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.

  • wild_dog [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 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
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      8 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