The bill applies to state and local employers as well as contractors. The bill also establishes a "Don't Say Gay" policy that applies to private businesses that contract with the state.
An obvious, grotesque infringement on free speech and freedom of association. Will it pass, will it survive enforcement?
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 have already long passed the neo-Nazi moniker with the acts of cruelty and dehumanization of immigrants. Today they are thrown into cages and shipped off god know where. Tomorrow it'll be trans folks.
It's just speculation and maybe a reach but I wonder if this could be challenged as viewpoint discrimination in that it protects people bullying folks for being transgender but offers no protection to those who would bully those people about being bigots.
They’re escalating the panic because voters are rejecting them more now when they run on transphobia. Just like the Trump regime, they get more dangerous as they get weaker. Stay strong, everyone
Oof, the errosion and erasure is real here. This is breaking news but as things take shape: Are there any groups mounting a phone call or on the ground campaign to flood the sponsors of this bill with calls? I think it would be a worthwhile act of civil resistance to make their jobs impossible to do (if they care really). Sign me up if anyone knows of actions that can be taken to oppose this remotely.
Lifelong Floridian who took her skills and taxes to a better state. Wish everyone could do the same and hope that godless state repents or sinks
All they do is attack queer people and rob the state’s citizens of money and other resources so they can cater to implant rightwing retirees who’ve never contributed to the state and won’t be around long enough to add anything significant (as if a rightwinger *would*)
Maybe there wouldn’t be a fertility crisis if maggots stopped attacking decent people and catered to everyone else as much they cater to places like The Villages (oh and on that note, let’s talk about voter fraud among the many snowbirds who VOTE TWICE)
In other news, Florida is considering a law providing religious exemptions from all kinds of civil rights laws. Soon it will be perfectly legal to discriminate against and harass people of any race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, or any other protected class, as long as you have a deeply held religious or moral conviction that you should hate them.
But the more polite ones wear a red hat so we can see them coming from a distance, even if we can't see the "I am stupid as hell" tat. I'm a big fan of the red hats, they're the bell on the cat, the invisible fence chip in the dog, the muzzle on the bath salt human flesh gobbling zombie.
They used to bother me until I realized the utility they serve!
I feel compelled to write what I just said under my breath while reading this article: I am a person of deeply held religious beliefs (from two entirely different religions, no less). These beliefs call me to fulfill certain obligations. None of the beliefs, from either religion, give me license to be an asshole, which is essentially what this legislation does.
Florida's claims about "false" "gender ideology" are themselves false claims based on a false argument based on a false premise based on a false ideology based on genuine bigotry, ignorance, and creepy obsession with other people's genitals.
BTW, anyone in my age group should be able to recall when this "biology is destiny" claptrap was used to insist women should be "barefoot and pregnant" and by their "nature" are unsuited for working in the professions or holding government office.
Actually, on a moment's reflection, anyone in most any age group since we see bizarro-world ideas like "women shouldn't have a right to vote" being spread among the platformed nut cases of the right.
And "biology" and "faith" were the exact same ideological underpinnings justifying the genocide of indigenous peoples in Florida, to justify women as chattel, to justify slavery-Jim Crow-lynching-segregation-Jim Crow 2.0, to justify the war against "the gays", against Cubans and other immigrants, and now, we Trans folks with our witty repartee and devilish good looks.
White supremacists never change their tune, they just update their boogeymonster from time to time. This is why they hate literacy, history, critical thinking, and education, those speed up the turn of the paradigm shift.
An observation- As the current policies get us more and more underwater, there is a corresponding increase in legislative scapegoating. Or maybe the bastards just feel empowered. In any case,the fight for survival is real. There are allies- please don’t stop getting us the news, so we can continue to help.
I like what you report on Erin and I like how you report the legal news of our community, both positive and negative. However, of late I’ve almost been afraid to start reading your articles. Today for some reason I started crying when I finished today’s report. So far, I’ve identified two states to which I cannot travel because of who I am, FL and TX. It strikes me that with this omnibus anti-trans / anti-gay law FL is doing everything it can to ‘out-bigot’ TX.
Add Missouri and the Dakotas. But you can still see Illinois, which has a lot to offer and fully protects sexual orientation and gender identity across all civil rights attributes in statute. And it was one of the first Trans sanctuary states and the first state to decriminalize being gay, back in 1961.
Funny thing is, 93% of GOPMAGAs cannot define what a pronoun EVEN IS, or identify three or more parts of speech. They also have a functional vocabulary of fewer than 2200 words. Such a shame as English has over a million not counting the technical/scientific nomenclature.
Here we go again these politicians are at it once more making it harder and harder for the trans community to live a normal peaceful life in FL. This is another state like Texas. These mother F.. kers need to be removed from office. Floridians need to make a choice do they want to live under this type of government and want these policies to determine the their states reputation or do they want a state that is welcoming to all. So far they seem to want their states reputation to be unwelcoming
If this bill passes, are we looking at Florida getting an even more severe rating on the national map? This feels like the kind of thing to warrant a "run for your life" designation.
Unethical. Immoral. Despicable. Cruel. Inhuman.
In other words, Trumpian. See also RethugliKKKan.
An obvious, grotesque infringement on free speech and freedom of association. Will it pass, will it survive enforcement?
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.
Will the US tolerate a state that is 100% neo-Nazi? We’re heading in that direction.
We have already long passed the neo-Nazi moniker with the acts of cruelty and dehumanization of immigrants. Today they are thrown into cages and shipped off god know where. Tomorrow it'll be trans folks.
It's just speculation and maybe a reach but I wonder if this could be challenged as viewpoint discrimination in that it protects people bullying folks for being transgender but offers no protection to those who would bully those people about being bigots.
They’re escalating the panic because voters are rejecting them more now when they run on transphobia. Just like the Trump regime, they get more dangerous as they get weaker. Stay strong, everyone
Oof, the errosion and erasure is real here. This is breaking news but as things take shape: Are there any groups mounting a phone call or on the ground campaign to flood the sponsors of this bill with calls? I think it would be a worthwhile act of civil resistance to make their jobs impossible to do (if they care really). Sign me up if anyone knows of actions that can be taken to oppose this remotely.
Lifelong Floridian who took her skills and taxes to a better state. Wish everyone could do the same and hope that godless state repents or sinks
All they do is attack queer people and rob the state’s citizens of money and other resources so they can cater to implant rightwing retirees who’ve never contributed to the state and won’t be around long enough to add anything significant (as if a rightwinger *would*)
Maybe there wouldn’t be a fertility crisis if maggots stopped attacking decent people and catered to everyone else as much they cater to places like The Villages (oh and on that note, let’s talk about voter fraud among the many snowbirds who VOTE TWICE)
So in Florida now, it’s legal to be a bully. Is there no end to the madness?
Worse: Being a bully is not merely legal, it's actively protected.
In other news, Florida is considering a law providing religious exemptions from all kinds of civil rights laws. Soon it will be perfectly legal to discriminate against and harass people of any race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, or any other protected class, as long as you have a deeply held religious or moral conviction that you should hate them.
I often imagine that transphobes have a tattoo on their forehead that states, “I am stupid as hell.”
Not all of them.
But the more polite ones wear a red hat so we can see them coming from a distance, even if we can't see the "I am stupid as hell" tat. I'm a big fan of the red hats, they're the bell on the cat, the invisible fence chip in the dog, the muzzle on the bath salt human flesh gobbling zombie.
They used to bother me until I realized the utility they serve!
I feel compelled to write what I just said under my breath while reading this article: I am a person of deeply held religious beliefs (from two entirely different religions, no less). These beliefs call me to fulfill certain obligations. None of the beliefs, from either religion, give me license to be an asshole, which is essentially what this legislation does.
Florida's claims about "false" "gender ideology" are themselves false claims based on a false argument based on a false premise based on a false ideology based on genuine bigotry, ignorance, and creepy obsession with other people's genitals.
BTW, anyone in my age group should be able to recall when this "biology is destiny" claptrap was used to insist women should be "barefoot and pregnant" and by their "nature" are unsuited for working in the professions or holding government office.
Actually, on a moment's reflection, anyone in most any age group since we see bizarro-world ideas like "women shouldn't have a right to vote" being spread among the platformed nut cases of the right.
And "biology" and "faith" were the exact same ideological underpinnings justifying the genocide of indigenous peoples in Florida, to justify women as chattel, to justify slavery-Jim Crow-lynching-segregation-Jim Crow 2.0, to justify the war against "the gays", against Cubans and other immigrants, and now, we Trans folks with our witty repartee and devilish good looks.
White supremacists never change their tune, they just update their boogeymonster from time to time. This is why they hate literacy, history, critical thinking, and education, those speed up the turn of the paradigm shift.
An observation- As the current policies get us more and more underwater, there is a corresponding increase in legislative scapegoating. Or maybe the bastards just feel empowered. In any case,the fight for survival is real. There are allies- please don’t stop getting us the news, so we can continue to help.
I like what you report on Erin and I like how you report the legal news of our community, both positive and negative. However, of late I’ve almost been afraid to start reading your articles. Today for some reason I started crying when I finished today’s report. So far, I’ve identified two states to which I cannot travel because of who I am, FL and TX. It strikes me that with this omnibus anti-trans / anti-gay law FL is doing everything it can to ‘out-bigot’ TX.
Add Missouri and the Dakotas. But you can still see Illinois, which has a lot to offer and fully protects sexual orientation and gender identity across all civil rights attributes in statute. And it was one of the first Trans sanctuary states and the first state to decriminalize being gay, back in 1961.
At this rate, Florida is going to go straight to the "Work makes Trannies free" act and put us all in camps. Or in a Alligator Auschwitz.
My religion requires I ONLY use pronouns. It prohibits me from using “proper names” because that disrespects MY god.
These guys get more assholian by the day.
Funny thing is, 93% of GOPMAGAs cannot define what a pronoun EVEN IS, or identify three or more parts of speech. They also have a functional vocabulary of fewer than 2200 words. Such a shame as English has over a million not counting the technical/scientific nomenclature.
Here we go again these politicians are at it once more making it harder and harder for the trans community to live a normal peaceful life in FL. This is another state like Texas. These mother F.. kers need to be removed from office. Floridians need to make a choice do they want to live under this type of government and want these policies to determine the their states reputation or do they want a state that is welcoming to all. So far they seem to want their states reputation to be unwelcoming
If this bill passes, are we looking at Florida getting an even more severe rating on the national map? This feels like the kind of thing to warrant a "run for your life" designation.