House Republicans introduced a bill that would ban any discussion or material in federally funded programs about LGBTQ people in any event with children under 10 years old. This is a federal "Don't Say Gay" bill.
Universities, public schools, hospitals, medical clinics, etc. could all be defunded if they host any event discussing LGBTQ people and children could be present. The way they define "sexually oriented material" simply includes anything about LGBTQ people.
It includes a private right of action against any government official AND private entity for a violation. This is SB8 style bounty lawsuits against anyone accepting federal funds. This will be a ban on all discussion of LGBTQ people in any entity that received federal funds.
This is the American version of Russia's gay propaganda law passed in 2013. This is their end game. To censor and ban LGBTQ from all public life and force them back into the closet.
The pretext in this bill is clear. They will troll the media about the bill being about "stripping" or drag queen story hour. In reality, the way the law is defined, it could apply to a school that has a screening of Buzz Lightyear.
I can't overstate how radical the private right of action portion is. The bill is so broadly defined that a pediatric hospital could be sued for having a pride flag or a medical pamphlet about gender dysphoria. It deputizes anti-LGBTQ bigots to engage in bounty lawsuits.
As we've seen with SB8, the lawsuits are rarely actually filed. Simply the threat of litigation is enough to create a chilling effect. Any federally funded entity will remove all references to LGBTQ people as a precaution, just as schools in Florida have done.
It is so incredibly dehumanizing and hateful for congressmembers to draft a bill that would define under federal law who I am as a queer trans woman as being "sexually oriented." As if my very existence is harmful to children. It's disgusting, heinous, and monstruous.
Here is the full list of co-sponsors. Vote accordingly.
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Dr. Ruuttajerttu Kaltiala, a Finnish doctor and paid member of SEGM has been able to completely colonize trans healthcare and push restrictions on care. She was involved in Cass Review, p-hacked research on suicidality in trans youth, and DeSantis' ban on care in Florida.
The latest is a statement from the The European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that endorsed the Cass review and pushes for more restrictions on gender affirming care. Kaltiala has had her fingers in nearly every major rollback of trans healthcare in Europe.
Dr. Kaltiala connected Hilary Cass with the Catholic Medical Association member and DeSantis appointee, Patrick Hunter. Hunter led the process to ban gender affirming care in Florida through the medical board highlighting politicized and faulty research.
This is the most gaslighting bullshit I've ever seen. The NHS has a 10+ year waiting list to access adult transition services. Who the hell is being rushed after waiting a decade to access care?
They don't want trans people to exist.
If you signed up for the adult service at 18, you would likely be 30 before you get an initial appointment under the NHS. Add to that a heavily gatekept process that could take years to access hormones and you would be approaching 35 before you even started HRT.
At that point, they'll tell you it's too late, you'll never pass and you'll disrupt your life. So don't transition. This is a moving of the overton window to ultimately eradicate trans people in the UK. That's what this is all about.
Step 1: Post about a crime by a Black person against a white person.
Step 2: say you didn't hear about it because it "doesn't fit the narrative."
Step 3: repeat endlessly to reify your own racist narrative.
The conspiratorial insinuation that media doesn't report it because it "doesn't fit the narrative" is how they both undermine and discredit mainstream sources while building up their own racist narrative as being the "truth." It's a classic white supremacist tactic.
It relies on posts that remove all context to push a racist viewpoint. Crime statistics, social conditions, or even common sense are purposefully held back to lean into this paranoid conspiratorial framing.
Pretty sure the end wokeness twitter account is run by Jack Posobiec if any reporters want to dig into it.
Here's a full archive of their tweets. Their early tweets were deleted but the archive shows an immediate large reach for a brand new account meaning larger accounts were boosting it. Primarily AF accounts such as Stacy Rae. web.archive.org/web/*/https://…
One of the earliest tells that clued me in was the use of the word "shlit." Basically, only Posobiec and End Wokeness used it up until the last month. LoTT uses it now but it was primarily Posobiec who popularized the word. twitter.com/search?q=shlit…
The New York Times is deleting internal employee Slack messages critical of Pamela Paul's article.
It turns out that freedom of speech only applies to those with platforms and access to power.
The New York Times is insisting that employee criticisms of articles should only be done through "proper channels."
Last year, they investigated employees who made their disagreement known through a public letter of Times writers. thedailybeast.com/ny-times-fires…
.@translashmedia covered this in depth where a trans editor did raise concerns through proper channels and they were pushed out of the paper by their editors.
BREAKING: Florida has taken unilateral administrative action and banned gender marker changes on drivers licenses. Any trans person who has had theirs changed is potentially subject to suspension. Anyone attempting to change it after could be criminally prosecuted for "fraud."
If the language used in this directive is taken at face value, any trans person driving with a changed gender marker on their drivers license could be criminally charged with fraud.
This interpretation could potentially apply to anyone driving in the state, including tourists.
Any out trans person could have their license revoked or suspended at any time under this policy and unlikely to be able to be renewed with the current gender marker.
This is a massive and intrusive change erasing legal recognition and criminalizing trans people in the state.