The Republican persecution of us continues and their lies are coming out, it is not about the children it is a pogrom against all things trans.
To bring back the laws from the 1950s where you had to wear three items of “male clothing,” Stonewall wasn’t about gays, it was about trans people. Sylvia Rivera said this in Workers World about Stonewall,
The Republicans want to bring that era back, the era of dark sleazy bars run by the Mafia and police corruption.
NPR NewsHour reported last spring that,
The relentless attacks on us is taking its toll.
When we were trying to pass the non-discrimination law and we were being interviewed by the press it became immediately apparent that the reporters didn’t has the slightest clue about Gender Dysphoria… they thought we were just a bunch of gays who liked to dress up. It has gotten somewhat better but even the New York Times prints lies about us.
We need to educate! We need the mainstream media to challenge the lies coming out of right and not meekly print the lies. They say they want to be “Fair and Balanced” well that doesn’t happen when you don’t challenge them.
I noticed that when marriage equality was in the national news the mainstream media only interviewed evangelical Christians and never affirming religious leaders? They only covered the negative and not the friendly voices. We have to make sure that we are heard and that the truth is heard!
The Republican has turned the elections from being about issues to being about ideology.
Their goal is to eradicate us!Trans Adults Are the Next Target in the GOP’s War on Gender-Affirming Health Care
Last year, 37 medical care bans included regulations on transition treatments for adults. This year, there are already 41 such bills.
Them
BY NICO LANG
February 16, 2024A year after a wave of anti-trans medical care bans swept the country, Republican lawmakers are already upping the ante in 2024 by targeting trans adults’ access to healthcare.
Just days into the new year, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) attempted to restrict adults’ access to gender-affirming care by issuing an executive order that would have prohibited most primary care providers from providing gender-affirming care to trans people, no matter their age. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio termed it a “de facto ban” on all forms of transition care due to the “cumbersome requirements” it attempted to place on Ohioans seeking transition-related care. (The order also bans transition surgery for minors, something that occurs extremely rarely anyway).
“I don’t know anyone who’s trans right now and is really OK,” Dara Adkinson, the board president of TransOhio, told Them shortly after the order was issued. “So many people are just confused. They feel scared, and they feel stressed. Parents of trans kids ask us: ‘Do I need to move? Will more bad bills be passed next year?’ Truthfully, anything feels on the table at this point. It very much feels like a wall was broken, in the worst kind of way.”
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“The ultimate goal is to attack bodily autonomy, period,” Ojeda tells Them, a nod to state abortion bans in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s June 2023 repeal. “They’re starting with trans people and people of color, but eventually, they want to control bodily autonomy for everyone. It’s all about control and power, and I don’t think they're ever going to stop. And so I want people to understand that when we’re fighting for trans rights, we’re actually fighting for everybody’s right to have access to the health care they need. This isn’t just a fight for trans people. It’s a fight for everyone to have the ability to make decisions about your own body.”
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Among the bills currently under consideration that would impact trans adults are proposals to block the provision of Medicaid funds for gender-affirming care. For instance, South Carolina’s trans youth medical care ban, HB 4624, also includes language that would prohibit Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care up until the age of 26. After being fast-tracked by the state Republican party, the bill passed the House by an 82-23 margin and currently awaits consideration in the state Senate.
To bring back the laws from the 1950s where you had to wear three items of “male clothing,” Stonewall wasn’t about gays, it was about trans people. Sylvia Rivera said this in Workers World about Stonewall,
“Only people dressed in clothes of a different gender, people without IDs, and employees of the bar would be arrested. Everyone else would be released.”
Their attacks on us is have drastic negative effects on us,How the Republican Party has shifted against transgender rights
As acceptance of trans people has declined in the GOP, support for restrictions and criminalization has risen
The Washington Post
By Aaron Blake
May 1, 2023The Republican Party and conservative media have made it abundantly clear that transgender issues will play a central role in their efforts to mobilize the base for the foreseeable future.
And new polling shows that the base is obliging. Increasingly, Republicans say that society has gone too far in accepting transgender people and that certain rights should be restricted.
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But more recent polling indicates a significant rise in the percentage of Republicans who say that there is too much acceptance of transgender people. Last May, NBC showed those saying we had gone “too far” rising to 56 percent, and Pew showed it up to 66 percent. In March of this year, Wall Street Journal-NORC polling pegged it at 75 percent. And this weekend, an NBC poll showed 79 percent of Republicans saying that society had gone “too far” in accepting transgender people — 30 points higher than in NBC’s poll just two years earlier.
An April 2021 poll from NPR, PBS and Marist College showed that Republicans opposed criminalizing gender transition-related care for minors, 55 percent to 38 percent. But in March of this year, that ratio flipped: Just 35 percent opposed criminalization, while 63 percent supported it. In another March poll, Republicans favored banning transition-related care, 68 percent to 28 percent.
Majority of Americans reject anti-trans bills, but support for this restriction is rising
A majority of Americans oppose restrictions on LGBTQ+ people, yet the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll shows support for such laws is growing as many Republican state and local lawmakers pursue hundreds of bills targeting LGBTQ+ rights around the country.
Forty-three percent of Americans now say they support laws that criminalize the act of providing gender-transition-related medical care to minors, according to the latest poll, marking a 15-percentage point increase since April 2021. About half of Americans — 54 percent — say they oppose such laws.
“It’s promising to see a majority of Americans oppose these dangerous, misguided bills targeting the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender young people, at a time when we’re witnessing nonstop anti-trans political attacks and irresponsible news coverage across both mainstream and right-wing outlets,” said Jonah DeChants, senior research scientist at The Trevor Project, in a written statement to the PBS NewsHour.
The relentless attacks on us is taking its toll.
When we were trying to pass the non-discrimination law and we were being interviewed by the press it became immediately apparent that the reporters didn’t has the slightest clue about Gender Dysphoria… they thought we were just a bunch of gays who liked to dress up. It has gotten somewhat better but even the New York Times prints lies about us.
We need to educate! We need the mainstream media to challenge the lies coming out of right and not meekly print the lies. They say they want to be “Fair and Balanced” well that doesn’t happen when you don’t challenge them.
I noticed that when marriage equality was in the national news the mainstream media only interviewed evangelical Christians and never affirming religious leaders? They only covered the negative and not the friendly voices. We have to make sure that we are heard and that the truth is heard!
The Republican has turned the elections from being about issues to being about ideology.
If there were any doubt that the Republican party is racist Rep. Gaetz goes ballistic.
Republicans want to blame anything but themselves after losing George Santos’s former HouseThe New RepublicBy Paige OamekFebruary 15, 2024After Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip lost the New York special election to replace George Santos’s empty House seat, Representative Matt Gaetz made sure to take time to tear down his fellow party member.“It turns out DEI isn’t a real good strategy for Republican candidate recruitment,” Gaetz said in an interview with Newsmax.Gaetz went on to trash Pilip, who was born in Ethiopia and holds both American and Israeli citizenship, calling her a “very foolish woman.” Donald Trump used the exact same words in a Truth Social post Tuesday night, and added that Pilip lost because she did not endorse him.
The Miami Herald writes,
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is under fire for what some view as a racist Twitter taunt against two black lawmakers, a sign that the House and Senate standoff over healthcare funding has devolved into personal attacks.In his Thursday afternoon tweet, Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, singled out Sens. Arthenia Joyner and Dwight Bullard, both of whom are black, out of the 13 Democratic senators who filed an emergency lawsuit challenging the House for ending its session early.“This lawsuit reads like it was researched and drafted by Sen Joyner ... and spell checked by Sen Bullard,” Gaetz wrote.[…]House Speaker Steve Crisafulli apologized on his own Twitter account and defended Gaetz as “an agitator, yes, but not a racist.”[…]Gaetz could not be reached for comment, and Joyner said Friday afternoon that he hadn’t reached out and apologized to her. But Gaetz did issue a partial apology Friday via Twitter. “My criticisms of ObamaCare Expansion and it’s [sic] supporters are based solely on the facts,” he wrote. “Deeply sorry if anyone read more into it than that.” Joyner says this issue is about more than just a tweet with racial overtones. She has suggested that House Republicans’ opposition to Medicaid expansion is racially motivated.
Question: Do you believe that his tweets were not racist or do you believe that he stepped back because of all the pushback?
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