Good thing my kid was too lazy/disorganized/unbothered to change their license to Texas when they moved there in 2018. However, Paxton is so incompetent and/or his staff thinks he's such an asshole that it wouldn't have really mattered anyway.
No one's saying it'll be easy for trans people to GTFO of a state that's now clearly dangerous for them. It's never very easy for people to flee credible threats to their lives by their own government, but people do it everyday. They're called refugees.
1. A senior government official, with a long record of using the apparatus of government to hate on and oppress trans people2. Asked a governmental department to misuse its privileged and confidential personal information, that state residents must provide to obtain vital identity documents3. To give him the names and addresses of trans people4. In a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail of either the initial request, or the department's compliance5. And explicitly instructed the officials to avoid creating a paper trail.
If you don't know how this fucking story ends, ask a German Jew from the 1930s. Paxton just moved from "generalised harassment" to "planning fucking genocide" of trans people. Maybe I'm overreacting, but would you bet your life on it?
I agree it'll be very difficult for many Texas trans people to just pack up and move. That's why I ask upthread for any organisations that would help them do so, so I can donate.
It wasn't easy for Jews to flee Germany in the 1930s, either. Obviously the long-term solution is to root out the transphobia inherent in the current state government. But individual trans people are in danger NOW, today, this very minute. Ken Paxton is trying to get their names and addresses.
Yes, the Nazi government was eventually defeated and the problem rooted out at its source. But we all know what happened during that "eventually". Trans people need to GTFO of Texas, and decent people need to give them all the help they need to do that.
The government there will be leading the violence. Paxton's moved from general anti-trans legislation, to attempting to create a register of individual trans people. That is fucking horrifying.
Tell your HR that the AG of Texas tried to create a fucking registry of individual trans people, including their addresses, by misusing the confidential personal information supplied to another government department. I can't be the only one who smells cattle cars.
If you're trans it's not safe for you to set foot in that hellhole. Would your bosses have sent a Jewish person into 1930s Germany? Because this is where things are going.
Nope. I'm terrified for them. This is a serious escalation of government persecution. Paxton tried to create a registry of individual trans people. I cannot stress how horrifying that is.
Maybe that's where they planned to start. Paxton tried to create a registry of trans people, with their current names and addresses. I smell fucking cattle cars.
They tried to create a registry of trans people's names and addresses. The fact they tried to do it without creating a paper trail is just icing on the cake. This goes waaaaay beyond corruption. This is moving towards purging Undesirables.
This is utterly terrifying. I can’t find words to explain the depths of my fear for myself, my little family, and my fellow LGBTQ+ Texans. Especially those trapped here by poverty, custody agreements, jobs, medical conditions, etc. I am quickly losing all hope.
And then these same goons will show up on your teevee box or your smartphone screen ranting about the evils of "big gub'mint." I keep saying it, but the death of us all will be these people who are convinced that the Constitution guarantees their right to shove their demented, hideously narrow-minded worldview down everybody else's throat. Government as a big club with which to beat your enemies senseless: ultimately, that's all they really believe in, the lousy primitive fill-in-the-blank expletive-deleteds.
I think they just stop at "teenage girls".
Good thing my kid was too lazy/disorganized/unbothered to change their license to Texas when they moved there in 2018. However, Paxton is so incompetent and/or his staff thinks he's such an asshole that it wouldn't have really mattered anyway.
I'll do it for free and i'm not even a citizen (or in the law)
Why is this indicted asshole still in office?
Oh yeah, Texas.
Goddamnit.
The fact that Paxton goes out of his way to avoid leaving a paper trail for his schemes doesn’t at all raise red flags. Nosirree.
It goes along with the Braille writing on the drive-up ATMs.
That is fucking terrifying. I smell cattle cars.
Are there any organisations that help trans people flee Texas and Florida? I think I need to donate to them.
No one's saying it'll be easy for trans people to GTFO of a state that's now clearly dangerous for them. It's never very easy for people to flee credible threats to their lives by their own government, but people do it everyday. They're called refugees.
1. A senior government official, with a long record of using the apparatus of government to hate on and oppress trans people2. Asked a governmental department to misuse its privileged and confidential personal information, that state residents must provide to obtain vital identity documents3. To give him the names and addresses of trans people4. In a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail of either the initial request, or the department's compliance5. And explicitly instructed the officials to avoid creating a paper trail.
If you don't know how this fucking story ends, ask a German Jew from the 1930s. Paxton just moved from "generalised harassment" to "planning fucking genocide" of trans people. Maybe I'm overreacting, but would you bet your life on it?
I agree it'll be very difficult for many Texas trans people to just pack up and move. That's why I ask upthread for any organisations that would help them do so, so I can donate.
It wasn't easy for Jews to flee Germany in the 1930s, either. Obviously the long-term solution is to root out the transphobia inherent in the current state government. But individual trans people are in danger NOW, today, this very minute. Ken Paxton is trying to get their names and addresses.
Yes, the Nazi government was eventually defeated and the problem rooted out at its source. But we all know what happened during that "eventually". Trans people need to GTFO of Texas, and decent people need to give them all the help they need to do that.
The government there will be leading the violence. Paxton's moved from general anti-trans legislation, to attempting to create a register of individual trans people. That is fucking horrifying.
Tell your HR that the AG of Texas tried to create a fucking registry of individual trans people, including their addresses, by misusing the confidential personal information supplied to another government department. I can't be the only one who smells cattle cars.
If you're trans it's not safe for you to set foot in that hellhole. Would your bosses have sent a Jewish person into 1930s Germany? Because this is where things are going.
Trans people in Texas must be terrified.
Nope. I'm terrified for them. This is a serious escalation of government persecution. Paxton tried to create a registry of individual trans people. I cannot stress how horrifying that is.
Is that supposed to be a joke? If so, fuck you.
Maybe that's where they planned to start. Paxton tried to create a registry of trans people, with their current names and addresses. I smell fucking cattle cars.
They tried to create a registry of trans people's names and addresses. The fact they tried to do it without creating a paper trail is just icing on the cake. This goes waaaaay beyond corruption. This is moving towards purging Undesirables.
This is utterly terrifying. I can’t find words to explain the depths of my fear for myself, my little family, and my fellow LGBTQ+ Texans. Especially those trapped here by poverty, custody agreements, jobs, medical conditions, etc. I am quickly losing all hope.
And then these same goons will show up on your teevee box or your smartphone screen ranting about the evils of "big gub'mint." I keep saying it, but the death of us all will be these people who are convinced that the Constitution guarantees their right to shove their demented, hideously narrow-minded worldview down everybody else's throat. Government as a big club with which to beat your enemies senseless: ultimately, that's all they really believe in, the lousy primitive fill-in-the-blank expletive-deleteds.