Gavin Volure’s Peanut ButterMay 22, 2023

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

Show threadtoxtethogradyMay 22, 2023
@iBlame And Texas sucks because of this, and it's showing up in the "best places to live" surveys...
Show threadGavin Volure’s Peanut ButterMay 22, 2023
@toxtethogrady Texas doesn’t suck. The Texas GOP sucks.
Show threadDragonFlameMay 22, 2023
@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.
Show threadDarryl Collins 🚴🏻Jun 4, 2023
@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.
Show threadtoxtethogradyJun 4, 2023
@darrylxxx @RHW @iBlame What's happening in Texas and Florida (actually just in the rural stretches) is that their Way of Life is dying a slow death, and this is how they lash out at it. It's convenient for the insanely rich, as it lets them off the hook (and the rural legislators tend to vote for the interests of the rich, anyway...) When that part changes, so will the legislatures...
Show threadDarryl Collins 🚴🏻Jun 4, 2023
@toxtethogrady @RHW @iBlame I'm not from there so have little real knowledge of what goes on, but my perception is that communities under pressure actively vote in favour of the rich and against their own best interests. It's happening here too. Shocking, depressing and mind-blowing. 🤯
Show threadGavin Volure’s Peanut Butter
@darrylxxx @toxtethogrady @RHW In Texas, the minority right wing ruling party has the fix in. Voter suppression laws and district gerrymandering have decimated democracy in the state. In a fair election they would be voted out. Lefties are in fact a disenfranchised majority here.
Jun 4, 2023 at 5:51pmWeb