i'm tired of this bit

Oklahoma (my home state) fully banned gender affirming care for EVERYONE regardless of age (Image below, please read it)

I'd be really happy if people shared this post around because I am sick and tired of nobody talking about this, y'all remember those anti trans laws that passed in Florida?

Those originated in Oklahoma.

My state banned gender affirming healthcare for anyone under 25 before Florida did and guess which one got widespread discussion and which one got completely ignored?

It especially hurts given all the violently racist and anti indigenous shit my state's governor has said over the years that has gone completely under the radar in wider online leftist circles.

Senate Bill 904 was one of several measures introduced this session focusing on restricting gender-affirming care. It prevents the state Medicaid program, or SoonerCare, from covering it, and bars public funds from being used to provide or subsidize it. State property, facilities and buildings also can’t be used to deliver this care. [...] SB 904 was filed during last year’s legislative session as a measure establishing criteria for incentive payments to contracted Medicaid long-term care providers. Sen. Todd Gollihare, R-Kellyville, submitted an amendment in March to replace the language with his bill on gender-affirming care. Affected services include surgical procedures to alter or remove physical or anatomical characteristics “that are typical for the individual’s biological sex” and drugs used to suppress or delay puberty, or to promote the development of feminizing or masculinizing features “consistent with the opposite biological sex.” Exclusions apply to things like behavioral health services and depression or anxiety medications, and individuals with differences in sex development[*]. People who violate the law can be charged with a misdemeanor. [...] That impact is being felt in the limited spaces statewide that offer gender-affirming care. Lily Pina is the family nurse practitioner at the Oklahomans for Equality Health Clinic. The clinic is one of the newer arms of the nonprofit organization, which has served the LGBTQ+ community since the 80s. It offers several services, including gender-affirming hormone therapy. The clinic is fully credentialed with Blue Cross Blue Shield, and its lab is credentialed with all insurances. It also accepts self-pay patients. But Medicaid is no longer an option. LGBTQ+ adults are twice as likely as non-LGBTQ+ adults to rely on Medicaid as their primary health insurance source. “We've definitely had an influx of patients needing to transfer their care because their current provider couldn't continue to provide their transgender services,” Pina said June 3. “So, as of right now, we're booked out for the next five weeks.” Hailey Briggs, the executive director of Oklahomans for Equality, added that OU was quick to reach out the day after the legislation passed to ensure its patients could continue to access care. Briggs said the “intentionally vague” language has left a lot up to interpretation for providers. “There are a lot of medical institutions that are publicly funded in some way, and so how those institutions are interpreting this legislation has a big impact on who we're seeing,” Briggs said. Oklahomans for Equality currently has a fundraising campaign to support patient assistance and is working to stretch its resources to serve more people.

It's called fashion

'”Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) practices or any other unnatural behavior”

It’s highly likely that pressure to marry and have children will increase and can be enforced through institutional means (arrests, trials, jail time, etc).

Please, all eyes on our LGBTQ+ siblings in Niger. They deserve our unwaverin’ support.

Maybe a hot take but

even people with cohesive identities aren't consciously aware of their "identity" most of the time

famously this is why themes of grappling with identity and coming of age are still extremely prevalent in singlet media

in fact, most singlets prefer not to think about their identity at all! it actively stresses them out! they can and will repress that shit to intense and self-destructive degrees!

this is because it's fucking hard if not seemingly impossible for the average person to even identify their emotions, wants, and motivations, let alone their entire fucking identity

yes even single emotions. even powerful ones. even the "obvious" ones yes

singlets compartmentalize too. they just can't fully separate those "selves" from the cohesive whole but those states of self can be incredibly real to them

singlets have normalized talking to themselves, interfacing with different facets of themselves, and even identifying different states of personality they enter (including in "joking" ways that aren't actually that joking). anyone can do this for free

even singlets are a big chaotic soup of confusion. plurals have just divided that soup among several bowls to be able to make the experience easier to parse

any given bowl of soup may contain more of one ingredient than the others, thus making each bowl unique despite it all coming from the same source

the ingredients having intermingled in the same soup before is why you can still get a slight taste of one even when it's not present in a given bowl

this is all because they're ultimately made of the same stock

Talk about how most of us can never legally transition because even if legal transition is an option it's typically restricted to the binary.

Talk about how even non-binary gender markers which seem like the solution actually force us into a double bind of either misgendering ourselves constantly or outing ourselves constantly.

Talk about how there is no way to "pass" as non-binary and that the only way to be stealth is to be closeted one way or the other.

Talk about how "non-binary" as a term was meant to be an umbrella term for a myriad of gender identities but was forcibly homogenized into one "third gender" by others.

Talk about how the MOGAI movement which sought to give names to the wide breadth of gender identity and experience was relentlessly mocked both by transphobes and other trans people alike, abandoned by our own communities because our identities were "too weird."

Talk about the slur "theyfab" and its misogynistic and transmisogynistic usage. Talk about how it contributes to the rampant erasure of amab non-binary people and treats all non-binary people as "whiny little wome- i mean afabs."

"bomb that kills all-" "I just don't get bi women bringing their-" "pansexuality isn't a real thing-" "all lesbians-" "trans men really are the men of the-" "theyfabs-" "pfft aroace people are cringe-" "nonbinary people are actually all-" Instant block. Goodbye. Not listening. It's for both solidarity with your fellow queers AND to protect yourself, because once a person is convinced to hate one group for their immutable traits they can be convinced fairly easily to hate another too, and thus I do not trust them.