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Lost in Translation
Author: Raine
Date: 04/27/2023 13:02:44
According to the Congressional Budget Office, our nation's population is approximately 336 million as of 2022-2023. (source) Of that 336 million, kids between 13-17 make up 8% of it. That's about 26,880,000 people.
Of that 8%, 18% identify as transgender. That's about 483,400 people or 1.5% of all people in the country. They are all human beings and deserve to be treated as such.
The statistics are alarming. There have been 525 bills introduced in 49 states this year. So far 47 have passed, 99 failed and the rest are still active.
This is a problem for an already marginalized community. The GOP is taking up all the space with hateful bills targeting them and they're taking the playbook like the Tennessee legislature did to the 'TennesseeThree'. Those lawmakers were fighting for Gun Rights. They were met with expulsion by politicians more beholden to the NRA than to the people of the Volunteer State.
This week, The Montana House voted to punish transgender lawmaker, Rep. Zooey Zephyr for defending her community and for her constituents. They're threatening to do the same to a lawmaker in Nebraska. About Kathleen Kauth..
The money going into these anti-trans bills has all the usual suspects.
All of this hate to target 1.4% of 13-17-year-old must be quite a money maker. It, like most other conservative motives, is founded on white christian nationalism. That's who these politicians are beholden to. They are just as bad as the NRA.
While the media reports on these horrible stories they really need to tell the whole story and not act like the number of trans people is huge, that's what the GOP wants them to do, make a non-boogeyman into a scary monster. Perspective is important but it doesn't make the 1.4% any less important. Call out hate when you see it If they can come for lawmakers and children, they will come for you.
They came for Roe and they got it. Now they are going after gender-affirming care. Next up, reviving birth control bans and no-fault divorce.
Seriously. Resist, persist, and insist.
Raine
Of that 8%, 18% identify as transgender. That's about 483,400 people or 1.5% of all people in the country. They are all human beings and deserve to be treated as such.
The statistics are alarming. There have been 525 bills introduced in 49 states this year. So far 47 have passed, 99 failed and the rest are still active.
This is a problem for an already marginalized community. The GOP is taking up all the space with hateful bills targeting them and they're taking the playbook like the Tennessee legislature did to the 'TennesseeThree'. Those lawmakers were fighting for Gun Rights. They were met with expulsion by politicians more beholden to the NRA than to the people of the Volunteer State.
This week, The Montana House voted to punish transgender lawmaker, Rep. Zooey Zephyr for defending her community and for her constituents.
Zephyr, who is transgender, has been blocked from speaking since last week. That's when she told supporters of a bill to ban gender-affirming care that when they bowed their heads in prayer, she hoped they would see "blood on [their] hands." She says she was alluding to studies that show that transgender health care can reduce suicidality in youth. (snip)
"I have fielded calls from families in Montana, including one family whose trans teenager attempted to take her life while watching a hearing on one of the anti-trans bills," Zephyr said during the debate Wednesday. "So, when I rose up and said 'there is blood on your hands,' I was not being hyperbolic," she said.
Frank Daley, executive director of the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission, on Wednesday hand-delivered the complaint, in which David Begley, an Omaha-based attorney, argued Hunt has a potential financial conflict of interest with Legislative Bill 574.
LB 574 would prohibit puberty blockers, hormone therapies and genital or non-genital surgeries for minors. The bill, proposed by State Sen. Kathleen Kauth of Omaha, has been center stage in the 2023 session, sparking near-endless filibusters and bringing the Legislature to a crawl.
During the March 22 debate on LB 574, Hunt described how the bill would impact her and her 12-year-old son, who is trans.
“The point isn’t that I could gain financially if my kid has rights,” Hunt said Wednesday. “The point is the harassment.”
Nebraska Senator Kathleen Kauth used funds provided by a well known Nebraska hate group to pay for her anti-trans bill testimony. Stephanie Johnson of NFFV explains her motives here. NFFV is the hate group my father in law started. Senator Erdman & others are members. pic.twitter.com/VC9uWxhPJo
— Jamie Lynn Bonkiewicz (She/Her) (@jamielynn261982) February 10, 2023
The money going into these anti-trans bills has all the usual suspects.
The sudden flood of state-level efforts to restrict transgender rights is being fueled by many of the Christian and conservative groups that led the charge against Roe v. Wade. (snip)
Critics and civil liberties advocates say anti-transgender proposals reflect a narrow, religious worldview on gender and other issues while endangering free speech and non-discriminatory education.
"They want to preserve their vision of a white, Christian America (and) they're willing to embrace all sorts of anti-democratic means to protect it," said Robert P. Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a nonpartisan group that examines religion and policy.
All of this hate to target 1.4% of 13-17-year-old must be quite a money maker. It, like most other conservative motives, is founded on white christian nationalism. That's who these politicians are beholden to. They are just as bad as the NRA.
While the media reports on these horrible stories they really need to tell the whole story and not act like the number of trans people is huge, that's what the GOP wants them to do, make a non-boogeyman into a scary monster. Perspective is important but it doesn't make the 1.4% any less important. Call out hate when you see it If they can come for lawmakers and children, they will come for you.
They came for Roe and they got it. Now they are going after gender-affirming care. Next up, reviving birth control bans and no-fault divorce.
Seriously. Resist, persist, and insist.
Raine
