cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47362341
Henry Cuellar, Donald Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzalez, Marcy Kaptur, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Eugene Vindman
The United States is a country that believes children are their parents’ property instead of people themselves.
Children have rights.
And your own gender identity is one of the most inherent rights that people have.
I’m saying this as a cisgender man. The idea that your school would literally put you in danger by outing you to your parents is absurd.
The absurd cruelty is the point. This legislation was not written to solve any problem or to address any issue of policy failure, but instead to torture children. I am glad we have someone like you on our side, but we need more people who understand that attacks on our trans brothers, sisters, and thimbers is an attack on everyone everywhere. For now it is mandatory that you conform to your AGAB, but from here we open up a can of worms that includes things like codifying gender roles to match a certain worldview. From here it is possible to say things like “It is a masculine trait to grill. Any man who does not grill is gender non-conforming and must be forced to grill” and “Women are property of their husbands. Any woman who disobeys her husband will be shot”
The right wing of this country has never been in objection to Sharia law for the reasons they say. They are in objection because they want their religion to set the rules, not a slightly different Abrahamic offshoot founded in a slightly different desert.
Children have rights.
The fundamental problem with a theory of “rights” is that it assumes a government will self-police.
Ultimately, any social cohort without access to some amount of wealth, legal standing, and support from their peers has no rights in a practical sense.
Children are vulnerable on all three fronts.
Government doesn’t grant rights.
It only acknowledges them or chooses not to.
Rights are things that it is right for a person to have and is not right for a person to be denied.
Governments grant privileges. Governments do not grant rights.
USA and UK currently in a transphobic cold war. Who can fuck over trans people the most?
the neoliberal and tradtionally liberal wings of the democratic party continue to actively hinder efforts to resist fascism
Eugene Vindman
People of Virginia should remember this when voting in the Democratic primary
Specifically the 7th district, which is the southern reaches of NoVA, so Prince County and westward to just south of Manassas
If you’re going after minorities like this, you are officially the bad person. Don’t care what the reasoning behind it might be. Those democrats should be shamed everywhere they go.
Fuck them.
