Lawmakers in my state drop bills protecting minors and female athletes

submitted by JulienMayfair from (self.GenderCritical)

The Republicans in charge of my state's legislature announced this week that they will not advance bills to protect female athletics or to protect minors from the medical transition industry. You can't even count on Republicans anymore.

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[–]one1won 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Same in my "Red" state. Dudes (duds!) of both parties are claiming {our state needs to be welcoming to new businesses, and such measures would be unattractive to business}!

So they're good with trafficking, medicalizing, and non-personing children and women for the $$$$.

Enraging!!!

I'm collecting evidence and well phrased considerations for the next legislative session. Gonna make some noise!

[–]Rationalmind 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Typical misogyny.

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Good for you! We need to fight this battle on the state and local level too!

[–]one1won 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tentative good news...

I'd sent a thank you email to a woman state legislator who was much maligned for submitting a flurry of women and children protection bills ("anti-trans" pthffff). She responded stating next session, the Repubs were to address those bills. In her detailed, loquacious response, it was clear she's GC! Very knowledgeable! Yeah!

We MUST advocate! Else the "duds" will assume women consent. Letters being prepped to fire off...

[–]BEB 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am so happy that you are running with this - thank you!

If we each wrote one letter, or made one informative call, a day or a week, to a journalist, an organization, a politician, etc., we could alert a lot of people in positions of relative power to what is going on, or alert the corrupt ones to the organic groundswell of TERFism in the US from across the political spectrum.

I realize that many of us aren't in a position to be activists (although there are many anonymous email services available and you can use them with the TOR browser) but any of us who can speak out need to now.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds like bullshit. New businesses worth having are from people fleeing blue states. Seems to me like the business they want is from big pharma and big tech (if there's any truth to it, may well not be.) Though big tech could kill "transphobic" e-commerce from "problematic" areas.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can't even count on Republicans anymore.

Where have you been the last 50 years?

[–]Rationalmind 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Republicans are weak. I see why the populists don’t like the RINO’s.

[–]JasonNecks 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What state?

[–]one1won 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Dropping in this example of the Genderist Activists maneuverings and State officials vacillating:

https://ovarit.com/o/SaveWomensSports/32238/after-passing-anti-trans-sports-ban-west-virginia-governor-can-t-cite-any-exampl