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solarbirdIf you are Canadian, here’s a petition asking the House of Commons to extend to transgender and nonbinary people the right to claim asylum in Canada by reason of eliminationist laws in their home countries, including the US and Great Britain. IT MUST BE SIGNED BY THE 26th, so go do that now.
Target removes some LGBTQ merchandise from stores after threats to workers, as in threats of violence. Most coverage is refusing to refer to the violent threats and are instead referring to “controversy” and “backlash,” which is absolutely an editorial decision to downplay the situation. California Governor Newsom is calling Target out on their capitulation, but even in those stories nobody’s talking about the threats of violence. The Daily Beast has coverage of the main MAGA/Republican disinformation fuelling the threats – lies that Fox News and Newsmax both heavily amplified.
“Books about LGBTQ people are fast becoming the main target of a historic wave of school book challenges,” writes the Washington Post, “and a large percentage of the complaints come from a minuscule number of hyperactive adults.” That’s a gift link, so you can read it without a subscription.
Proud Boys and other fascist groups have been planning to disrupt Pride celebrations nationally. That’s already resulted in violence in an early pride event in Montana. There’s a great deal of focus on Juneteenth, declaring it a day to “break the chains of Pride month.” Meanwhile, a Spokane pastor calls for parents of trans children to be executed, and rightist channels are spreading “trans children are a demonic presence” propaganda.
They want violence and are happy to bring it themselves.
MAGA rioter gets 7 years in prison for trying to cut power at Capitol on January 6, so that’s nice. Nazi who crashed near White House told officials he was prepared to kill Biden and ‘seize power’, not so great, mitigated by being incredibly pathetic. Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges, definitely bad, particularly given Rise in extreme wildfires linked directly to emissions from oil companies in new study. Maybe that should be in Musk Twitter news, but it fits so well here that I brought it above the fold, particularly since climate scientists are already scared and angry for so many other, science-related reasons.
“We have First Amendment rights to gather at Pride. Private paramilitary groups have no authority to detain, attack, or police drag or gender non-conforming people and all 50 states prevent private paramilitary groups from activities reserved for state militia. “This document tells organizers how to protect the community.”
And our last national link, ProPublica covers the GOP’s national state-level removals of child labour law, laws that kept children in schools and kept them from harm and death in factories.
Florida:
Florida trans ADULTS are seven days into having most of their HRT prescription renewals revoked, due to Republican Florida’s… not full ban, but very close to it, of hormone replacement therapy for trans ADULTS. This will fuck people up, and that is absolutely the Republican intent. “When we are made to suffer – by banning our medication, arresting us for peeing, legislating our identities out of existence on the road to establishing a theocratic state – that is a policy choice.” And this is a policy choice to eliminate trans people.
As previously reported, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill last Thursday allowing doctors and health insurance companies to deny care to anyone they want. That’s the New Republic’s coverage, and I’m glad someone’s paying at least some attention to the fact that these guys want to decide who lives and who dies.
Human Rights Campaign, the LGBT-rights group, join the NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens, Equality Florida, and Florida Immigrant Coalition in issuing a travel advisory against travel to Florida.
A Florida school banned the poem that lead off Biden’s inauguration. Hilarious. By which I mean vile.
Finally, Maddow tells a brutal story of a woman forced to carry a fatally defective foetus to full term in Florida, where reproductive care nightmares have become tragically common.
Mississippi:
The same high school that won a court order saying they could force a trans woman student to attend dressed as a man to attend graduation – she skipped it, good for her, fuck that school – did the next best thing and forced a cis but gender-nonconforming girl to take off her trousers under her graduation robe or be kicked out of graduation. It’s all about control and forced conformity, and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.
Montana:
Republican Montana banned drag storytime at libraries, because every other Republican state is doing that too. I don’t know if it’s written broadly enough to ban trans people reading stories in general or not.
South Carolina:
Republican South Carolina legislature passes a 6-week abortion ban; it’s going to the governor’s desk to be signed. This is the same governor who said he looked forward to Democrats being so rare they’d hunt them with dogs.
Texas:
Republican Texas Forced This Woman to Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She’s Suing reports Rolling Stone. The hospital told her, quite possibly correctly, that she’d be arrested if she tried to leave to get medical care elsewhere. She and several other women are suing.
Twitter:
Rightist propaganda news platform The Daily Wire plans to stream its shows on Musk Twitter, recognising the platform for what it is – an alt-right propaganda and disinformation fountain. If you still don’t believe me on that, and are still helping him by being active on Twitter, maybe you’ll buy it if someone other than me outlines it for you. And here’s a reminder of one of the ways he uses it for those ends. And sure, Musk’s attempt to use Twitter to boost DeSantis’s presidential campaign kickoff imploded hilariously, but he’ll keep at it.
He also says he’s having his teams work on “TruthGPT,” a language “AI” which won’t be ‘politically correct,’ presumably meaning it won’t be afraid to use the N word and other slurs at people since that’s what most of the people making that complaint are talking about. Can’t wait to see what it has to say about trans people. But I think we already know.
And he’s still not paying rent.
Finally, here’s an old article on the continuous traumatic stress many of us have been going through for years now, and will get to continue to handle for years to come. It’s not fun, but it tells you some of the things to watch out for, so I’m including it in case it’s of help to anybody out there. We have something like six or seven more years of this – if things go well. Let’s hope they do.
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"Chronic traumatic stress"
Date: 2023-05-25 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-25 06:25 pm (UTC)(I assume you meant nonconforming, with an O, but I kinda like "nonconfirming", heh.)
So she was wearing nothing but her underwear? This is "hilarious" to me because when I graduated from high school, they were at some pains to make sure we did wear something under there - especially the girls, because our robes were white and therefore somewhat see-through in their cheap polyester glory.
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Date: 2023-05-25 06:58 pm (UTC)