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I’m fairly confident that a significant portion of this current rash of bills is the result of parents who said “well, I mean i don’t care what other people do in the privacy of their own home, but if MY kid…” facing that their kid was in fact “…”, and not handling that well (ranging from being passive aggressive to trying to kidnap them to a conversion camp) and being cut out of the life of the kid, and then rather than examine their behavior towards their kid, just assumed it must be some outside actor driving them apart.

It’s not a majority of voters in any given state, but enough older, chronically misinformed, parents who are emotionally struggling with the fact that their kids won’t talk with them anymore, have ginned up a significant enough constituency to swinging state legislators.

State legislators are surprisingly easy to influence, they represent small enough constituencies (varies state to state) and constituents so rarely reach out to them, that talking with them about an issue can significantly alter their views, especially if they’ve never heard about the issue before.

Shocker, people who move heaven and earth in their personal lives to achieve a socially difficult thing are pretty sure about wanting that.

I wonder if the change and then quick reversion was due to someone up in the administration seeing the word “bisexual” and thought it was a euphemism for trans people. Like “bi sex? Two sexes? Are these people claiming to be male AND female?” and then ordered the term be removed, only to be informed “no that’s not what the word means” and it got reverted.

I’m from America, I’ve never heard of it being used in a derogatory context. i’ve heard it used in a couple of contexts, one being out of AAVE as an endearing term, usually used between women. The other being a shortening of the term drag queen, again, usually in an endearing context. I think the two uses have a link in the past as drag shows have a lot of roots in the queer African American community, but I haven’t looked that deeply in to it.

Generally I think the “it’s not ok for people outside of the group to say it” kind of terms are usually reclaimed derogatory terms or slurs, and I’ve never heard of queen being used in a derogatory sense, outside perhaps the term “welfare queen” coined by regan to disparage people who relied on various welfare programs, specifically single African American mothers. But, that context is kind of a race and class context and not where I think the term comes from even in AAVE. Could be wrong, maybe it is a reclaiming of that, but that wouldn’t really be a LGBTQ community thing.

There’s probably a different history in the UK, maybe something to do with the monarchy, but at least in American English if there is any sensitive element there, it probably links back more to African American culture than to queer culture.

Forgot the very important part of throwing bricks. You know, at stuff, items. Call it free form constructions.

I bet he listened to the consultants trying to push blame for the 2024 losses on to the democrats being to “woke”. You know, the same consultants who were running those elections and dumpstered any chance of victory by running the campaigns as moderately as possible so they could collect as much corporate donations as possible.

Hilarious

This is why we actually need kink at pride, to scare away the companies.

so the NHS is really fucking bad about trans healthcare for a lot of reasons. The process is unusually bureaucratic even for the NHS and hyper gate kept, like they will just deny care based on single answers to weird questions. Without a really good doctor who is willing to go to bat for you and stick it out and who understands this very specific process in the NHS, you probably will never actually be able to get care.

Partially this is due to NHS being underfunded and partially because people in positions of power have worked to make trans healthcare as difficult as possible to get in England.

More unenforceable poorly written laws that only exist to pander to weirdos online.

Lmao, what losers, like they could do anything to build support among their voters and they’re out here trying to gin up support by stoking transphobia.