Say Goodbye to Our Democracy and Freedoms

Illegal to fuck a chicken in New York?? What is this world coming to?? ( Good thing I'm in Oregon. )

 

Good question. Maybe you use gasoline or diesel / transportation. Maybe you like inexpensive solar panels. Maybe you like to build and renovate and prefer to not have to get a second mortgage to git er done. Maybe you'd like a little more disposable income after groceries and rent. It all depends how you weigh the pros and cons.

 

I like having the right to exist.

 

I guess that right is so normal that we take it for granted.

 

As a trans person, I don't have the luxury to take it for granted. I have to go through this nightmare every election.

 

Why? Who are the individuals threatening your existence?

 

I dont know all the names, but several governors of red states have either passed, or tried to pass, legislation banning access to healthcare for transgender Americans. While a lot of these laws were aimed at banning gender-affirming care for children, there were several that targeted adults as well.

Banning access to the healthcare necessary for gender transition is to ban transitioning. Banning transitioning is banning trans people from existing. And trans people who can't transition are much more likely to turn to suicide or substance abuse.

The right doesn't care.

And aside from banning trans people from the US military, Trump has pledged to end protections for all LGBTQ+ people including a ban gender-affirming care. The conservatives have dreamed up the Presidential Transition Project, and Trump is on the campaign trail promising (or threatening, depending on who you are) to run every play if reelected.

This isn't me saying "orange man bad." Trump has fired the first shots here. This is about personal identity and bodily autonomy. This is about my rights as an American--a veteran even--to simply exist.

 

Well first I'll say that I feel you. We're always feeling pressure to be worried about various things from various sources though. And more often than not it's in the frame of a power play from some political figure, party, or agenda. Once you see it then it becomes obvious at every turn.

If you have been led to believe that Trump is on the warpath against transgenders or any part of the nontraditional sexual community then you don't know Trump. He isn't out to get you or anybody else. Watch one of his rallies closely and listen carefully and you'll see he's a people pleaser. There are people of every persuasion who've come to see past the opposition rhetoric trying to paint him as every bad thing possible and now support him.

Once you see the man behind the persona you'll see he has no agenda to come after trans or other people, neither does he want to ban abortion across the country. Moving issues to individual states to decide for themselves is a people pleaser move.

The way I look at trans affirming care is have at it if you're an adult. I do not want to see any children goaded into any kind of alterations that would affect their natural growth into adulthood. I think that's potentially very harmful to them and it feels to me like anyone proposing that would have an evil heart. But whoever reaches natural adulthood and feels the need for transitioning, then by golly it's their life to pursue their own happiness. Just don't be messin' with the children.

Now would Trump pass a care affirming ban? I think if a bill passed by Congress that puts limits on access then probably so, believing that's the will of the people. I don't see a snowball's chance in hell that could happen for adults. Us common sense proponents (including Trump) couldn't care less about stuff like that. For children, slim chance, but I can get behind banning transition efforts for children. I think that's the smart move.

I haven't heard about these governors who you suggest have either passed, or tried to pass, legislation banning access to healthcare for transgender Americans. I'm pretty sure they don't exist.

For starters, governors can't make law. Only the legislative bodies of representatives can make law. The governor can only affirm what they've passed or veto it. They can ask their legislative bodies to consider specific issues but can't force their hand. The representatives are supposed to listen to the will of the people and bring their positions to the chamber.

If you look a little closer, the right really does care. I think moreso than the left when looking across the spectrum of overall well being. Yeah both sides can have their sticklers about particular issues but bear in mind, it's a big picture scenario as to how effectively we get to pursue our happiness. It does a person little good to get their way on one thing only to not be able to pursue it due to limitations in another area they left unconsidered.

It's a mess out there but resist the temptation to fall victim to fearmongers, whoever they may be. It'll all be okay.

Until the debt comes due, anyway. Cheers.

 

Blah, blah,blah….I think princess knows better.

 

Putin lost the U.S. Election in 2020 and he will lose the U.S. Election in November 2024 .
Trump ( Putin) lost in 2020, if you still take comfort in the Election steal BS, get help.

 

Trump sucks, he is senile, a traitor and unfit for office .... if you can't see it, get help.

 

I'm more than sure, if elected, Trump has no loyalty from the military, guaranteed, they'll handle Trump and send his KKKult to Guantanomo Bay, right along side Al Qaeda, ISIS, Kweef Anon and Hoothies.

 

Both sides are scary.

 

Plastic shingles to follow.

 

The problem is that a lot of us have our heads in the sand regarding things outside our own everyday remit.
I would love to interview the people promoting these bills on national television, to show the world how sad they really are.

Here in the UK a couple of decades ago, we had a spate of thugs enjoying the sport of "Queer bashing", putting several guys in hospital.
Before it ended up in a murder, an investigative team of journalists rounded the culprits up and put them in the media spotlight.
It surprised most people (certainly not including me), that the ringleaders were closet gay.

As far as I know, none of what is happening in the US is happening over here..... Perhaps my head is in the sand bucket. I hate to think so.

 

Eighty percent of both democrats and republicans, apply their morality to everyone else, but seldom themselves, and hate their opponents, more than they trust their own political party. I'd rather laugh with the sinners, than cry with the saints, as they count their money all the way to bank, and one in four still claims the sun revolves around the earth. The legacy of Malthus, is that testing our fucking DNA is now the most reliable way to determine how anyone votes, and Social Darwinism has been reduced to Animal Husbandry, thanks to Militant Atheists destroying the English language, and helping Fundamentalist to censor half of reality.

Donald Duck rigged the election, and America's response has been to watch more cartoons.

 

To be fair, I checked out your page. They're calling no males allowed in female sports "anti-trans". They're calling refraining from instructing children in pubic schools that it's okay to change genders "anti-trans". They're calling disallowing partially transitioned from using the public communal bathroom designated for the gender they haven't attained yet "anti-trans". Etc.

Is that anti-trans? Or just pro general welfare?

They distort these things because they want unsuspecting people to believe trans people are being targeted. Because they want to get away with shenanigans. It's not honest. Trans people should only have the same rights and privileges as non trans people. They don't get a pass. Trans people ultimately usually pass as the gender they've transitioned to and don't raise red flags by doing things like showing off a penis in spaces designated for women to feel safe. But wannabes and pretenders take advantage of lax control and terrorize people like that's cool. If that weren't the case then normies wouldn't be seeking laws to prevent that abusive stuff.

It's just common sense.

I didn't see one "anti-trans" law in that hodgepodge.

 

OMG people don't undergo gender transition to gain access to bathrooms for nefarious purposes. No one is transitioning to dominate girls' sports and assault children in bathrooms. It concerns me that this routinely needs to be pointed out. You're essentially advocating banning me from things all in the name of general welfare. Okay. Then let's ban guns for the general welfare. Trans women are just cis men in dresses and therefore dangerous in bathrooms? Okay, ban cis men from bathrooms. Male-bodied individuals are too developed to compete in girls' sports? Allow them to transition younger.

But, see, none of that is under discussion. Because, despite your best efforts, none of us are convinced this is about the general welfare. This is clearly about punishing trans people for being trans.