Clearly you don’t know any trans people or give a shit about the rest of them.
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What?
This is not an abstract thought experiment and I’m sick of people acting like it is.
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Real people are being hurt. Actual human beings, with lives, and hearts, and souls… And yes, if the law had passed, shit would be worse, but that doesn’t mean that the harm being done shouldn’t be called out. The legal opinion just gives all those bigots on down the chain cover for treating trans kids like shit.
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“They just need to not be willing to be harmed, it’s easy!”
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By all accounts, the families being targeted are doing all they can, but that doesn’t mean that harm isn’t being done or that we shouldn’t be angry about it.
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I’m going to step out of the conversation, but honestly, if that’s your reading of what I said, then I expressed myself even worse than I thought.
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Only with heavy-handed voter suppression.
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That’s fine for families in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, etc, but utterly useless for families in rural areas and heavily conservative cities/counties. CPS is an administrative agency that can act first and requires the family to stop them in court.
As others have pointed out, it’s in some ways worse that this isn’t a law, because it can’t be overturned as easily. See also: DOJ “tradition” that the sitting President can’t be charged with a crime, despite zero statutory support for that position.
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The Courts put the brakes on this effort for the time being.
As a given, Ken Paxton can go fuck himself. He should be rotting in prison already.
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Unfortunately, that ruling only helps one family.
From the article:
The state has opened at least five child welfare investigations into parents of trans children since Abbott issued his directive on Feb. 22, though the real number may be much higher
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Thank you–I misread an article about this earlier and understood that a judge had placed an injunction on this but that the appeals court had overruled the judge. It’s a great relief that the appeals court, in fact, upheld the judge’s decision.
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Exactly. And if I’m reading it right, even a permanent injunction would only affect that district, out of Texas’ 400+ districts.
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Actually the appeals court would cover all counties in that appellate district.
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Yeah, I put the caveat in there because the Texas court system is complicated and huge. How many appellate districts are there? 100?
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Yikes! New York only has 4.
1 covers nearly half the state population.
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Most of us have known all along that the religious fascists were never going to stop at outlawing abortion.
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Are you under the impression that I didn’t understand that? 
I’ve kind of been noting that for years, as there have been posters who have assumed that abortion was some niche issue that we can safe trade for friendlier policies towards the white working class men…
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That may be true but the important part is where you actually stand on this issue and what you’re doing about it.
Apart from telling women what they already know, of course; we got that one covered already, as you can see.
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