This video was made after Ana Kasparian of TYT had her transphobic arc but it continues to apply. Every time there's debate about what "the left" should be focusing on and what's "just a distraction" I come back to this.
do you guys remember when it came out that there was targeted sexual abuse & forced labor of transmasc & other queer perceived-female people at an ICE facility, and like it was very specifically "transmascs getting both sexually harassed, told to wear makeup, actively assaulted to make them act more feminine, while also being forced to do grueling manual labor & being directly told this was a result of them "wanting to be a man""? do you remember when that came out and then it was crickets from the community it feels like.
And now we have the community panicking about “ICE targeting trans people” and it’s like… they already did, you just didn’t care when it was happening to trans men of colour.
At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked
“I was treated worse than an animal,” said Mario Garcia-Valenzuela, one of the detainees. “We don’t deserve to be treated like this.”
Garcia-Valenzuela, a trans man detained at SLIPC, has alleged that, as part of the unsanctioned work program, [assistant warden] Reyes forced him to move heavy cabinets and cinder blocks, and to clean using industrial-strength chemicals without gloves or protective gear. When Garcia-Valenzuela complained of injuries from the work program, he said, Reyes and his associates forcefully stripped him naked and mocked him.
Kenia Campos-Flores, who is trans and non-binary, told the Guardian that they suffered from persistent migraines and chest pain after exposure to cleaning chemicals they were made to use during unofficial, overnight work shifts. Campos-Flores also alleged in a complaint they were persistently sexually harassed by Reyes, who entered their dorm and stole possessions including their boxers.
Another trans detainee, Monica Renteria-Gonzalez, complained that a stripper chemical he was told to use to clean the facility floors seeped through his fabric shoes and burned the skin of his feet. On more than one occasion, while Renteria-Gonzalez was bent over cleaning, he said, Reyes came up from behind and inappropriately touched him. The assistant warden also told Renteria-Gonzalez he was watching the detainee through security cameras, including while he was showering.
A fourth detainee, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe, is a cisgender, queer woman who said that Reyes forced her to perform oral sex on him on a “near daily basis” between February and May 2024, threatening to kill her if she refused, according to her complaint.
Doe, who was deported to the Dominican Republic in January this year, has chosen not to share her name or speak publicly because she fears that Reyes will make good on his threat to find and harm her, her lawyer said. [...]
“This was a sadistic late-night work program,” said Sarah Decker, a senior staff attorney with RFK Human Rights. “It was designed to target vulnerable trans men or masculine-presenting LGBTQ people, who [Reyes] coerced into participating.”
A cis woman was also involved in the sexual violence:
Twice, Renteria-Gonzalez said, Reyes came up behind him and touched him inappropriately. Another SLIPC officer, according to Renteria-Gonzalez, began to sexually harass him as well, sending him explicit notes and showing him pornographic images of herself.
This article includes more from each victim, but I want to highlight this part as well:
Garcia-Valenzuela had fled to the US in 2014 from Mexico, where he was tortured by members of a drug cartel. “I have no choice, that’s why I’m fighting,” he said. “Because I know that as soon as they deport me, I’m going to be handed over to the cartels and I’m going to be tortured and killed – ripped into pieces.”
But in SLIPC he faced a new kind of horror. He alleged that on more than one occasion he was told to move heavy metal filing cabinets back and forth across a room. When he struggled to lift the furniture, Reyes would taunt him, he said, saying: “If you think you are a man, I’m going to treat you like a man.”
In the spring of 2024, Garcia-Valenzuela reported sexual harassment on the basis of his gender, in accordance with Prea. He said he felt targeted due to his gender identity and wanted the fact he is transgender removed from his file, as a measure of protection. But an [ICE] officer responded that “even if we take off your transgender marker, there is no hiding that you are transgender”, noting Garcia-Valenzuela’s physical appearance, he said. To Garcia-Valenzuela’s knowledge, no follow-up investigation into Reyes was conducted.
Renteria-Gonzalez’s complaints were dismissed as well, Renteria-Gonzalez said.
To repeat what was said above: we have the community panicking about “ICE targeting trans people” and it’s like… they already did, you just didn’t care when it was happening to trans men (and nonbinary people and queer women) of colour.
Fellow white people did you know there's this cool youtube hack where you go out of your way to watch videos made by Black people. And suddenly your video recommendations will have loads of cool new channels. And then you realise youtube was literally hiding videos made by Black people from you because they assumed you wouldn't be interested
Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.
not seeing a lot of people on here talking about ICE murdering another man yesterday. His name was Lorenzo Salgado Arajou. He was a Mexican man living in Huston Texas. He was killed at age 52 and lived the past 35 years here in the USA, and was in the process of obtaining a work permit. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop that ICE claims was part of a targeted operation, and claimed he was “weaponizing his vehicle”- the same claim ICE agents made when they shot and murdered Renee Good.
During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.
His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.
The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.
On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salg
i need to stop giving lefttubers chances they just keep pissing me off
wayching kyle kulinski's video about that ice defender getting punched and he just goes on a tangent about how the woke left doesn't want him to call trump fat but he's the dark woke who gets the job done
which like, my bad for expecting better from kyle "conservatives are gay lol" kulinski but what a choice, on a video about a fat kid being, his words, "a hero". the fuck happened there. he saw a fat person and went "fat... trump fat... wokescolds get mad if you call people fat"
I'd left this one in the drafts because it felt a little too petty, and it is compared to making fun of sexual abuse victims as Kulinski has since done. But they're both manifestations of this same underlying attitude. This edgelord approach to "leftism" that's just "do the same cruel shit our opponents do and hope it results in a better world somehow". People like this are just in it for the antihero posturing, and any progressive ideals they might have quickly erode as they focus on winning the conservative game. They want to prove that they're better nazis than the nazis. They are not serious people. A leftism that does not care about victims, both of sexual abuse and of US imperialism, is of no use to anyone.
i need to stop giving lefttubers chances they just keep pissing me off
wayching kyle kulinski's video about that ice defender getting punched and he just goes on a tangent about how the woke left doesn't want him to call trump fat but he's the dark woke who gets the job done
which like, my bad for expecting better from kyle "conservatives are gay lol" kulinski but what a choice, on a video about a fat kid being, his words, "a hero". the fuck happened there. he saw a fat person and went "fat... trump fat... wokescolds get mad if you call people fat"
"the left" needs to deal with its propensity for rape apologia. You people have gotten way too comfortable believing that calling yourself anticapitalist makes you incapable of being a piece of shit.
You can really tell the american left is racist as fuck because black and brown people have to be perfect to get anywhere politically but a mass murdering nazi can go "im better now promise" and get defended at all costs. Why the fuck was Graham Platner ever spoken about in the same way as Zohran Mamdani
I'm less surprised that Graham Platner has sexual assault allegations than I am that the same online leftists who were making excuses for his nazi tattoo and participation in mass murder are actually dropping him over it. Heartwarming: most amoral pundits you know still aware that backing a rapist is kind of a bad look
Interesting to do a comparison with this yay-bunnies classic
Post by yay-bunnies inciting harrassment against a teenager for making a blog similar to hers while transmasc.
"I mean i won't get a thousandth of the notes but I'd quite like it if people got slightly inconvenienced when they tried to kill me" "I hope out of the hundreds of times its happened, the tgirl-free copycat crashes and burns once" this is the same rhetorical move of positioning yourself as the underdog fighting back against mistreatment. It's not inciting harrassment against a smaller trans blogger, it's self defense. They tried to kill me! They stole my IP! I'm doing transfem liberationism right now, actually. This is a symbolic move against the forces of transmisogyny. Imagine me as the battered yet defiant hero and my opponent as the soy wojack. Just don't look at what I'm actually doing or my next desperate final stand might be against you.
Also like. I know that the idea of "transandrophobia" is a pretty heated topic but I think, regardless of where you stand on the topic... it's weird that ISFF is so willing to accept self-admitted pedophiles and rapists into her community in the name of "nobody is disposable!" But has pretty much said she doesn't think transfems and transmascs can share community because transmascs have to POTENTIAL to be abusive and transmisogynistic (which is something I'm not denying, btw, anyone in any demographic has the potential to do terrible things!).
Are they disposable because they MIGHT hurt someone? Why is it when some transmascs are abusive she shuns the entire group because "That's not what a brother does!" But when it comes to Sophie's documented cases of abuse, suddenly it's about "caring deeply for [sophie] as a sister"?
And not only that, but flat-out telling transfems speaking up about their experiences that THEY'RE the dangerous ones and they're "not her sisters". But nobody is disposable, right ISFF? You should have that transfem's back no matter what, right? Or does that only apply when your rapist buddy wants to take a fun little birthday trip to New Zealand? With sisters like ISFF, who needs enemies???
No yeah I was literally thinking about it earlier, when it comes to the subject of trans women being raped, abused, or otherwise mistreated by a partner, she’s so quick to jump on it as long as the perpetrator is a trans man or otherwise TME. But when it comes to multiple trans women claiming to have been raped and abused by another trans woman, she won’t even hear them out and basically just says they need to shut up about it or they’re a danger to their sisters.
Almost like… she doesn’t actually care about victims of assault unless she can conveniently use them as a cudgel against groups of people she doesn’t like! 🤯
I don't understand the argument that "transandrophobia truther" is antisemitic for having "truther" in it. The word is primarily associated with conspiracy theorists (EDIT: the intended meaning of that sentence was: it is used to refer to conspiracy theorists by non-conspiracy theorists in a mocking or dismissive manner). I guess a lot of conspiracy theories boil down to antisemitism but then that'd make "transandrophobia truther" a false accusation of antisemitism, not in itself antisemitic. I've seen the explanation that neonazis call people who don't think the holocaust was faked truthers, but that's not really the main association with the term. If anything it's an example of misusing the term to rhetorically frame people as conspiracy theorists for not believing in your conspiracy theory. Which is similar to what people who say things things like "transandrophobia truther" are doing in reframing an oppressed group's recounting of their own mistreatment as conspiracy theory, but if that's the point you're trying to make it's probably better to actually make it rather than allude to some similarity with nazis and leave it at that.
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