After Dobbs, there’s no legal protections for bodily autonomy… Fucking genocidal.
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It really is. And far too many people were willing to let Roe die (mainly white, straight, male Democrats), because they thought that it wouldn’t impact anyone but a few women… Of course much of the LGBTQ+ community understood the connection between the rights of privacy that Roe was decided on and their own victories in the courts since then… There was a lot more understanding of how these things intersect among queer activists - maybe not some cisgendered, white, wealthy gay men who are for some fucked up reasons still Republicans, like Andrew Sullivan - but most did and still do intuitively understand that kind of intersectionality. Unfortunately, far too many white cisgendered feminists don’t get that the other way. Yeah, Roe is gone, but the way to start clawing back that right is to start specifically with defending the trans community from these attacks that they are facing right now. Doing so will help build up the structures we had in place for a while that gave people greater rights across the board.
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Acting on a campaign pledge made in June before a primary election, board chair Donald “Mac” Scothorn (R) announced a proposal at the board’s July 31 meeting to prohibit anyone under 18 from visiting the county library without adult supervision.
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Minimum Legal Age With Parental Consent in Virginia:
Male: 16; Female: 16
Just saying.
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Ordered to take religious liberty training with a far right hate group.
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From near the end of that article:
But trans people know how to work under threat and in the gray areas, jumping the gates and manipulating existing systems to our own benefit.
Dammit, we shouldn’t fucking have to. Yes, that’s how we used to navigate transition. I myself started with hormones I did not get from a doctor or with a legal prescription. That is dangerous. The risks then often were outweighed by the benefits, but that hasn’t been true for awhile, until recently, and those risks included death. Black market hormones, unsurprisingly, can cause problems. HRT while not under a doctor’s care can lead to problems. And trans people will find a way, just like we always have, but that way is needlessly difficult and harmful. I mentioned this on another forum, but I was planning on moving back to Kansas City after law school because I loved it there and I don’t really like New Jersey. But the way things are going, I’m afraid I’ll end up in a re-education camp if I go back there. Or prison. Same thing, I guess.
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Blatant first amendment violation; they are lawyers, they know that appealing that BS verdict and suing is the next step.
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…it is addressing a crisis of national pride in our country. Sixty percent of young Americans now say that they would sooner give up their right to vote than to give up their access to TikTok. This is a crisis.
That’s as much as I needed to read.
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Exempt from sexual harassment complaints
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It’s okay to sexual harass women in the name of god, I guess… /s
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