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    Other-minded elected officials, in California and other states, could very well use this strategy to diminish the civil rights of vulnerable communities

    See, I can’t use my power to protect you because that would set a bad example for the ghouls I have dinner with to use power to attack you. Oh, they’re already doing that? liberalism Have some thoughts and prayers.

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    This legislation would require a court, when determining the best interests of a child in a child custody or visitation proceeding, to consider, among other comprehensive factors, a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression.

    Never mind all the other legislation in other states and nationally that has been used to restrict trans rights that has passed, Newsom is sure that courts will strike down all of those eventually.

    A visual of his logic:

      Court Legislation
    Can provide human rights
    Can restrict human rights

    And if they don’t override his veto, he’s effectively correct, in California at least

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    Looked up threads about this on Reddit. Only found three threads on it. Nothing in /r/politics

    1. /r/transgender was going hard against it
    2. fucking /r/lgbt was justifying the action and saying its good because blah blah liberal bullshit.
    3. /r/california_politics used different reasoning but still justified it.

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    Libs for the past few decades: Just vote harder guys! If we can get enough Democrats into congress so that Manchin and Sinema aren’t the deciding votes, then we’ll be able to do things like codify Roe V. Wade and guarantee some protections for trans people! Maybe we’ll even do that free healthcare thing you guys like so much

    California with its Democratic governor and its Democratic fucking supermajority:

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      California with its Democratic governor and its Democratic fucking supermajority:

      Even worse since he’s the sole reason why it didn’t get made into law.

      Like literally everyone from a majority of the state population, the state senators, judges, and state representatives would’ve been fine with this bill, but it got vetoed’ because Gavin Newsom wants to run for President for ??? reasons and thinks that if he turns the bigotry dial that hayseeds in rural areas will like him more, when in reality either they don’t care or won’t like him because he looks like the California Liberal that a lot people don’t like.

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        Yeah this is weird. I am not defending Newsom at all, fuck him. But given the support this seemed to have and that Newsom hasn’t been terrible on trans rights, I just figured he would sign it. Even if you see it as a heel turn because he wants to run for president… it’s becoming clear that attacking trans people isn’t a winning strategy. I guess the only “rationale” I can see is that this ostensibly hits at “parents rights” which a large number of Americans are absolutely psychotic about.

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    Newsom let a medicare for all type bill expire on his desk that he has promised to pass

    And now this

    But neolibs will say it’s better than the alternative!! Which at this point is basically just a gun to our heads

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      I thought the Medicare-for-All bill never got voted on in the Assembly, despite having nominal support from a supposed majority. Or do they change the way it dies every session just to toy with us?

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        If doing the wrong thing could add at least one vote to his mental scoreboard, he’ll do it in a heartbeat. That slimy bastard has no soul behind his eyes.

        Average international community politician