This week, South Dakota became the first state to pass legislation that would effectively force trans kids to detransition. The legislation, which marks the second state this year to attack healthcare for trans people, the first being Utah – bans all gender-affirming care for patients under 18 years of age. This brings up two questions: why does such a small percentage of population deserve this much outsized negative attention? And what happened to “parental rights?” cause this really sounds like the government thinking they know better than the parents of trans kids. Then Jane and Kristin highlight some of the key takeaways from Evers Biennial Budget Message: including the new found trick of replacing Jesus F-ing Christ with “Joint Finance Committee!”
