Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Rinse & Repeat

Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Rinse & Repeat

Once again the Republicans are introducing anti-trans legislation.

The state list of shame.

With a new year comes new legislation and over twenty states are introducing anti-trans laws.

Here are the states planning to restrict gender-affirming care next year

In the leadup to next year’s legislative session, no fewer than 20 bills targeting transgender medical care have been pre-filed in at least nine states.
The Hill
By Brooke Migdon
December 29, 2022

Story at a glance
No fewer than 20 bills targeting transgender medical care have been pre-filed in at least nine states for 2023.
More than two dozen states in 2022 sought to enact measures to heavily restrict or ban access to gender-affirming health care for transgender youth.
States with prefiled measures for 2023 include Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
More than two dozen states in 2022 sought to enact measures to heavily restrict or ban access to gender-affirming health care for transgender youth in one of the worst years on record for anti-LGBTQ legislation.
In the leadup to next year’s legislative session, no fewer than 20 bills targeting transgender medical care have been pre-filed in at least nine states.

Missouri: three bills against trans healthcare and a forth bill against doctors that treat us.

Montana: five bills against trans healthcare.

New Hampshire:

Legislation pre-filed in New Hampshire aims to prohibit “gender transition procedures” for minors and retool the state’s definition of so-called conversion therapy, a discredited practice that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Oklahoma: a bill to prevent state funds from being used for our healthcare.

South Carolina: three bills.

Tennessee: one bill

Texas: two bills making it child abuse to treat a trans client and one going the insurance for doctors and hospitals.

Utah: one bill.

Virginia: one bill.

The scary one is the New Hampshire that twist the definition of “conversion therapy” to include our healthcare.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Wednesday, January 04, 2023

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