Is This Our Future?

During the peak of the Jim Crow era there was a book called, “The Green Book” the Library of Congress writes…

Summary
An annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers founded and published by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1967. From a New York-focused first edition published in 1936, Green expanded the work to cover much of North America. The Green Book became "the bible of black travel" during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against African Americans and other non-whites was widespread. Green wrote this guide to identify services and places relatively friendly to African-Americans so they could find lodgings, businesses, and gas stations that would serve them along the road. It was little known outside the African-American community. Shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed the types of racial discrimination that made the Green Book necessary, publication ceased and it fell into obscurity.

Under Trump there could be a different book that will be needed to travel.

If the Supreme Court kicks trans healthcare back to the states we are going to have a nightmare! Travel here and you can pee. Travel there and get busted! The country will be "balkanized" with different states having different rules!

There is a booklet like the Green Book for us. “Peeing In Peace”

This Resource Guide is a first of its kind publication combining basic information about how someone (or some group of someones) can protect themselves with common sense steps that can be taken to change the way in which an employer, school administrator, business owner, or government official handles bathroom access issues. It provides basic tools you can use to affect how someone sees the issue of bathroom access and safety by questioning who should be able to access which bathroom and why we divide most public bathrooms into Men’s and Women’s facilities in the first place.

With Trump I think this needs to be updated! The booklet goes on to say,

Started in 2003, our Safe Bathroom Access Campaign (SBAC) focuses on the real world problems that are created for transgender people and our partners, families and friends because of the way that society views gender and the stereotypes associated with it. Working closely with People in Search of Safe Restrooms (PISSR), SBAC has been able to open a dialogue in California about this important issue. Many of the lessons we have learned through that work and the solutions that we have helped to devise are encompassed in this resource guide. It is our hope that the hundreds of people who have contacted us about this issue since we opened our doors in 2002 will be able to take all or some of the information in this guide and share it with friends and allies who are also interested in challenging the current bathroom situation.

If the Supreme Court kicks it back to the states (Which I feel they will.) it is going to be insane. We probably will not be able to travel to Florida or any other Republican states without making a federal case out of it.

Making a Federal Case.

I’m no lawyer but I can read and from what I read…

AMENDMENT XIV

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

If they kick it back to the states and the states ban us… how can that be equal?

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I am making a prediction: Kids Online Safety Act

Everyone in Congress is pushing the bill to have it pass before the end of the session. The Senate worked out a bipartisan bill to protect children online.

Kids Online Safety Act: Blumenthal makes year-end push

CT Mirror

by Lisa Hagen

December 10, 2024

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is making a final push to pass the Kids Online Safety Act before the end of the year, arguing there is an “urgency” to get it done in the remaining weeks instead of waiting until the next Congress.

Congress has tried to establish new protections for minors online for years without success. But officials at X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, helped negotiate the latest version of KOSA to assuage lingering concerns over free speech and garner support from Republican leadership to take up the legislation in the House.

This is a "Must Pass" bill that makes it ripe for the Republican controlled House to tack on amendments!

So my prediction (I hope that I'm wrong) is the House will stick in the bill some anti-trans amendments, I think the most likely amendment will one banning anything online about anything LGBTQ+ where a child can read about it! That would include my blog. Pride Centers websites. Facebook pages of events.

It would be just like Putin did in Russia.