Republicans are playing political games with trans people and the LGBTQ+ community. This time, they have filed a new bill to ban "physical conversion therapy," which includes gender transition.
Can confirm I have been asked more than once "Wouldn't it be easier just to be gay?". Which is extra frustrating as bi trans woman. These proposed bills are getting more and more extreme, I watched the ND hearing yesterday about gender markers and there was not testimony in opposition. Are groups in these states out there fighting these? We need to be testifying in these committee meetings and ensuring that it is not just the religious fundamentalists who are having their voice heard.
They are organized , funded by Dark Money that claim religious tax exempt status , our groups are smaller , have limited financial resources compared to the patriarchy has had centuries to organize , as a said in my post this is as much a war on woman as it is on transgender people they and they alone want to define who people are or can marry
I understand that, but it doesn't cost a lot for someone from a local trans advocacy group to show up to these hearings. I am lucky enough to live in a state where this isn't happening so my ability to help in a place line IN and ND are very limited. Unfortunately the only people I know in IN are family members who wouldn't be caught dead even talking to me, but we need to do what we can to get information out there.
Is text banking or similar types of political activity possible or useful for things like this? I want to contribute, but again am far in distance and have limited financial resources.
In some states Republicans holding the hearings set aside a certain amount of time for testimony and then schedule people so that time runs out before the pro-trans speakers have a chance. It would be interesting to know if that happened in North Dakota.
No, I was watching. The call for opposing evidence was repeated 3 times, the room was mostly empty. Yes it was a preliminary hearing in a committee, but we should be having our voice heard from day one. The people who don't want us to exist sure are.
We have some decent organizations in INDIANA to organize and hear our voices in the state house. ACLU mainly to oppose with help from others at IYG, pflag members, and others. They usually wait until we know if the bill will die before being heard which happens in many cases. We know that the governor and some state reps do not want to see such bills but there is a group that do. Unfortunately, GOP politicians have a super majority here so unless some say no, just about anything could pass. Example the abortion ban, trans sports ban, etc. But ACLU have so far prevailed at holding off these from going into effect for now. I hate this states political stance but I'm here due to my company's presence here. If things go south, I will try to transfer to one of our research facilities in the Bay Area. I believe my company would support that and understand.
In a state like Indiana I think resources should start to be dedicated to killing it as soon as it goes from introduction to committee , waiting to see if it dies is taking too many chances
We cause just one of their businesses to go bankrupt and they will think twice about introducing these bill right now there are no consequences but political payoff if they win or lose just like before Dobbs
Subscribed. Would love to know anywhere I can help stop these genocidal laws. My background is in software development and call centers (technology and operations), if anything I can do would help let me know.
Same here Michigan not a very hostile state green on Erin’s excellent map , test could work to organize but you’d need a mass mail list of activists , are you familiar with indivisible the effort that was used to defeat the ACA repeal attempts we need something like that
I am not aware of the ACA repeal attempts, but have done quite a bit of text banking. Lists are not particularly hard to get and are usually not cost prohibitive. If you know any groups working on things like this please point me their direction. I currently don't have the bandwidth to spearhead anything myself (3 jobs, 2 kids, 1 parent.......).
We have to start going after the financial assets of those who sponsor such bills most have outside business stakes and customers of these businesses are unaware what hateful stuff these people push
But conversion therapy is an internationally accepted term so I don’t know if they can get away with extending it it always refers to a form of operant conditioning B F Skinner style
The other side is much better at using targeted ads and hijacking school board meetings and other venues then activist we have to get better also we have to stay away from leaking these actions on Hostile social media namely Twitter
Republicans are fascists following the same path the Nazis did in the 1930s. We need to address that reality.
I think it’s pretty clear they are part of a Christo-fascist movement
Can confirm I have been asked more than once "Wouldn't it be easier just to be gay?". Which is extra frustrating as bi trans woman. These proposed bills are getting more and more extreme, I watched the ND hearing yesterday about gender markers and there was not testimony in opposition. Are groups in these states out there fighting these? We need to be testifying in these committee meetings and ensuring that it is not just the religious fundamentalists who are having their voice heard.
They are organized , funded by Dark Money that claim religious tax exempt status , our groups are smaller , have limited financial resources compared to the patriarchy has had centuries to organize , as a said in my post this is as much a war on woman as it is on transgender people they and they alone want to define who people are or can marry
I understand that, but it doesn't cost a lot for someone from a local trans advocacy group to show up to these hearings. I am lucky enough to live in a state where this isn't happening so my ability to help in a place line IN and ND are very limited. Unfortunately the only people I know in IN are family members who wouldn't be caught dead even talking to me, but we need to do what we can to get information out there.
Is text banking or similar types of political activity possible or useful for things like this? I want to contribute, but again am far in distance and have limited financial resources.
In some states Republicans holding the hearings set aside a certain amount of time for testimony and then schedule people so that time runs out before the pro-trans speakers have a chance. It would be interesting to know if that happened in North Dakota.
No, I was watching. The call for opposing evidence was repeated 3 times, the room was mostly empty. Yes it was a preliminary hearing in a committee, but we should be having our voice heard from day one. The people who don't want us to exist sure are.
We have some decent organizations in INDIANA to organize and hear our voices in the state house. ACLU mainly to oppose with help from others at IYG, pflag members, and others. They usually wait until we know if the bill will die before being heard which happens in many cases. We know that the governor and some state reps do not want to see such bills but there is a group that do. Unfortunately, GOP politicians have a super majority here so unless some say no, just about anything could pass. Example the abortion ban, trans sports ban, etc. But ACLU have so far prevailed at holding off these from going into effect for now. I hate this states political stance but I'm here due to my company's presence here. If things go south, I will try to transfer to one of our research facilities in the Bay Area. I believe my company would support that and understand.
In a state like Indiana I think resources should start to be dedicated to killing it as soon as it goes from introduction to committee , waiting to see if it dies is taking too many chances
Some action do get started, for example a write to your representatives link (pre written letter but option to modify) was sent out yesterday.
We cause just one of their businesses to go bankrupt and they will think twice about introducing these bill right now there are no consequences but political payoff if they win or lose just like before Dobbs
Im new here I am a twitter refugee I have a lot of material I want to post is Substack from multiple sites I just have to find the time
Subscribed. Would love to know anywhere I can help stop these genocidal laws. My background is in software development and call centers (technology and operations), if anything I can do would help let me know.
Here is info on indivisible which https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indivisible_movementis the model I think activist should adopt.
Same here Michigan not a very hostile state green on Erin’s excellent map , test could work to organize but you’d need a mass mail list of activists , are you familiar with indivisible the effort that was used to defeat the ACA repeal attempts we need something like that
I am not aware of the ACA repeal attempts, but have done quite a bit of text banking. Lists are not particularly hard to get and are usually not cost prohibitive. If you know any groups working on things like this please point me their direction. I currently don't have the bandwidth to spearhead anything myself (3 jobs, 2 kids, 1 parent.......).
Erin is way more organized than CATS the group I am trying to organize
We have to start going after the financial assets of those who sponsor such bills most have outside business stakes and customers of these businesses are unaware what hateful stuff these people push
I don't know where to go or when to go to protest this bill, I can't find anything relevant to that
But conversion therapy is an internationally accepted term so I don’t know if they can get away with extending it it always refers to a form of operant conditioning B F Skinner style
The other side is much better at using targeted ads and hijacking school board meetings and other venues then activist we have to get better also we have to stay away from leaking these actions on Hostile social media namely Twitter