Republicans Introduce Transgender, Black Jim Crow Laws

 

     Nobody is surprised. Their pride wounded at the federal level, state GOP lawmakers are introducing ridiculous and damaging laws. From secession in Texas to punishing abortion by the death penalty in, well, Texas, many of these laws have no chance.

     However, those not embraced solely by fringe Republicans, mostly involving discrimination and not death, are passing and being introduced by the hundreds. In Iowa, Georgia, Oklahoma, Montana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and other states, lawmakers are pushing two main sets of laws. 

     Some that have already been signed involve oppressing transgender people. From banning trans women and children from playing sports to banning insurance support for transgender people and making it a felony to support transgender people, these laws are reminiscent of the Jim Crow era. They, unfortunately, are not the only ones.

     Republicans are already signing bills to require numerous separate forms of ID (barring students and homeless people from voting), ban early voting and vote-by-mail (barring the middle and lower classes from voting), and more, under the guise of election integrity. Not once in history has voter fraud impacted the results of any election. If democracy isn't already secure, what is?

     These tactics have worked in Georgia and other states, and they are designed to prevent Democrats from winning. Republicans have not won national support in 30 years, and they don't care who they have to step on to win.