when women die from pregnancy complications doctors were made afraid to treat, when the children of Gaza continue to starve while the American president flies in corrupt luxury, remember that this is what Republicans in Michigan chose to spend their time doing. And throw them out.

When we’re enduring the inevitable economic disaster Trump’s recklessness wreaks, when millions of Michiganders lose their healthcare, when small businesses close because of an irresponsible trade war,

HBs 4066 and 4469 never have to become law to do real damage. The message MI House Republicans chose to send today will resonate in school hallways and cafeterias, in gyms and classrooms, in bus rides home and in lonely sleepless nights.

State-sanctioned ostracism leads to real world consequences. It leads to kids like I used to be spending school nights sitting up in lonely terror, believing that I would never be able to live authentically and maintain a relationship with my family.

The scapegoating, the use of queer kids as a distraction from the historic corruption and incompetence of this administration, is violence.

As someone who grew up a queer kid in a small rural MI town, the attacks from political leaders on my community still echo in my head.

They were parroted by the adults in my family, at my church, and in my school.

It was around 1:12 or so today if you watch the House stream.

Something darkly poetic about him standing in that chamber giving the klan rant he’s been desperate to give since Dems put him in his place last year.

At least now the House GOP can’t pretend this isn’t a central theme of their agenda.

He gave a deranged speech on the floor about the “Great Replacement,” saying we don’t want Asian, African, and other non-white immigrants in Michigan because they don’t “assimilate.”

Just truly vile, but also gives important context for their caucus’s motivation behind their pro-ICE package today.

MI Republicans continue to demonstrate their utter desperation to use taxpayer resources to worship their mad king instead of doing literally anything at all to improve life for working families.

The point being that both sex and gender are complex and that it is not the role of politicians to insert themselves into our identities and relationships.

Yes, many trans women are assigned male at birth. Intersex people and those with sex chromosomal variations other than XX and XY also exist.

Sex ≠ Gender

I’ll pretend that’s in good faith and not a trollish, smooth-brained attempt at a gotcha.

A woman is an adult human who demonstrates the physical and behavioral traits that are culturally associated with the female sex.

Sex ≠ Gender

Trans women are women. Hope that helps.