I wish my regret over life choices was remarkably low like my Trans brothers and sisters out there. Glad we are getting some more facts to combat people’s feelings regarding the Trans community.
If it makes you feel any better it’s really only the handful of choices we don’t regret. Shit like what we major in, where we move, buying a house in ‘07, etc we’re just as regretful as everyone else
I got out of Texas after the anti-abortion laws started going through in 2022. Finding a job in a Blue state was the only thing that made it possible for me…
Its been something I’ve been considering, but also content with job and wouldn’t want to leave friends/family so not seriously considering it now. I’ll worry about it more when things eventually get worse…
The Obama administration did this in his last year in office too, and Trump immediately tossed it. A bandaid is better than nothing, but it’s still a bandaid and it can still be ripped off by the next Republican in office.
If Trump gets voted into office, I think that will be the least of anyone’s problems at this time. The good news is that an extra 4 years will get a lot of people through school
it doesn’t mean its not a priority, however, Trump will do what he needs to stay in power. He’ll empower bigots, he’s been blunt about wanting to be a dictator, and he’ll release criminals who work for him.
He’ll also likely give people guns who shouldn’t have them, and introduce measures which may lead to more mass shootings instead of taking them away.
The last time he was in office, he had a huge effect here in Australia and we’re now dealing with more anti-vax idiots than ever, and more racists.
So yeah. I’d argue that more dead kids is a bigger priority. I’d argue dead kids and trans people (since they’re probably more likely to be targeted), is a bigger concern. It’s actually crazy that such laws are needed in the first place honestly
By the way, I know it doesn’t say much about me, but I actually do a lot of rock climbing, and we actually have a huge LGBTIQ community (which is awesome)
Every single thing you listed will also affect trans people, in addition to the policies that exclusively target trans people.
It is completely unnecessary to minimize the harm caused by anti-trans policies in favor of talking about ‘more important’ problems. People can care about more than one thing at once, and if your right to exist in public was being eroded out from under you that is not the tune you’d be singing.
Let me be crystal clear, I’m not interested in hearing any more about why and what other issues you think are more important than trans youth being forced to attend schools where they can’t safely use the restroom. This is not an invitation to double down. I have had to help too many trans people fleeing conservative states to feel like trans youth who can’t even escape their situation is ‘the least of our problems.’
It is free to not come into a post about bathroom restrictions faced by trans youth and to tell a trans person that trans peoples’ rights to equal bathroom access are the least of our problems if Trump is re-elected.
If you view doing that as being on my side please reevaluate. Or at least stop bothering me about it.
Again, I support Biden’s law. But I believe that blocking this law would only be the start of the crap Trump wants to do.
He’s been pushed into a corner now (and knows he will be locked up forever), and he is using typical Nazi / Dictatorship bullshit to maintain power. And that means being cruel and empowering the kind of people who are dangerous to everyone.
It also means brainwashing gun nuts to believe the election is a scam so they’ll fight for him. And it also helps that he attacks immigrants, the LGBTIQ and other minorities to recruit them.
We’ve seen the consequences even here in Australia from Trump. Banning pronouns and transitioning in schools is simply a tool he uses (one of many) for gaining more power. I believe VERY far. And don’t be surprised if he later steps up the rhetoric way beyond reverting this law.
You need to ask yourself, how far can he go? Blocking Universal Healthcare? Improved access to fully automatic weapons? Banning Abortion nationwide? Or even banning Gay marriage again.
To be blunt though, I’m not responding again, because this is kind of a stupid argument over semantics of what I said lol
Just for reference, scientific inquiry does not “prove facts”. It’s a process of verifying, revising, establishing and communicating the current broad consensus, or lack thereof, within a knowledge domain. It’s not a book of immutable facts that we slowly fill.
Their loss. Move to a state that respects you as a person. A bunch of us moved when our state told queer and trans people to go fuck themselves.
If this is anything like the Lavender Scare of 1954 though, this will backfire spectacularly and end up propelling a whole new movement just like the Lavender Scare did, which led to the gay rights movement. Still is incredibly shitty in the interim, though.
Shitty in the interim for sure, but it’s nice knowing how disruptive it’s getting. I outright tell work places I will not go. I also have brought up the embarrassing but truthful act of needing to look up bathroom laws for places I travel to. A lot of coworkers after meeting me realize just how absurd it’s gotten; and how transphobia affects them even.
I hate having to be the trans representative for so many people, but the fact it’s had a noticeable affect on people’s viewpoints is nice at least.
I have some friends in Florida; one moved there recently in part against his better judgement. He told me I’m welcome to stay with him if I ever were in the area. I had to tell him it’s not only dangerous but outright illegal for me to. I’m not risking a fraud charge for having changed my gender marker.
So yeah. Their loss, and they’re starting to feel it.
It ain’t worth much, but even in those missing states, there’s people that support you, even love you. So, I hope nobody trans ever feels like the whole world is against them, even when it seems like it. Trans rights are human rights, period.
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