Vermont is already a safe space for killing yourself. It approved a constitutional amendment securing the right to reproductive freedom, by which they meant abortion. And now they are looking to become a sanctuary for death and dismemberment.
H. 89, An Act Relating to Civil and Criminal Procedures Concerning Legally Protected Health Care Activity, seeks to protect individuals providing or seeking reproductive or transgender healthcare in Vermont from abusive civil or criminal litigation arising from another state. H. 89 also provides address confidentiality protections for providers and seekers of reproductive and transgender healthcare and increases penalties for threatening or using force against those providing or obtaining such legally protected care.
If you want to sneak into the Death and Dismemberment State to get hormone therapies that might kill your kids or have something you were born with removed, they will protect your privacy (which I just assumed was covered under HIPAA, but after the COVID thing … who can you trust?
And if, as is increasingly likely, the dismemberment results in you wanting to end your life months or years later, you can go “back” to Vermont and do that without even going there.
HR 89 is not yet law. Sometimes Republican Gov. Phil Scott should object and veto it even though the legislature has veto-proof majorities. Why? It is white supremacy.
[Gender-affirming surgery] has long been practiced under the influence of a binary bias [that] reinforces white, western ideals about gender identity and expression, further impacting care sought by BIPOC gender diverse individuals who may come from a lineage of more expansive understandings of gender…
We continue to reinforce white ideals of what it means to be masculine/feminine which continues the ‘othering’ of those impacted by colonialism and white supremacy.
And just like that, Vermont Dems are a bunch of racists. But we knew that.
