I think it should be said. I went to a reading of the names this year, as I have in some form every year since 2015; and I’ve never seen so many children’s names read. For context, the names are of the people murdered in transphobic hate crimes in the past year. It used to be a notable tragedy when a 15 year old was driven to suicide and this year we had multiple 14 year olds dead by others’ hands.
Speaker Johnson doesn’t care though. I’m sure he’d say his behavior today was in those children’s best interests, but no the transphobia he is promoting is killing children both by emboldening bigots and by driving them to hopelessness.
I hope someday he has to stand before his victims and a deity and explain himself. I hope he begins acting in a way so as to make it a less unpleasant experience when he gets to that point.
Does Mike Johnson have a johnson? How do we even know?
Let the inspections begin (edit: with “him”)
What a prat. As a member of Gen X, I’m deeply ashamed. We were supposed to be the first generation not to care about people’s gender and sexuality.
Why do Republicans want people with PENISES to use your DAUGHTERS Bathroom?
Looks like his desk is a great place to use the bathroom instead!
It was black people.
Then it was gay people.
Now it’s trans people.
And we voted for this.
America is trash.
No, America is not trash. But the United States recognized the need for guard rails after the bus plunged.
No, America is not trash.
How much do you know about US history?
This isn’t just ignorant, it’s also a complete waste of taxpayer dollars and good will. Do something that matters, Johnson.
“…it’s also a complete waste of taxpayer dollars and good will. Do something that matters…”
TBF, I’m pretty sure he’s choosing to do this so he doesn’t have to do something that matters. Bread and circuses minus the bread.
Do you REALLY want him to do something he thinks matters?
Uh, good point.
This is in direct response to the first openly transgender member of congress being elected. This is a targeted attack against Sarah McBride.
This is really an awful wasteful thing to do. Especially on a day like that. It’s really disturbing how little empathy some people seem to hold. I fucking hate Americans (as an American) :c
Petty pathetic and normal for the GOP. Too bad they did not pass a Nazi bathroom ban but I guess to close to home.
Meanwhile Boeing lays off hundreds of workers in her constituency.
Whites only bathrooms within 20 years I bet.
guarantee he has gigs of transgender porn on his computer. the speaker doth protest too much.
So unisex bathrooms aren’t a thing, aka, normal bathrooms?
Also the dismantling of government agencies begins! First step, OSHA!
PDF Warning: 1-800-321-OSHA (6742) 1 www.osha.gov A Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers
Petty in a very child minded way, like a 10 year old bully. This is the next 4 years. Petty, greedy children ruining everything.
If it makes you feel better, everything was already ruined.
The best case scenario was continued crony capitalist dystopic hellscape with the poor’s lives being burned up in subservient subsistence to our modern pharoah oligarch class… but you know with identity affirming ribbons and pins and stuff.
Now we get all the oligarch stuff with… concentration camps and death squads and stuff.
Either way, the owners win, they don’t care. Their mistresses will always have abortion on tap, their nepo children will always have their identities affirmed, elections are simply for the poors to either inflict supplimental cruelty on other poors or not to give us the illusion of choice and keep us hating one another instead of looking up at our owners.
This country was ruined irreparably in the 1980s, a few Tuesdays ago was just a reminder of that reality.
