PurpleMoonTurtle

nonbinary transmasc q-spec ace (they/them/theirs). adult.

[morlock-holmes]

The more that the deportation system in your country is fast, cruel, and not subject to appeal the easier it is for people to say,

"Accept my bad actions or you'll be deported."

This applies equally to legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and people who are temporarily in the country seeking asylum, visas, etc.

I do not understand why people find this confusing.

If you're here on a work visa, and the consequence for being fired is that you are immediately spirited off to a concrete cell which is lit 24/7 and you aren't allowed to contact anybody and eventually they ship you off to an arbitrary city without any of your possessions,

Then your employer has a ton of leverage to say, "Yes we are making you work unpaid overtime and ignoring our supposed obligations under the contract you signed, but if you complain we'll fire you and good luck contesting it from inside your cell or from another country while you look for housing and a job."

That is how "strong border enforcement" creates an underclass.

People seem to respond to this by pretending I'm talking purely about illegal border crossings by people without visas and then explaining that it's fine to go round those people up. Which is simply beside the point.

Honestly border policy appears to involve simply ignoring how immigration works and pretending the policy only applies to criminals crossing the border without a visa.

[theconcealedweapon]

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

[scarecade]

i am afraid of people who reblog things with no tags. not even any identifiers like the show it’s from or anything. just silence. what are you thinking?? hello??

[scarecade]

you know what understandable have a good day

[nightmaretour]

I keep seeing people put accommodations for people with epilepsy on the same level as sensory accommodations for autism and like... no??? Obviously both are important but epilepsy can kill people, SUDEP is a thing. If you expose someone with photosensitive epilepsy to strobing lights they could suffer permanent brain damage or die. Epilepsy is a condition with physical, sometimes deadly consequences. I'm not sure how many different ways I need to say this before it sticks, but epileptic seizures are physical neurological phenomena that can cause lasting neurological damage or death. Epilepsy can kill you. You can die from epilepsy.

[catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241]

looking at that one booktok post and didn’t realize how funny this is. uou do not know what a safe word is

[dinoburger-deactivated20250110]

[tnwnx]

some highlights from the notes

[glowcowboy]

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

[its-your-mind]

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

[beautifulterriblequeen]

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

[dear-ao3]

night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you

[velvetvexations]

I'd like to add something to the topic of forced impregnation / corrective rape of transmascs & men.

One thing I feel like other people tend to believe is that trans people with uteruses / the capability to get pregnant are "extremising" a problem that really only affects a few select trans people, surely not a lot.

What they don't get is that we're not extremising anything. Even just on the topic of forced pregnancy, I know barely a single trans man who hasn't been told that getting pregnant would fix him or that his whole worth as a person with a uterus is measured in how many children he can pop out at best, or being straigh up threatened with it or at worst having someone actually attempt to or fully act on that threat. And the ones who it didn't happen to? They know full well that it's always a "it didn't happen yet". That threat is still there, even without anyone saying it. People don't have to outright say it or threaten us because we just know.

It's not something we made up as a "gotcha" to trans women. In fact, it has nothing to do with most trans women at all, safe for the ones who can get pregnant! It's our lived experience. Our every-day life.

I was thirteen, just started my period, when my mother started to try to convince me that my whole worth as a person was making babies, that I needed to make kids the second I'd turn eighteen, that I would otherwise waste my life. And no, she didn't actually think that of all women. My cis sister? Never got to hear any of that. Just me. Because my mother looked at me being masculine and saw something she needed to fix (by only buying me extremely sexualised feminine outfits and telling me the stuff mentioned above, and that it was "only that" makes me one of the lucky ones). It happened to me not just because I was born with a uterus, because then it would've happened to my sister, too. It happened because my mother could tell something was "wrong" with me because I was too masculine. Got a little too exited when people mistook me for my brother. She didn't know what transmasculinity was back then in name, but she absolutely did know that it was "wrong" and needed to be "fixed" - and the way to fix a "broken woman" is to get her pregnant. She, of course, couldn't do that back then, but she could do her best to try to make me do that once I was "old enough" (I'm very glad today that she failed.)

And basically every trans men I've talked with about that topic had their own story like that or much, much worse. Only very rarely has a transmasc/man not experienced something like that, and even then, the threat is so omnipresent that even they tend to know exactly what I'm talking about.

It's a horrifying truth, it's uncomfortable, but it needs to be talked about. Our pain has been ignored and swept under the rug for so long, and people are still continuing to do so. So they can keep telling themselves that we "don't have it that bad" that we're "making a deal out of nothing" that what happens to us is just "individual cases" not something targeted. Because if people don't listen, they don't have to admit to themselves how they're playing into our oppression. Because to this day my mother is still claiming that she supports the trans community, after she did everything in her power to stop her son from existing. She won't listen to what I have to say because it "wasn't that bad", and my sister turned out great, so what do I have to cry about?

Nobody listens to trans men in general because it's never "as bad" as we make it out to be. After all, a cis woman said it wasn't that bad and she'll always be more believable than what ever a trans man or transmasculine person has to say. A trans man could obviously never experience anything a cis woman in his situation wouldn't.

This got longer than I anticipated. Thank you for listening and talking about this topic. I appreciate you, your work here is incredibly important and I'm glad you do this. Take care, and have a nice day!

(Also, this whole assumption about us "extremising" and "making a big thing out of nothing" also sounds a bit like hysteria talk to me, especially given that our conversation is about uterus-related things, but I might be reading to much into it here.)

the issue is is that TRFs will take all this as "so you're saying that means trans men have it worse than trans women?"

like noooooooo you invented that sentence! that was nowhere in the original text girliepop!

[boybeetles]

ACLU sues Trump administration over trans youth health care restrictions

ACLU sues Trump administration over trans youth health care restrictions

The ACLU announced legal action against the Trump administration’s executive order which targets gender-affirming care for minors. The lawsu

The ACLU announced legal action against the Trump administration’s executive order which targets gender-affirming care for minors. The lawsuit says Trump’s actions are withholding lawfully appropriated funds and violating the rights of trans youth by depriving them of medical care "solely on the basis of their sex and transgender status.” White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports

[vaspider]

I can’t quite recall if it was you asking but yes, the Capitol switchboard is on fire thanks to so many outraged calls to Congress so now people can’t get through.

Remember: if you can't reach their DC office, you can call their local offices.

[elfwreck]

Also remember: You don't need Serious Political Discussion Skills to call your representatives. You don't need to be able to make an argument that would sustain a 250-message reddit thread.

You can say "This thing here, [name of whatever], I don't like it. It's a bad policy being pushed by rich men for their own benefit. It is dangerous to me and bad for America. I want you to oppose it, as any decent person would."

Or

You can say, "This thing here, [name of whatever], it sucks. It's terrible and I hate it and if you support it than you're terrible and I hate you. I am going to tell all my friends that you are an evil scumbucket and they should never invite you to their birthday parties. You should feel bad about your whole life and then you should go to hell and wish you had been a better person. In case you missed it, you suck and I hate you."

Or

You can say, "This thing here, [name of whatever], is the WORST FUCKING THING I HAVE EVER HEARD OF, YOU RATFUCKING BASTARD. YOUR HEAD IS SO FAR UP TRUMP'S ASS YOU CAN SMELL ELON'S DICK BEING SUCKED. DID YOU BURN INSECTS AND SLAUGHTER KITTENS AS A CHILD OR DID YOU JUST GO STRAIGHT TO TRYING TO KILL YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS? OH WAIT, THEY'RE NOT YOUR FELLOWS BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY HUMAN; YOU'RE A SHIT-SUCKING SLIME MOLD. I HOPE YOU NEVER GET LAID AGAIN IN YOUR LIFE."

They have to listen to you, either way. If you're talking to a machine, just keep talking until it cuts you off. You don't have to be eloquent or even coherent.

There are people who are persuasive, who offer all the relevant facts, who have the up-to-date statistics and the names of media influence orgs to drop. And they like doing that. Let them do their part.

Your part is: Jam the damn phone lines until the the interns are terrified to work in any Republican politician's office.

[chancecraz]

If you need to find your reps local office, Project Vote Smart has them listed.

[theverytiredgirl]

If you’re abusive to whoever picks up your representative’s phone, they can hang up. They’ll record that the call was abusive and move on. There’s no rule or law that says they have to listen to you yell at or insult them.

Call, write letters, whatever it takes. But if you want your message to go anywhere, don’t yell or be a dick.

[mybluedecember]

Yeah to be honest the point is NOT to jam the phone lines until "the interns are terrified to work" (wtf??), the point is actually that phone calls are one of the ways in which your representatives get to know what issues you care about, and whether or not you agree or disagree with their policy positions. Shouting and name calling isn't an effective strategy here, especially since the person on the other end of the phone isn't going to be your rep themself. When you call you just need to touch these points: (1) That you're a constituent of the rep in question (2) The issue you're calling about (3) The way you would like them to vote or what action you'd like them to take (3a) (optional) the reason you'd like them to vote this way, in a way that has a chance of actually appealing to your rep. If your rep is a Republican, you could say something about how X Bad Thing violates your rights to freedom of speech or privacy as a citizen or the safety and security of your family

And look! If your rep is a Republican they straight up will probably not listen to you. That REALLY sucks and is painful and is unacceptable. But it actually is still not an excuse to hurl abuse to the person on the other end of the phone, who is literally in a customer service role. (Remember that post about how if you're mean to people, even if you are right about what you are saying, they will not like you? Same applies here. If you are mean to people, even if you are right about what you are saying, they can and will hang up on you.)

[shadowmasterthirteen]

In a congress person's mind 1 person angry enough to do the work of calling and complaining represents many more constituents who are furious but not calling. This is why people in the know will say it won't actually take that many calls (proportionally) to have them changing behaviour.

This is also why form emails and unfortunately resistbot get discounted because the effort is lower its not seen as much of a genuine opinion (don't @ me I'm not a politician). It doesn't have to be well thought out, but unique. Bill X is bad and I will not be able to support you if you support it. (Note: you don't have to mean this if they remain the lesser evil in an actual election)

Don't be afraid to tell representative pr senator you like what they've been doing of that happens to be true. They rarely get praise so it counts.

And don't forget positions like attorney General if that is an elected position in your state. This is a very important position right now. They can refuse to extradite people for abortion crimes (NY state has a law ordering this but that's not the only way for something like this to happen) or "grooming" or at least drag them out by fighting every case. They can tell their department not to help ICE. They can enforce state level anti discrimination laws against companies that take Trump's executive orders as an opportunity to behave badly. And you can call and ask why they aren't getting your vote by doing these sorts of things.

[hungarianmudkip69]

One thing that I feel like a lot of people who think voting is how you communicate support miss:

You can fucking lie to your reps. You can even tell the truth but lie by implication if lying is hard for you! You want them to think that they can gain or lose your vote, even if that's not true.

You have a Republican congressperson who you'd never vote for anyways? You can lie and say "I've voted for you in the past, but supporting this will lose you my vote." But you can also say, "I won't be able to vote for you if you support this." True, even if you wouldn't vote for them anyways, but implies they might be able to get your vote!

You have a Democratic congressperson in a district close enough where every vote counts, whose opponent is a Trump crony? You can lie and say "I've voted Democrat in the past, but I won't vote for you if you support this," or you can say "I'm a Democrat voter, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable voting for you if you support this." Then you go to the polls and feel uncomfortable about it but vote to keep the fascist out anyways. True, but implies they might lose your vote!

Politicians have no way of knowing how the vote numbers correlate with the people contacting them. Saying "I will/will not vote for you because of this" doesn't put the political pressure in the vote itself, but in the statement. The politician has no way to know if you follow through on your statement that you will or won't vote for them. Vote as harm reduction, contact your reps as political pressure.

Also, remember that local elections don't follow the national election cycle! I only realized that my local elections are later this month because the dem candidate for mayor put the election date on his campaign signs. Check when your elections are, make sure that people who might listen get power, and then pressure them to do the right thing!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Michigan adds sexual orientation and gender identity to hate crime law despite 'far-right fiction'

House Bills 5400 and 5401 amended the definition and sentencing guidelines of the state's 1988 “ethnic intimidation” statute for the first t

Ryan Adamczeski at The Advocate:

Michigan's hate crime law has been updated to include sexual orientation and gender identity after Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed several bills into law last week. House Bills 5400 and 5401 amend the definition and sentencing guidelines of the state's 1988 “ethnic intimidation” statute to include sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, and age, designating them as protected groups against hate crimes if they are found to be a motivating factor for violent behavior.

State Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is an out lesbian, said in a statement that “it’s incumbent upon those of us with the authority to unilaterally denounce such sentiments; otherwise, there’s no stopping this behavior." “Over the past decade, we have seen not just an uptick in hate crimes, but a normalization of racist, antisemitic and bigoted language, symbolism and actions – including a close adviser to the President giving the Nazi salute during an inaugural rally just this week,” Nessel said. "I applaud the Governor for signing these long overdue changes to the state’s statutes.” The bill amending the hate crime statute's definition was first introduced by Democratic state Rep. Noah Arbit in 2023, but failed to pass after conservatives falsely claimed that the law made it a felony to misgender someone. Arbit noted in a conversation with CBS at the time that the bill did not contain the word "misgender" in its entire text, calling the claims "far-right fiction."

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signs hate crime laws protecting sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or age status.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Michigan expands hate crime law to protect LGBTQ+ identities

[queerautism]

School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order

On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in school

On Thursday, multiple school systems and representatives issued statements rejecting Trump’s executive order that directs schools to discriminate against transgender students or face legal consequences. The order, released Wednesday, labels transgender identity as an “anti-American ideology” and mandates discrimination in bathrooms and locker rooms while threatening teachers with criminal charges for supporting trans students’ social transitions. In response, school officials across the country are making it clear: they will not comply, and they remain committed to protecting the rights of their transgender students.

[ear-a-corn]

We have always existed, and we always will.

[gor3sigil]

A cis woman tells me that maybe she should transition to gain male privilege as I'm recovering from getting beaten up in the men's bathrooms.

I tell her to be my guest and give me a call when she gets her jaw broken, I always carry a first aid kit and a pepper spray.

She calls me a misogynistic asshole.

A cis man tells me that he'd sure love some T.

Gave him my prescription and best of luck with the constant shortages and getting denied.

He calls me a pussy.

I'm fighting for my life and reproductive rights. I get told to get off women's fights, that it's not about me, like I shed my womb after my first T shot.

I search for support groups for SA victims, and I'm stuck in the same “women/NBs only”. Still shooting my shot, send an application. I introduce myself. Never get a call back.

I go to a trans night. Say I go by he/him. Get told back “yeah, that's how we all start !” by a trans woman. I'm too exhausted, I get up and I leave.

I hang out with my friends, one of them drunkenly says masculinity is a prison we must learn to escape. She gets rows of applause. Back to drinking alone.

Yes I could explain it. But who'd you rather be ? A delusional girl or a man made threat ?Or it could be better, I could just not exist ! And we'd bleach my corpse and I'd become a casualty. Not an F, ot an M, a W for Wound and for Wrong.

I put a candle on a single cupcake, 2 years on HRT. I blow it in the dark. Curtains closed like casket.

[socialistexan]

To reiterate:

Trump's transphobic Executive Orders regarding healthcare and Federal documents are currently unenforceable and are not current actionable policy of the Federal government.

Do not despair.

Do not panic.

And most importantly: do not comply in advance.

Staying alive is a radical act as a trans person in Trump's America.

[hi-fi-planetoid]

I found this article of Laverne Cox on reproductive rights including trans men and I really like how she put it. Her initial knee jerk reaction was thinking "Can't we just talk about women's issues without complicating it". But then she REFLECTED on it and realized how unhelpful that is to actual activism. And I admire her so much for owning up to that thought in order to communicate the toxicity of that mindset. I think a lot of people would benefit from reflecting on their reactions to other's oppression, and if it ends with "Sit and wait til I get mine", you may not be as inclusive and progressive as you think you are.

Link to the full article:

Laverne Cox Wants To Stop The Erasure Of Trans Men In Abortion Conversations

Cox urged people to include trans men in abortion debates in the wake of Alabama passing the strictest anti-abortion measure in the country.

[thealternates-deactivated202511]

Please remember intersex people during these next 4 years. To support and worry about us too, not just perisex trans people. Intersex people are fully affected by the idea of "only male and female allowed" laws. Intersex people are affected by anti trans laws even if not all of us are trans. Many of us can't pass or hide our features, similar to how some trans people can't. We (the systems body) for example are physically incapable of passing as "cis" unless we get surgeries and hormones which still wouldn't change the fact we're intersex. We can't blend in, we get clocked as "queer looking" no matter what we wear or how we act. Don't forget about us when making posts about protecting trans and queer people. - ❔️

[thealternates-deactivated202511]

This post blew up more than I thought.. almost 3k? Since this post is getting seen please remember to insert intersex people into your vocabulary. If you talk about supporting minorities during scary or concerning events like this, make sure intersex people are one of them naturally, not just used as a "gotcha" then never bring us up again. Don't use phrases like "women and afabs" / "men and amabs" because intersex people exist. Intersex people can be told they're amab by doctors while having a uterus for example. Look out for articles or laws bringing up "dsd" / "sexual disorder" and the hermaphrodite slur. Those are laws targeting intersex people.

Look out for articles talking about "helping those with a dsd" during this as well. Those are targeting us to support the idea of forcing us on hormones or surgeries as young as infant age to fit into "male and female". If these anti trans laws happen there will be more intersex people medically forced into the binary. The medical field still doesn't treat us like real people so it's important you do. If you see intersexism bring it up. Yell about it just as loudly as everything else. It's better to risk being wrong about some intersex things then for it to be buried in the panic.

If you see this post and go "Why are you inserting yourself into trans topics" or "Why are you trying to make intersex people more important." Check yourself for intersexism. We should be fighting side by side not fighting each other. It's sad that I have to say this because people genuinely get pissed when intersex people say trans laws/issues affect them too. I am both trans and intersex, even if I wasn't I'd still be just as loud about both topics.

[twospiritcomet]

Mexico Launches Emergency App, 'ConsulApp Contigo,' as Immigration Crackdown Intensifies in the US | BELatina

Mexico’s Foreign Minister, has introduced “ConsulApp Contigo”, a mobile application designed to provide immediate support in emergencies, in

Mexicans in the United States now have a direct line to consular assistance at their fingertips. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, Mexico’s Foreign Minister, has introduced “ConsulApp Contigo”, a mobile application designed to provide immediate support in emergencies, including detentions. The app connects users to consular services, offering legal guidance and critical resources in real time.

Los mexicanos en Estados Unidos ahora tienen a su disposición una línea directa de asistencia consular. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de México, presentó "ConsulApp Contigo", una aplicación móvil diseñada para brindar apoyo inmediato en situaciones de emergencia, incluidas las detenciones. La aplicación conecta a los usuarios con los servicios consulares, ofreciendo orientación legal y recursos críticos en tiempo real.

ConsulApp Contigo - Apps on Google Play

We guide Mexican migrants about their rights and consular services.