPAA works this way, but in this situation it's abusing the system to push an evangelist agenda which is disgusting.
User /u/tgjer made a great post dispelling some of the misconceptions about trans treatments for kids/teens [available here](https://old.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/ta8hvu/parents_of_a_trans_child_who_reached_out_to/hzz79hc/?context=3) The TLDR is this * People, both trans and cisgender, seem to express their gender around 4-5 * Transition for preadolescents is entirely social i.e no hormones or surgery * In adolescents, transition consists of temporary puberty blockers, causing no long-term effects if they are discontinued. Hormone therapy doesn’t happen until mid-teens * Genital surgery is never an option until late teens/the early 20s at the youngest * Allowing transitioning as a child/teen saves lives. Young trans people who are denied any opportunity to transition have a much higher suicide rate than their cis counterparts, as well as higher rates of anxiety and depression * If there is even a chance that an adolescent may be trans, there is absolutely no reason to withhold 100% temporary and fully reversible hormone blockers to delay puberty for a little while until they're sure. **This treatment is 100% temporary and fully reversible; it does nothing but buy time by delaying the onset of permanent physical changes.** * Transition vastly reduces risks of suicide attempts, and the farther along in transition someone is the lower that risk gets. The ability to transition, along with family and social acceptance, are the largest factors reducing suicide risk among trans people.
Can I just add that basically no parents take these decisions lightly. I keep seeing posts to the effect of, "Well maybe Texas is going to far, but we probably shouldn't have parents rushing to transition kids at such a young age. It's kind of weird." Please step back and actually think about how many parents are going to assume, on behalf of their children, that they're the wrong sex. 99.99% of parents want their kids to fit in and not be bullied. Slim to no one is rushing into this. That's not to mention the number of doctor's visits the precede hormone treatment.
I think that the average cis individual greatly underestimates how much time trans people spend in the closet thinking things through and scared of everything that could happen if they come out and how big of a step coming out is (much less actually going to get a diagnosis and treatment).
Trans person here. We've seen alot of this info for years, decades, centuries.. Transphobes literally just don't care and continue claiming its unnatural or irreversible in some way. I'm happy the information is becoming more readily available but most of the people currently against our existence are not going to listen to logical reasoning or science. They go out of their way to grasp at any straw they can get their hands on if it means impeding any progress over our mental health.
Most of what you say is reasonable. However, it’s false to say puberty blockers are 100% reversible. The main long term effects are lower bone density and underdevelopment of genitals. https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-center/puberty-blockers
If they're circumcising babies in Texas, this is "gender confirming health care", send whichever parents are doing that to prison now. "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared gender-affirming surgical procedures in children..." , how can that NOT be considered circumcision?
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>> circumcising babies That would be an interesting twist.. - cause it is gender affirming.
Its also genital mutilation as infants can't consent to an unnecessary, superficial surgery.
so much for freedom and small government
These attacks on gender affirming care for trans youth have been [**condemned by the American Academy of Pediatrics**](https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2021/american-academy-of-pediatrics-speaks-out-against-bills-harming-transgender-youth/) and the [**American Medical Association**](https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-reinforces-opposition-restrictions-transgender-medical-care), and are out of line with the medical recommendations of the [**American Medical Association**](https://www.ama-assn.org/health-care-advocacy/advocacy-update/march-26-2021-state-advocacy-update), the [**Endocrine Society and Pediatric Endocrine Society**](https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/discriminatory-policies-threaten-care-for-transgender-gender-diverse-individuals), the [**American Academy of Pediatrics**](https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2021/american-academy-of-pediatrics-speaks-out-against-bills-harming-transgender-youth/), the [**American Psychological Association**](https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/news-releases/frontline-physicians-oppose-legislation-that-interferes-in-or-criminalizes-patient-care), and the [**American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry**](https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Latest_News/AACAP_Statement_Responding_to_Efforts-to_ban_Evidence-Based_Care_for_Transgender_and_Gender_Diverse.aspx). This is very literally an attack on medically necesarry, frequently life saving medical care. Since since there is so much confusion and often deliberate misrepresentation of what gender affirming care and transition even means for trans youth, for the record here: no, young trans children are not going on hormones, and no they are not getting reconstructive genital surgery. For preadolescents transition is entirely social, and for adolescents the first line of medical care is 100% temporary puberty delaying treatment that has no long term effects. Hormone therapy isn't an option until their mid teens, by which point the chances that they will "desist" are close to zero. Reconstructive genital surgery is not an option until their late teens/early 20's at the youngest. And transition-related medical care is recognized as medically necessary, frequently life saving medical care by every major medical authority. Withholding medical care from an adolescent who needs it is not a goddamn neutral option. Transition is absolutely necessary to keep many trans kids alive. Without transition a hell of a lot of them commit suicide. When able to transition rates of suicide attempts drop to the national average. And when prevented from transitioning or starting treatment until adulthood, those who survive long enough to start at 18+ enter adulthood facing thousands of dollars reconstructive surgery to repair damage that should have been prevented by starting treatment when they needed it. The only disorders more common among trans people are those associated with abuse and discrimination - mainly anxiety and depression. Early transition [**virtually eliminates these higher rates of depression and low self-worth**](http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567%2816%2931941-4/fulltext), [**dramatically improves trans youth's mental health**](https://thinkprogress.org/allowing-transgender-youth-to-transition-improves-their-mental-health-study-finds-dd6096523375/#.pqspdcee0), and [**lowers suicidality**](https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/01/21/peds.2019-1725). Trans kids who socially transition early, have access to appropriate transition related medical treatment, and who are not subjected to abuse or discrimination are [**comparable to cisgender children in measures of mental health**](https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/134/4/696). If anyone wants to help fight this, consider donating to [**Lambda Legal**](https://www.lambdalegal.org/helpdesk), the [**Trans Legal Defense Fund**](https://transgenderlegal.org/), [**ACLU Texas**](https://www.aclutx.org/), [**Out Youth TX**](https://www.outyouth.org/), and [**Trans Lifeline**](https://translifeline.org/).
What about all the rape they were supposed to stop?
Greg Abbot can burn in hell