Tennessee Senate Passes Bill Making "Recruiting" For Trans Youth Care A Felony
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The bill could have far ranging impacts in Tennessee and outside of the state, and could be broadly used to target health care professionals across state lines.

Tennessee has recently passed a bill, effective July 1st 2024, declaring it a class-C felony to “recruit, harbor, or transport an unemancipated minor within this state” for transgender healthcare procedures, carrying a sentence of 3-15 years in prison. This applies over state lines and states that do not have anti-extradition laws relating to trans rights can extradite you to Tennessee.

Notably: the bill is vague. This means: telling stories of your own transition, describing your healthcare experiences to an open group chat, describing your trans experiences on a public website, creating trans health guides online, describing how you have gotten DIY HRT, describing anything to do with trans healthcare, even as a cis person, can result in a class-C felony conviction.

Given that being arrested in any capacity for transgender people can be an incredibly dangerous experience (CW: SV), I strongly suggest you begin caring about opsec, stop referring to where you live, use VPNs, stop using apps like Discord, and stop using social media sites that track your IP or user agent fingerprint while unprotected. Remember that for a bill like this to be challenged in court, you have to be arrested first.

Will discuss creating / linking to a transgender matrix chat so that we can help people to move off of things like discord.

  • Babs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    My current strategy of “stick to the safe states” is starting to feel shakier and shakier.

    I’m fuckin scared yo.

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      It’s only a matter before a red state tries to extradite a trans person from safe state, which will comply in the spirit of bipartisanship. Or maybe they won’t, in which case it will go to the Supreme Court which will rule just the way you expect them to. Fuck this depraved country

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    i don’t even have words for this one other than yea. shit’s getting worse, the dems will refuse to do anything, and unless some serious left wing labor/political org can get formed real fast real quick then there’s basically nothing we can do about it

    God damn America, that’s in the bible

    • wild_dog [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      To be fair, we need to be forming that serious leftist org asap for a billion other reasons but yes, I tried to get libs to care about trans rights beyond tokenizing us when I was in DSA and a lot of cis people still don’t get it

  • IMF_DOOM [she/her, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Maybe cross post this onto blahaj zone (even though some of the users are weird pissy freaks about hexbears posting there, it’s probably important enough to get them aware of this and stuff)

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      He hasn’t said jack shit while trans and their allies are systemically incriminated across the country, hexs too busy comittng multiple genocides. He hears you. He sees you. He just Does Not Care.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    This applies over state lines and states that do not have anti-extradition laws relating to trans rights can extradite you to Tennessee.

    Is there a place where I can check which states do/don’t have said laws? or is that included in that first map you posted?

    • bleepbloopbop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      my advice would be do not count on any state protecting you. Do your best to protect yourself and those around you first. Even in those states with good laws, there is no guarantee they will cover things like: actions committed in another state, actions taken as a third party (not doctor or patient) to facilitate trans care, actions facilitating DIY HRT (could probably be treated as drug trafficking), etc.

      But yeah I think that first map more or less lines up with the anti-extradition/anti-subpoena type laws that are on the books.

      • wild_dog [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        in addition: states with good laws are only that way as long as the Democrats, the party addicted to shooting off its own dick all the time, can remain in power. I live in MO. We were considered the bellwether state in terms of electoral politics but post-Obama, we are now one of the reddest states in the country. This can happen to any of y’all bc the Democrats are incompetent and evil.

          • wild_dog [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            0·
            7 months ago

            I wonder if that state democratic party is gutted like ours is. that’s part of what drives me crazy about the election cycle, the libs keep yelling at me like we can flip the state blue with no party infrastructure and a centrist genocider at the top of the ballot. lol I’m writing myself in for governor

            • bleepbloopbop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              I couldn’t tell you. WI did elect a dem governor (because statewide races can’t be gerrymandered like they did all the districts), but I don’t know if that was an outgrowth of an organized state party or just resentment against like 10 straight years of republican rule, esp. in the more populous cities

    • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      If a minor from Tennessee reads it, it’s possible if it’s not on that map. I’m sure some psychoes might use their kids to try to mess with trans people in this way

      Technically if you ever travel to one of the bad states you could also be extradited. Only 14 states have protection

            • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              That’s old hat now

              In an 8-1 ruling, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not require immigration judges to hold bond hearings after six months to determine if a non-citizen should be released while their case proceeds or is a flight risk or danger to the community. Agreeing with the Biden administration, Sotomayor said there was “no plausible construction of the text” of the statute that would mandate the government provide for such bond hearings and that the law did not even hint at such a requirement.

              In a separate decision, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that federal district courts lack the authority to issue injunctions to force the government to release immigrants after 180 days without a bond hearing on a class-wide basis.

              The decision reversed the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld decisions by judges in California and Washington barring the government from detaining immigrants without bond headings after 180 days.

              I don’t think I need to tell you what the aggregate meaning of those two decisions is

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    01·
    7 months ago

    Okay so we need to secure Michigan and Wisconsin, then break away with Minnesota and Illinois to form the Great Lakes Protectorate.