#Texas trans bill

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Critics are saying a new bill introduced into the Texas Legislature this year will only encourage a bounty-hunting trend that targets drag queens and transgender people. Texas state GOP Rep. Steve Toth filed House Bill 4378 on Thursday, March 9 that will allow anyone in Texas to sue people who perform in drag or host a drag performance where children are present.

The bill targets events like family-friendly brunch shows at restaurants or drag queen story time events at libraries or other family-oriented drag queen events. The bill says that people who sue a person or venue can be awarded $5,000 in damages.

Erin Reed, a transgender rights activist and independent reporter, tweeted about HB 4378 on Saturday, March 11, saying that the piece of legislation could easily be used to target transgender people who perform.

The bill defines drag as "a performance in which a performer exhibits a gender that is different than the performer’s gender recorded at birth." It goes on to say this performance can involve using makeup and clothing to dance, lip sync, or perform "in a lascivious manner."

The bill joins 17 other proposed pieces of Texas legislation that targets transgender people, drag queens, and the LGBTQ+ community. The Advocate reported in November 2022 that Texas legislators have proposed anti-LGBTQ+ bills for the upcoming legislative session. This now includes HB 4378 and the recent heterosexual tax cut bill from state Rep. Bryan Slaton.

That proposed bill would provide massive tax cuts, up to 100%, for straight families that stay married and have children. Slaton also pushed a bill that would have outlawed minors at drag shows.

[horrorvillaintourney]

ok. Bonus round.

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

In case y'all haven't seen this yet, here is a powerful testimony from Loren Perkins, a trans person in Texas:

I don't know the pronouns nor gender for this person, so please use they/them and gender neutral terminology to be respectful 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[shinobicyrus]

Florida’s House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would let the state take transgender minors away from their families if they are receiving gender-affirming care.

The measure passed by a vote of 82–31. A previous version of the bill passed the Senate earlier this month by a vote of 27–12, and the amended version now goes back to the other chamber for a final vote. Governor Ron DeSantis has previously expressed support for the bill and will likely sign it into law if it passes.

Pride Parades in Florida are being cancelled. The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law has been expanded to encompass all of K-12 education, abandoning its flimsy “it’s just protecting kindergartners!” pretext.

New bills are being passed to punish private businesses for having gender-inclusive bathrooms, remove trans healthcare from Medicare, and bring criminal charges for medical providers that give gender-affirming care. Now this travesty of a bill on the fast-track to becoming law will empower the state to tear kids away from their supportive families.

This is evil. I do not use this word lightly, but when the state is twisting the very serious legal definitions of harm and abuse in order to kidnap trans children from their loving families - or to remove children from their trans parents - more subdued language is dishonest. 

Burn Florida to the fucking ground. 

[big-boah-2]

They outlawed drag in Texas this week. "In front of children" in public AND private places.

(Which as everyone knows will be used selectively.)

I ain't here for politics. But that makes a lot of us trannies... OUTLAWS. I've never felt so alive!!!

[lovingly-lightbulbs]

https://translegislation.com/bills/2023/TX

Here is a (possibly incomplete) list of all the anti-trans bills currently active in Texas.

A few examples:

TX HB1155: Prohibits public schools from having queer content in their K-8 curriculum

TX HB2659: Gives public school employees "protection" against inclusivity policies implemented by their school district

TX SB2281: Prohibits "erotic performances" (i.e., drag) from happening in the presence of minors or on public property

TX HB4534: Prohibits teachers from helping a student socially transition

TX SB1443: Bans queer content in public school libraries

TX SCR3: Bans all gender-affirming care

There's a lot more. None have passed yet, but I'm sure a few will.

I'm angry. I'm scared. There's not much more to say.

[hurgablurg]

Pinned

* Update Aug. 2023: Damn, existential conflict has hands. Jesus Christ. Search the “right wing degeneracy” tag on this here blog to see more of this shit, if you can stomach it for the sake of education and fuelling your rage. It’s called what it is because right wingers have degenerated so far from the human condition and it’s most basic tenets of empathy and compassion that they barely qualify as human. And that is an objective fact.

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There’s so much shit going on, it can be impossible to focus on and be angry about it all. Hopefully this personal archive/list of previous pinned stuff can help feed fuel to the fire. If you can, take action.

“Actionable” and “Complainable” are within the context of the sphere of influence of an average North American. Awareness is merely step one.

Actionable:

Petition e-4286 - Canadian proposal to give asylum to transgender people threatened by violence in their country of residence. Canada, for all it’s own cruelties, has previously been a comparatively safe-haven for marginalized people, and can be once again. So called “western democracies” fall to the degeneracy of fascism and right-wing politics, and there are vulnerable people to evacuate. The petition is accepting signatures until May 26, 2023, at 9:33 a.m. (EDT). The form won’t accept my email for some ungodly reason, so the best I can do is share and promote it before the deadline.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268

Oklahoma Antitrans Bills - Oklahoma is putting forward a bill that would force anyone under age 26 to “medically detransition” as well as banning and felonizing the act of providing gender affirming medical care, along with a back-up bill calling for the same, but targettign anyone under the age of 21 . This is not for any observable purpose beyond causing pain and suffering. The people responsible for this bill and others like it have names and home addresses.

https://legiscan.com/OK/bill/SB129/2023 | https://legiscan.com/OK/bill/HB1011/2023

Other US States are also trying this bullshit, Texas is just going full hog on banning care for anyone.

https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HB1029/2023 

https://19thnews.org/2023/01/trans-health-care-bills-2023-legislative-session-lgbtq/

PLUS the distilled shit in Florida - https://www.tumblr.com/socialistexan/710890023939096576/i-feel-like-us-conservatives-went-from-a-34-to-7?source=share

AND Texas’s proposed Bill to classify anyone with a Y chromosome as “male”, which takes biological existentialism past even it’s own already-insane limits. https://www.tumblr.com/spacelazarwolf/709351697217175552/reminder-that-the-sex-on-your-birth-certificate?source=share

AND Florida is just trying to straight up let the state kidnap your children. I don’t know what they’ll do with them, but considering that a LOT of Floridan politicians were good friends with Epstein...

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254

Stop Cop City - Pigs and a bunch of corporate allies are trying to build a city-sized training facility for cops with the explicit intention of teaching them how to wage urban warfare against protesters and, I predict, “undesirables”, destroying an entire forest to do so, like some kind of cartoon villain. They’ve already killed someone, a forest defender named Tortuguita, claiming he shot one of the officers despite evidence contradicting that narrative, showing that it was friendly fire, and the buddyfuckers have refused to publish secondary body cam footage of what happened (not that it’s ever led to consequences for them before), let alone punish themselves. While the best and most effective action is to paint the streets with their blood until they acquiesce and turn tail, one not far behind that more people would be comfortable with is too scare their corporate cocksuckers enough that they pull out of the project, inflicting financial damage. Cowardly maybe, but I’d like activists be alive rather than not, though we all might not have any choice soon.

https://www.tumblr.com/effectiveresistance/709715348803452928

Update: Scratch the peaceful part - brick a cop, save lives.

https://www.tumblr.com/effectiveresistance/711200228209049600?source=share

And if you can, and if they try to bulldoze it, make some noise.

Don’t Say Gay Bill and Successor Attempts - You know it, you hate it, it’s the right wing trying to erase even the VERBIAGE of non-cishet people existing, this time in Indiana!

https://www.tumblr.com/pinelo/709805436447129600/reblog-if-you-see-this?source=share | https://action.aclu.org/send-message/in-dont-say-gay

If you can’t sign the petition, look for one more local! Or throw a brick into the back of the head of a rightoid. Every little bit helps.

Arizona Hotline Counterattack - Arizona has recently set up a hotline and email where “concerned parents” can report “critical race theory” and “gender expression” in the classroom. Makes them suffer! It’s free and easy to do!

Libraries at risk! Digital archivism is in danger. The Internet Archive is being sued by digital publishers to set a standard for digital rights and the avilability of knowledge. Digital publishers are baby-rage levels of mad at local, physical libraries for digitizing their already-paid-for collections and bypassing rental fees from said digital publishers, but know that suing a public library would be a PR nightmare, so they have instead joined together to sue an “acceptable” target - the Internet Archive in this case - intending to use the case to establish laws that affect all libraries and public institutions of the archival sort. The courts have decided, but the internet Archive has submitted an appeal to a higher court, and with support and enough noise, can have that ruling overturned in favour of the public. Give the petition a sign!

Jackson Mississippi is being held hostage. The city MUST be liberated, water restored, and the state’s control of them usurped.

Iowa and Mississippi Propose Bills to Ban Gay Marriage. It’s painful to remember that some leftists really thought the conservatives would only stop at “one kind” of “degenerate”, and that they were somehow safe from further persecution, as if the Maginot Line could ever fail once it was built, as if battle lines could only ever move forward or stay still.

Iowa and Mississippi (<- links to the individual bills and their authors) have both had republican politicians cosign and propose bills that would take human rights in their states back by years, citing “nature’s god” and other tin-foil-wearing hokery as their justification. Protest them, bombard them, threaten them, beat them, end them, whatever needs to be done to keep these rightoid, regressive degenerates from doing more harm.

Mi’kmaq Land Claim - The Mi’kmaq people of the east coast have put forth a land claim to a large chunk of New Brunswick, not to assert dominion or supplant current residents or governments (no change like that can even happen these days) but to secure the sanctity and security of both their unceded land (which currently sits in the hands of the government as crown land) and the ways in which that land is to be used. Show them some support!

Texas Is No Longer Trying to Hide the Swastikas - https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HB20/2023 . Texas republicans are aligning to make it legal for “citizen militias” to police the border for “immigrants”, with the secret inclusion of also allowing them to police POLLING STATIONS. They aren’t even being subtle about it, they are just having armed brownshirt degenerates waving guns in peoples faces to keep them from voting. Americans, if you can, either bomb these senator’s phones, or bomb their houses. They have names and addresses.

Do Not Let The Evangelicals Win. Do Not Give Them An Inch

29/04/23 The fucking Earn It Act is back, and once again we need to beat this hydra’s head with a burning club.

Complainable:

Iran Protests - Human rights and freedom of expression are at risk in Iran, and people are sick of it! The people rise up and protest, first back in September, and intermittently since, most recently from writing, this February 19th weekend. As heroes clash with fascist and theocrats, the “government” still holds tens of thousands captive, suffering rape and torture, and at threat of execution. There are 227 politicians to “hold accountable” for this abuse.

https://www.tumblr.com/hurgablurg/700422628522049536/what-does-it-fucking-matter-if-my-finances-are-a?source=share

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The war on humanity is one of attrition, a war upon the soul, seeking to break spirit and inspire hopelessly, waged against us by ghoulish old men and sycophantic hypocrites. Only through action can we break their stranglehold and put an end to their abuse. Showing these fiends mercy is tolerating intolerance itself.

Rip Tortuguita.

RIP Brianna Ghey

RIP Ajike Owens

Health to Ralph Yarl.

RIP Nahel

[panicfable]

chop top from 2022

[bozoclowncake]

If it was about protecting children, you would be more concerned with the abundance of pedophiles that make up your political parties' leaders.

[sonicunleash]

It's so funny i leave for like an hour and let one post saying nothing more than "slurs are called slurs because they are words that are used by our oppressors derogatorily and harmfully and you should be considerate when using them around our lgbt siblings" have reblogs on and im getting anon asks calling me a terf and saying im siding with our oppressors. lol we are not making it

[thatheathen]

Yay more fascism! 👉🏻 HB4129

[tanuki1029]

Aw beans

That's my number ;w;

Also help any way you can. I know these are happening in every state but also I'm scared donate to Kind Clinic/Texas Health Action they do good work https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/texas-health-action

[real-life-cephalopod]

I am so so so so devastated. I cannot believe my state allowed bill 14 to pass. this will kill so many trans children and there has been almost no publicity surrounding it. i didnt even find out about it until today, the day AFTER it passed. it’s too late to stop it. my trans friends are already discussing moving and buying bulk hormones in other states. and we are all privileged enough to be able to move, or find other ways to get medication, or out of state healthcare. very few trans texas children have that. i don’t know what to do. it feels like my world is collapsing around me and no one cares. i haven’t seen a single social media post addressing it, i haven’t seen it on the news, i haven’t heard of protesting and rioting. just silence.

[bumblebeeappletree]

‘The sheer amount of bills designed specifically to hurt me … means that I do not get to rest’ — As state legislators across the U.S. push for a slew of anti-trans bills, non-binary activist Indigo Giles is stepping up to put a face to the issue.

Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation focused on transgender youth were introduced by state legislators nationwide. These bills target an array of issues from sports bans to outlawing gender-affirming health care. Following the defeat of over a dozen anti-trans bills in Texas, Gov. Abbot and Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents of trans kids under claims of child abuse. Trans youth, their families, and allies are fighting back.

Indigo Giles is a non-binary student and activist at the University of Texas at Austin. They began their public advocacy during the 2021 legislative session. Giles was motivated to speak out on behalf of trans friends and youth who were too afraid or vulnerable to advocate for themselves. Giles was inspired by their parents, Mandy and Neil, who are allies and fellow activists. The Giles are one of many Texas families speaking out and advocating for trans youth rights. Their fight is long and challenging, but they are showing no signs of faltering.

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[feralfens]

fascism is a disaster and thus disaster pack up and go charts can be used in such situations

[thatstormygeek]

This is so fucked.