A Broad Targeted Attack

What we are seeing is an attack never before seen, it is unprecedented.

Something like forty states have introduced multiple anti-trans bills, many of them are against our most vulnerable community members: our youth! The bills mainly focus on healthcare and athletics, some of the other targets are teaching diversity and books on library shelves. Here in Connecticut there three bills targeted trans athletes.

In the past years our bathrooms have been targeted but when that failed they looked for other chinks in our armor and they think that they found it in a court decision in Britain where a court blocked trans children from transitioning until they reached the age of consent (That was what the anti-trans protest was about yesterday.).

Take a look at what they are saying about President Biden’s trans policy…

‘Pushing children into transgenderism.’ Biden’s pro-LGBT orders decried by MS governor
News & Observer via Yahoo
By Tanasia Kenney
February 5, 2021


Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves didn’t mince words in his rebuke of President Joe Biden’s executive action aimed at combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

The order, signed on Biden’s first day in office, provides sweeping protections for LGBTQ+ individuals and mandates that transgender athletes be allowed to participate in team sports based on their gender identification — a move Reeves decried as a “radical social experiment.”
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Bills that would bar transgender youth from participating in school sports have been introduced in Mississippi, Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee, among other states, the newspaper reported, citing a report by the American Civil Liberties Union. Lawmakers in South Carolina, Iowa, Indiana and Alabama are also pushing to limit access to gender-affirming health care to transgender individuals younger than 21.

You can add Connecticut to list of states with bills banning trans athletes, New Hampshire the Republicans have introduced both, a bill banning trans athletes and a bill to prevent doctors from treating us.

In Tennessee they are disregarding the president orders.

Lee denounces Biden executive order, says transgender athletes ‘will destroy women’s sports’
Tyler Morning Telegraph
By Vivian Jones
February 10, 2021


(The Center Square) – Responding to a bill in the Tennessee Legislature that would ban transgender individuals from participating in girls' middle school and high school athletics, Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday that trans participation would “destroy women’s sports.”

Speaking to reporters at the state Capitol on Wednesday, Lee stopped short of voicing support for a Tennessee bill that would prohibit trans students from participating in middle and high school girls’ athletics, but he spoke to the issue.
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Lee said the Tennessee bill came about as a result of a recent executive order by President Joe Biden specifically allowing transgender athletes to participate in school sports. Lee called the Biden executive order “tremendous overreach of the federal government.”

House Bill 3, sponsored by Culleoka Republican Scott Cepicky, is framed on an almost identical bill by Cepicky that passed the House, 73-13, last June. HB 3 advanced through the K-12 House Education Subcommittee on Tuesday.

I think that we are going to see a legal battle between the federal government and the states over trans rights.

Then in Utah they are pulling trans books from the library’s shelves.

School pulls book about transgender boy after complaints
Salt Lake Tribune – Associated Press
By Courtney Tanner,
February 14, 2021


MURRAY, Utah (AP) — A Murray teacher read a book about a transgender child to a class of third graders last month — which set off a backlash from parents. In response, the school district has now suspended a program aimed at introducing kids to more diverse and inclusive literature.

The uproar started when a student at Horizon Elementary brought a copy of “Call Me Max” from home and asked the teacher to read it aloud during story time. The book is an illustrated account of a young transgender boy who educates his own teacher and classmates about his identity.

It starts with the teacher taking attendance. “Can you call me Max?” the boy asks, noting that his name on the roll doesn’t match how he sees himself.

They are also doing away with the diversity council,

Murray School District will also be suspending its Diversity Equity Council, which worked on the equity book bundles, to examine the mission and work of the group. It was formed in 2019 to address issues of employee equity and complaints of mistreatment.

And this is what one Republican legislator thinks of us.

Arizona legislator compares transgender people to farm animals
Republican state Rep. John Fillmore made the comment when he introduced a bill that would ban nonbinary gender markers on state IDs.
NBC News
By Jo Yurcaba
February 13, 2021


An Arizona state representative is facing an ethics complaint after he compared transgender people to farm animals at a Wednesday committee hearing.

The hearing was for House Bill 2725, which would require state identification documents to contain only a male or female gender marker. The bill pre-emptively bans nonbinary people, who are neither exclusively male nor female, from using gender-neutral X markers on their IDs, even though Arizona law doesn’t currently permit that.
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"What’s going to happen when someday someone wakes up and they want to go to a far extreme and identify as a chicken or something, for crying out loud,” he added. “Where do we draw the line?”

Megan Mogan, who is the mom of a 15-year-old nonbinary child and testified against the bill Wednesday, said Fillmore’s comment was dehumanizing.

Where will the Republicans strike next? Your state? Your town? Your school systems?