MSNBC: Mississippi's new bill is step one to legally erasing trans people

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But one state is taking things further. A conservative legislator in Mississippi introduced “The Real You Act of 2022,” a bill that would ban incarcerated trans people from changing their names and also banning trans youth from legally changing their gender.
Once again with the deceptive bill names: calling it "The Real You Act" when its intent is exactly the opposite.
 

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The far right believes that they have the supreme court stacked (and they may very well be right about that). So they are going to keep pushing new laws that make it as difficult as they can for anyone who is not a white, christian, heterosexual. I'm praying that the new generations coming up to vote are far less racist, misogynistic, homophobic or bigoted than my generation appears to be and stops them in their tracks.
 

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The far right believes that they have the supreme court stacked (and they may very well be right about that).
I believe they most certainly do have a lock there for the next few decades. :(
So they are going to keep pushing new laws that make it as difficult as they can for anyone who is not a white, christian, heterosexual.
You forgot "rich", "male", "manly", and "cisgendered."
 

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The far right believes that they have the supreme court stacked (and they may very well be right about that). So they are going to keep pushing new laws that make it as difficult as they can for anyone who is not a white, christian, heterosexual. I'm praying that the new generations coming up to vote are far less racist, misogynistic, homophobic or bigoted than my generation appears to be and stops them in their tracks.
You forgot -male-.

And just means we need to make sure people keep voting - I mean, we can't all do so much as McConnell, who has mobilized the African descended American vote, but if we can at least mobilize ourselves and friends and family...
 

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I have been thinking about emigrating to Germany. My grandmother Marie von Furstonberg was born in Germany. I think our task in Oklahoma is hopeless. I want to get away from these morons!
 

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I have been thinking about emigrating to Germany. My grandmother Marie von Furstonberg was born in Germany. I think our task in Oklahoma is hopeless. I want to get away from these morons!



tldr: have fun with that.
 

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Oh, sinner human, where you gonna run to?
Oh, sinner human, where you gonna run to?
Sinner human where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
On this, this judgement day.
We got to run to the stars.
Oh stars will you not hide me?
Oh sinner human the stars are falling into the sea.
On this, this judgement day.

Really is there anyplace to run and hide from the right wing?
 

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Any thoughts on why these nazis/repugs are after transgender people?
 

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Any thoughts on why these nazis/repugs are after transgender people?
Those groups need an enemy. That's what they unite around, some enemy whom they can target and attack in mass to 'defend' themselves. I'm sure there's some internal mythology they tell each other about how the evil transgender people are the privileged few who are keeping down decent real people like themselves. It's not THEIR fault X happened, it's those darned transgendered people oppressing them. Feelings over logic.
 

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Any thoughts on why these nazis/repugs are after transgender people?
Pick a small minority that they can get enough people behind in oppressing,
Then go for a bigger group - some people might be more hesitant, but they'll go along because they already engaged in oppressing the smaller group.
Follow up with a bigger group, by this stage there should be some resistance you can blame on godless socialists and globalists.

They are not being subtle about whose lead they are following.
 

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Those groups need an enemy. That's what they unite around, some enemy whom they can target and attack in mass to 'defend' themselves. I'm sure there's some internal mythology they tell each other about how the evil transgender people are the privileged few who are keeping down decent real people like themselves. It's not THEIR fault X happened, it's those darned transgendered people oppressing them. Feelings over logic.
To build upon what you said, trans people are arguably the perfect fake enemy for fascists. They are a small, downtrodden minority that can't really fight back. ...but they also seem weird enough to out of touch people to be an easy target. The small size and lack of power held by the trans community is also why they can't possibly be a real threat, but fuck logic!

Kind of related to this, ever notice how the right has a convenient ad-hominin for literally any possible person arguing against them?!

Oh, you're trans? You're mentally ill, so we can ignore your experience!

You're not trans but defending the trans community? (or any minority) Fake empathy! Virtual signaling!

You're a poor person who wants workers to be treated better? You're just lazy and entitled!

You're a well off person who wants low wage workers to be treated better? You're ungrateful, and out of touch!
 

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tldr: have fun with that.
Yeah.... I think many people here or in super liberal European cities underestimate how strong the far right is in Europe. They are still smaller proportionately in most European countries but have been growing... It also seems like the USA is more polarized in regards to civil rights in that we have more overt racists but also more people who acknowledge the need to respond to them. An example of what I mean is how football/Soccer fans around the world have publicly yelled racial slurs at black players in a way that is almost unimaginable in the USA.
 
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Any thoughts on why these nazis/repugs are after transgender people?
Well the original Nazis had this crazy idea about creating the Arian superior race, and proclaimed that Germans are part of that race. In order to create that, the population should breed like crazy, this means they considered heterosexuality as the norm and all other sexual orientations as wrong because these normally would not procreate. Being gay was considered a curable sickness under the Nazi regime, and this is why the Nazis were after gay men. Gay men often ended up in KZs.

Same applies more or less to lesbians, but the historians are still debating if they were as supressed like the gay men or not.

So it's not so hard to make the bridge from gay&lesbian to transgender people. Most of them will not procreate once all of their body changes are finished, and so above can be applied by these nazi stinkers.
 
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