Texas, Harbinger of Doom
When Jim Crow was originally established, it spread from state to state like a contagion, each subsequent state taking lessons from the ones before it.
Mississippi was one of the states at the vanguard of the first Jim Crow; Texas may well be at the vanguard of the next. And the oppressive crusade is broader than race. It includes gender and identity.
As The 19th reported last month:
“Texas has introduced the most bills targeting transgender youth in the country, triple the number of any other state. Though none of Texas’ over 40 proposed anti-trans bills have been passed, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has made restricting trans youth’s sports participation a priority for the state’s third special legislative session.”
Last week, there was public testimony in the Texas House of Representatives on a bill that would force student-athletes to compete as the sex they were assigned at birth rather than the one that aligned with their gender identity. A similar bill has already passed the Texas Senate. If the House passes it — which is likely — it will be sent to the Senate for approval and then to Abbott’s desk to be signed into law.
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We can look forward to some of those states mimicking Texas on voter restrictions, as well. In this way, Texas is a harbinger of doom, it is the leading edge of regression, and it provides a picture of where the Republican-controlled portion of the United States may be heading: down the tubes in a Stetson hat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/texas-abortion-voting-transphobia.html
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