By requiring trans people to identify themselves by their sex assigned at birth, and with a looming threat of prosecution for noncompliance, the Trump Administration is compelling every trans person to out themselves to the Federal Government.
It merely means that given a binary choice between Democrats and Republicans, most choose the Democrats to ‘handle’ us.
This bill would be the harshest legal restriction on trans life anywhere in the United States, and is all but certain to pass.
The new sweeping rules expand the existing ban on foreign aid to abortion providers to include providers of trans healthcare and anything else that it deems to be “gender ideology”.
The bill was voted to be advanced to a floor vote on a 9-3 decision along party lines.
Democrats no longer appear willing to vote for these compromises in order to fund the federal government.
It is not impossible for the FBI to do what has been claimed. It is still irresponsible to spread panic among marginalized people through rumors without evidence.
There is no likely ruling that does not leave trans people in the United States worse off than they were before.
Renee Good and her wife Becca were part of this Pink Migration. They sought a better life in a more accepting place, just like millions of other queer people.
