Crystal Frasier: If you think this isn't exactly where US conservatives want to take their anti-trans moral panic, you're kidding yourself

If you think this isn't exactly where US conservatives want to take their anti-trans moral panic, you're kidding yourself

The first openly transgender politician in Russia has described how the Russian authorities threatened to commit her to a psychiatric hospital unless she detransitioned. #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA novayagazeta.eu/arti...#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA novayagazeta.eu/arti...

Russia’s first transgender politician reveals she was forced to announce her detransition — Novaya Gazeta Europenovayagazeta.eu The first openly transgender politician in Russia has described how the Russian authorities threatened to commit her to a psychiatric hospital unless she detransitioned, Novaya Gazeta Baltic reported on Tuesday.

I really should have followed this up with: Our fate isn’t sealed yet! There is still time to pull this back! Get involved in politics on a local level and vote in state and national elections! The Republicans have so much power because they’ve spent 50 years building a grassroots cult…

And despite a half-century of work they still can’t consistently win the popular vote. Volunteer for your local school board or arts commission or library board and you can block these book bans and radical agendas! Vote for empathic city councils and mayors and you can protect your community!

Local politics aren’t glamorous but they’re how the GOP got here and it’s how we can start to take things back! Get involved with county and state redistricting efforts to break gerrymanding! Campaign for ballot initiatives to fix our archaic political system!

And as much as I know the Democrats fuck up right now, vote Democrat. Especially right now when every wealthy media mogul is telling you it’s hopeless and they’re all corrupt. Because right now we’re in democracy triage...

That means we have to stop the active bleeding before we think about cutting out the tumors. Hold your nose and vote and in the meantime get involved in your local Democratic conventions to have more of a voice!

Republicans got where they are now by doing all this boring shit and voting for politicians they hated. If we want to stop them, we have to roll up our sleeves, grit our teeth, and do some boring ass civics homework! I believe in you!

Longtime Dem party volunteer here. Our state Convention has had a rule about alternates: "Must be a man and a woman." We've sent resolutions for years asking that this internal party rule update to drop the binary. This year's rule? "Different genders." They give a shit! Showing up gets results!

Exactly! Republicans are decimating our institutions specifically because showing up even a little can get fucking results. We can save our institutions the same way!

Similar happened in the NC Dems back in either 2018 or 2020. Was there when it happened.

They only win through Gerrymandering. Exactly how the terrorist Boebert won. Minority rule depends on gerrymandering.

I don't think forced detransitions are enough for them at this point. The Republicans are in a neo-fascist death spiral and won't be happy until people are being dragged off to the camps.

I think the Republicans are just trying to keep clinging to power and feed their psychotic devotees enough.

I honestly think this is their endgame more than camps. They want to flex power on us and force us to conform to their vision of society.

I did not know there was an openly transgender Russian politician I get that this was not point if the skeet and yet this fact makes me happy

Wait, they have psychiatric hospitals?

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