The GOP’s coordinated national campaign against trans rights, explained

[j brown's body]

"...transgender rights are facing a fresh wave of attacks in Republican-controlled state legislatures. Though many of the bills being proposed will never become law, they serve a practical purpose for Republicans. Whether or not they are enacted, they allow conservative state legislatures to perform opposition to the “woke left” and ensure evangelical voters show up to vote — even after the religious right achieved its decades-long goal of overturning Roe v. Wade last year. A recent report from Mother Jones showed that leading religious-right organizations are playing a prominent role in creating and promoting the bills.

The political debate is escalating at a volatile time. Trans Americans are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime than their cisgender peers, according to a 2021 study. Trans youth, who have been the primary focus of anti-trans legislation this year, are experiencing a mental health crisis: A 2022 survey by the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention group focused on LGBTQ youth, found that 86 percent of trans or nonbinary youth reported negative effects on their mental health stemming from the political debate around trans issues, and nearly half had seriously considered suicide in the past year.

Among the most stringent proposals introduced this year is one that has advanced through the Oklahoma Senate, which would prevent health care facilities or individual providers that receive public funds, including those located on public land, from administering gendering-affirming care. It would also bar insurance companies from covering that care. ...In recent years, dozens of states have introduced bills that make it harder for people to change their gender information on state identification cards, driver’s licenses, and documents like birth certificates. These laws are currently in effect in Tennessee, Kansas, Ohio, and Oklahoma. Such bills have been introduced in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Texas, and Virginia but failed.

Republicans have introduced and passed a number of bills that prevent trans students from participating in activities like sports and censure talk about LGBTQ people and issues. Some of the bills even force teachers to out their students.'

Link

I remember the Republicans using opposition to gays to drum up Christian nationalist voters back in 2004.

 

[JRTurner]

They think this will save them from the abortion fiasco. They've definitely changed the national dialogue on sexual rights in the United States.

 

[tshade]

"...transgender rights are facing a fresh wave of attacks in Republican-controlled state legislatures. Though many of the bills being proposed will never become law, they serve a practical purpose for Republicans. Whether or not they are enacted, they allow conservative state legislatures to perform opposition to the “woke left” and ensure evangelical voters show up to vote — even after the religious right achieved its decades-long goal of overturning Roe v. Wade last year. A recent report from Mother Jones showed that leading religious-right organizations are playing a prominent role in creating and promoting the bills.

The political debate is escalating at a volatile time. Trans Americans are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime than their cisgender peers, according to a 2021 study. Trans youth, who have been the primary focus of anti-trans legislation this year, are experiencing a mental health crisis: A 2022 survey by the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention group focused on LGBTQ youth, found that 86 percent of trans or nonbinary youth reported negative effects on their mental health stemming from the political debate around trans issues, and nearly half had seriously considered suicide in the past year.

Among the most stringent proposals introduced this year is one that has advanced through the Oklahoma Senate, which would prevent health care facilities or individual providers that receive public funds, including those located on public land, from administering gendering-affirming care. It would also bar insurance companies from covering that care. ...In recent years, dozens of states have introduced bills that make it harder for people to change their gender information on state identification cards, driver’s licenses, and documents like birth certificates. These laws are currently in effect in Tennessee, Kansas, Ohio, and Oklahoma. Such bills have been introduced in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Texas, and Virginia but failed.

Republicans have introduced and passed a number of bills that prevent trans students from participating in activities like sports and censure talk about LGBTQ people and issues. Some of the bills even force teachers to out their students.'

Link

I remember the Republicans using opposition to gays to drum up Christian nationalist voters back in 2004.

Just substitute "transgender rights" with "Jewish rights" and the argument flows just as smoothly. The 1930s Nazi Germany here in America starting all over again. And people say the holocaust can't happen again......

 

[Lisa]

Ohio has made it difficult/imposssible to change the gender on a persons birth certificate for a very long time. This isn't new. All they will do is to staple a note that the person has gender surger and now apears to be male or female. They will not reissue a changed BC to reflect the actual truth. Its a way to pander to the religious right.

 

[tshade]

Ohio has made it difficult/imposssible to change the gender on a persons birth certificate for a very long time. This isn't new. All they will do is to staple a note that the person has gender surger and now apears to be male or female. They will not reissue a changed BC to reflect the actual truth. Its a way to pander to the religious right.

Ohio is moving up in the "Stupid State Contest" and becoming a perennial powerhouse. Congrats to all you Buckeyes !! Great achievement....

 

[Lisa]

Ohio is moving up in the "Stupid State Contest" and becoming a perennial powerhouse. Congrats to all you Buckeyes !! Great achievement....

Its quickly becoming North Alabama because of Republican politicans.

 

[Chillfolks]

Ohio has made it difficult/imposssible to change the gender on a persons birth certificate for a very long time. This isn't new. All they will do is to staple a note that the person has gender surger and now apears to be male or female. They will not reissue a changed BC to reflect the actual truth. Its a way to pander to the religious right.

Pandering is thinking cutting off your pecker is what makes you a woman

 

[Lisa]

Pandering is thinking cutting off your pecker is what makes you a woman

1.) Its not cut off.

2.) They are already psychologically female and this is the current limit of what medical science can do.

3.) If you have a better idea to effectively treat gender dysphoria there are hundreds of Drs and psychologists who would love to hear about it.

4.) Why do you claim to be a progressive when its obvious that you are not?

 

[Liberal7360]

Ohio is moving up in the "Stupid State Contest" and becoming a perennial powerhouse. Congrats to all you Buckeyes !! Great achievement....

The reason for this is that in the bush boy years, a lot of those who aren't far right moved out of the state.

My ex is from Ohio. Most of his family is there.

All but 2 of his friends moved out of the state in the bush boy years. All of them saying they escaped. Yes they used that word. Escaped.

A friend told me that the far right had taken over her AA and NA groups. She is a social worker. She couldn't believe what was happening and couldn't stop it.

At the time all of them were telling me that most people were leaving the state. Not all but enough so that now, yes, the state doesn't look anything like it did before the bush boy.

It was a campaign in those years and they succeeded.

 

[Chillfolks]

1.) Its not cut off.

2.) They are already psychologically female and this is the current limit of what medical science can do.

3.) If you have a better idea to effectively treat gender dysphoria there are hundreds of Drs and psychologists who would love to hear about it.

4.) Why do you claim to be a progressive when its obvious that you are not?

Why do you call them women when they are not?

Maybe it’s time to have a third option for people who are one sex and wish to pretend they are a different one in their life.

 

[Questerr]

Why do you call them women when they are not?

Maybe it’s time to have a third option for people who are one sex and wish to pretend they are a different one in their life.

Do you think gender and sex are the same thing?

 

[Liberal7360]

Pandering is thinking cutting off your pecker is what makes you a woman

There is a hormone wash that goes over the fetus's brain a couple times in gestation.

If the fetus is female it is supposed to get estrogen in those washes.

If it's male it's supposed to get testosterone in those washes.

Transgender people received the wrong wash on their brains during gestation. They have the brain of the opposite sex of their body.

They are and have been since birth, the opposite sex no matter if their penis is removed or not.

By the way, all human life on this planet starts out female. No woman has male eggs. It's the male sperm that contains the Y chromosome that causes the female egg to become male. In fact, all men have a small vagina inside their penis.

 

[mrjurrs]

"...transgender rights are facing a fresh wave of attacks in Republican-controlled state legislatures. Though many of the bills being proposed will never become law, they serve a practical purpose for Republicans. Whether or not they are enacted, they allow conservative state legislatures to perform opposition to the “woke left” and ensure evangelical voters show up to vote — even after the religious right achieved its decades-long goal of overturning Roe v. Wade last year. A recent report from Mother Jones showed that leading religious-right organizations are playing a prominent role in creating and promoting the bills.

The political debate is escalating at a volatile time. Trans Americans are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime than their cisgender peers, according to a 2021 study. Trans youth, who have been the primary focus of anti-trans legislation this year, are experiencing a mental health crisis: A 2022 survey by the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention group focused on LGBTQ youth, found that 86 percent of trans or nonbinary youth reported negative effects on their mental health stemming from the political debate around trans issues, and nearly half had seriously considered suicide in the past year.

Among the most stringent proposals introduced this year is one that has advanced through the Oklahoma Senate, which would prevent health care facilities or individual providers that receive public funds, including those located on public land, from administering gendering-affirming care. It would also bar insurance companies from covering that care. ...In recent years, dozens of states have introduced bills that make it harder for people to change their gender information on state identification cards, driver’s licenses, and documents like birth certificates. These laws are currently in effect in Tennessee, Kansas, Ohio, and Oklahoma. Such bills have been introduced in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Texas, and Virginia but failed.

Republicans have introduced and passed a number of bills that prevent trans students from participating in activities like sports and censure talk about LGBTQ people and issues. Some of the bills even force teachers to out their students.'

Link

I remember the Republicans using opposition to gays to drum up Christian nationalist voters back in 2004.

 

[Lisa]

Why do you call them women when they are not?

Maybe it’s time to have a third option for people who are one sex and wish to pretend they are a different one in their life.

Maybe you should understand what psychological gender identity and then gender dysphoria is instead of blaming me. Trans people are not pretending anything.

 

[Chillfolks]

Do you think gender and sex are the same thing?

Actually no. I think one should be used for official records and buisness, and the other can be used when you are not.

 

[Chillfolks]

Maybe you should understand what psychological gender identity and then gender dysphoria is instead of blaming me. Trans people are not pretending anything.

You have your opinion.

 

[Questerr]

Actually no. I think one should be used for official records and buisness, and the other can be used when you are not.

So why did you conflate them in that post?

 

[Questerr]

You have your opinion.

It’s not an opinion. It’s the current scientific consensus.

There’s no real academic difference between anti-trans people and anti-vaxxers, or even Flat Earthers.

 

[Chillfolks]

So why did you conflate them in that post?

To see if I can get an asshole to ask a question

 

[Chillfolks]

It’s not an opinion. It’s the current scientific consensus.

There’s no real academic difference between anti-trans people and anti-vaxxers, or even Flat Earthers.

Cool man

 

[Fletch]

1.) Its not cut off.

2.) They are already psychologically female and this is the current limit of what medical science can do.

3.) If you have a better idea to effectively treat gender dysphoria there are hundreds of Drs and psychologists who would love to hear about it.

4.) Why do you claim to be a progressive when its obvious that you are not?

Its biology that makes a person male or female, not psychology.

 

[Questerr]

Its biology that makes a person male or female, not psychology.

Male and female are sex, not gender.

Psychology DOES determine gender.

 

[Fletch]

Male and female are sex, not gender.

Psychology DOES determine gender.

You can pretend to be whatever you like, but sex is what is listed on a birth certificate and what is determined by biology.

 

[Questerr]

You can pretend to be whatever you like, but sex is what is listed on a birth certificate and what is determined by biology.

Science is pretend? What other parts of science do you reject because they don’t match your bigotry?

 

[BirdinHand]

Why do you call them women when they are not?

Maybe it’s time to have a third option for people who are one sex and wish to pretend they are a different one in their life.

What does it matter?

If person X identifies as a woman and wants to live their life as a woman - how, specifically, does that impact you in any way, shape or form?
If person X identifies as a woman and wants to live their life as a woman - how difficult is it to refer to them as a woman?

Is it THAT hard? I mean, really. Is it too much to ask that you refer to a person by the name and pronouns that they request?