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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is disgusting. That poor child. And the poor father. The fact that this wicked judge, Mary Brown, is allowed to make this ruling is disturbing. Why isn’t the government of Texas passing legislation to ban the transing of children?

[–]fuck_reddit 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Texas has a constitutional limit on how long the legislature can sit every two years and their leg. doesn't reconvene until Jan. 2021... the governor could call an emergency session to try and pass a law but I fear the overreaction nationally would be far more destructive...

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That is fucked up. Also, why is there a constitutional limit on the legislature sitting to make laws? We don’t have this in Ireland.

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

Some US states have it to prevent the legislatures from going crazy with spending money and writing laws. Texas has a very limited government and a strong budget surplus, and they want to maintain it. It can be annoying in situations such as this, but overall it probably prevents more issues than it creates...