Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) this week escalated his anti-trans rights crusade in the state by directing a state agency that oversees child abuse cases, among other things, to conduct “prompt and thorough” investigations into gender-affirming medical care for minors.
So I guess conversion therapy is A-OK in Texas?
Parental rights and authority trump sound medical/psychiatric advise.
Oh fuck him, the GOP and the horse they flew in on.
When the fuck are they going to do something that is posititive and useful? Fucking bunch of assholes!
“Abbott called on DFPS as well as other state agencies to investigate parents who permit their transgender children to undergo gender-affirming procedures.”
Republicans are for smaller government.
They just want to shrink it down so small that it can insert itself between you and your own children.
Here’s the letter (and don’tcha just love Bradley Whitford?)…
This is a nascent pogrom on our own soil. It cannot be allowed under any circumstances and must be stamped the fuck out by any means necessary.
These parents need lawyers, guns and money, NOT RELOCATION. This is part of the GQP goal: kicking everyone out of the state who isn’t them so that they can control the entire country via their little ethno-state fiefdoms. They’ve been trying to do it to POC for ages by deliberately rendering them impoverished. NO NO NO NO FUCKING NO!!! Relocation is not the answer. FIGHTING IS. Garland needs to get his ass on this IMMEDIATELY and Biden needs to threaten swift and expansive executive action. I’m so fucking irate I can’t even think straight enough to say what that must be, but this CANNOT be allowed to proceed in any way, shape or form and if it does, violence MUST ensue. It is IMPERATIVE that these children be protected and remain in their intact families receiving appropriate medical care and guidance from loving people, not disrupted in their lives and families and medical procedures by angry, hateful white Christian bigots. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. GET FUCKING ARMED. I seriously fucking hope the first fucker who approaches one of these families gets shot on the porch and left to bleed out while a phone is carefully placed out of his reach
WHOSE CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT?
Now we know the order they’ve chosen:
The GOP hatred for non-straight citizens is deplorable.
I get where you’re coming from, but I sort of would like to see this experiment run in real time.
What these folks don’t understand is by enacting these policies, these laws, it drives out the “undesirables”, but then what?
I predict that people need to see a state turn into the biggest baddest HOA in the universe, before the residents figure out what Martin Niemoller was talking about. Because once these people get to make some section of the population lives a living Hell then they’ll get it. That it doesn’t stop with trans kids, it will be the gay kids, the minority kids, the parents of the above subsection of kids. And along the way those other religions that are not the one true religion will be waiting for their turn to be cancelled.
I know that we can’t let this play out, but I’m not sure that the Abbotts, Paxtons, and rest of the Christofascists will understand.
Governor Abattoir is just helping to remind everyone that “States Rights” is, and has always been, about the States wanting the right to abuse, own, extrajudicially murder, or otherwise infringe the rights of whatever portion of their populations they choose.
The GQP seems to be in a race to see which of them can behave in the most depraved, inhuman way. Instead of Monty Python’s “Upper-Class Twit of the Year”, the GQP seems to be going for “Performatively Transgressive Asshole of the Year.”
They’re so enamored of TFG they might as well name the program or law the “Grab them in the crotch act”
I’m in no mood for fucking moralizing. These people must be stopped. This is an escalation that should be setting off alarm bells across the fucking country like few other things should have the past few years. We ARE headed towards violence. Everyone should start getting used to it.
They don’t need to understand. They need to stop or be stopped by any means necessary. Frankly, the ONLY thing they will understand is violence. So be it. It’s coming, both for us and by us. They are deliberately leaving the rest of us no choice because they think they’ll win and “have all the guns” etc. Again, so be it.
Texas Republicans have gender on the brain. They are obsessed with gender. Any mention of gender makes them drool, bark, and chase their tails.
How do you upset a Texas Republican? Just say gender. Whisper it. Mouth it.
Gender. Boo!
Nobody could ever accuse current Republicans of not squeezing every drop of hatred and bigotry out of their latest faux outrage. It is impressive in its abject cruelty.
Today’s GOP is frenzied projection incarnate.
It’s an entire movement based on panicked men trying to outrun their own sexual insecurities.
Gender. Boo.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Will they have to wear pink triangles, so the storm troopers can easily recognize them?
Or out-roll in this case
Hey, why not go after all the defectives in wheelchairs too, Greg?
Speaking of