But it won’t be pretty.
The below is a post I wrote on Facebook, linked to an article about transgender military members who have been involuntarily separated (i.e. discharged) or who remain in limbo, wanting to return to their careers but unwelcome in Hegseth’s holy war machine.
One reason I keep posting about trans issues is that the entire rationale behind anti-trans legislation is religious. Evangelical "Christian" to be exact. And this country is supposed to have a secular government.
The founders set it up that way. The Declaration of Independence doesn't mention Christian beliefs or the Bible. The first amendment to the Constitution expressly forbids the establishment of religion.
This is why, every time some unreconstructed Confederate apologist tries to hang the ten commandments (those were Jewish, by the way) in a public school or courthouse, people who don't want that person's version of Christianity crammed down their throats file suit.
When some politician mentions God, Jesus, or the Bible when they're talking about law, the first thing you should do is ask yourself why they're bringing it up. It's irrelevant to civil law.
Because their God, their mental image of Jesus, and their version of the Bible is relevant only to THEM, not to the millions of Americans who have their own versions of these things - and the millions who have *no* version of these things.
Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion.
I don't want some religious fanatic whose knowledge of history begins and ends with what they learn in church to be making laws that affect me or my neighbors, friends, or family.
I don't want religious fanatics saying that any kind of American has no right to exist.
Every argument circulating against trans people has been used before. Against gay people, against black people, against Jews, against Chinese immigrants, against Italian Catholics, against Japanese Americans, against Native Americans. It's the Christian Nationalist, white supremacist playbook.
And if you think, even for a second, that "oh, they might have a point," you need to look hard at what you're excusing.
The business of government should be government. The business of politicians should be the greater good of their constituents. ALL of their constituents. If law is being made on the basis of documents handed to weak-minded politicians by churches and the Heritage Foundation (do you really think anyone in the 119th Congress actually *wrote* the so-called Big Beautiful Bill? They didn't. It's Project 2025 dressed in legislative language), that law is constitutionally invalid from inception to passage, and every person who voted for it should be voted out themselves.
Make sure you are properly registered to vote.
Make sure you know what ID you need to bring to the polls, or - if you have voted by mail in the past - make sure you can still do that, and
make sure you know when you must mail your ballot in order to have it received, processed, and accepted in time. Postmarked the day of election isn't good enough anymore in some states. It may need to be *received* by the day of the election. So do it and mail it as soon as you get it.
They once again failed to pass the so-called SAVE Act, but they are still trying to keep people from voting in the midterms. They are blanketing the internet, podcasts, radio, and broadcast news with robo-content calling people who believe in civil rights "radicals."
They said that while the Civil Rights Act (now being picked apart by SCROTUS) was being debated, too.