at least for the next four years
Maybe two if enough people get off their asses and vote during the midterms.
Voting has limited utility when Democrats are willing to throw trans people under the bus to get “must pass” legislation through. Republicans just need to attach their trans extermination legislation to bills that fund the military or other key government functions, and the Dems will vote for it in large numbers. Biden just signed a bill that will kill several thousand children, and even lamented the anti-trans provision in it, as he just signed it anyway.
Republicans just need to attach their trans extermination legislation to bills that fund the military or other key government functions, and the Dems will vote for it in large numbers.
Yeah, it sucks when that happens; then if the Dems don’t vote for it, it gets framed by the Republicans as they only care about LGBTQ issues.
edit: For what it’s worth, have a look at this:
Democrats will lean on this tactic to take on Trump during his second term
Respectfully this is not enough. We must demonstrate that this bigotry will not be widely accepted ever in our country.
Understood; I’m referring strictly to damage control.
After what happened in November, baby steps in two years are preferable to nothing for four.
I’m fortunate enough to be in a position to leave the US, unless they somehow lock borders for us in the first few months. Feel like everything I’ve worked for here is one step sideways two steps back. Can’t do it anymore I’m burnt out and it’s getting more dangerous every day
You know, it’s a bit of a relief to see this title.
A few years ago, I was talking about the fight for trans issues being an actual war that had only been violent on one side, with the other being victimized. I got some strange looks irl, and the usual nasty stuff online.
It is a war. It may not currently include military action, but there are absolutely armed enemies, including state actors, causing direct casualties.
Think of how much time Democrats have had to set protections in place for minorities. There’s no one in politics that is both on our side and capable of helping us if we aren’t wealthy straight white Christian men.
The wildest thing to me is realizing that while many of these people are entirely just in the pocket of the donor class. A lot of them genuinely believe that they can just tinker around the edges and things will just magically get better over time. And that this fact makes it okay for them to enrich themselves because all they need to be is a faithful steward of the institutions because inevitably the moral arc of history bends toward Justice.
I’ve still not seen any details on if/how Trump policies will impact trans adults. Seems all of the focus so far is on minors. It’s nerve wracking to wait and see.
He made a speech Sunday about wanting to define gender at a federal level to take away states’ rights. I’m non-binary but still have my gender assigned at birth on my IDs. A friend of mine, though, has X as their gender marker. If they lose the ability to use that gender marker, they’ll no doubt be given a hard time changing it back, making it harder to travel due to the extra scrutiny.
Isn’t that bad enough?
Besides, it isn’t like there isn’t a fairly public history of Republicans trying to fuck over every trans person, period. No details on the plans are needed to know beyond a reasonable doubt that it’s in the works
I’d say it’s worse not knowing, because then I doom spiral into the possibilities instead of being sure if I need to leave the country.
Ahhhh, I get what you mean now.
Well, the ugly truth is that it’s already too late to make a fully safe move. Getting long term ability to stay in alleged another country takes time. More time than is realistically available.
And it’s even harder to get permanent resident status, or fully immigrate to any of the countries that are trans friendly.
You’d have to hope for refugee status. Which isn’t impossible, but it is unlikely.
I think you’d be better off moving to one of the more trans protective states at this point, and you have a fairly realistic chance of making that happen before any new legislation can be passed at least.
It’s either that, or get armed and find local support until it either gets fixed legally/electorally, or civil war pops off.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/opinion-republican-bathroom-panic
It was never about just trans kids or just sports, those both evaporate the moment you apply critical thought (funny how conservative and liberal men alike deride women’s sports in any other context)
It has always been about taking a mile for every inch they are given. It has always been about erasing trans people and our humanity from the public eye.
