Where the heckle is my pencil

I repeat, they are trying to criminalize parents supporting their trans children and make it legally child abuse, and a removable offense

Source: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01646I.htm

My heart hurts. I’m not the best at describing my emotions, but that’s what it feels like. The United States of America continues to single out transgender people, young and old, and become hostile for them to live in. In 2021, 28 bills have already been introduced targeting trans youth.

Arkansas legislators overrode the veto from Governor Asa Hutchinson and passed HB1570. This bill makes trans youth unable to obtain gender-affirming healthcare. Puberty blockers will be barred from trans youth who are scared of their growing bodies and hormones will be unavailable to trans minors as well. Surgeries will also be unavailable. Arkansas legislators have also introduced two bills that would ban trans students from school sports: SB354 and SJR16

Alabama’s Senate Health Committee approved a bill, SB10, that would make it a felony for doctors to provide gender-affirming treatment to transgender minors. Doctors could face up to 10 years in prison.

Arizona has also joined Alabama in introducing a bill that would punish doctors for providing trans youth with gender-affirming health care. They are also introducing a bill that would make trans students unable to participate in school sports. SB1511 and SB1637.

Connecticut legislature is voting on two anti-trans sports bans that would prevent trans youth from playing in school teams “to protect women’s rights”: SB00324 and HB 05795.

Georgia’s legislature is voting on a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care, namely HRT and puberty blockers, for minors: HB401

Two other bills, SB266 and HB276, would prevent trans athletes from participating in school and university sports programs, even at private institutions, if passed.

Iowa’s trans medical ban would prohibit gender-affirming care for minors with the exception of intersex youth if HF193 is passed.

The state is also voting on two bills that would prevent trans athletes from participating in school sports: HF184 and HF327.

Indiana is voting on two bills, both of which would bar doctors from giving gender-affirming care to trans minors: SB0224 and HB1505.

Kansas state legislature is considering whether or not to prohibit gender-affirming care like HRT and puberty blockers in two bills: SB214 and HB2210.

Kansas will also vote on SB208, a bill that will stop trans students from participating in school sports to “create fairness in women’s sports.”

Kentucky’s HB336 would make providing gender-affirming care for trans minors illegal and protect public officials who express views against gender-affirming care if passed.

The state legislature is also debating two bills that would stop trans student-athletes from playing sports: SB106 and HB471.

Louisiana’s SB 104 would make it illegal for doctors to provide gender-affirming care to minors without parental, namely gender-affirming therapy, puberty blockers, and HRT.

Minnesota is voting on three bills that would prevent trans students from participating in school sports: HF1657, HB471, and SF96.

HF 1657 would specifically criminalize trans women who try to participate in girls’ sports or even try to use the locker room that corresponds with their gender rather than the sex they were assigned at birth.

HB471 and SF96 are bills that would prevent all trans students from playing on school sports teams.

Mississippi’s bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for trans youth, SB2171, was killed in committee.

However, Mississippi lawmakers passed a bill that will prevent trans girls from participating in female school sports, SB2536. It is unclear whether or not the law will be signed into effect by Governor Tate Reeves.

Missouri’s HB33 and SB442 would both ban doctors from treating trans youth with HRT or puberty blockers.

The state is also attempting to pass four bills that would prevent trans people from participating in school sports: HJR53, HB1184, HB1077, and HB1045.

HB1077 would specifically prohibit any state funding for schools that allow trans students to participate in school sports.

Montana is considering five trans medical ban bills, one of which would make it legal for doctors to refuse to treat any patients: HB113, HB427, SB195, SB245, and SB280

The state’s HB113, HB427, and SB195 bills would prevent minors from accessing gender-affirming care like HRT, puberty blockers, and any gender-affirming surgeries like breast removal.

SB245 and SB280 would impact all transgender people in the state if passed. SB245 would allow insurance companies and healthcare providers to refuse to cover or treat trans patients on the basis of being trans.

SB280 would make it mandatory for trans people to have gender-affirming surgeries like a vaginoplasty to change their legal sex on their birth certificate and other official documents.

Montana’s HB112 would require public schools to categorize sports teams based on biological sex and not allow trans people to compete.

New Hampshire’s medical ban would criminalize and define gender-affirming care for trans minors as child abuse if passed: HB86

HB198 would stop trans athletes from playing school sports on the basis of preventing gender discrimination for cis women.

North Dakota is voting on HB1298, which would stop trans athletes from participating in school teams if passed.

South Dakota lawmakers voted to pass a bill that bans trans students from playing on school sports teams on March 8. Governor Kristi Noem killed the bill on March 29: HB1076.

Oklahoma may pass two bills that would prevent minors from accessing gender-affirming treatments: SB676 and SB583.

The “Save Women’s Sports Act,” SB331, would prevent trans athletes from participating in school sports teams if passed.

Ohio is voting on a bill that would prevent high schools, universities, and private schools to stop trans athletes from playing in school sports teams: HB61.

Tennessee’s legislature is trying to pass two bills that would prevent trans youth from accessing gender-affirming care like HRT and puberty blockers: HB0578 and SB0657.

The state will also vote on two bills that prevent trans athletes in middle and high school from playing team sports: SB0228 and HB0003.

Utah’s “Preserving Sports for Female Students Act,” HB0302, would prevent trans students from playing sports at the high school or collegiate level.

If passed, the state’s HB0092 would prevent doctors from treating trans minors with HRT or puberty blockers.

out: going ghost

in: guess ill die

If there was a sci-fi novel with a megalomaniac billionaire who was the son of an Apartheid emerald mine owner, and he was privatizing space exploration so the public no longer has a say in it...you know that would be considered bad, right? The heroes would fight to stop SpaceX.

The fact that anyone considers SpaceX as anything other than a continuation of the transfer of public sector science, that was run for the public good, into the hands of billionaires is a testament to our propaganda. Having space exploration controlled by one billionaire is bad.

Remember in the 60s when rockets launched and the credit was given to the scientists and astronauts that actually made it happen?

In the name of Hades, Olympus I accept this message!

the boon series is COMPLETE!!! 🔥🔥🔥

A bored student, thousands of years ago, decided to pass the time by doodling a fish on the back of their worksheet. It’s such a little thing but it’s just so incredibly cool to me that I can see the work of someone who lived so long ago and just think “same”.

Disclaimer: Most of this info came from the book “Reading and Writing in Ancient Babylon” by Dominique Charpin which I read years ago, so some of this information might be out-of-date and/or misremembered.

4chan is at it fucking again

tw: transphobia and slurs v

If you are nonbinary and you do not like being called "enby," fine. I'm not here to tell you to use a word you don't like. But maybe unpack the reason you feel the need to talk about how "childish" it is. I have seen other nonbinary people go on entire tirades about how it's "offensive and wrong to use it as a general term," as if it's some kind of slur.

I'm not gonna be disappointed if it doesn't turn out how I want plus I'm not going to fast forward and skip through large parts of it to find out what happens, which I'm embarrassed that I do I just don't have the patience

Is that just a me thing or do other people do that too? Is that an adhd thing?

I just do way better watching things if I already know the entire synopsis and can predict kinda when things will happen like landmarks in a movie that help me through

so what did i do? I spoilered it. I said “hey this kid runs into some monsters that are gonna try to eat him, and then they chase him and it’s very suspenseful. You think that would be too scary?”

She considered it. “Do they eat him in the end?” she asked.

“No,” I said.

“Then no,” she said. And then, when we were about to hit the Big Reveal that this person who had helped him was secretly actually a man-eating monster, she lit up and was like “IS THIS WHEN IT HAPPENS” and I was like “SHH yes!” and she was like “AHH YEAH” and loved it.

I don’t think spoilers are just for kids, though. I’m now so Tired of conventional media’s endless race for The More Shocking Ending that I refuse to watch shit when I don’t know how it’s going to end. It’s not that I don’t have the emotional resilience to handle unexpected things (well, sometimes I don’t, honestly, and have no shame about that), it’s that if the unexpected thing is the “fuck you if you liked these characters ha ha ha!” plot twist, I just don’t have the time to invest in your fictional world. If you can’t respect me as an audience then I have other shit to do with my time.

For example, my webcomic on their site: