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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not as a matter of policy, no.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

texas, florida, ohio, and utah would like a word

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Those states execute people for the crime of being gay?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Those states are making conditions intolerable for trans people in the hopes that they either kill themselves or flee. I personally know trans people who moved across the country within the past year because of the uncertainty over whether it would even be legal for them to piss in a public restroom, or whether they would have access to medication necessary to keep them mentally healthy. I fled nearly 20 years ago because I saw the writing on the wall.

That’s not even discussing the stochastic terrorism that has made drag flat out dangerous, as in “your gay bar in Brooklyn will get burned down” dangerous. That’s not a hypothetical, it happened less than a year ago.