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US Election Day November 2024 Containment Megathread
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Before I get doom and gloom about Trump season 2, do you all think that Trump would actually do any of the insane anti-lgbt stuff he's talked about? Like I don't exactly expect it to be good for us, but at the same time it feels like something he drummed up to get support and isn't something that can be practically enacted or enforced.
He can certainly undo standing executive orders that prevent discrimination against LGBT people by federal agencies and federally funded private entities. His justice department will do little/nothing to contest state-level anti-LGBT legislation. I don't think it's particularly likely, but it's possible that the GOP Congress passes legislation banning gender affirming care for minors.
Yeah that adds up :/ Sucks, but my liberal transgender friends have been panicking about us all ending up in concentration camps, which has felt pretty unrealistic to me but fuck if I know. Maybe dems will realize by 2028 that continuing to go to the right doesn't work and we'll get another pro-lgbt candidate but, doesn't seem likely.
Yeah you’re not ending up in camps. My country is in far worse shape than yours with lgbt rights and even we haven’t reached that point. Getting anti-lgbt legislation passed that makes it harder to get gender affirming care is more likely
My condolences. In hindsight it was dumb of me to be worried in the first place, but its hard to feel that way when everyone else around me is panicky. Guess it'll just be another 4 years of Trump saying something outrageous, Dems getting up in arms (but not fundamentally doing anything about it), and things getting slowly worse with nobody in power actually trying to stop it.