I’m so very sorry, for so many people back in the states; I feel helpless about all this, and can think of nothing helpful to say. Except, I suppose, thank you for writing this, and I will go hug my trans friends tight.
I am so glad to hear your voice here! This regime of an 'administration' can't believe their good fortune, to have free reign to hurt and maim those they see as lesser to or a threat to, as stepping stones to accumulate power by fear and intimidation! I think it's like mainlining heroin to them! And it is basic misdirection to say 'we are doing it to protect you', like the old saw 'this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you, but it's for your own good'!!!
This is truly heinous shit. My love to you and yours from an internet stranger and a good reminder to donate to a local organization helping trans kids.
Thank you for writing this- in addition to our being a trans family, these orders are also directly impacting the medical care of multiple disabled kids we know. Our daughter's urological condition is part of a spectrum of conditions that often co-occur with intersexuality so many kids in her support group are being faced with the threat of having these orders affect their access to meds necessary for bladder health, bone health, and endocrine health because they're flagged as trans HRT and the way the EOs are written make zero provisions for the fact that many intersex kids don't even *have* a neat birth assignment by their essentialist definition.
Thank you for this, Stefani. It’s so heartbreaking that the EOs are written to make sure the cruelty catches as sweeping of a net as possible. Love to your beautiful family and community.
I’m so very sorry, for so many people back in the states; I feel helpless about all this, and can think of nothing helpful to say. Except, I suppose, thank you for writing this, and I will go hug my trans friends tight.
I am so glad to hear your voice here! This regime of an 'administration' can't believe their good fortune, to have free reign to hurt and maim those they see as lesser to or a threat to, as stepping stones to accumulate power by fear and intimidation! I think it's like mainlining heroin to them! And it is basic misdirection to say 'we are doing it to protect you', like the old saw 'this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you, but it's for your own good'!!!
This is truly heinous shit. My love to you and yours from an internet stranger and a good reminder to donate to a local organization helping trans kids.
Thank you for writing this- in addition to our being a trans family, these orders are also directly impacting the medical care of multiple disabled kids we know. Our daughter's urological condition is part of a spectrum of conditions that often co-occur with intersexuality so many kids in her support group are being faced with the threat of having these orders affect their access to meds necessary for bladder health, bone health, and endocrine health because they're flagged as trans HRT and the way the EOs are written make zero provisions for the fact that many intersex kids don't even *have* a neat birth assignment by their essentialist definition.
Thank you for this, Stefani. It’s so heartbreaking that the EOs are written to make sure the cruelty catches as sweeping of a net as possible. Love to your beautiful family and community.
I think that many men lie about their protective abilities, like, one guy was "nice" then continually raped me from 2010-2025. IT had to end.