IN Republicans push anti-trans legislature

Revenge Politics. That's the game the ReTHUGlican party is playing today and every day. They are despicable, horrid human beings. I truly don't know how South Bend ended up with a gay mayor. They must be an island of sanity in a sea of idiocy in the rest of the state.

Indiana lawmakers are trying to make it harder for transgender and non-binary people to correct the gender on their ID cards and driver’s licenses only a few days after Indiana became the sixth state in the nation to provide non-binary people with a gender marker option.

A new amendment, introduced by a Republican state representative, would require people who want their correct gender marker on their ID card to first change their birth certificate — something that is often impossible for people born in a different state.

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SD Lawmakers Erase Transgender Kids from School

This is the most cruel and inhumane thing lawmakers can do. I sincerely hope that any LGBT folk who live in that wasteland of a state decide to move. Likewise, parents of transgender children, though I'm guessing if they live in South Dakota already, they're pretty anti-gay, anti-LGBT and anti-everything else that is different. South Dakota is CLEARLY a state that does not care about children. Period.

The South Dakota House of Representatives voted to approve a bill Tuesday that would erase transgender kids from the state’s schools. Though several states still have “no promo homo” laws that prohibit any discussion of homosexuality in schools, this is the first “no promo trans” bill to actually have traction in the country.

House Bill 1108, which advanced by a vote of 39-30, adds only one line of text to the state’s books: “No instruction in gender dysphoria may be provided to any student in kindergarten through grade seven in any public school in the state.” This simple-sounding legislation could have massive consequences for transgender youth.

Many transgender kids come out at very young ages, and research has consistently shown that they are best served through affirmation, including respecting their names and pronouns. It’s unclear if the legislation would allow schools to accommodate trans kids whatsoever, but it would certainly come into play when a student transitions. Even telling other students what name and pronouns to use for the student might be prohibited, and certainly any education about trans issues to help protect that student from bullying would be a nonstarter.

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Supergirl Proves Trans Women are Women

I watched Supergirl for a while when it first came on, but as usually happens, it either started to conflict with a series I liked more OR after one postponed episode (preempted by something or other) I lost track of it. I'm glad the creators and writers of this series have done so much to advance the cause of the LGBT community. Especially the L and the T.

Several months after giving the world our first live-action transgender superhero Dreamer (aka Nia Nul), Supergirl finally dove into Nia’s origin by delivering a powerful hour of television that somehow managed to work as a poignant transgender narrative as well as a universally queer tale of family acceptance. The kick-butt episode, "Blood Memory," subtly reinforced the still too-often debated fact that trans women are women, while also tackling how trans folks often still feel the need to hide or downplay their identity, even after coming out to the most accepting of families. In fact, this episode marks a distinct high-point for Supergirl, managing to deliver a story both subtle and direct.

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