Republican anti-LGBTQ+ policies in schools are not popular. Now, a new Navigator Research Poll shows that book bans, school sports policies, and Don't Say Gay bills are wildly unpopular.
If this leads to a massive win for the Dems, we need to push them as hard as we can to make federal protections for LGBTQ folks and women. We need to undo and prevent the damage that republican supermajorities have done across this country, not just ignore it until the republicans seize power again
This types of population rejection and without a far right supreme court that would make ours blush (like they didn't and did have respectively in Weimar republic) is the intraveneous HOPIUM I keep getting. Pay for Erins journalism. If you can. Which i can. So I do. Love and Solidarity Comrades ✊🏳️🌈♥️🏳️⚧️
I'm a cis guy myself and I have a trans girlfriend that I love very much. As I am sure you are aware it's taxing covering this shit. I'm her filter for news on Trans issues and you help me with that immeasurably. From my relative privilege of time and dominant group status I expose her to HOPIUM or nothing. Should any other cis partners/relatives be In my position with a trans loved I would be the one to curate their Trans news. With their consent obviously. Love and Solidarity Comrade Erin✊🏳️🌈♥️🏳️⚧️
Agreed. Erin's quality journalism is why I paid for her as well (though I'm starting to think gender identity may be more of a spectrum; it's possible to be 80% cis and 20% trans…)
Glad another comrade agrees with my appraisal of Erins excellent work.
Because I'm a semantic and pedantic kind of a guy.... I just can't leave this unaddressed. Sex is technically bimodal which I means that there are two poles around which the majority of our species congregate and then there are outliers in between and you know not on the typically male typically female spectrum.
Except that sex (meaning that there are primary IE genitals and secondary ie soft skin, hips, voice, bone density) is assigned at birth by basically guessing. If you have one thing you are placed in this social category and if you have the other thing you were placed in this social category except again this is all sex. which is why we say "assigned sex at birth" because even though sex informs gender OFTEN it does not ALWAYS.
One's gender is wholy constructed from the individual's perspective. So if we're doing statistics there's just about 8 billion individual genders since it's down to that person on that atomized of a level. At least as far as the research that I've read on it anyway.
Thank you very much for your insight. It's just that, well, a lot of times, I wish I were assigned the "female" sex at birth (meaning having ovaries, fallopian tubes, a uterus, and a vagina), but not enough to have gender dysphoria, so for me it's basically something I accept I can't have, rather than a medical necessity.
I follow. But whatever you need to feel at home in your own body is "medically necessary". As far as the outside appearance, at least there are things you can change.
You are valid regardless of where you decide you fall in pursuit of medical intervention. I have just heard, recently in fact, from a young (late teens) trans girl that because of the framing of gender dysphoria being such a high bar to clear (from like YouTubers and media etc) she thought she just didn't have it. Her being younger than she is now, she had the impression that it had to be crippling, like suicidal depression levels of anguish.
But it doesn't. Now if you have to say that to a doctor that's one thing, but that's just transphobic cisheteronormativity gatekeeping. If you want boobs, you should be allowed to pursue them. I hope I don't come across as a dick here, it's from frustration at the above mentioned young trans girl exp that you happen to remind me of and the excessive gatekeeping in the medical field where any antagonism lies. Not with you.
Absolute power corrupts. In gerrymandered America Republicans believe and act like they have absolute power. We saw this once again yesterday in Tennessee where they silenced a black democratic legislator. One of the three they tried to permanently remove.
The ultimate goal here is to end democracy entirely-to no longer have a country where a Democrat can ever have a voice. This is the goal of the Trump candidacy that preaches retribution.
When Roe v Wade was overturned, they got the taste of blood and they liked it. Abortion rights was their target since Roe's passage and with their victory they are moving quickly and aggressively to cement it in the states. The next target was the other thing that has always stuck in their craw-LGBTQ rights.
The attack on transgender youth is coordinated and aggressive-a poster child for conspiracy. The same experts from fake scientific organizations move from state to state like Barnum and Bailey to testify before legislatures that act on what their itching ears want to hear.
The laws attacking transgender youth was just a foot in the door as we see the pivot towards going after transgender adults as well. The Republican platform says marriage is between one man and one woman. We can see where this is going.
Polls consistently show that Americans don't like this. They don't like the end of abortion rights and frankly they think LGBTQ people should be left alone to live their lives as they see fit.
So one has to ask why do the right wing persist in pushing an unpopular agenda. The answer is they believe they have a monopoly. Polls don't matter if you can fix it so the opposition can't win. They might be right, I hope not.
I am hoping democracy in America is not dead. Next year's elections will show us.
To all my brave transgender brothers and sisters my heart is with you.
If people want to say that one should be a legal adult before having affirming surgery, maybe I'd accept that they have the right to their opinion - but the idea that this was ever *not* the norm is a shameless lie. And it certainly wasn't going on significantly below the age of majority, even as rarely as it was even done. The impetus to pass laws against it is, transparently, an attack on the entire LGBTQ community, and an attack on those who value our constitutional freedoms. I will never consent to authoritarian rule by our enemies.
I know that here in NC, the Republican legislature is cornering itself into an electoral slaughter next year. Well, as much slaughter as can be performed in gerrymandered districts. They are going to find out this is not Florida.
Investing so much into an agenda built around religious dogma, and in red states legislation thinly disguised discrimination, is no longer acceptable in polite society. People’s attitudes have changed and free expression of gender is more important and popular than ever. Good luck trying to social engineer society back into the 1970s, an attempt doomed to fail.
People as a whole were not terribly concerned about gender transition in the 1970s, although there was still a lot of discrimination. As an old person, that’s a thing I personally remember. They’re trying to go back to the 1830s or maybe go somewhere else like 1930s Nazi Germany.
The 1970s seems like the appropriate target, to me it's the dawn of women's liberation and the freedom of choice in family planning, the decline of religious dogma. Etc
I don't know where, probably on twitter before Musk took over, but a progressive southerner said something like "The South isn't conservative; it's just suppressed". These polls seem to line up with that statement. The fascist GOP is not only on the wrong side of history, but on the wrong side of their constituents.
I just wish unpopular policies actually led to electoral consequences. I think most (D) victories have been because of abortion moreso than trans rights. Of course, they're related, but I'm not sure that soccer moms in Waukesha Co. would continue to vote (D) if the GOP ever backed off on abortion but kept going after trans people. :(
This makes sense, given that it is 1) extremely vicious 2) extremely disruptive 3) an attack on freedom 4) helps absolutely nobody & is only designed to harm people 5) connected to religious intrusion into public institutions 6) based on conspiracy theories most Americans don’t believe or even know about. Etc.
If this leads to a massive win for the Dems, we need to push them as hard as we can to make federal protections for LGBTQ folks and women. We need to undo and prevent the damage that republican supermajorities have done across this country, not just ignore it until the republicans seize power again
Agreed
I agree.
This types of population rejection and without a far right supreme court that would make ours blush (like they didn't and did have respectively in Weimar republic) is the intraveneous HOPIUM I keep getting. Pay for Erins journalism. If you can. Which i can. So I do. Love and Solidarity Comrades ✊🏳️🌈♥️🏳️⚧️
<3 Thank you so much
I'm a cis guy myself and I have a trans girlfriend that I love very much. As I am sure you are aware it's taxing covering this shit. I'm her filter for news on Trans issues and you help me with that immeasurably. From my relative privilege of time and dominant group status I expose her to HOPIUM or nothing. Should any other cis partners/relatives be In my position with a trans loved I would be the one to curate their Trans news. With their consent obviously. Love and Solidarity Comrade Erin✊🏳️🌈♥️🏳️⚧️
Agreed. Erin's quality journalism is why I paid for her as well (though I'm starting to think gender identity may be more of a spectrum; it's possible to be 80% cis and 20% trans…)
Glad another comrade agrees with my appraisal of Erins excellent work.
Because I'm a semantic and pedantic kind of a guy.... I just can't leave this unaddressed. Sex is technically bimodal which I means that there are two poles around which the majority of our species congregate and then there are outliers in between and you know not on the typically male typically female spectrum.
Except that sex (meaning that there are primary IE genitals and secondary ie soft skin, hips, voice, bone density) is assigned at birth by basically guessing. If you have one thing you are placed in this social category and if you have the other thing you were placed in this social category except again this is all sex. which is why we say "assigned sex at birth" because even though sex informs gender OFTEN it does not ALWAYS.
One's gender is wholy constructed from the individual's perspective. So if we're doing statistics there's just about 8 billion individual genders since it's down to that person on that atomized of a level. At least as far as the research that I've read on it anyway.
Thank you very much for your insight. It's just that, well, a lot of times, I wish I were assigned the "female" sex at birth (meaning having ovaries, fallopian tubes, a uterus, and a vagina), but not enough to have gender dysphoria, so for me it's basically something I accept I can't have, rather than a medical necessity.
I follow. But whatever you need to feel at home in your own body is "medically necessary". As far as the outside appearance, at least there are things you can change.
You are valid regardless of where you decide you fall in pursuit of medical intervention. I have just heard, recently in fact, from a young (late teens) trans girl that because of the framing of gender dysphoria being such a high bar to clear (from like YouTubers and media etc) she thought she just didn't have it. Her being younger than she is now, she had the impression that it had to be crippling, like suicidal depression levels of anguish.
But it doesn't. Now if you have to say that to a doctor that's one thing, but that's just transphobic cisheteronormativity gatekeeping. If you want boobs, you should be allowed to pursue them. I hope I don't come across as a dick here, it's from frustration at the above mentioned young trans girl exp that you happen to remind me of and the excessive gatekeeping in the medical field where any antagonism lies. Not with you.
Absolute power corrupts. In gerrymandered America Republicans believe and act like they have absolute power. We saw this once again yesterday in Tennessee where they silenced a black democratic legislator. One of the three they tried to permanently remove.
The ultimate goal here is to end democracy entirely-to no longer have a country where a Democrat can ever have a voice. This is the goal of the Trump candidacy that preaches retribution.
When Roe v Wade was overturned, they got the taste of blood and they liked it. Abortion rights was their target since Roe's passage and with their victory they are moving quickly and aggressively to cement it in the states. The next target was the other thing that has always stuck in their craw-LGBTQ rights.
The attack on transgender youth is coordinated and aggressive-a poster child for conspiracy. The same experts from fake scientific organizations move from state to state like Barnum and Bailey to testify before legislatures that act on what their itching ears want to hear.
The laws attacking transgender youth was just a foot in the door as we see the pivot towards going after transgender adults as well. The Republican platform says marriage is between one man and one woman. We can see where this is going.
Polls consistently show that Americans don't like this. They don't like the end of abortion rights and frankly they think LGBTQ people should be left alone to live their lives as they see fit.
So one has to ask why do the right wing persist in pushing an unpopular agenda. The answer is they believe they have a monopoly. Polls don't matter if you can fix it so the opposition can't win. They might be right, I hope not.
I am hoping democracy in America is not dead. Next year's elections will show us.
To all my brave transgender brothers and sisters my heart is with you.
I would vote for you.
😆 lol
Good! Now if only they could accept this and stop pushing these fascist laws!
Hmmm. How about we let them lose all their elections first?
You're right, that'd be even better!
Unbelievable journalism, Erin, you give us a lot of hope. I can never thank you enough, for what you and Ms. Zephyr do for all of us.
A televised high school football game got shot up first week of school and they’re still worried about drag queens and trans children’s genitalia??
If people want to say that one should be a legal adult before having affirming surgery, maybe I'd accept that they have the right to their opinion - but the idea that this was ever *not* the norm is a shameless lie. And it certainly wasn't going on significantly below the age of majority, even as rarely as it was even done. The impetus to pass laws against it is, transparently, an attack on the entire LGBTQ community, and an attack on those who value our constitutional freedoms. I will never consent to authoritarian rule by our enemies.
I know that here in NC, the Republican legislature is cornering itself into an electoral slaughter next year. Well, as much slaughter as can be performed in gerrymandered districts. They are going to find out this is not Florida.
I hope you are right fellow Tar Heel!
Investing so much into an agenda built around religious dogma, and in red states legislation thinly disguised discrimination, is no longer acceptable in polite society. People’s attitudes have changed and free expression of gender is more important and popular than ever. Good luck trying to social engineer society back into the 1970s, an attempt doomed to fail.
People as a whole were not terribly concerned about gender transition in the 1970s, although there was still a lot of discrimination. As an old person, that’s a thing I personally remember. They’re trying to go back to the 1830s or maybe go somewhere else like 1930s Nazi Germany.
The 1970s seems like the appropriate target, to me it's the dawn of women's liberation and the freedom of choice in family planning, the decline of religious dogma. Etc
I don't know where, probably on twitter before Musk took over, but a progressive southerner said something like "The South isn't conservative; it's just suppressed". These polls seem to line up with that statement. The fascist GOP is not only on the wrong side of history, but on the wrong side of their constituents.
They messed with the wrong group
Now let’s ride this wave in 2024 and get some federal protections like someone else said
I just wish unpopular policies actually led to electoral consequences. I think most (D) victories have been because of abortion moreso than trans rights. Of course, they're related, but I'm not sure that soccer moms in Waukesha Co. would continue to vote (D) if the GOP ever backed off on abortion but kept going after trans people. :(
This makes sense, given that it is 1) extremely vicious 2) extremely disruptive 3) an attack on freedom 4) helps absolutely nobody & is only designed to harm people 5) connected to religious intrusion into public institutions 6) based on conspiracy theories most Americans don’t believe or even know about. Etc.