It's Time to Begin, Isn't It?

see now THIS is how you do an introductory google form

and it reminded me of the time I was working outside the 9/11 memorial and a european tourist came up to yell in my face at like 8am that we should all be ashamed of ourselves for charging admission to a museum of a national tragedy and when I said we depended on the money to stay open he screamed some more in my face about what a shameful disgusting government I had that wouldn’t subsidize the museum as though I personally set it up that way, and I had to eventually respond “sir, I haven’t been able to afford to see a doctor in 10 years you think I like this system???” and he just stomped away still yelling me I was a shameful person for this, the ticketing system I had no say in and also thought was outrageously expensive

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Guess who got their name and gender marker change done just in time for that to happen.

They're is literally making a list of us! I'm fucking scared. These kinds of lists don't get compiled for no reason, especially when they've spent the better part of a decade targeting us and it has only ramped up and gotten more severe.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/ken-paxton-transgender-texas-data/

I'm usually the person saying "This is not a reason to panic, do what you need to avoid anxiety keeping you from doing your day to day life stuff" when it comes to news about the state government of Texas and trans people. While it's been bad, it's been very public government actions that were taken to court and decisions that have often been appealed and struck down. This is different and it seems like an obvious escalation. For the first time I'm like, "OK, we need to be putting together networks to alert each other to an emergency and a plan for leaving the state on no notice."

No, we shouldn't have to consider leaving our homes. Yes, cis people should be taking this news VERY SERIOUSLY and work harder to get the specific people doing this out of office and away from state power. Because right now they have too much power, billions of dollars backing them, and they increasingly don't seem to give a shit about the legality nor the consequences of what they're doing. They could do so much damage before enough people who could stop them realized what was happening.