SaltSong

I think it's already illegal to take minors across state lines without parental consent.

Ah, right. I must have been blinded by how stupid it is to put "can't challenge this in court" into a law.

. . . What exactly do you think "starts rights" means?

Because it refers to the right of states to pass laws for their own inhabitants, and the federal government had no right to interfere except in the specific cases the constitution says that it can. In this case, Texas is trying to pass laws for its own inhabitants, and trying to keep the federal government from interfering because the constitution doesn't specifically call out this area for federal oversight.

Setting aside for a moment their specific goal, this is exactly in line with their stated value of "starts rights."

Republicans do plenty of terrible things to criticize them for, and they never miss a good chance to be hypocritical, but it's odd that you're calling them out for hypocrisy on one of the very rare cases when they are not.

I find it hard to believe that it's legal to buy a company, but not it's contractual obligations. Seems line a hell of a loophole for getting out of things you don't want to do.

This is starts rights, unless I'm misunderstanding.

If you need hard workers, I am not your man.

Ain't she a beaut?

Was there ever any doubt?

I myself like to argue things just to argue them. It's a good way to find out if I'm right, or to learn thing I didn't know, and correct my misunderstandings.

But I know that's not everyone's idea of a good time.

I’m not a huge fan of intrinsically connecting medication for sexual function with medication for gender-affirming care.

If that were the case, then bottom-surgery wouldn't be gender affirming care either.

Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding the entire concept. To date, I've never seen a single concrete statement on the topic that doesn't upset someone (discounting bloody right-wingers for whom the entire concept is upsetting, bless their hearts) because it somehow invalidates someone else.

However, we seem to be in agreement that these people are raging assholes, and that's the important takeaway.

I do my best every two years or so. It's like trying to put out the sun with a mouthful of water in this state.

I'm an elder millennial. I feel like my life has spent more time on hold than otherwise. Economic crisis, plague, not-really-a-war-but-war, more economic crisis, watered down dictator. . .

Can I just die already?

ED meds are gender affirming care, aren't they? If they are gonna cut it out of military spending, cut all of it out.