ehbfrh:

bundleofsouls:

quasi-normalcy:

tarasaurus98:

Americans, vote like your life depends on it because if this bill passes it literally will. They’re straight up trying to make it legal to arrest people for existing as LGBT.

If any of your sneering people think “Oh, it’s just the transsexuals; no one cares”, I guarantee you that once they strip rights from us, they’ll just move on up to the next group on the hierarchy, because that is and always has been how fascism works.

The bill being discussed here is H.R.9197 and it goes farther than is being described.  This bill isn’t a prelude, it in and of itself tries to, effectively, ban “sexual material” from being viewed by someone under the age of 10.  “sexual material” which it defines as anything pertaining to”Any depiction, description, or simulation of sexual activity, any lewd or lascivious depiction or description of human genitals, or any topic involving gender identity, gender dysphoria, transgenderism, sexual orientation or related subjects“.  This is an outright assault on all of us in the LGBT community and beyond that would ban us from existing in spaces where children would be expected to be present, or attempting to teach children that we exist so they don’t suffer like many of us did and don’t cause others to suffer. 

Do not undersell the seriousness of this bill.

Imagine how this would be used to prevent people from communicating with children in a way that could help the children confirm that they have been sexually harmed by someone.

Imagine how this would be used to prevent children from getting to know their own bodies in healthy and respectful ways so that they could make skillful choices for their own well being.

Imagine how this would be used to gag anybody who could possibly help a child who is being abused and prevent help from ever getting to children whose parents perform indoctrination of intolerance and hate for the first 18 years of a human’s life.

We grown ups are in danger, yes. But the goal could might be to isolate children from any diversity and keep them locked in step with their authoritarian designs.