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Jaimie Hileman's avatar

Republicans never, ever stop thinking 24/7/365 thinking about children's genitalia. They tied the bathroom ban to relief legislation, then called a special session for it, ignoring the folks homeless from the floods, then had the nerve to ban Democrats for it!

But no one will hold them accountable, so it will continue to worsen.

Will anyone notice when red states make it legal to lynch and murder us?

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Talia Perkins's avatar

"Republicans never, ever stop thinking 24/7/365 thinking about children's genitalia. "

They do want to abuse some children with the child's own sex.

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Talia Perkins's avatar

And kids go to school, some are transgender -- this is a law to mandate child abuse.

Social Conservatives/gender critical ideologues are people who want to abut some children with the child's own sex. They are the child abusers they claim they fight!

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Dani's avatar

Backwards and insane.

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Nancy's avatar

I don’t see how it can be enforceable. People can’t (or shouldn’t) be forced to show their private parts to anyone. And it’s discriminatory because it only focuses on who pees in women’s restrooms as far as I can tell. No random stranger should have the right to ask anyone to prove their gender.

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Sarah F's avatar

The silver lining of this bill is that it ensnares cisgender women who don't pass as cisgender. The only way all this madness stops is when it starts negatively impacting straight people's lives. I figure that just by sheer numbers, the phobes are going to get 10 false positives for every trans person they successfully clock.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

And then they'll get sued by that person. Which absolutely needs to happen.

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klmr's avatar

Unfortunately you are probably right.

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Anne's avatar

We have a tournament scheduled for Fort Worth this season. Fuck Texas, fuck Hotwheels, fuck Paxton, I'll pee where I want. They need to start thinking about dealing with actual pedophiles, like the Orange Turd.

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Brenna's avatar

So Texans now have the right to question the gender of anyone in MAGA gear who heads in the direction of a bathroom...

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Samantha Paige (she/they)'s avatar

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Thank you for this piece 💕

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JB 1074's avatar

My cis gendered daughter will be clocked way more often than my trans daughter. This is not protecting women at all

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Brianna Amore's avatar

Republicans don't want to protect women. Republicans want to CONTROL women. And trans people upsets their precious dominance over women so therefore must be punished.

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Jennifer Collier's avatar

Jesus, we just want to pee in peace.

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Katrina deVille's avatar

This is what happens when pedos are running government. Do not comply and remove these assholes any way possible.

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Joel W. Crump's avatar

The ignorance of phobes knows no bounds. Despite the research the supports the self-evident nature of trans identity as a phenomenon, people say "God doesn't make mistakes", essentially. Well, they're almost right, he doesn't, he made trans people as part of the diverse world we live in, what is so impossible to understand? I prefer women to have male genitals, as a cisgender man, I also prefer the unique feminine nature of trans women, am I just a freak, should I be crucified? Are we that primitive? Fuck all this noise - revolution now, trans rights are human rights, women's rights are human rights (i.e. Dobbs defying the constitution). The system has utterly failed.

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Aux's avatar

Republican Texans definition of a Woman acc to SB 8:

""Female" means an individual who naturally has or will have, or had or would have but for a congenital anomaly or an intentional or unintentional disruption, a reproductive system designed to produce, transport, and provide eggs for fertilization."

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Anna's avatar

Irony: every fetus starts out potentially female and but for a “disruption” (the fetus being exposed to testosterone) would result in a reproductive system with eggs. So a strict reading of this definition does seem to say that literally everyone is female.

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Stephanie Shea's avatar

What is really so sad about so called Red states, is that I am sure many of them aren't really Red as per the registered voters. For example, in Texas, 46% of registered voters are Democrats, 37.75 are Republicans and 15% are unaffiliated. Gerrymandering has a hold on the state to block Democratic power. It will be even worse after this new round of Gerrymandering. I finally got my adult transdaughter out of Texas in May. I feel so bad for the people who can't afford to get out. I lived in Texas my whole life until 2021 when I just couldn't take it anymore. I was going to pride events before I had children. It is frightening how much the Republicans have rolled back rights over my lifetime of living there. I don't know if it has been posted here yet, but HB3817 was a bill to make gender expression other than what you were born as would be a felony in Texas. Thankfully it didn't pass.

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Mike Gelt's avatar

This is far from a surprise Texas has to be one of the worst states in this country

These republicans have no moral compass, I’ll bet there many secret trans and gays that are members of the state officials

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Mad Girl Disease's avatar

The harsh reality is that there is no longer any reliable law or justice in this country. It is for all practical purposes a white christian police state. There will be no going back, only through it. Prepare for the worst. Expect it.

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