Florida Representative David Borrero compared transition to suicide while defending HB1421, a bill that targets trans kids, trans adults, and bans all insurance coverage.
Just what we suspected all along. Florida is my home state and I am so embarrassed and heartbroken. Erin, thank you so much for your work. Your reporting and your map of the safe states is so important for our family right now. <3
This makes me ill hearing them say that this will save trans youth lives. LGBTQIA+ children/teenagers are one of the highest at-risk groups of people around the world and if this bill passes it is like taking a step back to the stone age.
Does not the ACA prevent this? Federal law supercedes state law, does it not? The religious belief BS that these people are using is beyond unconstitutional. I am as God made me. Do not our own religious beliefs have no legal bearing on this!?!
My employer-provided health insurance only started covering gender-affirming care a few years ago BECAUSE of section 1557 of ACA (the non-discrimination provision) going into effect and requiring insurers who participate in federal programs to cover it. But Florida's government has proven time and again that it does not care what federal law says. Some of this might even be designed to get to the much more right-wing Supreme Court because it violates federal law, though that's just conjecture on my part at this point. And this is just one of several incredibly regressive, draconian, authoritarian anti-trans / anti-LGBTQ+ bills moving quickly through our legislature in Florida right now (including two different bills this morning). It's awful and frightening how quickly everything is moving. These are some of our governor's priorities, so it's pretty much guaranteed, to pass, too.
Things are only getting more dire. The mask is off. If DeSantis is able to land the presidency, we are in deep shit nationwide. Every single one of us has to work to insure he does not. This is an atrocity in the making.
What are all you Floridians going to do now? Staying or moving? I’m in Indiana (red), and I want to move outta here, go where we will get treated with respect, Minnesota! I could move next door, Illinois. But too close to home.
The fact that this is not on the news 24/7 is MIND BLOWING to me. Republicans are literally going AGAINST all facts and medical advice and using GAWD as their argument for this.
It’s time to start our own religion and sue them for religious persecution. I’m just DISGUSTED. I will never ever set foot in Florida again.
It blows my mind as well. No matter how I post about these bills and the danger they pose to transgender people, in those States as well as in the USA more generally . . . remember we thought Roe was safe because it was settled law, until it wasn’t. Now, we see how they’re trying to create a nationwide abortion ban in court. What’s to stop them from using similar tactics against the Transgender community or the LGBTQ community more broadly?
You know, I had that exact same thought about starting our own religion and suing for religious persecution. Use their own tools and tactics against them. Though that might feed into their whole "indoctrination" rhetoric and "groomer" narrative, which wouldn't be great. But since that's their own tactic in many of these cases, it could be a tool to turn against them.
I’m an Atheist, but I’ll happily sign up to a religion just to beat them at their own game. I’ll even go to church every week for that cause. Not kidding.
Cynic that I am, they’d say we wouldn’t be deserving of protection as a Religion because it would be a new one . . . they’d argue it was a fiction to give us “special rights” as they’ve argued in the past against Marriage Equality for example.
Just wondering if any of the states banning transgender health care can be in this situation(read below) and can use that as an argument:<<<A judge in Jackson, Wyoming, on Wednesday temporarily blocked a state abortion ban that took effect Sunday, saying it ran afoul of a constitutional amendment voters approved in 2012 that guarantees "each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions." Anti-abortion lawmakers had declared in the new law that abortion is not health care, in an attempt to get around the amendment, which the same jurist, Teton County Judge Melissa Owens, had cited in blocking a previous abortion ban last August.
Owens said the state Legislature was overstepping its authority. "Wyomingites voted into law that they have a fundamental right to make their own health care decisions," with potential "necessary and reasonable restrictions" that put "no undue government infringement upon those rights," Owens said Wednesday.>> (From the article called Wyoming judge blocks state abortion ban, in “The Week” by Peter Weber on 23 March 2023)
I was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I'm planning a stealth trip to see family and friends before the borders are closed and the walls go up. My original plan of retiring back there in a decade is seeming inadvisable. Such a pity.
If I wasn’t convinced it was genocide before I certainly am now.
Just what we suspected all along. Florida is my home state and I am so embarrassed and heartbroken. Erin, thank you so much for your work. Your reporting and your map of the safe states is so important for our family right now. <3
I will never stop!
This makes me ill hearing them say that this will save trans youth lives. LGBTQIA+ children/teenagers are one of the highest at-risk groups of people around the world and if this bill passes it is like taking a step back to the stone age.
This is the eradication they wanted. Next step is something like what Uganda has passed.
JFC WTAF
Thanks, Erin. I'm sorry you have to see all this all the time. I'm grateful for your work.
Does not the ACA prevent this? Federal law supercedes state law, does it not? The religious belief BS that these people are using is beyond unconstitutional. I am as God made me. Do not our own religious beliefs have no legal bearing on this!?!
My employer-provided health insurance only started covering gender-affirming care a few years ago BECAUSE of section 1557 of ACA (the non-discrimination provision) going into effect and requiring insurers who participate in federal programs to cover it. But Florida's government has proven time and again that it does not care what federal law says. Some of this might even be designed to get to the much more right-wing Supreme Court because it violates federal law, though that's just conjecture on my part at this point. And this is just one of several incredibly regressive, draconian, authoritarian anti-trans / anti-LGBTQ+ bills moving quickly through our legislature in Florida right now (including two different bills this morning). It's awful and frightening how quickly everything is moving. These are some of our governor's priorities, so it's pretty much guaranteed, to pass, too.
If things keep going, there will be a point where we’ll have to physically fight for our very existence.
Things are only getting more dire. The mask is off. If DeSantis is able to land the presidency, we are in deep shit nationwide. Every single one of us has to work to insure he does not. This is an atrocity in the making.
What are all you Floridians going to do now? Staying or moving? I’m in Indiana (red), and I want to move outta here, go where we will get treated with respect, Minnesota! I could move next door, Illinois. But too close to home.
The fact that this is not on the news 24/7 is MIND BLOWING to me. Republicans are literally going AGAINST all facts and medical advice and using GAWD as their argument for this.
It’s time to start our own religion and sue them for religious persecution. I’m just DISGUSTED. I will never ever set foot in Florida again.
I don't watch the news for that reason.
They'll never cover us right.
That's why I'm here!
It blows my mind as well. No matter how I post about these bills and the danger they pose to transgender people, in those States as well as in the USA more generally . . . remember we thought Roe was safe because it was settled law, until it wasn’t. Now, we see how they’re trying to create a nationwide abortion ban in court. What’s to stop them from using similar tactics against the Transgender community or the LGBTQ community more broadly?
You know, I had that exact same thought about starting our own religion and suing for religious persecution. Use their own tools and tactics against them. Though that might feed into their whole "indoctrination" rhetoric and "groomer" narrative, which wouldn't be great. But since that's their own tactic in many of these cases, it could be a tool to turn against them.
I’m an Atheist, but I’ll happily sign up to a religion just to beat them at their own game. I’ll even go to church every week for that cause. Not kidding.
Cynic that I am, they’d say we wouldn’t be deserving of protection as a Religion because it would be a new one . . . they’d argue it was a fiction to give us “special rights” as they’ve argued in the past against Marriage Equality for example.
How much are we going to take before we just say, “No, your laws are a farce and we’re not going to follow them!”
The IRS still thinks I am not dead so I must be still alive. Funny because I feel vibrantly alive. Angry. But very much alive.
Just wondering if any of the states banning transgender health care can be in this situation(read below) and can use that as an argument:<<<A judge in Jackson, Wyoming, on Wednesday temporarily blocked a state abortion ban that took effect Sunday, saying it ran afoul of a constitutional amendment voters approved in 2012 that guarantees "each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions." Anti-abortion lawmakers had declared in the new law that abortion is not health care, in an attempt to get around the amendment, which the same jurist, Teton County Judge Melissa Owens, had cited in blocking a previous abortion ban last August.
Owens said the state Legislature was overstepping its authority. "Wyomingites voted into law that they have a fundamental right to make their own health care decisions," with potential "necessary and reasonable restrictions" that put "no undue government infringement upon those rights," Owens said Wednesday.>> (From the article called Wyoming judge blocks state abortion ban, in “The Week” by Peter Weber on 23 March 2023)
I was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I'm planning a stealth trip to see family and friends before the borders are closed and the walls go up. My original plan of retiring back there in a decade is seeming inadvisable. Such a pity.