I want to thank Barry for sending me the link to this video. Best wishes friend. Scottie.
The video is about the politically driven fight to end trans care in Texas for minors and adults. And how it is affecting four trans families and others. In it you will hear false claims made about chopping off little boys penises which is not happening, but no mention of breast augmentation and nose jobs for teenage girls. You will hear claims made that are misinformation, lies, and myths. The goal is to create a straight cis fundamentalist Christian republican society ruled by men, and to do this they use the claims of saving the children to rile up the base and muddy the water to get more votes. They don’t care who they hurt in the process, they wouldn’t even allow current minors on puberty blockers and hormones to be weaned off or to continue treatment. This is not about the health of children as Texas did not accept summer food assistance for poor people, they did not do anything about school shootings and gun control, they did not increase child health care at all they only removed the medically accepted best practices for gender nonconforming kids. Hugs. Scottie
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I saw this yesterday on the news, and meant to email it to you, but with what you have going I’m just going to post the link:
https://www.kake.com/story/50653908/wichita-east-students-walk-out-to-protest-antitrans-legislation
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Hello Ali. Thank you for the link. This is why the red states are trying to pass laws that remove all representation and protections for LGBTQ+. They want students to hate other students who are different, who are not straight and cis. But they young people who are older won’t have it, they won’t return to hating others. Sadly the plan is working on the lower age new to school kids, who have not learned that their friends who feel different from themselves are OK, decent, and normal people also. I think I will post this one. Hugs. Scottie
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Oh Ali. Do you think the governor will sign it? Hugs. Scottie
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No, I don’t believe she will sign it, I believe she will veto it. She’s a humane person-she’d be the first to say she doesn’t understand something, but she knows when she sees humans standing in front of her. She’s also term-limited, so she’s got nothing to lose and 3+ years to govern yet. That said, maybe the leg can override her veto, or maybe some legislators’s constituents can prevail upon them to not vote to override; it’s happened before. It’s hard to say.
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Hi Ali. Yes all you wrote is true. I read it all this morning and yes it seems if two more republicans join the haters they can override the veto. Sad so many kids get hurt for political games. Yet this is the same part that in Tenn or KY is fighting to let anti-gay religious bigoted parents adopt known LGBTQ+ kids. The person kept saying it was to give the kids the best home … no matter how it was pointed out that those adoptive parents wouldn’t support the kid and would try to change them. The person who pushed the bill kept saying it was best for the kid to be adopted by people that wouldn’t accept who they were and would try to force them to change.
That is the way these people think. Force everyone to live and believe as they do. It is for your own good we are drowning you. Or in my own case … it is for you I have to do this, you made me hurt you, you need this … or the one I never understood … You made me do this to you. Hugs. Scottie
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Here it is-she vetoed. She said, “Kelly said in a statement Friday that the measure ‘tramples parental rights,’ adding that ‘the last place I would want to be as a politician is between a parent and a child who needed medical care of any kind.’” (And more, too, on the page. I love our governor.
https://www.kake.com/story/50665987/kansas-gov-laura-kelly-vetoes-ban-on-genderaffirming-care-for-minors
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Hi Ali. Do you think she will be overturned? Also is it possible that more democrats could be elected now? Hugs. Scottie
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As to the first, it just all depends upon who’s present when it comes up, and what their constituents have had to say to them. Last year, they didn’t get the votes, I don’t know about this year; you know how Republicans tend to tighten up. Well, they used to, and they still do at state levels.
As to the second, more Dems may run, I don’t know and haven’t yet seen. If they run and if there’s money, a few could win if, say, the veto override wins, and maybe another thing or two that people really don’t like but the leg has done anyway. Mostly we’re gerrymandered to the point that there are 3-4 Republican votes for each Dem vote (can’t remember where I saw that, but I am aware that there is at least 1/3 more Republicans than Dems registered who vote.) So, it’s unlikely for Dems to make much of a dent.
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