This Was A Meme

This was an meme on Facebook that king of made me think… think about the kids.

What it must be like for the LGBTQ+ kids in Alabama, Florida, and Texas growing up knowing that you are not welcome?

How it must affect them, where you can get arrested just for talking about yourself, where your doctor could get arrested for trying to help you.

In Texas a school was banded from holding Pride.

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The thing is all the politicians know that these laws are against the Constitution but do not care and they also know that these laws are causing harm to the children and do not care.

As the meme says, Pride celebrations are meant to remind us of our history as a oppressed community and the discrimination and hate that we face every day. It reminds us of the long way we have to yet travel.

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Why is it against the law to ban “Saying gay” or to ban “Pride?”

First, the law banning talking about you two moms, or two dads, or your trans child violates the First Amendment free speech rights. You are prohibiting people from talking about their lives but you do not ban other from talking about their parents and that is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment that says you have to treat everyone equally.

For banning the Pride event the schools allow “pride days” for other organizations and the Supreme Court has many times over have ruled that is you allow one student organization to do one thing and not allow a LGBTQ+ organization to do it then it is a violation of the Constitution.

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They trying it again!

Sadly another state the Republicans is trying to pass another draconian law against trans children.

Missouri bill would ban gender-affirming care for minors, strip doctors of licenses
The bill would bar physicians and other health care providers from providing “gender transition procedures” like puberty blockers or hormones to any person under 18 years old.
The Hill
By Brooke Migdon
April 12, 2022


A Missouri House bill seeks to block access to gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary youth, effectively ending health insurance coverage for gender-affirming treatments and putting the medical licenses of affirming providers in jeopardy.

The bill, officially titled the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, stipulates that physicians or other health care providers in Missouri may not provide “gender transition procedures” like puberty blockers or hormones to any person under 18 years old.

Doctors who continue providing or recommending gender-affirming care to trans or nonbinary minors would be subject to disciplinary action and could potentially have their medical licenses revoked.

“Any referral for or provision of gender transition procedures to an individual under eighteen years of age is unprofessional conduct and shall be subject to discipline by the appropriate licensing entity or disciplinary review board with competent jurisdiction in this state,” the bill reads.

Notably, providers under the bill are not prohibited from performing surgeries or prescribing medications like puberty blockers or hormones to young patients who do not intend to use them for a “gender transition” and require treatment for a “medically verifiable disorder of sex development.”