There are mountains of GOP sponsored legislation targeting transgender youth currently being proposed or that have already passed recently. Just about every red state in the nation has proposed a bill to not allow students born male (cis male) to participate in girl’s school sporting events. The goal is to criminalize parents, doctors, teachers, health insurance companies, and everyone who is not vehemently opposed to a cis male using a pronoun other than he/him. The bill sponsors will tell you this is the single most important issue affecting our country.
Legislators, could anything be worse for kids in school than pronouns?
- Truancy.
Not only is she a she but she’s not going to learn to read if she’s not in school and thus won’t be able to vote you back into office if she can’t read your name on the ballot when she turns eighteen.
- Funding.
If her school doesn’t get the money to buy books, computers, supplies, lunches, then where will she learn about our nation’s history of oppressing minorities and people we don’t agree with? If her school does not have heat, is not structurally sound, or does not get the same equipment to teach the same curriculum as the school in the wealthy part of town, will her pronoun even matter at her trailer park?
- Teachers.
If her school cannot find and keep (and pay) good, compassionate people to teach her how to read and write, she won’t be able to write a letter thanking you for correcting her pronouns.
- The arts.
If her school doesn’t have an arts program, how will she ever learn to design something even more fabulous than Billy Porter’s tuxedo gown? You can probably scratch this one off the list. Let’s face it, there’s probably nothing more fabulous than Billy’s tuxedo gowns.
- Guns.
If she gets shot in the classroom by one of your constituents exercising his God-given right to own weapons of war because no elected person in this entire fucking country wants to pass sensible gun laws, it doesn’t matter what pronoun your dead baby chose.
