• @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    304 months ago

    I feel that their tactics will be more insidious than rounding up trans people. They will slowly boil the frog by making it increasingly difficult for trans people to reliably maintain a HRT regimen, access therapy, surgical services, etc. They’ll attempt to criminalize doctors helping. They are of the view that it’s a mental illness and they’ll do everything in their power to construct conditions that will make it impossible for trans people to function in society.

    Your existence is itself a revolutionary act. Thanks for being true to yourself. As things are getting worse I refuse to eliminate the hope that it can get better. I’m sorry you’re one of those that have to bear the brunt of the inhumanity.

    • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      174 months ago

      The way I think it’ll happen to me - involuntary institutionalization in a psychiatric hospital. You are right in that the mental health angle will be easiest to pursue, especially in coordination with defunding/purging SAMHSA under RFK Jr’s rule.

      • @floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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        4 months ago

        Categorizing inconvenient people as mentally ill so you can lock them up is a common trick for authoritarian regimes. This one seems worryingly plausible.

        • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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          124 months ago

          I went (voluntarily) inpatient a few months ago. I was physically assaulted, forced into a women’s, and denied any communication with the outside world. There are supposed to be state regulations where you can speak to a patient advocate or call out - they refused to let me. They actually threatened to hold me longer if I kept asking (they said they could do up to five days, or longer across a weekend).

          The system is already set up where I live.

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              Idle thought -

              Behavioral tech jobs are terrible, but easy to get. If your job desperate and physically built a bit more, you can be a first line of defense here. It’s such a shit job that working a week or two and being a whistle blower/getting fired isn’t the end of the world.

              The place I was at let the tech have her phone at on the floor even. I don’t think HIPAA is being enforced actively, and the actual moral weight behind that law would need to guide one’s actions, but… there’s not a lot of ways to demonstrate the routine and inappropriate application of the “booty juice.”

    • halyk.the.red
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      They’ll find some way to make it illegal, shuffle all the trans people into for-profit prisons. This holocaust isn’t going to be about executing a populace, not when a profit can be scraped from their bones.

      • @tree_frog@lemm.ee
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        34 months ago

        They already are. Montana passed an indecency bill targeting trans folks.

        Project 2025 plans to make trans ideology pornography. So me being in public would be exposing a child to pornography.

        I expect they will pass that within the next two years federally.