I feel like when a fascist governmentās pushing for reinforcing the nuclear family, tearing down discrimination protections, using abortion restrictions to force women into dependency, etc., itās time to recognize that civil rights donāt eliminate that heterosexuality is about structural oppression.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/wisconsin-conversion-therapy
The Republican-controlled Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules Committee has twice vetoed a proposed rule by Democratic Gov. Tony Eversās administration banning the controversial practice of conversion therapy. The rule banning conversion therapy is one of two vetoed by the committee and named in the suit. The second rule authorized a pay increase for state university employees.
The court is composed of seven justices. It is ostensibly non-partisan but is generally recognized as having four liberal justices and three conservative justices. Liberal justices seemed skeptical of the Republican views on the separation of powers in the case, while conservative justices said the powers used by the legislature were granted in the stateās constitution.
āYou are saying that itās okay for three or four members of the legislature to put on hold a rule that is literally saving peopleās lives,ā liberal Jill Karofsky said during arguments on Thursday.
Yes, and that the nuclear family isolates vulnerable people from support and makes them dependent upon a handful of people to supply the financial and health support that a society should provide all its citizens.
Does this seem legitimate? Sheās wearing an REM t-shirt, so Iām inclined to believe her.
Rebecca Watson? Yeahā¦ I donāt always agree with everything she says, but sheās pretty reliableā¦
No, I donāt think that itās a legal requirement that if you offer someone a brownie, you have to disclose if it doesnāt contain chocolate. Maybe it should be, though.
Damn!
Now Iām being attacked for two aspects of my identity.
Women who wonāt āgiveā men access to sex with them are the real problem.
Warning: The interviewee talks really fast.
not related to conversion therapy but involving my therapist: Raymond, who was Rachel, is still listed professionally under his old name. I told him that I thought it was disrespectful of the clinic to list him that way, then he told me itās not the clinic, itās because itās such a difficult process to change. And now Iām ticked off about that. I really like him as a therapist and a person.
until the past few years, and ever since i was four or five, iāve been pretty much living a ādonāt ask, donāt tellā sort of life. Not particularly out of fear, more like caution; but more because - at that time I was growing up - it wasnāt anyoneās business. Until I turned13 and started high school. Thatās when I learned about true homophobia. addendum: and another deviation from being heretoā¦er, I mean hetero.
The United Nations has condemned nonconsensual intersex surgeries for more than a decade, as they have been shown to lead to long-term physical problems with fertility, pain, incontinence and the loss of sexual sensation, along with severe psychological consequences. Yet only six countries in the world have fully prohibited these surgeries: Germany, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Portugal and Spain.
In the U.S., Lurie Childrenās Hospital in Chicago, Boston Childrenās Hospital, and the New York City Health and Hospitals system are the only hospitals that formally have protective policies in place against these surgeries, said Erika Lorshbough, the executive director of interACT, Advocates for Intersex Youth.
āThere are no state laws regulating the practice,ā Lorshbough told Salon in a phone interview. āThe policy reversals or the adoption of protective policies at Lurie and Boston Childrenās were spurred on by local activism.ā
Well, at least in VA efforts to block trans care failed
SB1074Youth Health Protection Act; established, civil penalty.
Status: Failed
But the effort in other states continues.