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Talia Perkins's avatar

It is imperative the people engineering, funding, and carrying out the propaganda campaign and enacting the laws and policies against transgender people must face 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 18 U.S.C. § 241, & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecution. We can't just eventually win an election and be safe from them, they have to be imprisoned, and fined, and deprived of the privilege of seeking office, until the Social Conservatives are as politically dead as the Whigs and Know Nothings.

Tommy Lamont's avatar

Aha, another historian!! Love this.

Mike Gelt's avatar

Florida’s SB1010 and HB743 don’t “protect children.”

They criminalize care, silence educators and counselors, and terrorize LGBTQ+ youth and their families.

These bills turn doctors into felons, teachers into targets, and kids into political weapons.

They weaponize the state against evidence-based medicine, free speech, and basic human dignity.

This is government overreach at its most dangerous: punishment instead of care, fear instead of facts, ideology instead of rights.

Florida lawmakers should reject SB1010 and HB743 and stop legislating cruelty.

Children deserve safety, privacy, and support — not prosecution and stigma.

Julie's avatar

Annnd, we're back to bad news.

ILoveKitties's avatar

There must be alligator crap or something in the water that makes Florida politician's brains become smooth and mushy.

Talia Perkins's avatar

Cue balls. Smooth and no gray mater.

ILoveKitties's avatar

The matter is likely gray, but only because it's rancid.

Vox Populi's avatar

Is it just me or is this a violation of the 1A?

Talia Perkins's avatar

It violates lots of them, but probably not the 3rd. IYKYKYK?

Stephanie Keeley's avatar

The only way we’re gonna be rid of this persecution of our countries citizens and especially the LGBTQIA and my Transgender community in particular, is to rid ourselves from the Fascists and their Fascist Government and Billionaire Oligarchs and the Insane MAGAT CULT Republicans and Milquetoast Centrist Democrats in our entire country’s political system! The Corrupt government and their corrupt billionaire masters will never leave until We Remove them by Force! If you’re Trans get armed before they pass laws against us owning them, which they are actively trying to do! The CULT wants a government sponsored GENOCIDE Against all of the Transgender People’s and LGBTQIA EVERYWHERE! And they want the same thing for all people of color and different backgrounds who aren’t WHITE MEN and are WHITE SUPREMACIST FALSE CHRISTIANS! Women will completely lose their rights and will become indentured slaves to White Supremacist MICRO-PENISES with Giant Beer Bellies and Big Fat Unintelligent Minds and Loud Obnoxious VOICES, spouting lies and propaganda all day long! But they are the ones who will be against the wall for their decades long hatred and treason against the World’s Humanity and the People of America! It’s time for White Americans to Stop being Slaves to your WHITE PRIVILEGE and start being a part of the Whole World Community! We are all ONE SPECIES…HUMANS!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Ericka Rae's avatar

These bills may also have a chilling effect for pharmacists. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if chains like CVS and Walgreens decided to stop administering GAC meds, claiming fear of litigation. These large entities are big fans of complying in advance.

Ellen Adele Harper's avatar

GET PUT OF FLORIDA!

Tommy Lamont's avatar

Thanks for the report, S. Baum.

Sometimes I wish that the utter disdain for us on the part of conservatives and ambitious politicians who fan the flames would be less subtle - just arrest us and throw away the keys, please. But then I remember that every trans person who decamps from Florida for a blue state is bust for the former and a boon for the latter. And, I remain convinced that most Floridians will see the foolishness of such bigotry and pettiness. Still, I sympathize deeply with the poor trans Floridians, or their brave families, who must make the choice to stay or leave the Sunshine state.

Joan the Dork's avatar

I guess Florida Republicans were feeling left out- they haven't been much in the news since they earned their state its stripes on Erin's map. They must've been afraid we might forget they were at the forefront of this bullshit culture war.

Don't worry, Florida Republicans. We're not going to forget. Long after everyone else has washed their hands of this wretched chapter of history, and tried to erase their role in shaping it, 𝘸𝘦'𝘭𝘭 remember you.

Theresa Dawson's avatar

I’m confused… did the bills actually PASS or not?

ILoveKitties's avatar

It just made it through committee. It hasn't been ratified by the full House or Senate. So it hasn't passed. Yet.