111,000 transgender people live in Florida-And DeSantis and Repugs are out to limit their Freedoms!!

[riversedge]

This hate towards this group of people and their families just keeps growing and growing!




A rundown of Florida bills causing 'massive panic' in transgender, LGTBQ communities
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/15/florida-legislature-18-bills-targeting-transgender-lgbtq-community/70002777007/




Kathryn Varn
USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA

An estimated 111,000 transgender people live in Florida — about half a percent of the state’s total population of 22 million.

But that tiny share of people, based on estimates from the Williams Institute, appears to be the subject of intense focus for state lawmakers as they dive into Week Two of the annual Legislative Session.

Republican lawmakers have filed at least 18 bills that directly or indirectly target transgender Floridians and in some cases the broader LGBTQ community, according to counts maintained by advocates.

The bills seek to regulate where trans people can use the bathroom, whether they can access health care and to what extent they can express themselves in public. One proposal aims to expand Florida’s controversial parental rights law, coined “Don’t Say Gay” by critics. Another would give judges the power to change a custody agreement if parents disagree on whether to support their transgender child.

Meantime, trans Floridians and advocates are mobilizing, tracking bills and testifying at the Capitol to try and limit legislation they say will irrevocably harm their community. ...........................

[Lunabell]

1. But this "grooming" is ok. I hate republicans.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. Its really awful what is happening.

[Walleye]

3. I do hope every single one of them voted against him

[Omnipresent]

4. As long as he doesn't appeal them on another issue.

Some people don’t vote with their best interests in mind. They tend to vote on single issues.

[Walleye]

5. People have a strange idea about what their vote is for

[Irish_Dem]

6. Corrupt politicians know this, so they create fake hot button issues to distract voters.

While they rob, cheat and lie to voters to steal votes one way or the other.

[Model35mech]

7. One of the few times I've seen a number that can be compared

to an estimated overall population.

It's interesting to me. Especially since it is much higher than estimated by epidemiologists for gender dysphoria, and as I understand it diagnosis with gender dysphoria is a requirement for surgical intervention which has the Rs so upset.

To me it suggests that many people being reported as transgendered aren't included in mental health or medical statistics. Which DOES NOT mean they do not exist in reality. Such a huge gap in the reporting by different methodologies suggests a great need for good, controlled surveillance.

Why? Because if conditions don't show up in the numbers, they don't exist in the minds of Public Health Care establishment who push Public Health Policy.