Religious extremist and doomed Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently said that transgender Americans shouldn’t be allowed to use public bathrooms at all – and now a town in Alabama has turned that bigoted talking point into law. The city council of Oxford has just unanimously approved an ordinance that effectively bans trans citizens from using any public bathroom that doesn’t match the sex noted on their birth certificates.
Since it’s extremely difficult to change the sex on a birth certificate, the law effectively bans trans citizens from using public bathrooms at all – punishable with a fine of $500 or up to six months in prison. The move is apparently in response to retail giant Target’s decision to allow anyone to use “the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity,” which provoked a firestorm of criticism and a fruitless boycott among conservatives online.
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America is a fascist state with total power over the population.
If you’re a young person in Ohio, DON’T tell your therapist you are trans. You may think “oh but my therapist would never tell my parents!” No, you don’t understand, there’s a hellova lot of people who dont give two shits about the morality of their actions, all they care about is being law abiding citizens. If they’ve made it a felony to not tell parents about trans clients, then people are gonna tell parents about trans clients. Confidentiality of you identity doesn’t exist any more. Don’t. Tell. Your. Therapist.
It’s awesome that op is raising awareness about this, but the information is slightly incorrect – probably due to the ambiguous wording of pretty much everyone reporting on House Bill 658 (”Parents Rights Act”).
Fighting this bill is important, not only for Ohio transgender youth, but for the rest of America. The passing of this bill into law would set a precedent for other states to follow suit.
Here’s how to fight HB658
call or write to Ohio House Speaker Ryan Smith
(614) 466-1366 (the # given by ohiohouse.gov) or (614) 412-4237 (the # given by Equality Ohio)
“Introduce yourself, say where you live, and that this bill is damaging to transgender kids. Then ask that it not be moved forward.” Wouldn’t hurt to mention that you’re an eligible/future voter either.
seriously, a call only takes a few minutes…you could do it during a commercial break
In a state where we’ve in recent history have had a very tragic death of a trans youth after their parents found out and basically tortured and isolated them, they’re now trying to pass this bullshit? I also don’t think this bill is legal on the basis of HIPAA. Even as a minor, you have the right to confidentiality. This bill is just aiming to get youth very much in danger.
This bill is not about protection, as mentioned above this bill violates HIPAA and Confidentiality. This is not about helping kids, this is about giving parents the right to control how their child chooses to present and how their child authentically feels about their own body.
Do not let this go by. Do not let this pass.
If you are concerned about your own therapist bring up the bill in passing and vaguely ask their opinion on it. If they answer they will follow it then you have the right to refer out. They must refer you out to another therapist. You do not have to tell them why.
“The trans movement is easily infantilised as amounting to the whinges and navel-gazing of trendy middle-class students who have OD’d on Judith Butler. But the idea that trans equality is a kind of middle-class liberalism, a luxury unconnected to the “real” politics of class and labour, is a media myth…
To move forward, trans liberation must be recognised as a class struggle as well as a feminist and anti-racist endeavour. The time for vicious and obsessive arguments about the boundaries of identity has passed.”
“traps aren’t trans women, they’re effeminate gay dudes who crossdress to deceive and fuck straight guys”
ok but you’ve, just decided to counter an accusation of transphobia with “checkmate, i’m a huge transphobe AND homophobe. weren’t expecting that one hey?”. like you really thought your knowledge of fetish anime would make you look Less Gross
continually surprised how chasers think they’re getting away with: “my fetish isn’t trans women, my fetish is just identical in every way to trans women except closeted, or traumatised to staying in the closet and who doesn’t have the language or confidence to ask to be respected. also a cartoon usually.”
Also, for those who say “b-but how do I describe my anime waifu now????” – Japanese doesn’t even use the term ‘trap.’ It’s a transmisogynist term that started on 4chan that’s coercively applied to any person assigned male at birth that crossdresses (jousou, which is a neutral term in Japanese) presents femininely (onee), or is otherwise feminine of center (trans women, transfems, x -gender, as well as various GNC men, cis drag queens etc.), both in Western fandom and irl. It’s a slur, just like sh*male.
More about there term here, from Andrea Ritsu, a Japanese trans woman.
So, letting people be who they want to be is a good thing. That’s shocking I tell you, just shocking. All I want to know is, how much time and money went into this research when you could’ve just asked trans folks how they felt for free
okay, A: they didask. they did listen. like… I don’t wanna exaggerate here but “asking trans kids how they feel” is literally the entire study:
“children (9–14 years old) and their parents completed measurements of depression and anxiety (n = 63 transgender children, n = 63 controls, n = 38 siblings). Children (6–14 years old; n = 116 transgender children, n = 122 controls, n = 72 siblings) also reported on their self-worth”
and B: this isn’t the kind of study researchers do because “oh gosh we just aren’t really sure yet, we really just don’t know”, they do it because cis people have been sitting on their asses for decades ignoring anything that’s not an Official Scientific Study, so they said “okay fuck you, here’s the study, you’re wrong, now do something helpful or shut the hell up”
#Thank you #I’m super over this smug ‘yeah we knew that’ response to studies #I mean I get the impulse to go ’…yes and water is wet thanks captain obvious’ #But the thing is that you *need* this kind of hard data in order to act on it #Which is actually a good thing #BC ‘we don’t need no stinkin science’ policies based on ‘we just Know This ok don’t ask for our data just shut up and do it’ #Is how you get anti choice laws based in pseudoscience and religious belief #And climate change not being addressed in law and policy #Besides. Just think how satisfying it is to throw hard data in some asshole’s face to counter their claims.
Scientist: Treating trans people like people is the way to make them happy. Cis Person: Yeah but…………how do we KNOW? Scientist: *sighs* can I have a grant to study it? Cis Person: Sure. Scientist: Hey, Trans Person, would you be happier if people treated you like people? Trans Person: Of course. Scientists:
Specifically, this study can now be used in medical offices and courtrooms. A trans kid’s parent can take this study to their bigoted local doctor and say “see, this is why you should either treat my kid or give us a referral to a doctor who will.” Or this can be taken into various legal proceedings about name changes, birth certificate changes/corrections, and custody hearings where it becomes necessary to prove to a judge that yes, helping the kid transition (and perhaps leaving the kid with the parent/guardian who is willing to help) is what is best for the kid.
These kinds of studies are exactly what we want, folks. Don’t knock it just because it’s something you already knew.
HRT does change your appearance but so does getting full body tattooing and you can get a full body tattoo at 18 without proving to a doctor that you won’t regret it so like…
…maybe HRT being hard to access is actually about transphobia…
*foaming at the mouth while reblogging*
Cis women can get a boob job at 18 without two notes from a therapist
I see all the notes on this with people being all “it’s a serious medication, of course you need to get doctor approval for your own health”; no guys, this is specifically about the psych eval requirement that many doctors with outdated info and mindsets still stand by. That’s not the same thing as the medical eval. Stop with the damn “well your tattoo artist needs to make sure you aren’t allergic to the inks”, that’s not what this is about.
This. Making sure that HRT won’t trigger or aggravate some kind of preexisting condition – just the way a responsible doctor would check known risk factors before ANY major medical treatment – is a very different thing from “you have to prove that you really REALLY want this, and that you want it for the RIGHT REASONS (as determined by us), and that no matter what life pulls on you in the next 60 years or what changes you go through, this is the one decision you will never regret.”
Anyone in those notes wanna tell me the last time getting a prescription required you to go to your GP, who referred you to a social worker, who referred you to a therapist, who made you read (out loud!) and sign off on every single paragraph of a five-page document, mostly phrased in the most alarmist and scary way possible and then referred you to a psychiatrist who made you read (out loud!) and sign off on every single paragraph of the same document, and then gave you a referral to a specialist who wanted a complete medical history and full-body exam, in a process taking about a week of actual work and a year of calendar time?
Because that’s what I had to do for HRT, and my case was an easy one in a place that’s actively trying to eliminate gatekeeping.
Department of Health and Human Services is expected to roll out a division specifically to protect the moral and religious (as in, no need to point to specific religious doctrine) rights of individuals to object to say, performing an abortion, or treating a trans or gnc person, or assisting an openly gay patient lmao. I hate this country and also Christianity.
Cue LGBT people sitting for hours in emergency rooms because nobody in a particular region is morally okay with physically touching them
So basically The Daily Mail teamed up with some 15 year old narc to take down a site that helped trans people all over the world (and nearly every trans person I know) access HRT. Now they’re investigating into trans forums to find more information and people are speculating more sites will be shut down. It’s extremely common for trans people to be denied healthcare (happened to me) and in other countries they’re subjected to incredibly cruel and humiliating practices for up to two years before they’re even a candidate for HRT. Shutting down supply sites isn’t the answer. It’s doing more harm than good. It’s depriving people of their right to happiness.
It’s true, this just happened, QHI is now officially down, maybe for good. In a country such a mine, where the GID clinic, the only place in the entire country allowed to prescribe hrt, denies something like 90% of their patients, DIY self medding is the only option.
I would personally be completely fucked from this, and would pretty much have to detransition or wither away from malnutrition from lack of estrogen and testosterone, but luckily I’m moving to Australia in just 7 days where I can legally transition (hopefully). Fuck everyone, seriously.
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