cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/7791489

Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph:

"The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."

The headline should read something more like "Florida students to return to schools after fascist-overhaul of the curriculum" but that wouldn't be "objective" enough for NPR.

Students will literally be watching Prager U Kids videos, require parental permission for a nickname, and be forcibly misgendered by even their closest, favorite, teacher as a matter of State Law.

Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.

The project has been delayed for years, but perhaps with Amtrak (and Andy Byford), the line will finally progress.

From the article, my emphasis added:

"Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."

One of my favourites from Alan Fisher. Seriously, just one more lane bro!

One of my favourites from Alan Fisher. Seriously, just one more lane bro!

Sure, updating patients rights would help but how fucked is it that our system allows this by default in the first placd?