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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 169 points 3 months ago (1 children)

First they came for the Trans people, but I didn't speak up, because I wasn't Trans.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Draces@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] medsal15@lemmy.blahaj.zone 130 points 3 months ago
[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 82 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Next up, they're going to erase the remaining letters

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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. 💪

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 months ago

How does that old saying go?

"First they came for the transgender people, and then they stopped there."

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

slightly hopeful

He's pulled the gun, but only shot one of us so far. That's good, right? . Right??

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 74 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] WiseWoodchuck@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

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???!!!

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Surely if we ask politely they'll go away right? I mean, happened with hitler, mussolini, and also with franco! Specially with him!

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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 28 points 3 months ago

It's almost like the "You're just panicking, Transpeople aren't really being erased." crowd were full of fucking shit.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It wouldn't be productive, but I've been thinking of texting some things at my mom. She hasn't been hostler to me since I came out, but also not accepting with misgendering and dead naming.

I know she voted for him before, and I'm pretty sure she did this time. With the way things are going I will probably never see her again. I want her to know why.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I know you didn't ask for feedback but if you want another person's perspective, I've cut them all out (trump supporters and bigots), and the people who remain that I feel are still worth trying to maintain or improve the relationship I have been doing what I can to show them the reality of the situation and expose them to the suffering of others that they are shielded from by privilege.

If it were me being misgendered and dead named and otherwise being treated with disrespect by a parent who voted for my erasure, I would also be thinking about cutting them off and telling them how harmful they have been through their behavior and asking how they live with themselves when they're enabling and even cheering on the violation of human rights of so many people in their own country. I would explain how they have hurt me and the problems they have caused or enabled or failed to protect me from. And if I had the energy/capacity for it I would maybe send some links showing the damage 45 has been doing in such a short period of time if I thought it was worth the time, in particular ways he is hurting people that look like that parent or have similar life circumstances, since they don't seem to care about people who don't.

Whatever you end up doing I wish you luck and good outcomes, and safety and peace at home and otherwise. I'm sorry you have such a shitty parent and I can relate in some ways and definitely feel you. You're not alone 💚

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

T stands for “travelers,” right?

[–] cocosulmov@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

donno, i mean it could mean transformers, i've seen the movies, the trilogy, they are great and have big guns.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"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!!"

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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????

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

When people remember that Transpeople are neither their enemies nor where this ends.

[–] Yppm@lemy.lol 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Google 50501

50 states, 50 protests, 1 day.

Feb 5th at your state capitol.

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[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] ripjackie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks like I'm waiting 4 years to come out

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

A great leap backwards :(

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)
[–] ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

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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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Gender is now an anti-social construct

[–] TheoWasHere@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 3 months ago

And officials just go along with it, no pushback at all

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Fuck anything less than LGBTQIA+. Throw those nazis under some cybertruck abomination.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

That's just a typo. The L, G, and B shouldn't be there either.

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