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Texas has gone into overdrive with anti-trans legislation! Now remember that we are only something like 0.5% of the population.

Texas Lawmakers Are Gearing Up to Make Life Miserable for Trans People
More than 800 bills were submitted to the Texas legislature. The docket is full of culture war legislation
Rolling Stone
By Nikki McCann Ramirez
November 15, 2022


MULTIPLE BILLS HAVE been submitted to the Texas state Senate that would make providing or consenting to gender-affirming care for a minor a form of child abuse under Texas’s Family Code.

The bills are just a handful of the more than 800 legislative proposals submitted to the Texas legislature in anticipation of the new legislative session, which begins in January. The list of submissions is clogged with every form of culture war grievance one could imagine. They include bills that would ban trans athletes from K-12 sports, increase penalties for election fraud, institute a requirement that public schools teach that human life begins at conception, further restrict abortion access, and criminalize the possession of vapes on school campuses.

Whoa! Did you get that? More than eight hundred bills! That is insane!

An obsessive fixation on transgender youth has taken over Republican politics in recent years, with pundits claiming that the transgender community is a predatory space intent on corrupting and harming children in order to increase their numbers. On Tuesday, former Trump adviser Stephen Miller tweeted that Americans “live in a country where it’s easier to get chemical castration drugs than Ivermectin.” 

With lies like that no wonder violence against us is climbing, yesterday was the Transgender Day of Remembrance and the number trans people killed was reported as 69 trans people just because they are trans. The right-wing legislators are stirring up hostility against us.

The blatant hostility against transgender individuals has already resulted in an increased climate and of violence against transgender individuals and their supporters. In September, a woman was charged with leveling a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital, forcing an evacuation. The threat happened after days of right-wing pundits making sensational, and false, claims that the hospital’s Gender Multispecialty Service program was performing genital reassignment surgeries on “young girls.” This year alone, the Human Rights Campaign has tracked at least 32 murders of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

The thing is the Republicans using us as their punching bags to drum up votes doesn’t work, the voters are wising up to the Republican shindigs.