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  Gay marriage, women's suffrage, the 15th amendment. As much as we don't like to admit it, human rights have always been up for debate in this country.
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. >
  
  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 >
  
  It's already gotten people killed and will continue to do so.  They aren't doing it to seem important.  It's vital to understand that harm is not an unintended side effect.  The cruelty and the fear and yes the dead trans kids and adults are the whole point for them. >
  
  It's really creepy how obsessed the GOP Is with the genitalia of children... >
  
  Creepy yes, but 100% in character >
  
  the only 'trans' these lawmakers are familiar with is Klinger from MASH.  hard for them to have empathy for clerk wanting to section 8th put of the veitnam war. these old boomers don't care about young folks that are different. >
  
  Can't just blame boomers when there are so many younger people like Blaire White, Chaya Raichik, and Matt Walsh keeping transphobia hip (and to be fair, they do have significant boomer following). >
  
  Isn't Blair white trans herself so how and why would a trans person keep transphobia alive. >
  
  Yes she is which makes her even more dangerous to the trans community. She is a transmedicalists which means she believes those who don’t take HRT and don’t experience Dysphoria and don’t get gender reassignment surgery aren’t trans, and being trans herself and a conservative she can convince GOP lawmakers to put up even larger boundaries and further gatekeep trans people from accessing medical care they need.
  Ironically, many of her viewers don’t even consider her a real woman (I do not like her but she is very much a real woman). If the situation gets worse then the stuff she has said is going to come back to bite her when she can’t access her own HRT one day in r/leopardsatemyface style. >
  
  Remember how it sucked being a normal just average teenager? Now imagine having to deal with either being gay or feeling like your body doesn't even match your identity. Then imagine being actively despised by a large chunk of the population for who you are. Then imagine your family being some of those people. Then imagine your own government opposing your very being. Then imagine people mocking you for being suicidal, thinking it has to do with who you are. >
  
  Literally that is the point of the legislation >
  
  Human rights are not up for debate.
  Medical treatments could be... among qualified professionals...
  But thats not what we're talking about is it?
  This is just "let bigots spout lies and emotional appeals, so that everyone can ignore the medical evidence and persecute a minority".