North Carolina Legislature overrides vetoes of bills targeting transgender health care, athletes
North Carolina Legislature overrides vetoes of bills targeting transgender health care, athletes
The North Carolina Legislature voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto against three bills that would ban gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, prevent transgen…
The North Carolina Legislature voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto against three bills that would ban gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, prevent transgender women and girls from competing on female sports teams and limit classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity.
Cooper vetoed all three bills last month, writing in the veto message that “Republicans are serving up a triple threat of political culture wars.”
God it’s so fucking frustrating that this shit is happening because Rep. Tricia Cotham (was D now R) flipped. And you’d think she’d be like a moderate semi-independent vote considering she ran as a dyed in the wool dem. No. Full on culture wars, full on conservative authoritarianism. I can’t imagine how angry the people who voted for her must be.
This should be considered fraud and she should be arrested.
This whole thing was fucking planned and everyone involved should go to prison: https://news.yahoo.com/turns-rep-tricia-cotham-north-170000213.html
When she flipped, the first thing I asked myself was “is she stepping down?” Staying in office disenfranchised the voters who elected a democrat.
I feel like you should automatically just be kicked out if you do something like that?
That's the point. That's why she lied.
The fact that people like Sinema and Cotham are brazenly cheating Democrat voters proves that the party isn't doing enough to enforce loyalty. These people are worms who should be put out of a job irrespective of the cost and have their careers obliterated.
I don’t know about enforcing loyalty or what that would even look like. Democrats (at least at the national level) vote more in lockstep than they ever have. The problem is when you have margins so small that one vote is the difference between having or not having a veto-proof majority, a single flip makes an enormous difference.
Parties need to be able to expel their own members and nobody should be able to simply switch parties mid-session.
I for one can't wait to watch her bank account mysteriously grow insanely fast relative to her pay. Suddenly she commands a hefty profit for each "speaking engagement" she goes on and any book she writes will get anonymous purchases in the thousands. Uncanny how profit seems to follow turn coaiting.
For good reason we used to tar and feather people. Their fear of the public has vanished. The rabble has forgotten it's power.
I'm gonna propose a bill that would ban assholes, see how the north Carolina legislature likes it
Oh wait, I forgot, they're the victims here. Imagine the heavy burden of knowing constantly that someone out there is not exactly like you. My god, the horror
This is just the beginning. They will work their way to banning any and all trans related healthcare.
If I were a resident, I’d have to either move out of state or seek care on a grey market. This is absolutely by design.
Fascism has to be stomped out, by force if necessary.
It's necessary. More and more every day.
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They know this will lead to suicides. That's what they want.