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Once more down the memory hole
Within less than 24 hours, the Trump regime began doing exactly what it promised and enacted an immediate and comprehensive campaign of erasure of transgender people unlike anything in United States history.
Within days, any mention of transgender and nonbinary people was eliminated from government systems, with multiple executive orders demanding the removal and opposition of transgender people in all spheres of life.
Privacy, schools and social transition
At any given time for the past two years, dozens of bills have been proposed before state legislatures which seek to overturn privacy policies which have been enacted in the past decade to facilitate safe social transitions at school without “outing” students either to their peers or parents. One recent example, Missouri Senate Bill 827 introduced on January 3, 2024 by Republican state senator Andrew Koenig, would require school personnel to notify parents within 24 hours if a student requests the use of a different pronoun or name.
The DeSantis Strategy: emergency in Florida
There is an emergency in Florida right now, but you wouldn’t know it if you opened the average news website. While it’s hard to pinpoint exactly which institutional failing made it possible for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to implement a near-total ban on gender-affirming care for all ages across the state, I suspect at least some of the blame should land at the feet of the very same media that has since completely failed to cover it.
Three more school bathroom bills pass, and how we got here
While more than 1 in 5 U.S. states having passed laws or enacted policies banning live-saving medical care for trans youth, nearly 1 in 12 states have passed laws banning trans students from bathrooms in accordance with their gender. By the end of this legislative session, that proportion has the potential to reach 1 in 4.
Senator Cavanaugh for President
A week ago someone asked me who I would support for president if it wasn’t Joe Biden. To be quite honest, try as I did I literally couldn't answer the question because I'm so perpetually unimpressed with the American political landscape. I finally have an answer. I would follow Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh to the freaking moon if she asked me to.