Just in case you thought this was only a Florida problem.
“It’s a stunning waste of time and resources for most parents, and it’s coupled with a group of policies that are openly hostile to transgender students and almost seems like the state wants them punished for being who they are,” Hammons said.
LGBTQ+ advocates have said a record number of bills were filed during the 2023 legislative session that they viewed as harmful to the LGBTQ community and specifically transgender youth.
God, I’m so tired of these naive-ass quotes and article tones that completely miss that yes, literally, that is the point. Like they’re not literally calling trans people monsters while they debate these laws.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for malicious compliance.
Anyone with half a brain saw that this would happen.
the republican party platform is basically suicide bombing at this point. it’s a platform of singling out appropriate targets to bully, then hurting everyone but in a way designed to hurt the bullying targets the most. Google “lee atwater speech”, it’s got a lot of n-bombs in it but it basically outlines the way that republicans are proud to be the party of bullies and monsters.
You start out in 2005 by saying “t----- t----- t-----.” By 2023, you can’t say t----. That hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, parents’ rights, bathrooms, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about nicknames, and all these things you’re talking about are totally superficial things and a byproduct of them is, queer folks get hurt more than cishets… “We want to know about kids’ nicknames” is much more abstract than even the parents’ rights thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “t------ t------ t-------.”
