Please notice, the person pushing this bill is a fundamentalist religious bigot who has tried to force their religion into the laws while trying to ban any representation of the LGBTQ+ in society. Their religious views are built on hate, not loving those on the outside of accepted society. It is a self-serving view that pushes not the religion of the Christ mentioned in the bible, but the intense desire to maintain the society that they enjoyed and want to return too or force into being, while showing their bigotry by remaining superior to any others. I did not get the feeling in my time in the SDA church that superiority was the goal Jesus preached. I wouldn’t have needed to wash a few people’s feet, causing such a problem in my abused teen mind. Hugs
** Federal judge blocked parts of DeathSantis anti-trans healthcare ban. He claimed it was clear that gender identity was real. He made the statement several times. I have not read the entire article as I am trying to do many things here at home. Let’s hope all these treatment bans get blocked. Despite the fringe haters groups claims, medical science data over decades of use has shown puberty blockers are safe and reversible and their use prescribed as best care by the major credible organizations. **
The Texas Tribune reports:
Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Friday a bill that bars transgender kids from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapies, though the new law could face legal challenges before it takes effect on Sept. 1.
Senate Bill 14’s passage brings to the finish line a legislative priority for the Republican Party of Texas, which opposes any efforts to validate transgender identities. Trans kids, their parents and LGBTQ advocacy groups fiercely oppose the law, and some have vowed to stop it from going into effect.
Texas — home to one of the largest trans communities in the U.S. — is now one of 18 states that restrict transition-related care for trans minors. “Cruelty has always been the point,” said Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas.
Read the full article.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Donna Campbell, first appeared here in 2014 when she introduced a bill to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination by businesses on the basis of “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
In February 2015, she appeared here when she joined a hate group in eating wedding cake to celebrate the 10th “banniversary” of Texas putting a ban on same-sex marriage into the state constitution.
They held that celebration nine months early because the US Supreme Court was about to rule on Obergefell.
My boss is right, The GOP is now run by the Klan.
Uh- “The GOP is now OPENLY run by the Klan“
What was once an honorable American political party was hijacked by theofascists.
The theofascists gained a major hold of the Republican Party when Ronald Reagan occupied the White House.
It’s been downhill for America — an increasing American takeover by the theofascists — since then.
probably the john birchers too
Always worth mentioning that one of the JBS’s founders was Fred Koch (father or Charles and David). Throughout 1963, the JBS put up signs in Dallas calling Kennedy a traitor.
I had a deep discussion with my 18yo granddaughter about her feeling on various LGBTQ issues. She’s cis hetero and absolutely loves the freedom her generation has to be whatever they want to be. She’s had gay friends, trans friends and non-binary friends. They exchange clothing with each other and love experimenting without rules.
My 17yo grandson…the same. He’s cis hetero also and his best friend is gay. He says they laugh at how stupid some people are in getting bent out of shape over gender expression and homosexuality. They just don’t care and accept people for what they say they are and are happy for them when they find love or new friends.
We live in Northern Colorado in a rather Republican area even though the state runs true blue. Our city is about 100,000 people surrounded by farming.
This is what keeps my hopes up when I hear the distressing news. This generation also likes the idea of contributing their voices in voting. My granddaughter and grandson will both be voting age in the next election. While they both said some of their friends are wishy washy on voting, most are excited to be able to finally vote. I don’t think we can compare the last generation to this one. Their experiences were very different and their political savvy amazes me. We have hope for the future!
I just retired from teaching high school after 38 years. I noticed around the late 1990’s that the students in general became kinder and more considerate of others. But if someone was bullied or mistreated, most of the students would be irate at the aggressor. They insisted that everyone be treated fairly.
These young people grew up in a time when our visibility, struggles, and victories as gay people became daily news. Almost everyone found out that they had LGBTQ family, friends, and acquaintances.
Now that Gen Z has reached voting age and tuned out well in the 2022 election, I am encouraged.
The kids are all right.
They’re on the right side but in the right sort of area for that. Kids growing up in corn country are brainwashed to hate and praise gun-toting jeebus, and there are far, far too many twentysomething men who are adherents to Andrew Tate and that brand of toxic masculinity.
We don’t know who will win yet.
Many of these open minded kids are from these farm and ranch families. Will some become their fearful parents, yes. But, not all of them. They go to school in the cities. They aren’t growing up in the cocoon their parents did. They refuse to hate who their parents say to hate. I refuse to give up hope. The pandemic had more of an influence on them than their parental upbringing.
kids brainwashed the same way in the trailer trash states of NC,and esp. SC,but its alll ok ’cause jaysus….
Sadly, that demo is irrelevant to current events because of two reasons: they don’t vote and they don’t donate Dark Money. Those who do both know precisely what’s coming up to vote in larger numbers over time… and they’re pre-empting their power. Right. This. Second.
And yesterday was National Donut Day!
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