Texas Republicans will make Anti-Transgender a part of the parties platform

[Guest LesleyAnne]

Well a little while ago at the Texas Republican Convention, the Dip Stick Governor Greg Abbott joined by Dan Patrick the Lt. Governor declared their solidarity with North Carolina, and they announced that anti-transgender will be part of the upcoming Republican platform, and you could hear the delegates and attendees give cheers and applause.

They announced this to the press, and a packed house in Dallas.

Also the desire secede reared its ugly head again.

I actually hope that they try, and succeed. Then we can build a wall around them close the borders, restrict trade, no more federal aid, no military support.....too bad the U.S. wouldn't allow it. LOL

One can dream.

[Jani]

I guess this is far more important than Jobs, Border Security and other pressing issues of the day. Well, Texas was never on the leading edge.

Jani

[Guest Mia J]

Just shows them as the bullies and haters they are. If they could do the same thing against blacks and Hispanics and get away with it they would.

Mia

[Charlize]

And this is the issue that will make the south rise again? Bozos.....but i guess you have to hang that big hat on something.

Hugs,

Charlize

[Guest Lizzie McTrucker]

History is not going to be kind to them.

[Guest LesleyAnne]

You are so correct Lizzie,

History will record the lack of compassion, and understanding these so called leaders have shown the world.

[Guest]

So were they going to become a prosperous reservation??? Everything is big in Texas? Mainly their political grommet.

[JJ]

As the saying goes in Texas these boys are all hat and no cattle.

When you have nothing to back it up talk big

Johnny

[Tejana]

Hhmmm....Certainly this a thread containing much vitriol, which I certainly understand. For many decades, from childhood onward, I could best be characterized as a liberal democrat, considerably left-of-center on the political spectrum. I learned to play politics the way of that party, dirty-with-no-holds-barred; winning was the only path forward way, regardless of cost. Over the decades things though, things seemed to change. I don't think I did (i.e., at least politically-speaking ) The voices on the left somehow seemed to become more & more shrill, more radically extreme, and...to be honest, just kinda crazier than I ever remembered. I remember discussing my perceptions with the only Republican I knew well, an African-American woman, whose family had been Republican since the time of Lincoln. [ I used to tease her about being a Republican. [After all, absolutely no one in our profession wouId ever admit to being a member of that party.] During our interactions, she told me that she once heard Ronald Reagan state that he had not left the the Democratic Party, instead the Democratic Party had left him. Within a few years I became a card-carrying member of the Republican Party.

I have voted Republican for a number of years now. I voted for Mr. Cruz, Mr. Abbot, Mr. Patrick, and Mr. Paxton when they ran for their current political offices. I don't remember calling their opponents names, but I didn't vote for their opponents either. I voted for Mr. Cruz in our most recent state primary election, mostly because I felt that he better understood that there was this thing called the U.S. Constitution than did his primary opponent.

A few folks I've known have asked me how someone like me could possibly be a Republican, stating that surely extreme right wingers would like to....[Well, let's just say that they thought that the extreme right would like to see me cease to exist.] My response was to acknowledge their concern, but also to point out that there were likely a lot of folks on the extreme left who would also prefer a world without people like myself. I explained that I allied myself with the Republican Party because I believed it to the be lesser of two evils, pointing out that the political left would first like to take away my freedoms, liberties, and inalienable rights...prior to my demise. I justified my decision by stating that I felt that I valued my remaining liberties, far more than I valued my few remaining years.

I am a proud Texan and a steadfast Republican, and expect to remain so for the remainder of my life. I also believe that I understand and mostly respect those who come from different places and different political parties, even though I may disagree with their perspectives.

[sometimes...I think that I should quit posting/participating in this forum, but I generally back off from that notion. I do kinda like the place, probably for more than a couple of decent reasons.]

[Guest LesleyAnne]

IMHO Tejana, , your post is not really a surprise. No dispersions meant towards you there, just an observation from some of your posts.,

As for Cruz? He had assembled an anti-LGBTQ panel, not to understand us, but to aid him in his campaign for President, so as to pander to the religious right.

Abbott, and Patrick? They are Republican, and.... Anti-Trans....not big news there either!

What time I have left on this planet (which probably won't be many years given my family history), I would like to spend it being who I am without fanfare, without being demonized, and without restricting my pursuit of happiness.... so I'm sure I'll make a lot of people like Cruz, Abbott, and Patrick, and the Republican platform happy if they can keep people like us around just long enough to keep them in the headlines by the fear mongering which makes for good press, and granted the anti-fear platform about LGBTQ is also good press to some extent, but not near as much as shouting to the populous "Danger, Danger", and trying to dispel that myth is much harder to defend, since after all the religious right likes to use the bible, as their ultimate weapon against us.

Shrill.........funny! I see the same thing from the opposite side of the fence.

As far as Republicans go I don't have a problem with them, a it's only when they band together to make people like me their object to fear.

I have seen absolutely no support from them, no wish to leave us be, and let us exist just to be ourselves. What I have seen is that we make good fodder for them to pander to the religious right voting block. In this latest on bathroom access they've passed laws to restrict us, to discriminate against us, all under the guise of safety for women, and children. They offer no solution for us to go pee except to use the restroom of the gender our birth certificates show. That is Not a solution , and quite frankly makes it even more dangerous for us to be out. So far they have nothing to offer. These laws were constructed with the help of many known anti-LGBTQ hate groups, as identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center, under such benign names like 'The American Family Association', and many more not worth listing.

So when you read the vitriol from a good part of these members here, it's because we just aren't feelin the love from the Republican side of the fence. So most of us feel like we are being targeted because of just who we are....our very existence.

Young transgender kids are committing suicide...that's serious! They don't need to be tipped over the edge by being attacked, or made to feel that they are...! I don't hear anything from Abbott, Patrick, or Paxton wishing to help these kids in any way. Patrick feels that accommodating transgender kids would be disruptive to the rest of the student population. That is neither an answer nor a solution for these kids...so by omitting any solution..for me it means transgender kids don't matter. And from where I stand it seems to me to be common theme of the Republican party.

I don't wish to get into a breast-for-tat with you, since after all, I did fight for your right to your opinion, and I will continue my support for those politicians that support me as a transgender American, and I will continue to point out the lack of caring and support by those politicians that don't.

LesleyAnne,

Peace, and Love to all