A hallmark of authoritarians is to more actively target those within the population less able to garner resources with which to defend themselves, and use their “otherness” as a way to present the authoritarian as a champion of “normal”.

The order also directed mandated reporters – including teachers, nurses, and doctors to report families suspected of giving their children gender-affirming care to child services.

It’s ironic that Democrats are accused of playing “identity politics” and focusing on “cultural issues”, when it’s Texas Republicans who launched their attacks on trans people right after the deep freeze. You know, the one where the Dollar Store Zodiac Killer ditched to Cancun, around 250 people died, and countless…

You wait until the end of the school day to interview the kid and you make sure that there is an advocate or one of the kid’s parents present.

My mom was born in the 1930s and the nuns and the teachers would beat her because she was left handed. To them, Being left handed was a sign of the devil. THAT is religion in schools and so is this abusive conduct by the State of Texas. People who bully children are monsters and need to be voted OUT. Also, my mom is…

“It’s normal for a kid in 2022 to have a trans phase.”

Monstrous.

Are they checking IDs at the bathroom door???

“Though Gov. DeSantis’ anti-gay imperatives have been aimed at the youth and education system, they’ve also caused an adverse affect on LGBTQ adults who’ve already embraced the freedom to identify as they wish.”

It’s almost like they hate ALL LGBTQ people and not just the kids or the adults.

And just to even the playing field, all students (and board members) who want to use the bathrooms should have to file similar paperwork.

Agreed. I’m usually a pacifist, but when you start threatening to execute women (for abortions) and doctors (for that and LGBQTIA+ care), you deserve to be treated like Muammar Gaddafi.

i was a suicide prevention counselor for the trevor project for 4 years.  fuck all these asshats.  the universe as a whole is wholly uncaring.  why do we insist on inflicting these cruelties upon one another?  i just don’t understand.  faith in humanity -1000000

The domestic terrorists behind this need to spend serious time in jail. It’s time to send a message to the loonies.

There needs to be an answer to the far right extremism and I’m worried the only one is violence. These people don’t respond to human decency or respect b/c they have none. They don’t respond to facts or reason b/c it goes against their perception of what the world should be where “might makes right” and the ends…

Creepy, right-wing, fascist bullies are the most chicken-shit cowards I know of.

Probably shouldn’t be bothering with this on Jez and should keep these convos within my own community, but I guess a couple things:

* People continue to misunderstand how gender diverse children are treated; their cherry-picked examples of near insta “surgery” are not remotely the norm. Most importantly, what I want to…

The Aldeans look like who you’d cast if Newsmax gave you $500,000 and told you to  go make a movie about Alex Jones and Tami Lahren.

One look at that picture of Jason Aldean and I think we’re all thinking the same thing. Someone is trying really hard to ignore what’s in front of them. Or maybe he can’t see it from all the filler and face lifts. 

Jason Aldean looks like he is mad Ed Hardy and Von Dutch ever went out of style and is deciding to make it everyone’s problem.