TX Republicans Introduced 32 Anti-Trans Bills on First Day of Pre-Filing Period. The bills filed target transgender people in nearly every aspect of their lives.

TX Republicans Introduced 32 Anti-Trans Bills on First Day of Pre-Filing Period

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  1. Raise your hand if you’re surprised.

    *Looks around*

    Oh, nobody? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

  2. >*Bounty bills also resurface in the latest wave of filings. Texas* [*HB 1075*](https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB1075/id/3026558) *would allow any individual performing in drag to be sued for a $5,000 bounty. The bill’s definition of “drag” and “perform” is alarmingly broad, labeling anyone “exhibiting a gender that is different from the performer’s gender recorded at birth using clothing, makeup, or other physical markers” as being in “drag.” This definition clearly encompasses transgender people. Should a bill like this become law, transgender performers would undoubtedly be targeted. In Montana, under a similar drag ban, the first person targeted wasn’t a drag performer but* [*a transgender public speaker*](https://apnews.com/article/drag-reading-event-ban-montana-speaker-canceled-4b40d8991b2fc1353f1dd2cf72bde62d) *discussing transgender history at a library. Additionally, such a measure would almost certainly force the cancellation of Pride parades across Texas, where transgender people and drag performers dance, lip-sync, and otherwise celebrate.*

    >Multiple bills take aim at transgender people in schools, as well as books about queer and transgender individuals. Among the most troubling is [Senate Bill 86](https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB86/id/3026513), which would require parental permission for high school students to join a Gay-Straight Alliance or any club that “promotes themes of sexuality, gender, or gender identity.” According to Lambda Legal, this requirement [violates the Equal Access Act](https://legacy.lambdalegal.org/know-your-rights/article/youth-gay-straight-alliances), which mandates that rules apply equally to all student groups and prohibits singling out GSAs for restrictive policies.

    So, is it finally okay to call this genocide? Christian nationalist Republicans are trying to eradicate trans people from even being able to walk down the street. This is state-sponsored terrorism.

  3. This is just eliminationism and enforced social conformity.

  4. I wonder what the cost to taxpayer is for all this legislation (researching, drafting, debating, revising and implementing) compared to the total trans population of TX.

  5. What’s the right wing equivalent of “the woke mind virus?”

    Because not only are these Republicans afflicted with it, but it’s an actual thing…

  6. They don’t want to be compared to Nazis, but one of the first things the Nazis did was to *legislate* away the rights and protections of “undesirables” and to severely circumscribe their existence. In some cases (e.g. Jews) this was soon followed by loss of citizenship. Again, almost everything that was done prior to the Final Solution was within the bounds of the laws passed after 1933, or the broad powers granted to Adolf Hitler.

    Oh, and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill this week to codify sex and gender terms at the Federal level, which would de facto eradicate the recognition of trans people by the Government.

  7. It’s a genocide.

    Fuck all of you who told us we were being “hYsTeRiCaL”. You’re evil and you deserve to have everything brought upon trans people done to **you**.

  8. Being a trans person in Texas is no longer safe.

    Civilized nations of the world needs to put legal sanctions on states like Texas. Do not do business with Texas or Texans.

  9. Whats next? Women not allowed to wear pants anymore? Just asking….

  10. I’m a cis female with PCOS in a blue state. I already see the uptick in how much I get confronted about whether I’m male or female. *Not your business. Please leave me alone. I’m just trying to live my life.* Ever get hit in the face with a 64 ounce drink full of ice thrown from a passing car? Ever get shot by a paintball gun while walking home from the library? That’s last year, not 1938 or 1956.

    Even with that experience, I still can’t really imagine living in Texas, with no way to predict when some crazy will target me for not doing *their* preferred presentation of the gender *they* decide I was at birth. I don’t know how terrifying it is to be trans or in drag and see people actually try to legislate me out of existence, as if changing a law can change *who I am.*

    God knows it’s not all of us. We’re scared too, but we have to stand together, all of us decent people who understand everyone has the right to live in peace and safety.

    At this point there’s no doubt a 1938-type regime is coming into power. All that’s left to decide is whether we act as the majority of Germans did in 1938, or if we fight back. Speak up. Stand up. Make a recording. Say out loud that harassment and bigotry is wrong. *Don’t look away.*

    If you’re older and retired, the powers that be can’t control you through needing your job to survive. You have *even more* obligation to speak up, speak out, stand firm. Shine a light on this behavior and call it what it is. It’s not policy. It’s not their religious preference. It’s *hatred*. We won’t look away as people are told they can’t use a toilet, can’t wear their clothing or makeup. We won’t look away if they are cursed, or beaten, or dragged off. We won’t allow our fellow citizens to be made second class humans or be tattooed by their looks.

    And for those who know it’s wrong but don’t want to get involved, who think they can just hang back and ride this out: *Learn something from history. Please.*

  11. This kind of stuff affects everyone. Who makes the rules on clothing/dress/mannerisms being “male” or “female?” A dress code for everyone? I’m sorry but after 12 years of Catholic school I’m not going to abide by that again.

    If I want to dress up as a man for Halloween, or any time I want, I can be sued??? If I want a butch haircut, which I’ve had before, I can be sued??? If I have a low alto voice and feel like singing along to a male vocalist in public or at karaoke, I can be sued???

    The logical conclusions of these hateful laws are simply not being thought through. And regardless, eff the eff off. I’m not living my life by a bunch of baseless made-up gender role assumptions. Never have, never will. And I will stand up for trans people at every possible opportunity. Take your bigotry and shove it back into your own closet where it belongs.

  12. There are so few trans people in Texas and the GOP in Texas has done nothing to fix the grid or anything else that would improve our lives. It’s obvious that the hate directed at trans folks is mostly a distraction to cover up how ineffective they are.

  13. But it’s democrats focused on identity politics? How bills did they propose that actually give Texans better affordable healthcare or access to healthier foods or affordable childcare or even limit the cost of eggs were told about

    >One such measure, HB1123, would impose stricter laws on sports by requiring every athlete in the state to undergo a chromosome test—an invasive and costly procedure that could wreak havoc on high school and college athletics. Many people are unaware they have atypical chromosomes, making this requirement particularly problematic. A similar guideline was used at the 1996 Olympics, where mandatory chromosomal testing of female athletes revealed that eight women had XY chromosomes without knowing it, due to unknown intersex conditions. The discovery led to widespread backlash as intersex athletes faced threats of removal and the emotional toll of learning their genetic status. Chromosomal testing was subsequently discontinued, deemed deeply violating, unfair, and unworkable as a standard.

    How much money and time is going to go into sending every student athlete to the doctor and forcing them to take a genetic test if there is any suspicion about their orientation? For fucks sakes there were probably more kids gunned down in Uvalde than there are trans athletes playing high school sports in all of Texas.

  14. I am 5’8” in my socks.

    I have a deep voice.

    I exercise and it shows.

    I have short hair.

    I bought all my clothes from the women’s section. I make this concession to our cultural norms.

    What else do you want me to do?!?

  15. Americans: Please, the price of eggs is too high!

    American Government: Clearly bathrooms and exclusively women’s ~~shorts~~ sports are the problem!

    Conservatives the world over are too rich and too comfortable to know what their constituents actually need. 

    This is why I don’t trust folks who say they’re “fiscally conservative” – these bills, these initiatives, the time and resources it takes to make this all happen… None of those will help their constituents. In fact it will harm them all, either directly or within a few degrees of separation.

    Y’know how technically illiterate most conservatives are? Guess who isn’t? Transpeople. Well, more accurately trans furries.

    I don’t think the average person understands how truly fucked worldwide infrastructure is if all trans tech folks decided to take out their fear on the world.

    Ooooh hold on, they’re banning porn. This is why conservative men are so desperate. They know the only way they’ll ever see trans women again – since outing DL conservatives is in and I am living for it – is forcing her into their bathrooms. They’re so scared of revealing they’re chasers and fetishists they want to ban trans women from the only “porn” soon to be legal: women’s sports.

    Remember, my trans siblings: your joy is revolution. It scares them. It terrifies them that in the face of everything you can still cultivate joy in your community. 

    Joy shatters fear and lights sparks of revolution.

  16. The party of small government everyone. So small they fit in your bed, your bathroom, even your makeup bag.

  17. A quick Google search said that 0.6% of the us population is trans and 1.7% is inersex so 3 of every 4 people who could be impacted by the chromosome testing are ibtersex and may not even know that their DNA does not match their private parts.

  19. My fellow transgender family, please stay strong and safe.

    Arm up, if possible.

  20. “We could attempt to address the ongoing difficulties with the energy grid and persistent drought, couldn’t we?”

    “Fuck that! Let’s get the trans people! That’s tax money well spent!”

    Way to go, texas, way to go.

  22. I’ve said this multiple times- if it was socially acceptable, they would already be hanging trans people.

  23. So this will decrease the price of groceries and houses right?

  24. ALL of the people talking about how “the left” is always playing identity politics – they aren’t. The calls are always coming from inside the building.

    These lunatics continually make their entire legislative sessions about trans people. And immigrants. And any other Other group they can think of.

    And all for what? For fucking nothing. There is no epidemic. It is entirely made up in these people’s minds. Trans people are literally just existing, and these people cannot tolerate it. They lose their fucking minds.

  25. Banning drag? Oh brother. They really are pathetic

  26. Yeah Trans more important than fixing the electricity and water problem… And Texas still reelected this guys.

  27. I am very glad I live in the Northeast in a very blue township.

  29. So glad they are attacking the issue that affect my life! Thank Christ we are focusing on 1% of the population this will surly end inflation and bring back jobs!

  30. Trans people have simply become the scapegoat for all the other, no longer socially acceptable, “-isms”. The right-wing and Republicans used to love anti-semitism, now they are flitting somewhere between “Israel must be saved to be destroyed to bring the Apocalypse” fundamental Christians and “yay Israel-kill all those Muslims!”.

    Racism is no longer cool, most people aren’t buying the whole “everyone is racist against Whites” idiocy. Even the old standby-sexism, is getting the side-eye, too many Republican women get huffy over it nowadays.

    Being homophobic is hard because everyone loves Ellen and Will & Grace. So the trans community as microscopic as it is is getting the majority of the hate at least publicly, sort of a particularly nasty type of dog whistle.

  31. I wonder what possible reason would motivate Republicans in Texas to put so much time and energy into limited the freedoms of a group of people that make us less than one percent of our society??

  32. Is this the party that is afraid of government overreach?

  34. Can our government stop creating problems and focus on issues that help society?

  36. “You keep calling us bigots instead of talking about the economy”

    First day in office…

  40. That’s great news, because everyone knows it was the trans people who were keeping the price of eggs so high!

  41. It’s funny these assholes wear “don’t tread on me” shirts, yet they tread all over everyone they don’t agree with.

  42. Your reminder that it wasn’t Trump’s economic messaging that won him the election it was pure hatred and fascist attitudes towards minorities. Every trump voter is a fascist and the OGFISAVDF

  43. I honestly don’t understand the obsession. It’s like all they ever talk, complain, and care about. Can’t tell if it’s just a distraction tactic or they truly just hate people with different beliefs.

  44. WTF is wrong with that state? Why would anyone care that much about someone else’s sexuality?

  45. Why do they fucking care about ruining the lives of a group of people who make up less than 1% of America? What a fucking waste, and it’s dumb and evil.

  46. Why don’t they just leave people alone to live their lives!!!???

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