We need less panic from media

Recently my wife and I had been on a two-hour flight to Colombia and stocking up on Vitamin E (estrogen).

As my wife pointed out, despite the constant queue, I rarely have any problems with public toilets at the airport. However, on July 1, 2023, Sunshine State placed a target on my back and restricted transgender people from using government-owned facilities that match their gender. The airport has gender-neutral bathrooms. I know where they are, but staff doesn’t always unlock them.

Luckily, at age 72, you rarely need to use the bathroom. Or it will flash. But I was worried about this trip. My wife assured me that I was exaggerating the problem. I assured her that she was not transgender. When she peeed, she didn’t have to worry about security being paged to her stall. But here’s it: she was right. I was not worried about anything. I have absorbed the broad outline of the crappy law, although not specific details.

In the ACLUA great introduction to Florida law For more information about these… we’ve covered them in detail. The law says that if I use a) bathroom in a government facility, b) and I am asked to leave c) By civil servantsand d) I refuse to do so, and only then can I be charged with criminal trespassing. I’d have to be a flash to make sure I come and go very quickly and get in and out of the government employees to catch me in this act.

My big point here is that there is a lot of panic in the trans community right now. But sometimes, there is no sufficient nuance or context. And I think we’ll need them more than ever.

For example, I read NDAA transcoverage, a defense reapproval bill used by far-right Republicans to ban coverage of gender-affirming care for their service members. The report, naturally, is uniformly furious, angry and loudly condemned.

This is completely justified, but not half is enough.

To understand Republicans, you need to read and say everything they do vice versa.

They always receive everything they can get, and sometimes don’t reveal where they believe they are not on their side at the moment. I’m barely a legislative expert and reapproval of the NDAA is just one example. To be clear, this is just the first drop of a much larger meter. Republicans are increasingly pushing out attacks on trans people, and none of us yet know where they will stop.

That being said, here is one take on what they haven’t done (still):

• Hormonal therapy for adult trans service members is prohibitedIt’s still covered (Surgery is not the case).
• Like Texas, it provides positive care grounds for removal from your home from your local children’s services department.

Despite moving the legal age of Red State to 25 or 29 despite the massive amounts of trial balloons floating by Republicans since 2019, the NDAA is still 18 years old, even as a child of ServiceMembers. It’ll be on topCovered until age 21 (If you are in college until you are 23).

Before I hate emails, let me add about it900-1599 Children seek hormones or blockers Every year through Tricare, the ServiceMembers Health Plan. Each person who cannot receive treatment is a tragedy, and I am not implying anything different here.

But I would like it to be based on the scale of harm being carried out by different laws. We need to understand what each scale contains and what it does to us.

I’m also sensitive to the fact that I’m writing this from a (somewhat) safe vantage point of an educated adult white person (but I’m trying to cut off my hormones in 50 years). . Moreover, almost all such measures disproportionately affect people of low income, colour and/or younger ages.

But when you are in the battle of your life, it is important to know exactly what battle you are in.

And now our gay and trans press are better at giving us clickbaits of anger and panic than statistics, graphics, detailed analysis and context. We have the knowledge and perspective to understand what we are fighting, who is hurting, and how we are doing.

The cruelty of performance It’s the heartbeat center of Magabair, so there’s a lot to come to us.

They promote 500 bills that we never try to enact just to enjoy our pain and anger. They try to enact 50 things that aren’t actually caught up in the law. They don’t call it gay laws like the 50 things that stay in court immediately or the Florida bathroom bill (It is mainly destroyed by courts) – Much less than shown on a thorough examination.

And yes, some really scary things get caught up in law and policy. We know that. But if everything is equally scary and outrageous, we are not informed. We panicked, like about our trip to the toilets at Miami-Dade Airport.

Trans news media and trans influencers are still very new, but not so new, so we can’t bolster the notch of what our game comes to us all.

Riki Wilkins Broken in @rikiwilchins.bsky.social and run daily news tickers in trance stories. She also blogs about trans theory and politics. www.medium. com @rikiwilchins. Her last two books are Bad Ink: How NYTIMES Sold Out Transgender Teens andWhen Texas came for the kids. She can reach with her Gmail in trans teen issues.