Voters in Arizona, Nebraska, Colorado and Washington will make their call on the issue, a change of strategy for anti-trans measures, which have been put on the books in 27 states through either legislation or state agency action.
“These four states are part of a larger set of five states that are facing anti-trans ballot measures this fall, and this will be the first year that voters are voting on anti-transgender policy at the ballot box directly. This is part of a broader and coordinated campaign targeting transgender people and their rights for many years now,” said Logan Casey, director of policy research at Movement Advancement Project.
This is the new round of bathroom bills, isn’t it?
Oh this one is much worse. WA state has 2 on the ballot this year that are egregious. They only effect women and it’s the whole checking genitals thing. Proper MAGAt stuff.
The third one, repealing the millionaire’s tax, is also heavily backed by the conservatives. All three are poison.
Theres a lot more support for repealing the income “millionaire” tax from non conservatives mostly due to the fact that it sets the path for the current legislature to lower the tax threshold well below what it is now. Many of the supermajority have even shown support to the idea of lowering it.
It was really simple, they could have set a limit on how it could be lowered or they could have it on an inflation scale, but the legislature didn’t even take a vote on it.
That seems like a temporarily embarrassed millionaire point of view. It’s not a “millionaire” tax, it’s a tax on income above 1 million.
I’m all for it. Should set the level at $400k and up. Then use that funding for education, healthcare, and support for people that need it.
Then they should start taxing wealth. Then use the offset to reduce the tax burden on those that need it.
To be clear: fuck the rich.
Wow so insightful, too bad there were a lot of suggestions like what you made and our legislature just shat on every one.
Sooo?? Why not let perfect be the enemy of good then?
Who is going to be doing this checking, I wonder? And we are talking about kids, right?
Or are the cons trying to tell private organizations how to run sports for adults, too?
Please don’t let misinformation take over.
One of the initiatives on the ballot is regarding the Parents’ Bill of Rights (Initiative 2081) which this legislature passed and approved in 2024 but in 2025 the legislature rolled it back by House Bill 1296.
Fast forward to now and the initiative you are speaking of asks whether to repeal HB 1296 and fully re-enact the original provisions of Initiative 2081.
The problem is the rhetoric coming from one side in this claiming it’s another bathroom anti trans bill but in reality it protects parents so they can be fully aware of what happens with their children at school and with a doctor’s office. In case anyone is curious WA state does have laws which state that if a child (under age of 18) commits a crime a parent could be held responsible (look at mass shootings for example).
The cry fowl is that an abusive parent could take advantage of children or cause even more harm for an lgbtq child. But let’s be serious that’s what Child Protective Services is for… Whether that is an effective service well you only have to ask the legislature.
Hope that helps fill in some misinformed holes but who am I kidding, someone will probably reply about how this is a MAGA take or it’s backed by that millionaire MAGA douche from CA and in that case I’m glad we could agree on this, Californians and Money have no business being in WA politics.
Brian Heywood really wants to check genitals of K-12 girls.
