From what I understand, people with mental disorders (e.g. taking anti-anxiety meds) can still own guns. The threshold for being disallowed is if the person has been involuntarily institutionalized. So even if you have some kind of mental health crisis and check yourself in, that’s voluntary so it doesn’t prohibit you. It sounds hard to fit gender dysphoria into that framework.
OTOH apparently you’re prohibited if you’ve used pot in the past year, so maybe they’ll expand that to include vaccinations.
The logical direction this is going is that they want to do something bad and Nazi-ish to trans people. I hope it doesn’t go that far, but they’re rounding up other people already so people need to be ready for a fight.
The way I look at it is: this isn’t just trans people’s battle. They just happen to have found themselves on the frontline of a war that’s coming for everyone, so we all need to fight this together. If trans people lose rights, those are rights everyone else has lost too, because they’re now a matter of the fascists’ discretion so not really rights at all. If you’re not their chosen victim today you may be tomorrow, and fascists’ victim lists have no end but grow and grow. So it’s for all of us to fight for trans rights today, because the attack on trans people is an attack on all people and we’re in this together.
From what I understand, people with mental disorders (e.g. taking anti-anxiety meds) can still own guns. The threshold for being disallowed is if the person has been involuntarily institutionalized. So even if you have some kind of mental health crisis and check yourself in, that’s voluntary so it doesn’t prohibit you. It sounds hard to fit gender dysphoria into that framework.
OTOH apparently you’re prohibited if you’ve used pot in the past year, so maybe they’ll expand that to include vaccinations.
The logical direction this is going is that they want to do something bad and Nazi-ish to trans people. I hope it doesn’t go that far, but they’re rounding up other people already so people need to be ready for a fight.
And it won’t stop at trans people like the “normal gays” seem to think everyone on the LGBTQ+ spectrum should be ready to flee/fight ASAP.
The way I look at it is: this isn’t just trans people’s battle. They just happen to have found themselves on the frontline of a war that’s coming for everyone, so we all need to fight this together. If trans people lose rights, those are rights everyone else has lost too, because they’re now a matter of the fascists’ discretion so not really rights at all. If you’re not their chosen victim today you may be tomorrow, and fascists’ victim lists have no end but grow and grow. So it’s for all of us to fight for trans rights today, because the attack on trans people is an attack on all people and we’re in this together.