This very personal process
A number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced and enacted on the state level in recent months, with many aimed at attacking transgender rights by outlawing gender affirming health care and prohibiting trans kids from playing in youth sports that align with their identity.
One: the bills are not in any way anti-LGB.
Two: they’re also not anti-TQ except in the sense that they don’t promote the novel, dangerous, stupid doctrine that people can be literally trapped in “the wrong body.” Bills that outlaw surgery and/or drugs that alter children’s bodies for the sake of a delusion are not anti the children being protected. Bills that forbid males to compete in female sport are not anti-T, they’re pro-female.
Since taking office, President Joe Biden has signed several executive orders to protect trans rights.
Define “trans rights.” They don’t, of course.
Dylan Mulvaney has publicly been sharing her transition on TikTok with her viral “Days of Girlhood” series. She spoke with Biden at Now This’ Presidential Forum about the right-wing attacks on trans lives and how the administration can better advocate for the trans community.
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Mulvaney: Thank you. I am extremely privileged to live in a state that allows me access to the resources I need, and that decision is just between me and my doctors. But many states have lawmakers that feel like they can involve themselves in this very personal process. Do you think states should have a right to ban gender-affirming healthcare?
What if we call it sex-denying health malpractice? What do you think then?
But of course that’s not what Biden replied to.
Biden: I don’t think any state or anybody should have the right to do that. As a moral question and as a legal question, I just think it’s wrong. You know, I think I was saying before we started that my son, my deceased son, used to be the attorney general of the state of Delaware. He passed the broadest piece of legislation he, as attorney general, was able to convince the legislature and the governor to sign that dealt with all gender-affirming capabilities. I mean, there’s a lot of, you know, you sometimes—they try to block you from being able to access certain medicines, being able to access certain procedures, and so on. None of that should be available. I mean, no state should be able to do that, in my view. So I feel very, very strongly that you should have every single solitary right including use of your gender-identity bathrooms in public.
And women can just go jump off a roof. Thanks Joe.
And who declared this a right? Maybe RhysRachelVeronicalMcKinnonIvy? Would I have a right to use Ivanka Trump’s bathroom if I identified as her? (Ick)
Women fought long and hard to win the right to have sex-segregated bathrooms in the workplace and in public places; now it appears we have to fight to keep them.
Meanwhile, the TiMs have never fought long and hard for anything. They just tack themselves on to some other social movement that has had some level of success: LGB, anti-racism, women…you name it, they want it.