Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth.
At least one bill goes so far as making it a crime for a transgender person to enter a facility that doesn’t match the sex listed on their birth certificate.
The debate has been popping up in statehouses across the nation in recent months, predominantly in conservative, rural states, including at a hearing of the Arizona Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee in February. Proponents of that state’s SB 1628, which defines “male,” “female,” and other terms through rigid definitions of biological sex, argued that women’s rights are at stake. Opponents disagreed and said the language would erase transgender people from state statute and remove legal protections.
It’s abhorrent. Republicans are trying to criminalize trans people’s existence. It’s legislative genocide. They don’t want trans people to have employment protections, housing protections, let them go to the bathroom, let them have a proper ID and birth certificate, don’t want to give them healthcare, and won’t even let them play fucking sports in K-12 schools.
I’ll never understand their obsession with other people’s genitals
It’s because every single one of them wants to wrap their lips and throats around the ones that stick out.
How often do they even encounter a trans person? They’re so obsessed with oppressing a minority that’s so small they probably almost never encounter them, let alone have any impact on their life.
Legislative is just the first step. They’re already compiling lists of our names.