the sex slavery of trans women in men's prisons, you know, something that existed in Newsom's California

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe... SB 132, signed by Gavin Newsom, made it easier for trans prisoners to be housed in accordance with their gender identity.

so? he *signed* it 5 years ago, he didn't otherwise do shit and given his recent stance on trans athletes he wouldn't sign it twice

2019- signed law granting "x" gender markers and requiring LGBT issues be included in police training 2022- signed law protecting trans families who come to CA from other states from being harassed 2024- signed law banning schools from doxxing kids using different pronouns

I don't like his stance on the sports stuff but the widespread bsky believe that Gavin is axiomatically anti-trans seems completely fabricated to me

The school pronoun law caused a huge local political fight and was allegedly the reason why Elon Musk left the state

that's not why elon left the state lol. he was running a factory so fucking racist the state was going to be forced to shut him down. That's like one among many reasons Musk escaped, legal arbitrage, tax arbitrage, regulatory arbitrage. Musk just rants about trans b/c he hates his own daughter

Yes I know, but Musk drew attention to the law and amplified the political battle over it.

and what stops him from going further than "fairness in sports"? REPUBLICANS started with "fairness in sports", Labour started with "fairness in sports" like, sorry your stupid fucking ass can't recognise that this shit is always just the beginning

We do? The rank and file of the party? Like we did with Obama and gay marriage? Assuming that he's beyond your ability to influence is just defeatism.

yet you instead declare anybody dead who refuses to vote for him while he espouses transphobic positions and are hence trying to fucking make him change

Anyone who acts in a way that makes a JD Vance presidency more likely is dead to me, yes. This regime in the hands of a younger man means 20 years of fascism.

so you rather want to shame people who don't want to vote for a candidate that will imperil their existence rather than shame said candidate out of imperiling their existence?

this is the shit that is happening in California because of the transphobic shit he has laundered on the podcast of nazis

Kern county is Republican

You know, the real enemy.

who he pals around with, saying publicly he agrees with them about trans people

and what else has he done besides rubber-stamping someone else's legislation?

that's what a governor does? and he actively supported and defended the school pronouns law in particular

and there is no chance in hell Newsom would ever undo that on a federal level after trump made it federal policy