No version of this CR would've banned trans healthcare or directly targeted trans rights- the standing issue was whether the ACA subsidies would be ended.
This was decided by the Shadow Docket, a method used by the Supreme Court to avoid scrutiny on controversial legal questions.
Why do we allow doctors to have a monopoly over medicine?
Today is no different than yesterday- Trans liberation isn't going to come from a ballot box filled with cis votes. It is going to come from the actions of trans people working together for our own interests.
This move is the latest chapter in Brazil's quotas law- which has made it possible for marginalized and poor people to increasingly access university education.
Zohran Mamdani is going to be NYC's next mayor and has a track record of defending trans people.
To the corporations, we are nothing but data points and income streams that can be exchanged as part of a deal. To many of the trans users who rely on these platforms for their only understanding community, losing access to said platforms means losing access to their whole social world.
The 224 page list of amendments includes provisions to criminalize protest of past government actions, ban photo editing software, and effectively criminalize promotion of content the government deems “pornographic.”
