Maine has distinguished itself by not implementing a set of illegal orange orders intended to persecute transes. The astonishingly thin-skinned president has reacted by withdrawing money for school dinners. Classy. And illegal. He is also now illegally withholding money for the Maine prison system for the same reason.
Southern states are taking the initiative. Florida has just sacked a teacher for calling a student by their preferred name, not as recorded on their birth certificate. This is a new law that they are zealously enforcing. Mississippi is banning all books about trans from public and research libraries on the grounds of “obscenity”.
RFK is putting the NIH over to studying transition “regret” as part of his effort to destroy science and punish scientists. He’s got the best worm-eaten brains working on a report to say trans doesn’t exist.
Trans people exist because they say they exist. Maga, on the other hand insists that transes don’t exist. This isn’t a difference of opinion, “both siding”. On the one hand, transes are an observable pattern of human behaviour which is consistent across the world; on the other, maga makes a blunt assertion forced through by the power of the state. Maga is telling people what they must feel or believe, and how they must lead their lives. They don’t listen to anybody: they order people what to think. Or else.
It is rank, irrational prejudice. This is after only three months.