An anti-transgender US Congress Senate Bill mentions DID

[frameacloud]

The site LegiScan.com is for tracking US legislation. It lets you arrange to receive email alerts for whether any new bills use keywords you're interested in. It recently notified me of a new one that mentions Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), which is a form of plurality.

General info about the bill and its main purpose: US Congress Senate Bill 2394 is for opposing the rights of transgender youth. This bill is harmful for human rights. Four Republican Senators introduced the bill on July 19, 2023: Sen. Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio), Sen. Josh Hawley (Missouri), and Sen. Marco Rubio (Florida).

How the bill also involves plurality: The mention of DID happens once, on page 2, line 25: "... regardless of any medical diagnosis or indication of gender dysphoria, body dysphoria, dissociative identity disorder, or social anxiety disorder." You can see this line in the PDF of the bill as it was introduced.

Progress toward law: Currently, the bill is at 25% progression, meaning it hasn't passed yet. You can follow its progress on LegiScan here, or on the bill's US State Legislature page. If you live in the US, you can help stop bad bills from becoming laws. To learn how, look up how to provide legislative testimony.

Comments

[lb_lee]

Rogan: *screams into pillow* Fuck's sake, last I checked, people with DID already got barred from transitioning under the old WPATH guidelines, unless they did what I did and lied and cheated their way through! Now this! AAAAAH

[frameacloud]

That's terrible that you ran into something so unfair, Rogan. It feels lousy to have to do that to access necessary health care. So many trans people had to do that to conform to the old WPATH guidelines, because those were so unrealistic about our diversity. Much like the secret to reaching the Paradise Planet ending in the Choose Your Own Adventure books, some rules are intentionally written to be so unfair and impossible that anyone can only succeed if they don't play honestly by the rules.

This bill isn't written to bar people with DID from getting to transition. The bill is about permitting parents to prevent their children from transitioning, regardless of whether the children have any diagnoses that might indicate transition. (Which is still a bad bill, even though it's not singling out DID.)

The only diagnosis that indicates transition is gender dysphoria, so I wonder why the bill writers gave a list of other diagnoses, one of which was DID. Did the bill writers think a DID diagnosis can be used as a justification for transition? Anti-transgender bills tend to say-- or be founded in-- incorrect ideas about transgender people and transition.

[lb_lee]

I mean, we got lucky and got put on the cheat-and-lie path from the start; it was other trans multis we knew, the poor bastards who got an early diagnosis, who had the worst time.

And yeah, we understood that, it was just the infuriating small detail that these people seem to think a DID diag will make transitioning EASY. I mean, obviously if they had any real knowledge of multis or trans people, they'd know better, but much like furries, we're just boogeymen to them. I wouldn't be surprised if they threw DID in just to be like, "oooooh, imagine if the crazy took your poor innocent dumpling!" Purely to lump in all the scariest kinds of weirdness.

Mori