収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

Every time the fundamentalists set up some “alternative” business for their own community – well, not every time, but really often – it ends up being one kind of rugpull or another, and yet, they keep falling for it. This goes back decades. I remember hearing about this one at its startup, and the rug has now been pulled: A Christian Ministry Promised An Obamacare Alternative. The FBI Says Its Leaders Pocketed $4 Million And Left Members With Thousands In Unpaid Medical Bills.

The American fundamentalist movement has always been like this. I’ve written extensively in the past about how they took over the party over time, and this is exactly the sort of result you’d expect: Michigan GOP Picks Election-Denying Demon Hunter As New Chair, following a similar pick in Kansas.

Florida is has now officially banned health care for trans children, because that’s what fundamentalist authoritarians do. From NPR: Florida has banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth, over the objections of medical professionals and trans families. Now, families have to decide whether to move states or stop their kid’s treatment.

Not satisfied with going after trans kids, Texas is now going after trans adults, as literally everyone paying any attention fully expected. Here’s the bill banning insurance coverage for trans people. They’ll keep expanding the net until we’re all illegal again.

For example, see this obscenity of a ruling, where a lesbian mother’s parental rights were taken and transferred to the sperm donor by an Oklahoma judge. She was even removed from the birth certificate, despite, you know, carrying the child. (She has since been reinstated to the birth certificate, at least.) The decision is obscene, but here we go.

Xtra magazine knows the score: this is eliminationism, and they’ve wanted to exterminate all queer people forever. (I was using exactly the same term over 20 years ago.) Anybody who says anything else is lying or in denial, because they are very clear about it amongst themselves – which is always the key trick to catch, right? When they say one thing amongst themselves and another to outside-group media, the one they say amongst themselves is the one they actually mean.

The NY Times is institutionally transphobic, and is trying to play the role multiple British media did in bringing up their current wave of extremely brutal transphobia. They were also institutionally anti-LGBT in the AIDS era, and institutionally pro-fascist in the Hitler era before the war. They have a long history of horrible, horrible position-staking and people really need to figure that out. Hopefully articles like this indicate that it’s starting to sink in… again, for now. But it needs to be pointed out at virtually every turn.

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