I Am Tired Of The Bills

Every legislation session around the country it seems like legislatures are in competition with the other Republicans legislatures on who can dream up the most draconian laws against us.

Bill critics say initially aimed at transgender community approved in House committee
Tennessean
By Joel Ebert
March 13, 2019

A bill that members of the LGBTQ community say was initially aimed at criminalizing the use of bathrooms for transgender people in Tennessee was quickly approved in a House committee on Wednesday.

After 16 minutes of discussion, the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee advanced the controversial measure with a voice vote.

The proposal, HB 1151, sponsored by Rep. John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, seeks to enhance the punishment for any person who commits indecent exposure in bathrooms.

The initially drafted bill included language aimed at the transgender community, saying, "A medical, psychiatric, or psychological diagnosis of gender dysphoria, gender confusion, or similar conditions, in the absence of untreated mental conditions, such as schizophrenia, does not serve as a defense to the offense of indecent exposure."

But Ragan amended the bill on Wednesday to remove such language.

The Republicans better watch out! More Republicans have been caught doing things in the bathroom that they shouldn’t.

Meanwhile in Illinois the Republicans want to strip healthcare from us.

LGBTQ advocates ‘deeply disturbed’ by transgender health care bill
The Telegraph
By Grant Morgan
March 13, 2019

SPRINGFIELD – LGBTQ advocates say they are “deeply disturbed” by legislation that would ban some forms of health care for transgender persons under the age of 18.

Filed by GOP Rep. Tom Morrison of Palatine, House Bill 3515 would add certain medical services such as sex-change procedures or the delivery of puberty-suppressing drugs to the list of acts punishable by revoking or suspending a doctor’s license.

Myles Davis, spokesperson for LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Illinois, called the bill an attack on families; the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community; and child health care in a news conference Tuesday, where various transgender persons stood alongside House Leader Greg Harris, a Democrat from Chicago, to voice their opposition to the bill.
“This bill takes health care options away from Illinois children just because of their identity,” Davis said.
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“[The bill] is harmful physically, it is harmful mentally, it is anti-science, and it seems to be designed to be personally hurtful to a group of people very intentionally,” Harris added. “I just don’t know why this would be before the Legislature.”

The bill’s sponsor, however, says he’s been hearing from many parents who say their children are “moving too swiftly” to seek such medical services, which they might later regret.

I think this bill will be found illegal because it goes against ACA (Obamacare) that prevents exclusions of transition-related care. But with the Republicans packing the courts who knows what will happen.

Why do the Republicans hate us so much?

Is it just because of politics? Or are they just mean bigoted people?

Here in Connecticut a Republican tried to strip our insurance from us but the bill never made it out of committee and the legislator who introduced the bill wasn’t even around for the testimony.

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The courts are going to get much, much worst.

Trump's conservative judges begin takeover of federal appeals courts
USA TODAY By Richard Wolf
March 12, 2019

WASHINGTON – One of President Donald Trump's biggest achievements since entering the White House – making the federal courts more conservative – crossed a major threshold Tuesday.

For the first time, he turned a federal appeals court previously dominated by Democratic presidents' nominees into one with a majority of Republican presidents' choices.

Senate confirmation of Paul Matey to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, with jurisdiction over Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, gave Trump and his GOP predecessors in the White House a 7-6 majority there. The Senate vote was 54-45, largely along party lines.

Matey, 48, a former top counsel to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, became Trump's 35th appeals court nominee to reach the bench with seven more pending, continuing a record pace. The Senate also has confirmed 53 of Trump's picks for federal district courts, with another 54 nominees pending.

This will be the Trump & the Republican legacy the courts packed with judges and picked by the organization that was labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, the Family Research Council and they were also picked by the Heritage Foundation. The judges have in common they are anti-LGBTQ+, anti-women rights, they are pro-Bible, and anti-other religions.