House Republicans have already proposed federal anti trans bills

[Susan R]

10 hours ago, Ariel Pas said:

it makes me so worried that one day I'll be forced to detransition just for survival's sake

No legislation will ever force me to detransition. If some man-made law ever went that far, I’d go down with the ship cause this country wouldn’t survive with a government with that much control.

[VickySGV]

FWIW, I have just read about three different legislators who admit they joined in a shark attack and feeding frenzy of bills and now have serious moral and mental problems seeing what they took part in without considering the consequences of what would happen IRL.  They are now getting news of what they unleashed in a relatively short run that bodes even harsher reality for the future.  Any blood is of course too much to spill, but they had not seen it even in the future at all.  We need to keep showing just enough blood to them to act on their latent consciences, but not too much to immunize and numb them to the sight of it.  Red may be their political color, but not when it is marinating them and ruining expensive suits.

[Ivy]

9 hours ago, Susan R said:

I’d go down with the ship cause this country wouldn’t survive with a government with that much control.

This is pretty much were I am with it also.   I don't want to live as a man again.

[Astrid]

Wing nuts like those in the article below (from Arizona, but more are chiming in from other states every week) are why I don't post pictures of myself on this site, even though I love it dearly.  TransPulse is a lifeline!  

 

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/gop-operative-wants-lgbtq-community-put-isolation-camps-protection/

 

The direction of things points to chaos in coming elections led by newly elected secretaries of state who support (indeed, trumpet) The Big Lie, without a shred of actual evidence.  Many states, with SCOTUS-tolerated gerrymandered districts, will continue to ignore an overall state majority who oppose the entrenched R state reps.  And in statewide elections (such as for governor) where gerrymandering can't affect the totals and there are Democratic governors (like Wisconsin) the R-dominated legislators have gone out of their way to hamstring and curtail the powers of the governor as much as possible.  Already states like West Virginia are trying to prevent the use of state referendum to let the people decide issues -- lest anything like the recent vote for abortion rights in Kansas be allowed in *their* state.  I believe we'll be hearing more in the coming two years about battles over this in a number of conservative and "purple" states.

 

And these places are doing everything in their power to raise another generation of haters, by taking over school boards, banning hundreds of books in school and public libraries, and "revising" textbooks to edit out any material uncomfortable to the white citizenry, including slavery (now referred to as "forced relocation" in Texas by some) and LGBTQIA+ folk (by removing all references to us) and generally proclaiming anything they don't like as "woke", and therefore to be eliminated by increasingly Draconian measures.

 

This is not a game.  I am fortunate to live in Massachusetts, where I can be me with minimal hassle.  States that I used to visit in my youth are no longer places that I wish to visit, lest my feminine-leaning appearance and my "X" drivers license "offend" the conservative beliefs of their citizens and police.  I am far more in tune with Scandinavian countries (which I have visited dozens of times) than I am with the increasingly foreign, conservative states of the US.

 

Never has the expression "absolute power corrupts absolutely" been as relevant.  

 

Astrid

[Astrid]

8 hours ago, VickySGV said:

FWIW, I have just read about three different legislators who admit they joined in a shark attack and feeding frenzy of bills and now have serious moral and mental problems seeing what they took part in without considering the consequences of what would happen IRL

 

So true, @VickySGV!  This is a classic case of how being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs.

[Vidanjali]

13 minutes ago, Astrid said:

 

So true, @VickySGV!  This is a classic case of how being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs.

 

Hence the value of diversity. 

[Guest]

13 hours ago, Susan R said:

No legislation will ever force me to detransition. If some man-made law ever went that far, I’d go down with the ship cause this country wouldn’t survive with a government with that much control.

I am right there with you sister! It is perfectly fine to inadvertently take nuclear arms documents and other classified material to another residence/business site that has a lot of public traffic. It could happen to any president who flouts the law. Thank goodness it was not someone committing the atrocious crime of supporting the LGBTQIA+ community. 

 

The more amazing thing is how uninformed, illiterate, and outright stupidity there exists in the RNP. I am astounded that we have such a satanic status among the acolytes of Trump. One wonders "Why us?"

 

-Katie

[Ivy]

5 hours ago, Astrid said:

I don't post pictures of myself on this site…

I'm already out publicly, so there's not much point in trying to hide anyway.  So I'll be in the camp, I guess.

 

5 hours ago, Astrid said:

nd in statewide elections (such as for governor) where gerrymandering can't affect the totals and there are Democratic governors (like Wisconsin) the R-dominated legislators have gone out of their way to hamstring and curtail the powers of the governor as much as possible.

This is what's been happening in NC as well.  Actually, the state is pretty evenly divided population wise.   But you'd never know it from our congressional delegation.

 

I'm not going to give the Dems a pass though.  They're going to court to keep the Green Party off the ballot.

[Ivy]

2 hours ago, Katie23 said:

One wonders "Why us?"

Well…  I mean, if you're a child molesting satanist…