It’s like this: my sib Tidy just called and told me that a significant portion of the population of Austin is up in arms because Dell Children’s Hospital just shut down its entire adolescent medicine dept over fallout from this anti-gender-affirming care crap.

The only MD in the city doing trans youth medicine also happens to be, by all accounts, the best MD in the city for cis girls with other complex stuff. Both of my cis nieces with weird issues are among her patients. This poor doc just said “fuck it” and quit, she couldn’t take the relentless bashing. My nieces and countless other Austin girls are now without the medical care they need and deserve. And for what? The governor’s MAGA street cred?

My point is this: even if your kids aren’t trans, this anti-trans bullshit can and will still fuck them up.

Protecting trans kids protects ALL kids.

#ProtectTransKids

@iBlame And Texas sucks because of this, and it's showing up in the "best places to live" surveys...
@toxtethogrady Texas doesn’t suck. The Texas GOP sucks.
@iBlame @toxtethogrady But Texans elected the Rep lawmakers, so you must understand that to the rest of the world looking on at Texas, Florida and all the trans-hate, abortion denying States these places totally suck.
@RHW @iBlame @toxtethogrady not all of them. It's possible to look from the outside, Ireland in my case, and understand that only some Texans voted for extremists.

@darrylxxx @RHW @toxtethogrady Thank you.

Signed, a rural Texan socialist