This thread is for the discussion of current events relating to trans rights, for discussion of the lives of trans people and difficulties they face, and for basic questions about the lives and experiences of trans people. (If basic questions become dominant we'll look at making a Q&A thread at that time.)
Hope McCrory hasn't spent all our money fighting for HB2 with this hurricane about to majorly affect NC. Stay safe everyone!
Friends - as a cis/het guy wanting to understand and learn how to care for trans folks better, curious to know what those of you who are trans (or not) would consider to be "basic core supports" I could offer you, in the language of that twitter thread above.
If I'm asking an old question, I apologize, and if I'm making poor assumptions in the way I'm asking or anything - please help me out, I'm willing to learn.
I'm just so very glad that this forum is a place where this space can exist, and that for all the struggles and hate in this world that trans people in particular face some of you have nonetheless found those moments of happiness, thank you all again for sharing that journey and the experiences therein so openly here.
+ soooo many 1s to this. I am literally a different(I think better) person because of these threads.
Hope McCrory hasn't spent all our money fighting for HB2 with this hurricane about to majorly affect NC. Stay safe everyone!
Just most of it.
not sure who this person is but they make an interesting point;
Was happier to be with this company today when I saw signs under the men's and women's restrooms at work today that gave the location for a unisex bathroom in the building. Subtle middle finger by the corporation to HB2 here in NC.
I cannot WAIT to vote against this man. He is actually taking the "people are mean to me!" approach. Talk about living in his own little world.
In a discussion with conservative leaders last week, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said the reaction to House Bill 2 has gotten personal, leaving his wife “shunned” at social events and making him the target of verbal assaults and even death threats.McCrory told the group that he’s also experienced political blow-back that he said was orchestrated by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group.
I cannot WAIT to vote against this man. He is actually taking the "people are mean to me!" approach. Talk about living in his own little world.
In a discussion with conservative leaders last week, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said the reaction to House Bill 2 has gotten personal, leaving his wife “shunned” at social events and making him the target of verbal assaults and even death threats.McCrory told the group that he’s also experienced political blow-back that he said was orchestrated by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group.
Hah. You mean like how he's shunning and threatening trans people?
I cannot WAIT to vote against this man. He is actually taking the "people are mean to me!" approach. Talk about living in his own little world.
Yeah I'm actually more happy about voting him out than making sure Trump doesn't win.
JC wrote:I cannot WAIT to vote against this man. He is actually taking the "people are mean to me!" approach. Talk about living in his own little world.
Yeah I'm actually more happy about voting him out than making sure Trump doesn't win.
I see this as a time when I get to vote against hate twice on one ticket.
I totally forgot to tag this thread after the migration from P&C to D&D. Don't mind me, I'm just here to support and learn, as best as I am able.
I have just returned from Bad Religion, with Against Me! as the opening band. The issue is: they were awesome.
I think it was in the prior thread that Whipping Girl by Julia Serano was mentioned. I'm just finishing up reading it and appreciate the recommendation. Just wanted to say thanks!
Wow, that's just....mindboggling. How do you compromise on something like this when we all know that "later" never really comes?
I am glad a human rights organization can compromise over the rights of the humans that it claims to represent.
The problem I see is that these "conservatives" are still looking at it from how it makes THEM feel. They're not considering how the actual people impacted by these rules feel.
Disappointing.
For some more context on the Massachusetts situation:
There was a great big fight during the legislative process to pass PA protections for trans people in the House, where PA protections were less popular, primarily because of bathroom panic. So, as a compromise, they adopted language that would exempt people who asserted gender identity for 'an improper purpose'. That language made it through to the final signed, implemented version.
Which the ADF was behind the ultimately successful effort to get a ballot initiative to repeal.
This puts the lie to the notion that the ADF, Massachusetts Family Institute, or whoever, want to protect women and girls. They got language that addresses those concerns - they just want to punish us for existing.
First two of three judges say a four-year-old may not wear girls' clothes in public. A third judge finally rules in accordance with recently-passed human rights legislation.
First two of three judges say a four-year-old may not wear girls' clothes in public. A third judge finally rules in accordance with recently-passed human rights legislation.
f*ck those first two judges. And you can bet it would never have occurred to either of them to forbid my daughter from wearing all the damn 'clearly male' clothes she wears in public.
I wonder how much of transphobia, since it's so often targeted at trans women and ignores the existence of trans men, is wrapped up with homophobia? Which is to say, how much of it is straight cis men making it about themselves and their fear of emasculation?
Sometimes I wonder if I'm on the wrong planet. What's wrong with these people? Why can't we just let everyone be who and what they want to be?
ungh that Alberta sh*t, hopefully some precedent can be set so they do it right from the get go in the future and elsewhere.
Saw this bit of depressing and rage-inducing local news:
In the same county Leelah Alcorn once called home, Warren County commissioners took steps to make sure gender reassignment surgery is not covered for county employees.
This seems to conflict -- if not directly violate -- the Affordable Care Act, which encourages carriers to cover gender reassignment surgery and other necessary medical procedures often sought by transgender people.
"I'm not making a moral judgment here," said County Commissioner David Young. "If someone wants to do that (gender reassignment surgery), that is between them and God. It's just not something I think taxpayers should be paying for."
Young and the other two Republican commissioners signed a letter on Tuesday directing UnitedHealthcare to remove gender dysphoria coverage from its plan. Young believes gender reassignment surgery is a choice and should be considered an elective procedure.
He remembers Alcorn, and calls her story a "tragic situation." It doesn't change his mind about what he thinks is another example of federal overreach.
Alcorn was born male. In 2014, the 17-year-old from Kings Mills killed herself by stepping in front of a truck on the highway near South Lebanon. Anguished words about gender identity and parental rejection filled the teenager's suicide note.
In the note, Alcorn pleaded for her death to mean something.
Her last line: "Fix society. Please."
Saw this bit of depressing and rage-inducing local news:
In the same county Leelah Alcorn once called home, Warren County commissioners took steps to make sure gender reassignment surgery is not covered for county employees.
This seems to conflict -- if not directly violate -- the Affordable Care Act, which encourages carriers to cover gender reassignment surgery and other necessary medical procedures often sought by transgender people.
"I'm not making a moral judgment here," said County Commissioner David Young. "If someone wants to do that (gender reassignment surgery), that is between them and God. It's just not something I think taxpayers should be paying for."
Young and the other two Republican commissioners signed a letter on Tuesday directing UnitedHealthcare to remove gender dysphoria coverage from its plan. Young believes gender reassignment surgery is a choice and should be considered an elective procedure.
He remembers Alcorn, and calls her story a "tragic situation." It doesn't change his mind about what he thinks is another example of federal overreach.
Alcorn was born male. In 2014, the 17-year-old from Kings Mills killed herself by stepping in front of a truck on the highway near South Lebanon. Anguished words about gender identity and parental rejection filled the teenager's suicide note.
In the note, Alcorn pleaded for her death to mean something.
Her last line: "Fix society. Please."
Really gotta get out of Ohio.
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