Exactly. There's no such thing as anti-Trans anti-LGBTQ Democrats, they're just pedoGOPers in drag. Primary and boot them. We don't need anyone with a (D) who votes with MAGAts. Screw them. We are in a literal existential and genocidalist war started by the GOPMAGAs and anti-queer Dems are the enemy as much as the most child-raping ammosexual MAGAt murderer.
Transphobia + brutal Law and Order ideology = this despicable bullshit.
One common trait conservatives share is that they are all empathy-deficient to one degree or another. One has to be that in certain respects in order to hold these beliefs. And honestly, I think a lot of them really do enjoy inflicting harm on others, and one of the ways this is most evident in is how they view incarcerated people - as subhuman, as not worth of even basic human rights. Of course, they also view trans people that way, so once again, you get things like this latest garbage.
Rep. Lynn Heffner, Rep. Tangie Herring, and Rep. Dexter Sharper—voted in favor of the anti-trans bill. Please take the time to contact these felon followers and express your voice and feelings. This is the message I sent after several angry incoherent drafts.
I write to express my extreme disappointment that you voted in support of a policy which would ban state funds from contributing to the gender affirming health care of incarcerated trans people. I am a 74 year old cis-woman and trans ally who has voted Democrat my entire life. Never have I been so disappointed in my Democrat party. Your vote has me shaking my head and so disappointed.
GA Trans person, followed all of this closely. On “popular” bi partisan transphobia where at least a handful of democrats have fallen for propaganda this was always going to pass. The House Speaker this year made it clear that trans participation in sports was the one main priority and this bill came out of nowhere because our Senate is virulently anti trans. This bill, the sports ban, and the RFRA will be court battles very soon.
As we saw last year all anti trans bills died at cross over day but the senate amended house bills to add that stuff on to random bills and the house refused to approve.
The good news is two prominent anti trans bills did NOT pass.
SB30 - a total youth care ban that would include puberty blockers
SB 39- a ban on GAC coverage for all ages using government funded insurances for people like teachers, firefighters, etc this is called our SHBP
Well, the housing crisis may be getting almost completely ignored and deprioritized, but hey, at least you won't have to share that homeless shelter with a harmless trans person!
Opposition to even the existence of Trans people is routed in a handful of conservative Christian cults. I think it’s important to point out to members of these cults that there are at 3,000 different religions in the world. They all have followers who think they’re following “the one true religion” even though they disagree on what they believe, sometimes radically.
It’s this type of fanaticism that lead to the 30 Years’ War (1618-1648) between Europe’s Roman Catholic and Protestant powers. More than a million people died, most of them in the German states. It looked like the Catholic powers would win. France was a Roman Catholic power, but stayed out of it because of the civil wars and massacres that had happened there the previous century. However seeing Spain, Austria and the Papal States becoming so powerful, France (whose foreign policy was determined by Cardinal Richelieu) sided with the Protestants, who then won.
Europe was wrecked so badly by the war, that no Continental power ever again tried to enforce a religion outside of its national boundaries until the Russian Communist Revolution. Further, the fanaticism of the religions helped along the Enlightenment, in which people began to speak out against both autocratic religion and autocratic monarchy, leading to the American and French revolutions, and a steady strengthening of democracy all over the continent.
We are heirs of the Enlightenment. We better remember it.
It's interesting that the Folx health service you promote does not accept Medicaid, yet you are speaking of a lack of that care for state prisoners, who use similar funding.
I'm 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 stripping away their healthcare will teach those inmates 𝘴𝘰 much more respect for the law after they've served their sentences, right? 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?! [𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵 all 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘮 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.]
Republican dumbfuckery is to be expected at this point, but watching Democrats jump on the brainfart bandwagon will never stop being disappointing.
SMDH... I know our criminal justice system in this country is broken from top to bottom, but that doesn't mean we should be actively making it worse. It's like all the dipshits running the show think the Eighth Amendment had a "/s" tag appended.
It is so sad to yet again see anti-trans hysteria reach such levels that it dominates the legislative cycle of another state house.
One point of clarification -
"He violated the injunction almost immediately and sent trans women to men’s prisons, where trans women are routinely subjected to sexual assault, abuse and forced detransition." which linked to this article -
When that article was published on March 7th, I asked Chris Geidner (/aka Law Dork) about it because a) I was horrified at what was being done to those women and b) on first read it sounded like the court order was being violated which would be terming on whole other level.
Chris said they were not violating the court order and pointed to this paragraph in the article -
"Lawyers fighting Trump’s directive say the court rulings prevented the transfers of 17 trans women who are plaintiffs in the cases, but others not included in the litigation are now facing placements in men’s facilities."
The issue is, the injunction issued against Trumps EO about transgender prisoners was only applied by the judge to the plaintiffs in the case. The judge did not issue apply the injunction to an entire class of people (i.e. transgender), such as the judge did in the military ban case.
I hope that that injunction in the prison case gets expanded soon as this is so horrifying!!!
That's totally fair! Maybe I mean it looks like giving up or something. Getting loud by leaving a room is fine, but what if crowds of actual trans people came in and disrupted proceedings? Idk, maybe I'm becoming much more discouraged and disenchanted with Democrats and these formalities. This is better than nothing I guess, but I can't imagine it does anything beyond making "allies" feel better. And I can't help but think that that's actually worse than nothing (because it lets people off the hook for taking direct action). Thanks for engaging Sarah, I'm sending you and all of us Love ❤️
Sending love back, Thea! <3 I think one thing good that it does is it reinforces the Democratic brand. It shows that Democrats DO care (or at least SHOULD care) about trans issues. It's a wonderful and encouraging counterpart to Gavin Newsom's throwing us under the bus.
I think right now, at this time in history, although we trans people could be out and loud, we really need our allies to be out and loud on our behalf. The narrative painted about is us that we are obnoxious and that we are hell-bent on forcing ourselves on "decent normal folks." Our getting loud tends to reinforce that narrative. However, our allies getting loud for us conveys a message that this is not OK. And I like the message of these lawmakers, that there are real issues that need to be addressed in GA, but all the Georgian GOP is interested in doing is bullying helpless people who aren't doing anybody any harm. I think it's a good message.
As for letting people off the hook... I don't know. You might be right. On the other hand, I think noise often incites more noise. We can hope the noise is contagious, right? Just trying to pitch out a few rays of hope. ;-)
Right on, this all makes a lot of sense! I suppose it takes all kinds of protests and signaling and disruption tactics to make the change we want to see. Hopefully we'll see each other out there in the world spreading the noise!
The way I see it is, they knew the vote was lost, and by walking out and forging their symbolic votes, they captured media attention for a moment and tried to appeal to the public explaining that anti-trans bill had overrun the statehouse and nothing else was getting done.
Seems to me that's worth a try. It's going to take more than one walkout to do it, but I bet most people have no clue how much time and tax payer money is being wasted on this.
Remember. the cruelty is the point. Also, they are complete assholes.
Will insulin be withheld from prisoners next?
Vote em out. Those three dems have got to go. 🤦🏼♀️
they must go!! we must all show up for the 2026 midterms! we must!
Exactly. There's no such thing as anti-Trans anti-LGBTQ Democrats, they're just pedoGOPers in drag. Primary and boot them. We don't need anyone with a (D) who votes with MAGAts. Screw them. We are in a literal existential and genocidalist war started by the GOPMAGAs and anti-queer Dems are the enemy as much as the most child-raping ammosexual MAGAt murderer.
Transphobia + brutal Law and Order ideology = this despicable bullshit.
One common trait conservatives share is that they are all empathy-deficient to one degree or another. One has to be that in certain respects in order to hold these beliefs. And honestly, I think a lot of them really do enjoy inflicting harm on others, and one of the ways this is most evident in is how they view incarcerated people - as subhuman, as not worth of even basic human rights. Of course, they also view trans people that way, so once again, you get things like this latest garbage.
this is what supremacy and hypocritical moral ideology looks like ~ bastards, all of them!
Rep. Lynn Heffner, Rep. Tangie Herring, and Rep. Dexter Sharper—voted in favor of the anti-trans bill. Please take the time to contact these felon followers and express your voice and feelings. This is the message I sent after several angry incoherent drafts.
I write to express my extreme disappointment that you voted in support of a policy which would ban state funds from contributing to the gender affirming health care of incarcerated trans people. I am a 74 year old cis-woman and trans ally who has voted Democrat my entire life. Never have I been so disappointed in my Democrat party. Your vote has me shaking my head and so disappointed.
lynn.heffner@house.ga.gov
tangy.herring@house.ga.gov
Dexter.sharper@house.ga.gov
Thanks! Sent!
GA Trans person, followed all of this closely. On “popular” bi partisan transphobia where at least a handful of democrats have fallen for propaganda this was always going to pass. The House Speaker this year made it clear that trans participation in sports was the one main priority and this bill came out of nowhere because our Senate is virulently anti trans. This bill, the sports ban, and the RFRA will be court battles very soon.
As we saw last year all anti trans bills died at cross over day but the senate amended house bills to add that stuff on to random bills and the house refused to approve.
The good news is two prominent anti trans bills did NOT pass.
SB30 - a total youth care ban that would include puberty blockers
SB 39- a ban on GAC coverage for all ages using government funded insurances for people like teachers, firefighters, etc this is called our SHBP
Thanks for sharing! Glad to hear many bills are being defeated. Keep fighting!
Well, the housing crisis may be getting almost completely ignored and deprioritized, but hey, at least you won't have to share that homeless shelter with a harmless trans person!
Opposition to even the existence of Trans people is routed in a handful of conservative Christian cults. I think it’s important to point out to members of these cults that there are at 3,000 different religions in the world. They all have followers who think they’re following “the one true religion” even though they disagree on what they believe, sometimes radically.
It’s this type of fanaticism that lead to the 30 Years’ War (1618-1648) between Europe’s Roman Catholic and Protestant powers. More than a million people died, most of them in the German states. It looked like the Catholic powers would win. France was a Roman Catholic power, but stayed out of it because of the civil wars and massacres that had happened there the previous century. However seeing Spain, Austria and the Papal States becoming so powerful, France (whose foreign policy was determined by Cardinal Richelieu) sided with the Protestants, who then won.
Europe was wrecked so badly by the war, that no Continental power ever again tried to enforce a religion outside of its national boundaries until the Russian Communist Revolution. Further, the fanaticism of the religions helped along the Enlightenment, in which people began to speak out against both autocratic religion and autocratic monarchy, leading to the American and French revolutions, and a steady strengthening of democracy all over the continent.
We are heirs of the Enlightenment. We better remember it.
It's interesting that the Folx health service you promote does not accept Medicaid, yet you are speaking of a lack of that care for state prisoners, who use similar funding.
You know what stops floods? Dykes
I'm 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 stripping away their healthcare will teach those inmates 𝘴𝘰 much more respect for the law after they've served their sentences, right? 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?! [𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵 all 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘮 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.]
Republican dumbfuckery is to be expected at this point, but watching Democrats jump on the brainfart bandwagon will never stop being disappointing.
SMDH... I know our criminal justice system in this country is broken from top to bottom, but that doesn't mean we should be actively making it worse. It's like all the dipshits running the show think the Eighth Amendment had a "/s" tag appended.
As a Georgian I’m honestly quite scared.
It is so sad to yet again see anti-trans hysteria reach such levels that it dominates the legislative cycle of another state house.
One point of clarification -
"He violated the injunction almost immediately and sent trans women to men’s prisons, where trans women are routinely subjected to sexual assault, abuse and forced detransition." which linked to this article -
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump
When that article was published on March 7th, I asked Chris Geidner (/aka Law Dork) about it because a) I was horrified at what was being done to those women and b) on first read it sounded like the court order was being violated which would be terming on whole other level.
Chris said they were not violating the court order and pointed to this paragraph in the article -
"Lawyers fighting Trump’s directive say the court rulings prevented the transfers of 17 trans women who are plaintiffs in the cases, but others not included in the litigation are now facing placements in men’s facilities."
The issue is, the injunction issued against Trumps EO about transgender prisoners was only applied by the judge to the plaintiffs in the case. The judge did not issue apply the injunction to an entire class of people (i.e. transgender), such as the judge did in the military ban case.
I hope that that injunction in the prison case gets expanded soon as this is so horrifying!!!
I know nothing could have been done, but to me, a walk out looks like ceding power.
They didn't have any power to cede. So they got loud. I'm glad they did.
That's totally fair! Maybe I mean it looks like giving up or something. Getting loud by leaving a room is fine, but what if crowds of actual trans people came in and disrupted proceedings? Idk, maybe I'm becoming much more discouraged and disenchanted with Democrats and these formalities. This is better than nothing I guess, but I can't imagine it does anything beyond making "allies" feel better. And I can't help but think that that's actually worse than nothing (because it lets people off the hook for taking direct action). Thanks for engaging Sarah, I'm sending you and all of us Love ❤️
Sending love back, Thea! <3 I think one thing good that it does is it reinforces the Democratic brand. It shows that Democrats DO care (or at least SHOULD care) about trans issues. It's a wonderful and encouraging counterpart to Gavin Newsom's throwing us under the bus.
I think right now, at this time in history, although we trans people could be out and loud, we really need our allies to be out and loud on our behalf. The narrative painted about is us that we are obnoxious and that we are hell-bent on forcing ourselves on "decent normal folks." Our getting loud tends to reinforce that narrative. However, our allies getting loud for us conveys a message that this is not OK. And I like the message of these lawmakers, that there are real issues that need to be addressed in GA, but all the Georgian GOP is interested in doing is bullying helpless people who aren't doing anybody any harm. I think it's a good message.
As for letting people off the hook... I don't know. You might be right. On the other hand, I think noise often incites more noise. We can hope the noise is contagious, right? Just trying to pitch out a few rays of hope. ;-)
Right on, this all makes a lot of sense! I suppose it takes all kinds of protests and signaling and disruption tactics to make the change we want to see. Hopefully we'll see each other out there in the world spreading the noise!
The way I see it is, they knew the vote was lost, and by walking out and forging their symbolic votes, they captured media attention for a moment and tried to appeal to the public explaining that anti-trans bill had overrun the statehouse and nothing else was getting done.
Seems to me that's worth a try. It's going to take more than one walkout to do it, but I bet most people have no clue how much time and tax payer money is being wasted on this.