The bill could have far ranging impacts in Tennessee and outside of the state, and could be broadly used to target health care professionals across state lines.
The next step will be extreme demonisation of parents of trans people followed by laws targeting the parents.
Basically their goal is to make the parents the only legal means to access medical care but put the parents at risk of breaking convoluted laws by doing so.
Trans healthcare will be “legal” but with so many complicated laws it will be impossible to avoid breaking some of them.
The next step will be extreme demonisation of parents of trans people followed by laws targeting the parents.
Basically their goal is to make the parents the only legal means to access medical care but put the parents at risk of breaking convoluted laws by doing so.
Trans healthcare will be “legal” but with so many complicated laws it will be impossible to avoid breaking some of them.
Trust me, I understand the play here. But Imagine you’re just an average cis person and your trans friend sends you that article.
You read it and you’re angry. “How can they treat human beings like this??”
So you go read the bill.
“Oh… Erin must not have read it thoroughly. This sounds reasonable to me.”
And I know this happens because a political podcaster, who is a very intelligent cis guy who I respect, did exactly this about Don’t Say Gay.
We need to tell people -why- these laws are dangerous without falling into our own panic.
We need to point out how they all seem to try to “solve” problems that don’t exist, or just scapegoat us.
I’m not sure what about my take on the likely tactic here is striking you as panic.
I have exactly zero stake in this as I’m not from the USA and was merely making an observation.
I’m saying Erin’s post comes across as “panic” because to someone who might care, but is less informed, it seems to be missing some context