Missouri HB.1739 contains provisions for the immediate dismissal and 4 year suspension from employment for any nurse, teacher or social worker who calls a student a name other than that which is on their school registration forms, or fails to report a non-cis identity.
legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB17...
Prefiled a week ago, MO HB.1739 also contains provisions to protect staff who report their colleagues for affirming trans youth. Teachers barred from employment for violating this law will also have their teaching licenses revoked.
The last provision also appears to stipulate that parents cannot consent to their kids being affirmed, as only the original birth certificate can be used to determine sex.
I live in St. Louis, Missouri in a part of town that is loaded with LGBTQ folks. I love my friends, most of the rest of the state is lost and I hate them. They're fucked.
that's the thing- we don't fucking know what we're going to do. are we supposed to march down to jeff city to protest this? because that didn't do shit the last time my rights were infringed, and only literally three major organizations suing the attorney general stopped it.
Yes, they can. Metro East is still STL area, just on the other side of the river. It’s literally 15-30 minutes away from the furthest parts of the city.
Horrifically. Moving is expensive, and it's expensive up front. It involves abandoning whatever support system (including family) you've got. It requires abandoning your job, in most cases.
okay, cool, are you paying for it? because a whole lot of trans folks in missouri can't even get fucking jobs right now, including myself, you absolute fucking ghoul. i'm about three inches away from being homeless, so fuck your snark
will you be coordinating the financial assistance to ensure these refuge families can afford to "just move across the river" or do you plan to offer more unhelpful "solutions" from the comfort of your home while they are fighting a govt trying to take their rights away?
sure, let's have all the trans people move into illinois and a) abandon every trans person not able to move to illinois, and b) let missouri keep passing transphobic bills. what do you want me and my friends to do every time we might need to go into the city for something like work?
how do you expect me to visit my parents, or the rest of my family? or am i supposed to give that up so i can supposedly live without fear of it just happening there in a few years?
Lol "why not create internally displaced persons because of a bigot's sex law?" "Why not let Illinois cover the costs of other states being shitholes?" That's what you're asking
Moving sucks and nobody should have to put up with "my kid's name is illegal" because that's bs written by control freaks who need to be ousted not capitulated to! Get your head in the game!
Think this through to the conclusion.
Blue folks move to blue states. Giving even more power to red folks on a national level as they get even more disproportionate representation in the senate and house.
It's, at best, a temp solution to a local problem causing a more damaging long term problem.
Not for nothing but that's their goal. Eventually - and they're not too far off - they'll have enough state legislatures captured so they can convene a constitution convention.
How to say you've never had to pay to move yourself from one state to another without saying you have a savings account more than the bank required minimum.
What the fuck do you think is gonna happen if all the “blue voters” leave “red states” like privileged little shits like you always say they should? Will the GOP simply throw up their hands and say they’re fine with only having half the states so they won’t start working on the rest of them?
