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Problem is this means that things we were hoping to get like having hormone replacement therapy actually approved by the FDA for use for transgender care will not happen and any enforcement of anti-discrimination or laws against hate speech at the federal level will no longer apply to trans and non-binary people. This will allow, for example, insurance companies to not have to cover transgender care. There is already a huge waiting list for people who are seeking care in the US due to the lack of specialists (myself included), so that list is likely to get longer. And likely any doctors who might have been planning to take up transgender care specialties may have their programs lose their funding. It’s a huge impact to a lot of areas of government and many industries to have the federal government not recognize transgender care as valid and not recognize non-binary people like me as people at all.

Also, I’m fortunate enough to live in a state that is friendly to transgender and non-binary people, but my employer is not based here, so the insurance I have doesn’t have to obey local laws that don’t allow for blanket policies banning coverage of transgender care. So, the federal laws do matter.

There’s some concern now that Startpage is majority owned by an ad company. The company says they want the ad revenue rather than the user data, but it’s hard to trust that. I used to use it but moved to Searxng.

From what I’ve gathered, not just prisons. When you legitimize hate, then of course violence increases as it’s now acceptable.

Same thing is happening in many parts of the US as states start revoking ID and birth certificate gender changes, labeling books and other media that even mentions LGBTQ+ people as “sexual content” and banning all “sexual content” from children, etc. And is likely to even seep into more progressive areas if congress passes the promised anti-LGBTQ+ laws they have planned to prevent enforcement of laws against certain types of hate speech and discrimination as they redefine the criteria of protected classes to exclude women, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, or whatever they can get away with.

But then how will the US government do the same thing to it’s citizens? /s