Please watch this episode of Boom! Lawyered. March 6, 2023.
YouTube description: "In this week's episode, Jess and Imani get into the ways anti-trans advocates, including legislators and Supreme Court justices, want to erase LGBTQ folks from society. And it's all from a familiar anti-abortion playbook."
Imani Gandy begins by saying that her team "really needs cisgender people to stop both-sidesing the ongoing trans genocide."
Jess Pieklo says that Rewire News Group is "expert repro journalism that inspires you to stand up for trans folks." If the NYT really wanted to get out of its own agenda and find out more, Pieklo suggested, they could "bring on a trans reporter to talk about the issues at hand." But of course they don't.
In this podcast episode, Gandy and Pieklo say of Republicans:
They're trying to repeal nondiscrimination protections and make it legal to discriminate against someone at work, in housing, medical care, in a cake shop, wherever.
They're saying that teachers have to call home to out a student to their parents if the kid might be somehow trans.
They're threatening that the state will take away trans kids from their affirming parents and will criminally charge the parents with child abuse.
Racist gerrymandering and voter suppression makes it harder for people to vote for politicians who affirm their needs.
It's the anti-abortion playbook.
They even suddenly pretend to care about women's sports, when all they're doing is preventing trans girls and women from playing sports, potentially outing them, and drawing harassing attention to them. These Republicans have never cared about women's sports and will continue not to care about them. Title IX, what's that? They're not going to fund girls' sports in schools. Their attitude is: "we need to peer into your child's underwear to make sure that they have the appropriate genitals." Despite their own behavior, Republicans "have the nerve to call trans people 'groomers'!"
They're talking about "parental rights" for their children not to hear words like "gay" in school. They're talking about "religious freedom" as an excuse for prejudiced behavior. They're saying people can excuse themselves from classes if they object to the content, and if more than half the class objects, the curriculum will be canceled for everyone — so it's majority rule for religious prejudice.
Oklahoma is talking about banning gender-affirming care up to age 26.
They're doing this to undermine the Affordable Care Act.
They're talking about charging doctors with felonies and taking away their medical license.
They're against pronouns, even though that's what people use to talk. That's banning language.
They're talking about "pronouns by committee," saying that a teacher needs permission from a student's parents to use pronouns that don't reflect the students' assigned sex at birth, and furthermore that even if the parents want the teacher to use certain pronouns for their child, the teacher has the right to refuse.
Gandy says: "The goal is to punish trans people for existing, to make life difficult for trans kids to exist. It's pure cruelty for cruelty's sake. And I have to say, in light of the sort of discourse that has gone on since that jackass Michael Knowles stood up at CPAC and said, you know, we have to 'eradicate transgenderism.'" And "the well-meaning centrists":
"...are like, 'I mean, he didn't say that he wants to kill transgender people. He said he wants to eradicate transgenderism.' Well, ha! First of all, as I said earlier, transgenderism is not an ideology. There's no such thing as being as transgender-ism, just like there's no such thing as Black-ism. But you know, in addition, it just seems to me that people are parsing language, they're splitting hairs, they're playing semantic games because they are too chickenshit to take a strong stand. And why are they too chickenshit? Likely because they have conservatives at their Thanksgiving table or Republican friends or people who are 'just asking questions.' They don't quite understand why trans people exist. And so they're 'just asking questions.' They're not necessarily 'transphobic.' So when you say 'eradicate transgenderism,' you're not necessarily calling for the killing of people, but you are. And if you're not calling for the killing of people you're calling for, for imposing mental harm on them and mental harm, if you look up genocide, if you look at the UN's definition of genocide, imposing mental harm or bodily harm on a group of people counts as genocide. How are you gonna 'detransition' trans people? That's what they want. They want trans people to 'revert,' quote unquote, back to their biological sex. How you gonna do that, forcibly? What if trans people refuse?" (42:12–44:01)
To that, Pieklo says sarcastically: "I don't know, Imani, these same centrists told me the Court would never overturn Roe."
Gandy: "That's a good point. Yeah, yeah. So these folks are always right about everything, all: 'Oh, don't worry your pretty little head, Roe's not gonna go anywhere'. 'Oh, don't worry your pretty little gay head. Obergefell v. Hodges isn't going anywhere'. Meanwhile, Iowa has just introduced a bill to eradicate same sex marriage."
The podcast aired one year ago. The speakers were correct. Today, the legal situation in the US is worse.
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