Per the notes in this post, you can see that Milli’s ordeal was resolved. But we have an unfortunate June 2023 update from Canada where a couple of ancient chuds stepped up during a 4th grade track-and-field event to harass a kid for “looking” trans and then harass her mothers, calling them “genital mutilators.”
If this didn’t occur to you before, you’re in good company because it never would have crossed my mind either, but I was watching a politics stream that mentioned the following: These new laws being enacted where states want to enforce genital inspections of children at any given time for the slightest accusation of gender non-conformity? There are no regulations, no existing legal frameworks for inspections like this. Who is going to go looking into the pants of kids when these laws kick in? Oh, you know. Just some person they appoint. Will it be a doctor in every single case? Do we wanna bet on that? Will parents have access to that person’s background, criminal history, or previous experience/employment information? We don’t know. This information is not prescribed in every instance of legislation.
If the parent doesn’t consent to the inspection without that information, what amount of paperwork will ever be enough? Milli’s story is from 2017. We have updated medical records systems because of COVID and immunization tracking. Do you wanna bet that an extensive records inspection will be enough for these people in lieu of permission for a physical inspection? Or will it just never be enough until some skeezer appointed by (probably friends with) another conservative skeezer gets their actual hands on actual children?
For all the conservative hollering about every LGBT+ person being a groomer, they aren’t ready to present the full, alleged plan for trans people to take over the youth except for vague accusations of indoctrination, no matter how medically, psychologically, or socially infeasible. They can’t list off names of trans people who have supposedly been on bathroom assaulting sprees. But we can name serial offenders who spew bile at the queer community out one side of their face while the other is buried deep in the filth of abuse. We know them nationally even if they are local politicians. They have recognizable names like Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Jim Jordan. Trump, too.
And now we also have conservative laws on the books that clearly and publicly entitle conservatives to information about kids’ bodies. We have that information; we know that they want to do this and by what means they deeply desire to do this to children and it will happen to cis children far more than trans children. There are more cis children than trans children, so that’s just statistics. There are conservative parents out among us right now voting for the violations of their own children, expecting that those violations will never come because they are “the good ones”–parents who would never endorse “deviance” in their kids and therefore believe they are beyond possible suspicion. Never mind that, apparently, some mysterious exacting length of hair is apparently enough to trigger some dipshits into transvestigating preteens harder than those weirdos who stare at celebrity crotches on Twitter and TikTok.
They are also voting for the elimination of sex education in schools while we know that some children have only discovered that they’re being abused because they had access to books and information about those aspects of health. (link/link) Yet parents are getting so fucking politics-pilled and so obsessed with purity or transness or conservatism or conspiracies or all of those things that they’re helping remove kids’ access to educational (and preventative!) materials. More than they want to help their children understand and give voice to any abuse they might experience should the worst happen–borne out of these disgusting acts of legislation–they simply want to crush a minority out of existence. They hate queer people so much that they’re going to trample over the bodies and wills of their own children to get to our throats.
Basically every Republican accusation is pretty much a self-report at this point. It’s become a fucking meme. And you’d credit the trans community with having the evasion skills of Bigfoot, the grace of actual ghosts with the way batshit conservos are seeing transness in everyone and everything they experience on a daily basis while their hit rate continues to be 99% cis kids getting clipped by friendly fire.
Ultimately. Ultimately, ultimately, ultimately, at the end of every long day. This is about conservatives seeking one thing: Servile silence. Americans should be pure, simple, working machines. Deviation from the norm leads to dangerous things like considering a union. Anything that isn’t heteronormative does not lead to more babies who will one day join the workforce. Strict homogony produces a quiet working class that toils, prays, starves in silence. That’s all they fucking need from us. Those people at the top hurling “groomer” and “pervert” and “deviant” from the parapets–the company owners who are served delicious money by the legislation of conservatives who are served by the fat, juicy dollars of donors who are the company owners who are served delicious money by the legislation…. etc., etc.
Those people at the top have class consciousness. They are top-class. They want to stay on top. They support each other and each other’s goals up there. And they get the diminishing middle class and all the people who are only aspirationally middle class (financially suffering dearly) to believe that they are always one breath away from joining those ranks and having that solidarity at the top, where everybody keeps each other rich.
We don’t have that class solidarity down here, below them, and where things hurt too much, too often to fool ourselves into thinking we can someday be at the rank where we’re protected by Musk and Bezos and Arnault and Buffett as equals with all the same goals.
We should have that, though. Because it’s the only way to install ourselves, and our public-serving comrades who run for office, into those higher ranks. Your queer comrades, your Muslim, Latine, trans, disabled, single-mother, addiction disorder comrades. Favor them every time. Take their side every time. Every time someone wants to stomp them, or even clown on them, stop and look at that person. Tell them they’re weird. Ask them why they think it’s appropriate to crush a comrade.
Flush this bullshit. That’s where bullshit goes: Away.
This is obviously going to get worse before it gets better because conservatives are foaming-at-the-mouth, say-anything desperate for control. If there’s a law against a form of self expression, break the fucking law. Unjust laws were not meant to be followed. Call conservative filth what it is: Gross. It’s invasive, it’s fucking weird; that’s gross. These people are having fits–losing all their social normativity, not to mention kindness and general cool–just imagining the incredible variety of fabricated horrors they might find between your legs if your fucking hair is a certain length. Unless those people want to buy your clothes, attend to your medical needs, or date you, that is completely fucking deranged and none of their goddamn business. Make fun of them for it. If imagining what my chest looks like under my shirt is baking your noodle, how do you handle a left-hand turn at a stop sign? Do you just pass out and roll into traffic? Are you okay? Are you ever gonna be able to have a normal conversation? Do you wanna sit down before the vapors take you?
Like hashtags are fine. Understanding just how phenomenally nonsense these occurrences are–yes, that’s important. I just encourage you to always drag it back to the root. That these people have an overarching agenda. It doesn’t start or stop with trans people. You could be next. And if you are next, it would be nice to have people behind you and next to you. Mocking the Crowders and Walshes and Shapiros and Rowlings for their complete fragility in the face of a 9-year-old who might win a little footrace on their own goddamn merits and despite the length of their hair.
