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War can be a fickle thing, particularly in the world of  trans entitled activists

The Texas Legislature Is Preparing an All-Out War on Trans People’s Existence

This is the opinion of  someone called Alejandra Caraballo, in a ‘publication’ called Slate. Whoever Alejandra is, her qualifications and position at Harvard Law school suggests she’s highly educated. This article however, does not

In fact all it tells me, is that she has at best, a wierd sense of priorities and at worst, is probably a little deranged

Republicans’ midterm debacle could have led the party to conclude that centering an assault on the existence of transgender people is not a winning electoral strategy. But it didn’t. Instead, the GOP is doubling down on its crusade against LGBTQ people.

Oh the humanity! A political party attempting to tread on the rights of a minority group and erase them from existance. Sounds horrific, doesn’t it. But in reality, that’s not what’s happening at all. The fact is, this ‘war on trans’, is simply an attempt to protect children from what has become a continuous and unstoppable tirade of perversion

The most vivid example can be seen in the Texas legislature, which saw the introduction of 10 separate bills designed to criminalize gender-affirming care for trans youth, criminalize drag shows, ban trans kids in sports (again), limit changes to gender markers on the birth certificates of minors, and limit discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

Nope

Criminalise gender afirming care for trans youth = Stopping irreversible surgery on impressionable young people who may simply be going through a phase

Criminalise drag shows = Stop men dressing as perverts and dancing in front of very young children

Ban trans kids in sports = Stopping males performing in female categories and cleaning up

Limit changes to gender markers on birth certificates of minors = Stopping children legally identifying as something they are not, when they are probably just going through a phase

Limit discussion of sexual orientation and identity in schools = Removal of normalisation of perversions in classrooms and preventing anti-science indoctrination of school children

For those who are not terminally online, the continued attacks on LGBTQ rights, especially those around drag shows, may seem baffling.

Indeed. If I was not plugged into what is going on, I may be baffled too. I mean why would you want to stop adults of any sexual orientation, getting together and having a drag show? 

Those plugged into the online right’s anti-trans extremism, however, will not be surprised

Indeed. Because we know it’s not about adults doing adult things in an adult environment, it’s about adults doing adult things in front of young children

What does baffle me is why men would want to dress up as women and then dance for young kids. Why they would want to be open about this and expect the rest of us to celebrate it and enable it. What baffles me even more is why some parents do want to enable this by taking children, their own children, to see this stuff

The blitz in pre-filed anti-LGBTQ bills in Texas is the logical legislative follow-up to the chaotic and threatening scenes outside of drag shows, pride events, and children’s hospitals this past summer. Several LGBTQ events throughout Texas drew protests from neo-Nazis, proud boys, and Christian nationalists

I’ve left the links in, if you fancy it. They’re both to something called ‘Vice’, and both allude to people turning up at events such as a ‘Drag Brunch’ and ‘Drag Bingo’, wearing Nazi Swastikas. They don’t seem to mention the reason for the protests and who the bulk of the protestors were. They also don’t mention the ages of the children attending these gatherings

while the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, a group of LGBTQ anti-fascists clad in all-black armed with AR-15’s, were present to provide community defense

Because clad in black and carrying AR-15s says ‘Anti-Fascist’. And I really would like to know if the ‘community’ were the people asking to be defended by anti-fascists, or if they were the ones protesting against the pervert brunches

These extraordinary events were partially the result of a moral panic pushed by far-right online influencers such as Chaya Raichik, who runs the notorious Libs of TikTok account..

Not so. All Libs of Tik Tok does is re-produce Tik Tok videos made by Libs. If those videos provoke anything, then it’s purely down to the Libs who put them online in the first place, not the Twitter account that brings them into the light

The right’s obsession with drag shows is producing dangerous legislation in Texas. Two nearly identical bills introduced on Nov. 14, H.B. 643 and H.B. 708, would classify venues with drag shows as “sexually oriented business” in the same vein as strip clubs. 

Once again, this use of the term ‘Drag Shows’ fails to acknowledge the audience. These shows are, for unfathomable reasons, targeted at young children. The classification is the way of preventing these young children being exposed to this

it would add onerous restrictions that could essentially eliminate drag shows in the state of Texas.

Onerous restrictions = not allowing school aged children to watch men expose themselves in womens clothing

Venue owners where drag is performed could be 

‘Could be’

required to pay a $5 fee per patron to the state and post anti-sex trafficking posters in restrooms.

And anti child exploitation posters?

Most importantly, it would give Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has already called for the criminal prosecution of drag queens,

Only the ones who expose themselves to kids

the ability to file suit against venues who violate the law.

Allow school aged children in to watch 

Throughout the summer, Libs of Tiktok began targeting children’s hospitals around the country for providing gender-affirming care, leading to Boston Children’s Hospital receiving death threats and bomb threats to its campus and the homes of providers.

Although death threats are wrong and people should really be showing a little more self control, it does go towards the depth of feeling about this

Libs of Tik Tok never promote or encourage violence, but where health care providers are performing irresversible and damaging surgery of impressionable kids who don’t have enough capacity to consent, just exposing this in the mainstream, is likely to get decent people hot under the collar

If you are doing something morally reprihensible, and you take flak because someone exposes you, it’s your fault alone, and maybe you need to re-think your life

Texas is no stranger to political attacks on health care for trans youth. In late 2021, the GENECIS clinic at the Children’s Medical Center in Dallas that provided gender-affirming care closed as a result of political pressure from Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott. The clinic began accepting new patients again only after a provider filed suit against the state alleging improper political influence as the reason for its closure.

If improper political influence is a thing, we need some of that over here. It seems like politics impropely influences everything we bloody do, these days. But still, if political influence ever had it’s place, it’s shutting down places like these

Not for having a transgender child, but for parading their young sons around in dresses with pink hair. The idea being to find out if the parents are pushing this trans stuff on the kid

For the record, I don’t think there’s any such thing as a trans child. Do with that what you may

Paxton and Abbott’s plan to punish the parents of trans kids faced road bumps in the courts because Texas law does not actually deem gender-affirming care to be child abuse

Then the law needs to be clarified or changed

Now GOP lawmakers are trying to change that. There are currently three nearly identical pre-filed bills—H.B. 42, H.B. 672, and H.B. 436—that would define gender-affirming care for trans youth as “child abuse” in the Texas Family Code. 

A step in the right direction

The new laws would criminalize the parents of trans children and open the door to their arrest, while their children would be forcefully separated from loving homes and thrown into a state foster system in crisis.

Or

The law would not affect parents of trans children in any way (if such a thing exists), as long as the parents are not forcing thier children to appear trans and are not using them to affirm their own trans credentials in public

And child ‘thrown’ into the state foster system would be so only because they have been removed from mentally ill parents who would never give them a chance in life

If labeling loving parents as child abusers wasn’t enough, two nearly identical bills—H.B. 41 and H.B. 122—would make it a felony offense for healthcare providers to perform gender-affirming care. Additionally, the bills would strip liability insurance protections from providers who perform such treatments. In total, there are five bills introduced into the legislature that would criminalize gender-affirming care for both parents and healthcare providers.

Good. Performing life changing surgery on children without the capacity to consent, should be an imprisonable offence. No exceptions

The rest of the anti-LGBTQ bills seem almost tame by comparison because they do not criminalize access to healthcare and the existence of trans people in public venues.

None of the above do that

But that does not mean they wouldn’t cause immense harm. One bill, S.B. 162, would ban changes to the gender marker of a minor’s birth certificate. 

No biggie. If you still think you’re trans when you turn 21, get your certificate changed then

Another, H.B. 631, is a carbon copy of Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” legislation that resulted in schools eliminating pride flags, LGBTQ teachers being told to hide pictures of their partners

That bill had nothing to do with not saying gay. It was about removing sexual perversions from the classroom. It was about stopping trans teachers talking to impressionable young people about their activities in the bedroom

I don’t know when it was, but at some point, gay rights changed into the right to have the wierdest perversions you can think of, and parade them as publicly as possible

I wonder what geniune gay people think of that. I’m sure it’s not where they wanted things to go

 and LGBTQ students being outed to their parents. 

Outed? if a young child decides they are a different gender and want all the things that go with that, their parents damn well have a right to know. Parents are supposed to be the people who prevent impressionable young people from making horrible mistakes

Treachers are too, but they long ago became the people who enable and encourage these mistakes (many of them)

Finally, H.B. 23 would implement yet another ban on trans kids playing in sports despite one being passed and signed into law in 2021.

Again, no. It’s a ban on male kids playing in famale categories.

One thing is clear from the bills pre-filed for next session: Texas is at war with its LGBTQ citizens

That isn’t what’s clear to me. I would say Texas is at war with mentally ill perverts who want to co-opt the next generation into their perversions. Genuine Gay and Trans people who just want to get on with their lives the same as others, will not even be affected by any of this

The urgency to pass these kinds of bills has only been exacerbated by far-right 

Not far right, just normal people

online influencers who seek to eliminate LGBTQ people from public life.

Who seek to protect vulnerable children from indoctrination by a cult

If there was ever any hope that the midterm results would cause a hesitation to push anti-LGBTQ bills, that hope is gone now.

Hopefully if will spread around the western world. We surely need it