Monthly Archives: April 2021

Four transgender children have attempted suicide since Arkansas enacted a law to take away their gender-affirming healthcare, rip apart their families, and imprison their parents.

Arkansas lawmakers were warned that this would happen but they didn’t listen. They chose to ignore every major US medical association, parents’ pleas, pediatrician’s warning, children’s cries for help and voted to override Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto.

Since the bill was approved, four transgender youth in Arkansas have attempted suicide said Dr. Michele Hutchison who runs a clinic at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Other patients have called the clinic to ask if they’ll be able to get their medications on the black market if the ban takes effect.

“My fear is that’s going to happen,” she said. “They’re going to find a way to get them, and it’s going to be dangerous because they won’t be monitored for side effects.”

Arkansas has the distinction of being the only state that has a law explicitly written to kill transgender children.

“My families are in a state of panic, asking what state should they move to, saying their child is threatening to kill themselves,” said Dr. Michele Hutchison who runs a clinic at Arkansas Children’s Hospital that has served about 200 families and has a waiting list of several dozen more. “They want to know what they should do next and we don’t have a clear answer for them.”

Hutchison’s clinic is by far the biggest provider of hormone therapy and other medical support for transgender young people in the state. Gender confirming surgery is not performed on minors in Arkansas.

Texas Reels under a Record Number of Transgender Youth Suicide Attempts

Cook Children’s Medical Center admitted 43 children and youth after attempting suicide in March 2021, a single-month record.

Last year the Tarrant county Hospital recorded the most admissions for this reason making suicide for the first time the leading cause of trauma death for children and youth, more than child abuse and vehicular death combined.

But it’s not just the medical bill, it’s all of the laws in 21 other states targeting children during the pandemic. People around the world see the GOP as monsters who kill transgender children out of spite, and they are right. They are monsters and they must be stopped or more innocent children will die.

Texas which I am sad to say is my state. It has strived for years to be the Southern Baptist’s chief executioner of transgender children.

Texas Republicans tried the last session with a bathroom bill. They failed because good people from around the state, doctors, politicians, mayors, police chiefs all rallied to stop them. They learned their lesson. Republicans are now chopping babies apart piecemeal with bills designed as not to rile large numbers of professionals or citizens at a time.  Education and Social Data Equality are things that are needed to offset these atrocities.

Tuesday the House will hear public testimony on HB 4042 the counterpart of the Senate’s student transgender sports ban. This will be the last time we have to speak against it before it is signed into law.

It is still in committee but that doesn’t matter. This isn’t a democracy, it is a one-party state, and the executioners from Trumps’ Amerika First party smell blood.

They are monsters. They know what they are doing. They are killing our children.

The Texas anti-trans sports ban will likely die in the committee said Representative Harold Dutton, the Public Education Committee Chair on Wednesday.

Tuesday was a grueling night with the haters dissing trans youth as expected speaking first at the invitation of the bill’s sponsors. You can recognize the young ones by their britches hiked up to their armpits and the elders by their thousand-dollar suits. These aren’t your everyday Texans.

Rep. Dutton a Houston Democrat commented with a smile early on how he was pleased that the committee of six Democrats and seven Republicans was non-partisan. The bill’s sponsor left the room soon after.

“The bill is probably not going to make it out of committee,” Rep. Dutton told Hurst Newspaper Wednesday, in an article behind a paywall.  “We just don’t have the votes for it…But I promised the author we would have a hearing, and we did.”

How did we get to this point again?

Lt. Gov Dan Patrick illegally strong-armed the University Interscholastic League into changing the rules after his anti-transgender bills failed in 2017. The UIL rules he emplaced closely resemble that of the sports ban. Previous to that the UIL followed the NCAA in conditionally allowing trans athletes to participate.

The bill’s sponsor wanted to codify those rules as they “can be easily changed”. What he meant was Texas was soon to be in court defending themselves as something so blatantly discriminatory is a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Of the 80 people registered to speak 70 spoke against it. These were a diverse cross-section of Texas, from Highschool students to battle-scarred seniors.

One exception was Log cabin Republican Michael Austin who spoke in support of the ban. Prior to that, he spent his time glaring angrily at me in the hallway as if to dare me to say something. This gay man, small of stature, wore a large firearm on his hip to testify at the Texas legislature, a fact not lost on all committee members.

My testimony began with recalling a young black female who joined my Army Platoon soon after the DOD opened my combat mos to women. I learned some important lessons from her. Gender doesn’t matter, size either. it was her heart that drove this soldier to succeed. As a half marathon runner, I spoke directly with Chairman Dutton. I never placed first in a chip-timed race. Instead I took home validation and strength of soul which is more important than a piece of gold.

When it was said and done we had disassembled every reason the bills sponsor had to offer. It clearly wasn’t about fairness or girls’ sports.  It was about segregation, hate, and regression.

Last year, thousands of people from around the world virtually came together and ran a 5k to show LGBTQ+ young people that they are seen, that they belong, and that they have visible allies everywhere who love and accept them 

And this year… we’re going to do it again! Registration opens up May 1, 2021.

The Tennessee legislature sent their latest Bathroom bill to Gov. Lee for his consideration.

The bill would allow students and teachers to sue public school systems if they encounter people of the opposite sex or transgender people in a multi-stall restroom. It is unclear if he will sign it.

The Tennessee House passed HB 1233 (SB 1367), a discriminatory bill that would deny transgender students access to the correct bathroom and locker rooms consistent with the gender identity. The bill further discriminates against transgender students and opens up schools to legal consequences if a student believes they have shared a sex-segregated space –bathrooms, locker rooms or other changing facilities — with a transgender student.

HRC reports that HB 1233 (SB 1367) is part of the 2021 “Slate of Hate” bills rippling through the Tennessee state legislature, along with the anti-transgender sports and business bathroom bills. These anti-equality pieces of legislation are being pushed by national extremist groups and peddled by lawmakers in Tennessee in an effort to sow fear and division.

The Tennessee House recently passed HB 1182 (SB 1224), a bathroom signage bill drastically stigmatizing transgender people and making access to public accommodations problematic and hazardous throughout Tennessee.

The Senate Judiciary Committee forwarded SB 1224 to the Senate Calendar Committee with a do pass recommendation. A Senate floor vote has not yet been set. The Tennessee legislature remains in session until April 30, 2021.

The legislature is also considering HB 578 (SB 657), an anti-trans medical care ban, HB 800 (SB 1216), a bill that would prevent schools from providing an LGBTQ-inclusive education, and HB 372 (SB 193), a bill to prohibit all government employees, including teachers, first responders, and public officials from attending diversity training.

The states who have passed laws that are in violation of the Civil rights act of 1964 have told The NCAA, 71 major corporations, and the Department of Justice that they don’t care what they think, targeting children with discrmination will remain their priority.

In Arkansas, the state passed a bill denying minority children healthcare despite being warned of the harm it would cause. A week later 4 children were admitted to the hospital in Little Rock for attempted suicide. The condition of those minors has not been revealed.

Despite this, Arkansas lawmakers are pushing more bills through the legislature that will require the state attorney general to prosecute parents, school staff, and doctors who don’t out gender diverse children to the state authorities.

The same thing is happening in Texas, Tennessee, Missippii, Montana, and Florida.

Under proposed Florida legislation, anyone could file a complaint if they suspect a competitor in a female sporting event was not born with a Vagina. That child would then have to prove she was born a “biological” girl. They could “prove their birth gender via a genetic test, a test of their testosterone levels, or an examination to see if they have a pussy or a dick.

We are talking about leading a first grader by the hand behind a curtain and demand to see their private parts. Are you fucking kidding me? If you did that to my kid you would see the business end of my Glock, I kid you not.

The Florida High School Athletic Association and the National Collegiate Athletic Association both have policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports, and the NCAA said last week that it will pull championships from states that limit transgender participation. “Florida is set to host more than 40 regional or national NCAA championship events between the next academic year and May of 2026,” the Tampa Bay Times notes.

Florida’s nazis took the cue from POS45 who told them at the white nationalist convention to focus their hate on transgender kids.

This is a warning to parents across the nation. These laws vary in wording from state to state and don’t apply SPECIFICALLY to anyone’s kid.

Oh no, that would be discriminatory and the nazis don’t want that. However, they apply equally to any student who crosses into Florida, Missippi, South Dakota, Tennesse, Texas, or Montana.

Your kid included.

From the picture above Amber Briggle was horrified to learn a friend of the family Texas State Representative Lynn Stucky — who has met her family, knows her son by name, and crosses the room to shake max’s hand when we see him — SIGNED ON TO HB68 which labels my husband and I as child abusers if we provide our child the support he needs.