Current Events > GOP lawmaker wants all transpeople arrested for fraud.

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-lawmaker-says-trans-peoples-identities-are-he-wants-to-throw-them-in/

GOP lawmaker says trans peoples identities are fraud. He wants to throw them in jail.

If you're trans in this state, your very existence could be a crime.

A Texas state representative has introduced legislation that would make being trans in Texas a fraud punishable by two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The bill echoes a similar directive recently instated by the U.S. State Department.

State Rep. Tom (R) filed a bill on Wednesday to amend the Texas Penal Code to create a new class of fraud in the state: Gender Identity Fraud. Texans could be charged with the crime for identifying as a sex different from the one they were assigned at birth, Chron reports.

House Bill 3817 would add the new felony to a list of crimes including deceptive business practices, commercial bribery, and identity fraud. The bill is similar to a recent directive issued by State Secretary Marco Rubio instructing all international visa offices to permanently ban transgender athletes from trying to enter the U.S. under laws prohibiting fraud.

The Texas bill has no co-sponsors and hasnt been scheduled for a committee hearing.

This is the kind of bill that keeps me up at night, said Carrie Butcher, founder of Butcher Legal Group in Dallas.

This fits right along with the agenda that weve been seeing pushed, for the past several sessions, specifically around policing of peoples gender and how theyre able to identify themselves on documents and in sports leagues, Butcher said.

Last year, Texas barred trans residents from changing their sex on state-issued drivers licenses and birth certificates to match their gender identity.

Butcher worries that trans people who have changed some of their documents could face criminal charges when seeking housing, employment or medical care.

We have a lot of people who have only been able to update some of their documents before laws have changed, Butcher said. When your identifying documents dont match what your biological sex was at birth, how are you supposed to prove who you are?

The proposed legislation comes on the heels of another recently introduced bill to impose an all-ages blanket ban on gender-affirming care in the state. Doctors and clinicians providing hormone therapy or any other form of gender care for trans Texans would face prison time and fines.

Texas outlawed gender care for trans minors in 2023.

A staggering 456 anti-LGBTQ+ bills are currently under consideration in U.S. state legislatures, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Nearly 60 of those are moving through the Texas legislature alone.

The flurry of new legislation at the state level aligns with President Trumps efforts to erase trans identity from the federal government and American society, including executive orders to ban transgender service members from the military, exclude trans student-athletes from school sports, and a gender ideology diktat declaring the existence of only two immutable sexes, male and female.

Of course it's fucking Texas

Fuck Texas

By state law, New Mexico will not cooperate with out-of-state prosecution on matters relating to gender affirming or abortion care.

I need to double-check with some people to be sure, but as written those protections should apply here as well.

Why don't we throw this asshole and all like him in jail instead? Sounds like a fair compromise to me.

Fuck that!!!!

And there it is, now they're trying to make simply existing a crime for transgender people. God I hate this timeline

The average Republican salivates over the idea of banning trans adults from existing but they know they can't do that. So instead, they make their existence a pain and carrying your still valid documents illegal.

As a trans woman in Texas, I would be better off in Iran, Russia, and China than I would be being trans in Texas once all these laws come into effect.

Texas: America's Toilet

Remember when it was supposed to be about protecting kids from choices too adult to be made? And all the people with brains who were paying attention said it won't stop until they outlaw being trans?

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mybbqrules posted...

Remember when it was supposed to be about protecting kids from choices too adult to be made? And all the people with brains who were paying attention said it won't stop until they outlaw being trans?

Remember?

Remember?

Remember?

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Remember?

I remember. I called it as soon as they tried to say that the "don't say gay" Bill was just about protecting children... From something that wasn't happening in the first place. Then they slowly expanded the age range it applied to

Bass posted...

Why don't we throw this asshole and all like him in jail instead? Sounds like a fair compromise to me.

He's definitely committing fraud on the people of Texas paying his salary with their taxes.

The ridiculousness of this would be funny but instead it's scary that this has a shot at becoming reality

mybbqrules posted...

Remember when it was supposed to be about protecting kids from choices too adult to be made? And all the people with brains who were paying attention said it won't stop until they outlaw being trans?

Remember?

Remember?

Remember?

Remember?

Remember?

I remember them saying that, yes.

Well, I want all Republican traitors to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, convicted and punished for their crimes.

The difference between me and this particular Republican traitor is that he's scapegoating people for political gain and I'm not.

I want all republicans arrested for fraud.

gamerofNS posted...

I want all republicans arrested for fraud.

This would have a negligible error rate.