18+ futurebird , (edited )
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

HB 2885 is a bill in MO that makes teachers register as class 1 sex offenders if they use the correct pronouns for trans students.

Doesn't matter what the parents want, or what the student wants.

Happily it's perforative nonsense expected to die in committee--

I expect Jordan Peterson will speak out about these rules that can destroy careers for NOT using state-sanctioned pronouns... any moment now, right?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/us/missouri-lawmakers-felony-transgender-students-reaj/index.html

18+ CatHat ,
@CatHat@mstdn.party avatar

@futurebird i would say it's against my religion to misgender anyone. God makes people as they are. It wants me to use the correct pronouns.

18+ futurebird OP ,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@CatHat

... and the supreme court explodes.

18+ CatHat ,
@CatHat@mstdn.party avatar

@futurebird seriously that's how I would argue being ordered to discriminate against anyone based on conservative Christian theocracy laws.

"God told me I can't"

18+ helianthropy ,
@helianthropy@tech.lgbt avatar

@futurebird Is this all just to wear us down and distract us so something passes? I’m tired with all that’s happening and I think they’re hoping to exploit that. Pure speculation on my part. Or maybe I’m just bad at limiting my scope and instead tend to respond to everything.

18+ futurebird OP ,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@helianthropy

I think that's part of it. But they also score points with their fearful base with such actions. And the attempt to make such laws makes it sound like it is a real issue. Makes people fear the public schools and more receptive to dismantling them.

They don't need to give an example of an evil teacher to tricked some god fearing child into being trans, just pass laws as if that were something that ever happened (it's not)

18+ emjonaitis ,
@emjonaitis@mathstodon.xyz avatar

@futurebird I’m a little confused — the linked article appears to be about MO rather than WI.

18+ futurebird OP ,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@emjonaitis

No. I'm confused I think the WI was from the other day.

18+ trabex ,
@trabex@newsie.social avatar

@futurebird

They're just poking holes where they can, finding out what will pass and what won't. Things that pass get adopted by other states. They are doing a gradual strategy to erase as many trans rights as they can.

18+ futurebird OP , (edited )
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

I put a cw on this since I could see the sheer number of these nonsense bills getting to be exhausting. And some may want to preserve their energy and focus for the ones that may pass.

18+ renegadejade ,
@renegadejade@hachyderm.io avatar

@futurebird Thank you. I clicked through, but that’s on me. It’s hard to keep track of all the transphobic bills and which ones we need to take seriously/spend energy on

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