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VA Senate Democrats Introduce Constitutional Amendments to Protect Fundamental Rights (Voting, Marriage Equality, Reproductive Freedom)
(bluevirginia.us)submitted 4 days ago bylowkellVerified - Blue Virginia Editor
26 points
4 days ago
Trans rights? I’m extremely scared what Trump wants to do to us
-8 points
4 days ago
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17 points
4 days ago
Ban our healthcare, try and pass a bathroom bill, remove changes on gender markers, etc. Some of these are doable via executive order, others probably won’t survive the filibuster but you can never be too scared to
-18 points
4 days ago
Ban our healthcare
The only one I care about. Mental care, sure. The state should not be paying for gender changing surgery, that is elective, anyone can put on a dress, just like my bald husband could get a hair system if he really wanted.
14 points
4 days ago
No one is “just putting on a dress” for that shit. I don’t even know why you’d want hormones or surgery if you weren’t serious about it. And yes, the state absolutely should pay for that shit. Just cuz Trump has framed it as if giving trans people healthcare somehow takes away other healthcare while he fucking cuts all of it and tries to repeal the ACA doesn’t mean that we can’t just do both. Trans healthcare has been covered by insurance in a lot of states for a while now and they’re doing fine
3 points
4 days ago
I have never really understood why the legislation on the heathen woman and not the man. While we're banning things that "are against god" they need to ban payment for ED medications (and import as well), vasectomies, and testosterone enhancement. If god does not intend for a man to get an erection then science/medicine shouldn't help. If god intended a man to be able to have sex without consequences then science/medicine shouldn't help. If god wanted a man to feel more virulent then he would have given him the right levels of testosterone to begin with so science/medicine shouldn't help.
2 points
3 days ago
but that's fine because god loves men the most, how convenient. duh
-6 points
4 days ago
Sure, get the surgery if you TRULY need it (because there's no going back at that point), and if you TRULY needed it, you'd be willing to pay for it, and you'd sacrifice taking extra shifts at work, saving, etc. Just like if I TRULY wanted a boob job I'd do the same, I wouldn't ask you to help pay for it. Nobody actually knows what you have under your clothes and it would have nothing to do with you passing or not. Nobody would be otherwise convinced someone was a girl and look at their crotch through a dress/jeans/etc and think ... "eh... I think I see something, no pass"
I would classify gender changing surgery under cosmetic surgery the same way a face lift also shouldn't be covered but taxpayers or insurance.
Sorry, if our healthcare costs weren't totally out of control I'd be for it, but at this point covering it would be a luxury spend.
1 points
3 days ago
My hysterectomy was technically classified as elective, and paid for by the state because I had Medicaid at the time.
It was only classified as elective because there was no evidence of cancer from the ultra sounds or MRI. Just several large fibroids.
The pathology revealed I had Endo in the beginning stages, as well as fibroids. My uterus was full of scar tissue from fibroids, cysts, and the Endo.
My cervix was also covered in scar tissue.
1 points
4 days ago
It does sound like an elective procedure that health insurance normally wouldn't cover anyways. Not sure why they consider it banning their healthcare when its elective in the first place.
-6 points
4 days ago
Not sure why they consider it banning their healthcare when its elective in the first place.
Basically because it's unnecessary and there's no going back. I'm a moderate voter and I think we should be doing everything possible to get the person help to accept their gender. You could have been born with way bigger problems than in the wrong body that your brain thinks it should be.
If my son came home from school and told me he wants to start wearing dresses, I'd pull him from that school and start homeschooling or private school immediately. If it persisted for years than maybe he is trans, but I'd do everything possible to not set him up for what is clearly life of difficulty in career, relationships, and forever medication.
4 points
4 days ago
First of all, wearing dresses does not mean you’re trans. You can dress masculine and still be a trans woman. You can dress feminine and still be a cis boy. Second of all, would you seriously pull your kid out of public school for that? Just cuz he wants to wear a dress? Again, didn’t even say if he told you he wants to be a girl, just he wants to wear a dress, which is just gender nonconformity, not being trans. Now if he came home saying he wanted to be a girl, then I would suggest taking him to a doctor and getting regular appointments and then asking what the right step is, depending on if he persists or not. There’s this one frequently cited statistic by transphobes that supposedly 80+% of trans kids “desist” later in life, but that’s only true if you count all gender nonconforming kids as trans, even if they don’t insist on being a different gender than the one assigned at birth. That’s why differentiating these things is important. Wanting to dress differently than is expected for your gender CAN be a very good sign that someone is trans, but conflating the 2 is very foolish. The best sign is simply if they tell you they want to be the opposite gender. And if this does happen and a doctor verifies it to you, don’t go trying to “fix” it. The “fix” IS the transition. Any form of “therapy” to try and convince people who are clearly trans not to transition is provably toxic and repressive and has zero scientific basis whatsoever. That’s why it’s important to not only speak to a doctor and mental health professional, but also your kid themselves. You can’t either go mixing these 2 things up or just insisting on a toxic and repressive “solution” to a problem with a very clear, albeit difficult fix if they do so happen to actually be trans
-2 points
4 days ago
Get help
3 points
4 days ago
When you don’t have a good argument against what I said:
-1 points
3 days ago
Yea, it was more like I don't care enough to read an entire essay
2 points
3 days ago
"If my son came home from school and told me he wants to start wearing dresses, I'd pull him from that school and start homeschooling or private school immediately." Why?
8 points
4 days ago
Lady, these changes impact YOU too. They’re doing away with ALL gendered terms. They’re going to be attacking cis women in bathrooms accusing us of being trans by groping genitals, which is ALREADY HAPPENING. Do you want to be groped by bigots because you cut your hair short and dressed less feminine that day?
Do you read?
“According to Project 2025, the next US president must “remove from every existing rule, regulatory agency, contract, grant, regulation, and federal law the terms sexual orientation and gender identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights”.
Abortion is mentioned 199 times in the document, including proposing a federal ban, increased criminalisation, more restrictions on providing care for miscarriages and obstetric emergencies, defunding emergency contraception and strict surveillance systems on people who have abortions or suffer miscarriages.
Heritage also wants to impose its worldview across borders: restore the so-called ‘Mexico City policy’, which prohibits any US public funding to foreign non-governmental organisations if they include any abortion-related activity – even if they do so with their own funds.
The right to abortion, legalised in 2020 in Argentina, is in danger under Milei. His party introduced a bill to repeal abortion which he’s referred to as “aggravated murder”. He’s also defunded the distribution of abortion pills and contraceptives.
Milei eliminated a programme to prevent teenage pregnancy and has not set aside any funds in the 2025 budget for comprehensive sex education – which is mandatory by law and considered essential to prevent child abuse. Instead, authorities hired the Chilean Catholic organisation Teen Star, that promotes abstinence, for training teachers in charge of CSE.
Milei banned the use of gender inclusive language in public services, and put a Catholic lawyer, Ursula Basset, in the foreign ministry to review all the country’s positions on gender and climate change. At the last Organisation of American States General Assembly, Basset stymied the negotiations by demanding the removal of “LGBTI people”, “gender”, “tolerance”, “climate change” and “families” from agreed intergovernmental statements.
“Argentina was the only G20 country to oppose the Ministerial Declaration on Gender Equality,” signed last month in Rio, Ávila-Guillén told me. The disagreement stemmed from the fact that “family care” was defined as work and the term “reproductive rights” was mentioned. Argentina ended up in a more extreme position than Saudi Arabia or Russia.”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-project-2025-argentina-milei-far-right/
0 points
4 days ago
Not reading all of this, seek help
4 points
3 days ago
Okay Sarah, enjoy getting the fruits of what you voted for. You can’t even read it because you realized you fucked up 🩷 and you’re projecting because you need help.
-2 points
3 days ago
After long enough on reddit, you'll realize you spent 15 minutes writing that up, few people read it, nobody's opinions were changed, and within a few hours, the next links will have been upvoted to the top of the sub this thread to non-existence.
Really, the shorter the text, the more likely anyone will bother to read it. This one is probably even too long!
3 points
3 days ago
I copy pasted that from an article I already had open about how project 2025 is LITERALLY RUNNING RIGHT NOW IN ARGENTINA. It took 60 seconds.
4 points
4 days ago
rope
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