Joseph Riparian 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 20, 2023

If you're cis, I'd like you to read this article and learn that Missouri is about to enact a full ban on transition healthcare for transgender people. The deadline is April 27.

No cisgender person I've shared this with has had any idea that this is a ban, not a regulation - the requirements are impossible to meet.

I would also ask that you share this information with three other cis people today, preferably ones in or near #Missouri .

Thank you. (Update: The ban is temporarily restrained until July 24, with a new hearing about a preliminary injunction on July 20. The ban cannot be implemented until then. But the Missouri GOP is determined to ban youth trans care and sports participation, and keep allowing literal children to get married.) (Update late May: The Missouri legislature ended trans healthcare coverage for ALL minors, all people on Medicaid, and all incarcerated people. This is an absolute disaster - it means that all anyone needs to do to restrict trans healthcare for paying adults is to declare us criminals - but it is at least not a flagrant violation of the lawmaking process like Bailey's "emergency rule" was.)

https://gizmodo.com/missouri-trans-gender-affirming-care-ban-adults-order-1850337858

Emergency Rule Seriously Restricts Trans Health Care For Adults, Minors in Missouri

Via a sweeping emergency rule, the state's Attorney General has made it nearly impossible for trans people in Missouri to receive standard medical treatment.

Gizmodo
Show threadSuziApr 20, 2023
@holyramenempire this is devastating. The Federal Government can’t do anything (or they won’t)? IDK but if there was ever a time for them to step-in, it would be now. We’ve never had equality, justice and liberty FOR ALL??! 🤬🤬🤬
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@IAmSuzi @holyramenempire

It is far easier for people in the US to just keep their heads down, and play the game how it's designed... But, sooner or later, that's going to stop working.

One of these days, people will have to choose between the Constitution and the Declaration, and anyone with any sense of self-preservation would plead for the latter.

Then again, this country was founded and built by hypocrisy. Land of the free? Since when?

"It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
-George Carlin

Apr 21, 2023 at 4:49amWeb
Show threadSuziApr 24, 2023
@tubbyfatfrick @holyramenempire that’s spot on… I saw this the other day. You might appreciate the sentiment.