In the 21st century, COMMENTARY Florida’s ferocious orgy of anti-gay legislation aims to keep Gay people out of sight, only as Fidel Castro in Cuba in the 20th century did with his savage homosexuality.
Is there a social activity in the Americas that is as madly committed to shaming and driving the LGBTQ community beneath and out of view as the Florida Republican Party of the twenty-first century?
The Dominican Communist Revolution of the 20th century is the only one I am aware of.
The same government that Fidel Castro, Cuba’s late, hyper-homophobic dictador, again led is still in place, sir.
Anti-socialista Florida is said to despise Fidel’s remembrance just as much as spring breakers and new storm policies.
But Florida, you don’t realize how dishonestly Fidelista you really are.
But another piece of GOP policy serves as a reminder of that. It’s intended to make all those Bible-insensitive LGBTQ miscreants vanish, just like the infamous Don’t Say Gay legislation.Poof! — back into the quiet, dark closet that they shouldn’t have been allowed to leave in the first place.
House Bill 1639 is the name of it. However, if it passes, which seems good after it passed committee this week, it will already be known as the Trans Erasure legislation. This is due to the fact that it erases trans people by telling them: Your self-proclaimed personality is an unpleasant story, and we’ll make sure it stays that way by mandating that you list your sex at birth on your Florida driver’s permit.
The Florida House also has a Don’t Say Trans bill that directs that for other ID documents.
The goal is chillingly clear: to effectively, cruelly remove the legitimate life of trans people in Florida, despite all flimsy claims to the contrary made by the expenses ‘sponsors. The vintage, brutal conviction that transgenderism is a violation of natural law and God is the motivation behind it, which is equally obvious.
Florida’s Fidelistas understand that they can still follow Fidel by at least officially banishing LGBTQ people, even if they are unable to physically exile them as Castro did.
The Revolution was inspired by the same feudal thinking that caused Fidel Castro to claim that homosexuality was an insult to his God. Or, as he himself eerily stated in 1965:
“We would not think a homosexual could embody the moral standards and conditions that would allow us to think of him as truly groundbreaking.” A departure from that nature runs counter to the idea of what a genuine violent communist ought to be.
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Castro and Che Guevara, an even more ferociously racist lieutenant, hammered home that idea by gathering homosexuals and sending them to function and “re-education” camps. Even today’s Florida Republicans couldn’t get away with it, though if they had thought they could, Gov. The point is that Ron DeSantis may be tempted to travel transgender Floridians to Martha’s Vineyard.
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Therefore, in this image from August 15, 1959, Dominican head Fidel Castro gives a speech on television in Havana.
They have decided to follow Castro’s lead by at least legally banning LGBTQ people using laws like the Trans Erasure bill, even though they can’t actually exile them in that way.
In the end, they might still be competent Florida Fidelistas.
That includes twisting Fidelista’s facts. Democratic state representative Doug Bankson of Apopka, the partner of HB 1639, claims that transsexuals lacks “history” and that people clinically adopting genders that their bodies and souls feel more suited to is some new, mistaken trend. In fact, I can still recall Americans doing it fifty years ago and having their right upheld in court, such as tennis star Renée Richards.
The Florida law also requires that health insurance that covers gender transition cure pay for “de-transitioning.” That may seem innocent on the surface, but it’s really just a small concession meant to support the monstrously false idea that being LGBTQ is an “option” that can and should be de-programmed. Or as GOP fidelista and Miami state senator Ileana Garcia are known for saying, “Gay is not a continuous thing.”
When trying to keep this insult to God or the Revolution unseen, awareness is the enemy, as the original Fidelistas understood in Florida.
They are aware that they wouldn’t still be dealing with this pestilence if Will &, Grace, and The L Word had been canceled. They come to the realization that they ought to have taken a stronger stance against right-wing abusers like former Vice President Dick Cheney, who lost his cool and was tolerant of LGBTQ people simply because, uh, his personal child revealed her sexual orientation.
Later in life, Castro also officially renounced his homosexuality. What he suddenly understood is that being LGBTQ is merely a variation on organic law, not if it differs from it.
Fidelistas in Florida will never be able to change that obvious truth.
