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[–]NutterButterFlutterStill waving into the void[S] 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

More continued hand-wringing and conflation of LGB with TQ+.

The 2023 state legislative session was the worst year on record for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation:
* More than 525 bills were introduced in 41 states.
* Over 220 of these bills explicitly targeted transgender people.
* Over 76 bills have been signed into law as of June 5, 2023 — more than any year on record, and more than double over last year.

The backlash is real.

Hmmm, what's this all about:

Transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming youth in particular have been directly impacted

I read their "guidebook for action". Page 3 is especially telling. The mental gymnastics is great:

LGBTQ+ Erasure Law. Laws adopting a discriminatory definition of sex that, in reducing people to their reproductive abilities, eliminates a broad array of protections for LGBTQ+ people and women embedded throughout state law.

I also did a control-F for these words:

  • lesbian: 0
  • gay: 0
  • bisexual: 0
  • sexual (to include homosexual, sexuality, and sexual orientation): 9
  • trans: 38
  • gender: 72

[–]INeedSomeTimeAsexual Ally 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All that is simply "anti-trans". Honestly they watered-down the meaning of anti-trans and transphobia so much that whenever I see these words mentioned towards someone or something my knee-jerk reaction is just "Good, they're simply are based" at this point.

Transphobia no longer means actual discrimination against a trans person. "Trans genocide" means stopping or looking critically that rapid increase of people identifying as trans even if they mostly do it to be seen as cool or as extension of self-harm. "How dare you stop us from converting more people into trans people?" - these TRAs basically.