Gov. Spencer Cox signed the anti-trans law targeting school bathrooms and government-owned public changing rooms. Also: Florida's anti-trans driver's license moves.
when laws like Utah’s has provisions for secondary enforcement / who watches the watchmen energy, my gut tells me the true winner will be the billable hour.
It was the best of times and the worst of times in the Iowa legislature. On Wednesday, an Iowa House subcommittee killed the latest effort to remove gender identity as a protected class in our state's civil rights act.
But on Thursday, Governor Kim Reynolds introduced a truly terrible bill that (among other things) would require transgender Iowans to have special driver's licenses indicating their sex assigned at birth as well as their current designation. Our governor loves to copy ideas from Florida.
Utah’s law is not an “anti-LGBT[fill in the other bullshit letters] law. One might consider it anti-transgender. I’m a gay man. I’m sick of being lumped in (as a single letter, no less) to some cutesy “woke” abbreviation (which apparently we are all supposed to embrace) as if - automatically - a transgender individual’s concerns are those of gay men or gay men’s concerns are those of a transgender person. It certainly COULD be the case but it is in no way a given. I am not a letter. Neither are lesbians nor transgender people. Stop the demeaning and nonsensical use of the abbreviation. Stop.
I think you stopping subscribing would be easier, given that this is my publication and I will continue writing how I wish to write. Also, your boring, trite complaint is like 25 years old (older, really, but that’s when I started engaging with it), and I disagreed with such callous obnoxiousness when people argued it then — I certainly don’t think it’s acceptable for a grown man in 2024.
And, as usual, the intersex community is ignored altogether. How is Florida planning on dealing with folks whose chromosomes don't match the crotch accessories they were born with?
These laws seem to require men to use the women’s restroom and the reverse. Their real goals are to humiliate Trans people and force them either into the shadows or out of state. Everything else that they say is window dressing.
Students in Utah can stand with their fellow students by all asking to use the designated bathrooms. There’s no outing when everyone stands together.
when laws like Utah’s has provisions for secondary enforcement / who watches the watchmen energy, my gut tells me the true winner will be the billable hour.
But at least trans people will be humiliated and afraid! See, there's always a silver lining.
It was the best of times and the worst of times in the Iowa legislature. On Wednesday, an Iowa House subcommittee killed the latest effort to remove gender identity as a protected class in our state's civil rights act.
But on Thursday, Governor Kim Reynolds introduced a truly terrible bill that (among other things) would require transgender Iowans to have special driver's licenses indicating their sex assigned at birth as well as their current designation. Our governor loves to copy ideas from Florida.
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/02/03/governors-latest-attack-on-trans-iowans-cant-be-constitutional/
Erin Reed also basically covers the fact Pamela Paul is officially the anti-trans NYT op-ed writer.
So true. NYT coverage has been terrible.
Utah’s law is not an “anti-LGBT[fill in the other bullshit letters] law. One might consider it anti-transgender. I’m a gay man. I’m sick of being lumped in (as a single letter, no less) to some cutesy “woke” abbreviation (which apparently we are all supposed to embrace) as if - automatically - a transgender individual’s concerns are those of gay men or gay men’s concerns are those of a transgender person. It certainly COULD be the case but it is in no way a given. I am not a letter. Neither are lesbians nor transgender people. Stop the demeaning and nonsensical use of the abbreviation. Stop.
I think you stopping subscribing would be easier, given that this is my publication and I will continue writing how I wish to write. Also, your boring, trite complaint is like 25 years old (older, really, but that’s when I started engaging with it), and I disagreed with such callous obnoxiousness when people argued it then — I certainly don’t think it’s acceptable for a grown man in 2024.
Oh no a bari weiss subscriber has some see-through excuse for transphobia, what a unique and thoughtful person you are
And, as usual, the intersex community is ignored altogether. How is Florida planning on dealing with folks whose chromosomes don't match the crotch accessories they were born with?
These laws seem to require men to use the women’s restroom and the reverse. Their real goals are to humiliate Trans people and force them either into the shadows or out of state. Everything else that they say is window dressing.
Thank you, Chris.
Why can't they just leave these children alone? Transgender has been around
a very long time and suddenly it's just a horrible
condition. Like being Gay. Or
being LGBT+. All of these have been a part of human
life for over a thousand years.
The Roman's, Greeks and so
many more societies.
Just outright ignorance!