George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jan 30, 2023

Utah didn’t ban youth hormone therapy such as testosterone boosters for cis boys. It didn’t ban “gender affirming surgery” such as breast augmentation for cis girls.

Just for trans kids.

You know, in case you’re wondering if lawmakers are really out to “protect the children” like they claim.

Give me a break.

Show threadsolientJan 30, 2023
@georgetakei it's sickening how many states are codifying child abuse "to protect the children." 🤢
Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊
@solient @georgetakei
Ever has it been. The worst abuses by Church, State and Person have always been with a flimsy veneer of protection, be it in service to tradition or a hackneyed 'morality' which equates to nothing more or less than 'it's what I want', and child abuse is no exception at all. Only now are they learning just how sheer can they make that covering, a translucent sheet of plastic wrap which still nobody dares to poke a hole through.
Jan 30, 2023 at 4:21pmWeb
Show threadNicole ParsonsJan 30, 2023

@theogrin @solient @georgetakei

These anti-trans laws also establish legal precedents that can act as a foundation for attacks on other civil rights.

Privacy. Agency. Autonomy. The right to raise your own children. Other unenumerated rights.

Losing civil rights to agency & autonomy can be used to legally recreate slavery.

When do attacks on reproductive rights become forced childbirth for example? It's already removing the right to travel for women in some states.