First they came for the Trans people, but I didn't speak up, because I wasn't Trans.
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You know I had a crazy thought yesterday.... I've gone in the bathroom a bunch of times and never once have I tried looking at anybody else's genitalia... Why the hell does anybody care about this?
Edit: I mean not accepting people for being people everybody should just be cool with each other.... What the government is doing is beyond evil and we need to do everything in our power to stop it.
You probably also don't watch far right media all day. Fox News and it's spawn have been fear mongering trans people almost non-stop for years now. That's the entire disconnect from the right and normal people
I had the unfortunate experience of working with newsmax doing Spicer and Co... I'm well aware of the paradigm of hate these groups propagate needlessly....
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Next up, they're going to erase the remaining letters
I'm surprised they haven't.
It's a weird one, probably this is because I always try to see the bright side but I have mixed feelings. On one hand writing off just trans and queer people feels even more targeted and evil than deleting all letters.
But on the plus side, the fact that LGB haven't been removed makes me feel slightly hopeful? This is a clear step back obviously. But it makes me feel that finally the idea that gay, lesbian, bisexual people exist and don't need conversion therapy has actually sunk in and we can't be erased so easily.
Now we have to keep pushing to get "TQ" similarly unerasable. 💪
But on the plus side, the fact that LGB haven’t been removed makes me feel slightly hopeful? This is a clear step back obviously. But it makes me feel that finally the idea that gay, lesbian, bisexual people exist and don’t need conversion therapy has actually sunk in and we can’t be erased so easily.
No, that's completely wrong. They're coming after trans people because trans people are the easiest target right now. They also intend to get rid of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, but it's easier to focus on one group at a time and attempt to split people apart.
They did the same shit in the UK with the "LGB Alliance," mostly straight TERFs collaborating with the Heritage Foundation and doing absolutely nothing to advance the rights of the people they claimed to be supporting, focusing entirely on attacking trans people to the point of making alliances with extreme reactionaries and anti-feminists.
Anyone using the "LGB" acronym is either a reactionary using divide and conquer tactics aiming at attacking all LGBT rights, or a useful idiot to said reactionaries. There is no plus side here.
How does that old saying go?
"First they came for the transgender people, and then they stopped there."
slightly hopeful
He's pulled the gun, but only shot one of us so far. That's good, right? . Right??
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But on the plus side, the fact that LGB haven't been removed makes me feel slightly hopeful? This is a clear step back obviously. But it makes me feel that finally the idea that gay, lesbian, bisexual people exist and don't need conversion therapy has actually sunk in and we can't be erased so easily.
Because the Nazis stopped at just Jews, right? Surely they never expanded upon that to encompass all "undesirables", right?
Oh, wait.
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"Many countries do not recognise the X gender marker"
Yeah, guess which country also doesn't do that?
Many of those countries are also considered shitholes.
Reminder that the "LGB Alliance" in the UK literally worked with the Heritage Foundation and described it as "the only possible course of action." It was an op with most of the supporters being straight transphobes trying to sow division. This move has the Heritage Foundation written all over it, they love that tactic, divide and conquer.
Remember article 5 of NATO, an attack on a member is an attack on all members! We must show support for the trans and gender nonbinary communities while we organize with the hope of flipping the legislature in the midterms two years from now.
an attack on a member is an attack on all members!
Yes!
organize with the hope of flipping the legislature in the midterms two years from now.
Jfc, no..
What the fuck more will it take for people to understand that you can't vote fascism away???!!!
Surely if we ask politely they'll go away right? I mean, happened with hitler, mussolini, and also with franco! Specially with him!
Lemmy is for some reason overcome with peak electoralism brainrot and thinks that instead of being the barest fucking minimum of effort, voting is actually the peak of political praxis. Frankly, it's bizarre.
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This is a divide and conquer tactic, trying to turn lesbians into TERFs and gays into whatever the gay man equivalent of that is (TERG?). Don't let it work.
Speaking of NATO, when do they, I dunno, wanna get involved in removing an obvious bad actor? Actors? I don’t see anyone else bothering, or even coming close to being able to.
Fuck trump. Fuck musk. Fuck this administration. Fuck Republicans. Fuck conservatives. Fuck anyone who voted for a single republican. And fuck most democrats who haven't done shit for us.
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Every step they take to erase us, I come this much closer to cutting out the people in my life that support him, regardless of his hateful policy. It tears me up inside, because I love them dearly. But eventually something will give, and I won’t hold my tongue any longer.
That’s enough internet for me for today. But who am I kidding? I’ll be back to doom-scroll further. They are winning. They’ve been winning ever since that fuck ran for office.
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It's almost like the "You're just panicking, Transpeople aren't really being erased." crowd were full of fucking shit.
First they came for the T...
Then the LGB...
Then the T again...
...then the rest of the ATCG
T stands for “travelers,” right?
donno, i mean it could mean transformers, i've seen the movies, the trilogy, they are great and have big guns.
"About 70 countries still consider consensual same-sex relations a crime. That list is growing by one more country, hopefully in the next months. Please stay tuned to our new and exciting developments regarding your collective and the hate we profess to it!!"
Looks like I'm waiting 4 years to come out
I made the unfortunate "choice" (ie suffering from a mental breakdown from repressing it) to come out the week before the election. It was less than ideal. But also, fuck these people, I'm not going back to fucking hiding so some rich shitstain can pretend he cares about anything other than greed.
My only question starting today is " when are we going to do a massive protest? "
I'm not saying 3 fat people walking around with copier paper sized art work. I'm talking, millions and millions of people Carrying helicopter readable banners and crates of water bottles to every single downtown.
When is this fuckening? I want to be there. I want it to be a general strike where everything stops. No planes, no cars, no trains. We walk (after a normal commute maybe) and we stay until orange fuck boy gets the boot so hard that he goes flying past the helicopter and into the sunset with pretty boy Vance in his mouth and Elno in his ass.
When????
When people remember that Transpeople are neither their enemies nor where this ends.
Google 50501
50 states, 50 protests, 1 day.
Feb 5th at your state capitol.
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I fucking warned people that there was going to be a kind of trans genocide. I got told to shut up because "Gaza is a real genocide happening right now"
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LGB is the most ridiculous thing I've seen.
I'm not THAT young (born in the 90s) and even I've never ever seen LGB as an initialism without the T.
Born in the 70s here. I do remember LGB without the T in the 1990s and early 2000s, you probably were too young to pick up on the term. In any case, trans rights came into the spotlight much later than LGB rights.
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This sort of thing is exactly why I say "queer" instead of using initials. Because you can keep adding more initials all day and you're still going to be leaving people out that should be counted and you can take initials away like those people never counted to begin with. And it's very easy for cishet people to ignore any of those letters individually and still act like they're an ally.
"Queer" may have negative roots, but it seems to be generally accepted as an inoffensive term today and, I think, more reflective of sexuality as a spectrum. I wouldn't mind a better word to use without those negative roots, but I just can't think of one.
This does seem rather practical as a catch-all term. LGBTQ+ is much too cumbersome
I've already heard a bunch of queer people around the internet use "queer", so I guess it just needs more adoption
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I’m sure they initially just did a ctrl+f for “lgbt” then someone on truth social who’s totally not obsessed with checking on gay and trans stuff all the time boosted a post about how it still had a reference to ‼️‼️🚨🚨gay shit🚨🚨‼️‼️
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Gender is now an anti-social construct
I honestly cannot believe they left the B. Not because bisexuality isnt valid. Just because it seems like exactly the kind of thing Trump's team would say is fake news.
He probably doesnt know what it stands for.
Gotta be patient. As soon as the T's are gone, then they'll start using LG.
L's are next after B. In their minds women are baby factories, not people with their own sexual orientations!
Any trans people reading this comment, who are around 18- 25 years old. Germany and some other countries offer a social year, where you work over here for a year. You get to live here, have healthcare etc. Only cache is that you gotta work in a social sector job. Sometimes people can manage to make it two years. So if you are looking for a temporary way out, check it out. There is nothing you can lose by trying to do that year.
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That's just a typo. The L, G, and B shouldn't be there either.
Please keep telling me there's no genocide of queer people in America. I hear that on Lemmy regularly these days.
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