Escalation of anti-trans legal coercion in the USA - proposed rule not yet enacted.
"If finalized, the rule would reach every hospital, university, school district, state government, nonprofit, and homeless shelter that receives federal funding, effectively requiring much of American institutional life to discriminate against transgender people as a condition of receiving federal money. And unlike an executive order, the rule would require significant work by a future administration to reverse. ...
"An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
"... hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic.""
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fascismnew-federal-rule-would-require
When I see this kind of thing, I often think with some curiosity of anti-trans feminists in the UK: Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater, a few people from my own backstory with whom I would generally agree on other topics. Like, do you perceive these proposed new US laws as your own ideas taken to their logical conclusions, or where are your plans different? Does this framework seem to you to have any down sides? (Does it seem to you to have any similarities with anti-abortion laws?)
John Cornyn booted from Senate as indicted anti-trans Texas AG Ken Paxton clinches GOP nomination
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/ken-paxton-beats-john-cornyn
"Liberal democracy is not just majority decisions bounded by rights. It’s also about the care with which decisions are made, the scrutiny to which they are subjected. ...
"Not only have trans voices been thoroughly excluded, but the (arguably majority) of cis women who support trans-inclusion have too."
"The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse"
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-trans-rights-in-the-uk-is-the-start-of-democratic-collapse/
These 8 Democrats voted for the Republican national ‘Don’t Say Trans’ bill passed by the House
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/8-democrats-abandon-trans-kids
The Speakeasy has defederated from single user troll instance fediblock.xyz. The instance is used near exclusively by notorious attention seeker and serial block evader David, who has been spamming LGBTQ+ posts in an attempt to get attention.
Diotima has been told that she cannot use the admin account of the Speakeasy to drop savage disses so we shall just say that David is a known bad actor who needs to touch so much grass that he should start a lawn care service.
Naturally, the new Fox News Surgeon General nominee is both anti-vax and anti-trans. So that's what you'd expect.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-nominates-anti-trans-fox-news
#fascism #politics #uspol #uspolitics #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #FuckMAHA #antiTrans
I had naively assumed when I wrote the first in this series that the YouTube videos in the Google News feed would be mostly from middle or centrist news outlets. That was wrong, so I wanted to see who was the most popular. I wish I hadn't. Then I read the comments section, and that went poorly, too.
https://jessk.org/blog/how-youtube-feeds-the-anti-trans-machine
#disinformation #misinformation #moralpanic #hate #antitrans
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