California said it will set up a safety net to protect transgender youth if the federal government won’t. A state budget just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom includes $26 million in one-time funding to protect access to healthcare for trans youth, according to LAist. Another $30 million was budgeted to cover funding gaps for providers after the Trump administration cut funding to the state’s Medi-Cal program and other revenue sources.
Damn that’s some good satire. Almost had me fooled.
It’s not satire. And you apparently can’t think strategically. You have the electoral memory of a goldfish and can’t plan more than one election cycle ahead.
Yeah, I guess letting the people that criminalize our existence stay in power is much better than compromising with a neoliberal that has some disagreeable positions on sports.
Thanks for enlightening me.
It’s not just about sports. Every state that has started with sports bans has gone on to attack virtually every aspect of trans existence. Trans sports bans are unscientific - the scientific consensus is that trans women have no advantage at all in sports. Yet, Democrats like Newsom are willing to give in to this one form of unscientific bigotry. By doing so, they prove that they don’t ultimately care about trans rights. Anyone who willingly gives in once to irrational, unscientific bigotry based purely out of animus will surely do so again.
And once you do that once. Once you cross that line, you are damned.
Is it rational to restrict bathroom use because some bigoted women “feel unsafe”? No, but if you’ve given into one form of unscientific bigotry, you’ll do it again.
Is it reasonable to restrict minors from life-saving healthcare? No, but once you’ve decided that trans lives aren’t worth protecting, then you’ll do it again.
Every time Republicans decide to raise a stink in their echo chambers about some newly intolerable aspect of trans life, a Democrat like Newsom will support legislation restricting our lives out of a “reasonable compromise.” They just have to get a few bigoted cis women to go on camera and say they feel unsafe, and Democrats like Newsom will support any neo Jim Crow law Republicans are proposing.
You are seriously not appreciating the grave risk of someone like Newsom. You’re focused only on the election in front of you, but you’re missing that we could quite easily end up with two political parties, each trying to criminalize our existence. An anti-trans Democrat winning the nomination in 2028 would do that. I’ll take four more years of Republicans than having both parties be as bad as the Republicans. (And right now, Labour in the UK are just as bad as Republicans. Democrats could easily go that way.)
This isn’t about sports. This isn’t about just the next election. You need to learn to consider the broader picture and not just focus on the shiny keys being jangled in front of you. Short-term thinking is what’s gotten us into this mess in the first place.
“Some of you trans folk will die but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make!”
Exactly. That’s why we have to oppose Newsom. Liberals love him because even though he’ll kill some trans folks, he’ll slightly raise income taxes on billionaires (who don’t earn their money through ordinary income anyway.)
Newsom will not reverse any of Trump’s anti-trans policies. That’s what this comes down to for me. I changed my passport years ago, and had the foresight to renew it before Trump came to power. So our passports are good through the second Trump term. But I will have to renew my passport during the next term, and under current policies, the gender marker on my passport will be reverted to an “M.”
Newsom will not change this policy. Why would he? He doesn’t consider trans rights worth fighting for. He won’t help trans people if there’s the slightest chance of it making him unpopular among bigots.
So, Newsom or JD Vance (or whatever Republican)? Ultimately both of those people are going to deeply hurt me as a trans person. With Vance, there’s at least a chance of things getting better in 2032. With Newsom? I won’t get my rights back until I die of old age.
Again, you need to think more than one cycle ahead.
@thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone you just gonna start this drama and leave, aye?
Not my monkeys not my circus