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  jesus fucking christ... there's so many real issues that need to be dealt with and the right wing fucks keep bringing up culture war bullshit to seem important. Their fucking theatrics are going to get people killed. Fucking pricks
context: Well… yeah. That’s the point.  They’re very transparent about it.  The hatred and harm is why they do it, no matter what excuses they make. >
  
  Yep, the harm is the point. >
  
  Came here to say this. >
  
  The republicans want to create a culture of fear, so that trans people and allies will be discouraged from voting. Hopefully it will backfire and result in even more participation in democracy >
  
  Being trans myself there will never be a time where I won’t vote. >
  
  Until it gets so bad we can’t vote >
  
  Given recent Events in Florida (just the most recent example I could think of), I'd expect this:
  Trans Person votes
  "Well, looks like your Paperwork says you've got a different gender.Smells of fraud, you're under Arrest!"
  Won't matter if the person is actually charged or prosecuted further, so long as the Election is over.Meanwhile, every Republican can claim to simply be against voter Fraud.Be it convicted People, Students, Trans people or plain blue Voters.Suppression is laughably simple. >
  
  They do not care.
  The cruelty, the harm, the deaths... they are the desired outcome. >
  
  I came out years ago .. pre trump… since then I have had to to go halfway back in the closet and bind my chest and be careful because all of a sudden everyone in my city is super hateful,. If you are a trans person you most likely have noticed the change now that there is more awareness coming from those that hate us… I hate what the worlds become.. like stop giving a fuck and let me us be >
  
  Better to move than to not be yourself. >
  
  “But men wear pants and women wear dresses”
  Ole GOP bringing us back to 1950s!   Where is my mandatory poodle skirt?! >
  
  Yeah as a younger trans woman, it’s working. This stuff keeps me up knowing there are people who want me dead just for me being me and one day I could potentially lose my HRT which has become my lifeline and changed my life for the better.
  My transphobic parents (who have been begging me to stop HRT) don’t understand when I keep telling them I can’t live in Texas in the future because the state isn’t safe for me. They think I’m overreacting and they think this is a phase and I’ll detransition but this is the reality right here. >
  
  That's clearly the aim of that debate. These are hateful politicians, propagating state control over people's private affairs.