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Brooklyn Ricky's avatar

Unethical. Immoral. Despicable. Cruel. Inhuman.

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Sandra Greer's avatar

In other words, Trumpian. See also RethugliKKKan.

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Talia Perkins's avatar

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.

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Jennica French's avatar

Will the US tolerate a state that is 100% neo-Nazi? We’re heading in that direction.

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Stacy Dudovitz's avatar

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.

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Larry Erickson's avatar

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.

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Trans Poetic's avatar

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.

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Chris Lyke's avatar

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

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Dani's avatar

it is quite funny though, I would argue that I have a "deeply held religious, moral, conscience-based, or biology-based beliefs against gender ideology".

The conservative ideology of gender is deeply against my moral, religious, and biology based beliefs...

If this shit passes isn't that a pretty clear cut legal argument that the bill in fact protects individuals beliefs about gender and sex?

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Talia Perkins's avatar

"The conservative ideology of gender is deeply against my moral, religious, and biology based beliefs..."

I think most germanely, the gender critical ideology exists to deny actual measured biology -- every part of it that makes their snowflakes soggy.

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Dani's avatar

to clarify, they seem to rely heavily on the interpretation of this amorphous "gender ideology". doesn't the definition of what that is vary between person to person? the law just seems null and unenforceable...

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Elayne DeSimone's avatar

Gender ideology is a made up term. No transgender person I know “decided” to ascribe to an ideology. It is a bogus concept made up by ignorant and fearful people who behave the same way that those in 30s behaved when the Nazis started coming for the “others”.

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John Janelle Backman's avatar

I love this.

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Devin's avatar
2dEdited

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)

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C.W. Hahn's avatar

So in Florida now, it’s legal to be a bully. Is there no end to the madness?

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Larry Erickson's avatar

Worse: Being a bully is not merely legal, it's actively protected.

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Rachel's avatar

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.

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John Janelle Backman's avatar

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.

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Elayne DeSimone's avatar

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.

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Sara's avatar

I often imagine that transphobes have a tattoo on their forehead that states, “I am stupid as hell.”

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Mike Gelt's avatar

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

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Larry Erickson's avatar

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.

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Liz  Wilcox's avatar

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.

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Rachel M. Reed's avatar

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.

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Vandy Beth Glenn's avatar

Are there no Glenn v. Brumby implications for these shenanigans?

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