Republicans' war on transgender people: Omnibus thread

There are 840 posts in this thread and a search on “Ron White” and “homophobe” did not yield this alleged link. Perhaps it could be posted again?

Here is Ron White’s “homophobe” routine:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nTGXSdg0hEY

And this is what the cops have a rapid response time on?

Okay, I’m not visiting Florida.

I wish i could do more than that. :cry:

…trans refugees from Texas.

Nau mai , Haere mai Greyson. Welcome to Aotearoa.

Shocked I am to learn he’s a NIFB!
If you’re aware of The Westboro Baptist Church and are not aware of the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptists shame on you . . . not that I really blame you for not wanting to know about a hate group that’s an order of magnitude worse.

Why are these whacky religious groups anti Gay and pro King James at the same time? I guess they don’t recognize irony when it bashes them.

I’m certain this sort of thing is going to start happening in Florida, but that particular video is possibly a few years old (I read the comments on various postings of it) (not that that makes things any better).

Same tactic Putin is using when he claims that Ukraine has never existed and that Ukranian identity is an insidious lie by the West to lure away good Russians.

This seems to have slipped our attention:

DeSantis signed a law making sex crimes against children punishable by the death penalty. And he lowered the threshold – an 8-4 recommendation is all that’s needed.

Fine, right? Except for all the laws against LGBT people! You could end up getting the death penalty for being gender non-conforming. Or doing a drag show.

Honestly, it’s kind of genius.

You sell it as saying that you want to give a final solution to people who harm children, and cite statistics that show sexual predators released from prison who reoffend. You’ll probably get a significant number of people who support that sort of thing, because who doesn’t want to protect children?

Then afterwards, it’s like, “Oh by the way…”

This is what real evil looks like.

…not strictly Republican nonsense, but nonsense all the same.

“Gulfport Trans Girl Misses Graduation After Refusing To Dress As Boy.”

And on the flipside:

“Gender Nonconforming Girl Singled Out for Humiliation at HS Graduation”

Apparently the same school.

Yeesh. They really don’t want anyone even a little different from “normative”, i guess.

It wouldn’t have occurred to me that a girl couldn’t walk in pants.

You know… All in the name of “protecting children.”

For fucks’ sake, they were wearing gowns atop their attire!

That’s straight-up Victorian. That’s ridiculously old school. I bet they also made it illegal to dance.

My husband wore a rude t-shirt under his PhD robes. No one sees what’s under your robes anyway.

Oh, sure -

I was a tomboy in the 1970’s. Can’t tell you how many times I was pressured to wear skirts/dresses instead of pants. Some people got really, really worked up about it. We’re returning to that time. And even earlier when gender non-conformity was even more fraught.

Anti-trans laws may be causing personnel issues for the US military and threatening national security.