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@trannycrowley
getting tired of seeing polite responses to woke homo/transphobes just because they "aren't as bad" as your usual variety of queerphobes
yknow what? fuck it. I'm treating you assholes rh same way I treat my boyfriend's republican family. I don't want y'all as my fucking allies.
"No one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don't care. I don't like you," said Sen. Megan Hunt.
Nebraska Democratic state Sen. Megan Hunt vowed to filibuster every bill for the rest of the legislative session after the Nebraska Legislature advanced a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for people under 19.
The legislation, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Kathleen Kauth, would ban minors from seeking gender confirmation surgery and hormone treatments — issues that could impact Hunt’s transgender son. She discussed her son and his testimony in committee on Wednesday and to the wider body the next day.
“My son is trans,” Hunt said of her 12-year-old child, who she says has been unable to attain gender-affirming care. “And this bill, colleagues, is such an affront to me personally and would violate my rights to parent my child in Nebraska.”
The bill is one of many anti-trans policies rolled out this year, according to Trans Legislation Tracker.
“We have made it clear that this is the line in the sand,” Hunt said to lawmakers on Thursday.
“People have said, ‘What if we go after your bills? What if we put a bunch of bills introduced by progressives up on the agenda? Are you going to filibuster those, too?’ Yes, because we’re not like you,” Hunt explained. “We have a principle and a value that actually matters that much to us that we’re willing to stand up for.”
Hunt was scolded over her stance by Republicans, who said her pushback set a bad precedent.
“You really don’t get it,” Hunt said to Republican state Sen. R. Brad von Gillern. “You’ve crossed a line and you’ve gone too far.”
“Don’t say hi to me in the hall, don’t ask me how my weekend was, don’t walk by my desk and ask me anything. Don’t send me Christmas cards ― take me off the list,” Hunt warned. “No one in the world holds a grudge like me, and no one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don’t care. I don’t like you.”
“This hateful bill is not about policy. It is a basic human rights issue. The vote today will show us exactly which senators value the dignity, autonomy, and personhood of Nebraskans,” Hunt added on Twitter. “Do not cross this line. Do not violate our rights”
Hunt joins Democratic state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh in her promise to filibuster the remainder of the legislature’s 90-day session, which ends on June 9.
“I will burn the session to the ground over this bill,” Cavanaugh warned.
“The vagina phrenology woman is also a corpse defiler.”
It’s only Tuesday and this week’s discourse is too much.
There was a massive increase in suicides because of the lockdowns.
My favorite thing about this study is that when you read further, they excluded young people, children, people in poor socioeconomic countries/situations, and people with preexisting mental health issues. So other than that . . . .
Lockdown was legitimately not much different for me as a chronically ill, disabled person who'd been homebound for several years due to my multiple disabilities. The only real difference was that I was no longer crushingly alone because other people were also home and suddenly remembered I existed.
Seeing those same people then compare my lived existence for the last seven years as being torturous and inhumane was both infuriating and validating.
As was seeing all the accommodations like work from home and distance learning which people like me had always been told were impossible to implement and would take too much effort. And yet companies swiveled on a dime and managed it pretty much overnight. Sure, it was a scramble and stressful, but could you imagine how much easier it would have been if they'd implemented these accommodations more widely for disabled people prior to a global pandemic?
Accommodations which, by the way, are now being taken away again. Why? Fuck you, that's why.
The main thing my mental health will never recover from, however-- along with the crushing weight of all the people that died and continue to die -- was seeing and continuing to see how many people consider my death as an acceptable statistic in the crusade to "get back to normal."
Fuck you. There was no acceptable "normal" before. You just didn't care about us.
How did you not come out of this experience totally radicalized and ready to fight for disabled people? Where's your fucking rage? Where's your humanity?
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Never trust a furry disliker
To clarify, since everyone’s asking— it’s fine if you feel off-put by or apathetic toward furries. That’s your prerogative. My point is that the people who constantly feel the need to announce to the world how much they hate furries (often in a violent way) are 9 times out of 10 telling on themselves about how they regard people they don’t (want to) understand
To follow up further on this: Can anyone here think of an Internet-based community whose members skew EXTREMELY towards self-describing as some combination of "noncisgender/nonheterosexual, autistic, disabled, mentally ill"?
Can anyone possibly come up with a community which since its inception at the literal start of the Internet has been made up near-entirely of queer, neurodivergent, and disabled people? One whose members usually join when they're still teenagers who almost certainly face issues with bullying, on top of all the other sorts of alienation? Is there a community like that?
And just because I'm actually tired of not just outright saying the quiet part: It is not a coincidence that the furry community--made up enormously of queers, the neurodivergent, and the disabled--has always been the butt of every joke, been the target of every pearl-clutching idea of degeneracy, been consistently conflated with zoophiles and pedophiles, and has faced a literal terrorist attack attempting to murder an entire con's worth of innocent people. It isn't just a matter of showing how they regard people they don't (want to) understand. It is a matter of two explanations, neither of which are exactly flattering.
The first explanation for furry disliker is that they're simply ignorant of their own internal biases, or they're not at a stage of maturity where they can acknowledge that they are allowed to not like something for completely arbitrary reasons without morality attached. This is a person who does not pay attention to the demographics of the furry community, and they do not pay attention to possible reasons as to why, exactly, they feel this way.
The second explanation for a furry disliker is that they are absolutely fucking aware of the demographics of the fandom. Full stop.
It is 2023 at the time of writing this, y'all. Please start realizing that South Park is 14 year olds' Fox News and that there's not only no reason to make disliking furries into a Whole Damn Thing, there is in fact actively reason to defend a community made up of some of the most vulnerable people there are, and question why it is this specific community faces so much more ire than any other.
Wild how the queer community has been fighting tooth and nail for generations to have some semblance of inclusion and just the desire to not be beaten, arrested, or killed for existing.
Then there is less than 10 years of policies put in place to help us start being treated more humanely and the Conservative party is like “Actually we rather you die again” openly and proudly.
Wild how allowing ppl to live has made them so angry and more open about their fascism.
Meanwhile half of the younger queers online are too preoccupied with terminology and gatekeeping fandom engagement while our country actively works to eradicate the community honing social media to propagate propaganda.
It is going to sound mean and im not gonna sugarcoat it:
Telling other lgbtqia members that using the term “queer” is problematic and bad is more aligned with conservative’s views of hiding and destroying queerness. When you get that gatekeeping towards your own community you are making it easier to break us apart.
She ain't even subtle anymore lmao
had these images attached
she's outright saying she believes queer people are murderers when all we want is to be treated equal. from the murders of queer people, we know murder does not create equality
tweet is from march 16, 2023, for reference
Oh, this immediately set off antisemitic and fascist alarms in my head.
That isn't a dog whistle, that's an air siren.
Violence against transmascs is not a minor occurrence that is something for you to shrug off.
Stay in the comfort of your home posting your silly little “trans men have it easier because they experience less violence” nonsense. And no this is not chronically online for me to get upset over it. These are very real people spreading this rhetoric to even more real people and we have to stop acting like social media isn’t the easiest way to spread misinformation and doesn’t have real world consequences.
Yeah, I know we may not get our viral little tweets or articles about how to acknowledge violence against trans men but I think studies are good way to break this trend. Here is some more data on violence against trans men that I hope more people will be able to see.
It is not a minor problem and it’s prevalence should never be debated.
Disclaimer before #THEY come after, I in fact never stated transmascs experience more violence than transfems, I am simply making the argument that transmascs experience more violence than most people realize. “Whose has it worse” antics are stupid.
Links:
https://www.saravyc.ubc.ca/2021/05/31/gender-diverse-a-spotlight-on-the-health-of-trans-and-non-binary-young-people-in-b-c/
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/1185885/Private-Lives-3.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274574222_A_Closer_Look_at_Private_Lives_2_Addressing_the_Mental_Health_and_Well-Being_of_Lesbian_Gay_Bisexual_and_Transgender_LGBT_Australians
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/3/23/trans-people-four-times-likely-face-violent-crime-cis?amp
A new study from the Williams Institute provides disturbing figures.
PDF | On Apr 2, 2015, William Leonard and others published A Closer Look at Private Lives 2: Addressing the Mental Health and Well-Being of
Gender-Diverse: A Spotlight on the Health of Trans and Non-Binary Young People in B.C. provides a profile of the health of gender-diverse yo
one can instantly free oneself from the chains of identity discourse by simply conceiving of sexuality as something that is dialectical and not metaphysical
your sexuality does not exist within you, nor does it exist as an immutable wholly external ideal to be discovered. your sexuality is locatable only within your interaction with and relations to the world around you
a collection of emails from 2019-2021 between dozens of anti-trans expert witnesses, US right-wing lawmakers and conservative legal groups
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a tweet by @JUNlPER on twitter saying: ''the same person who leaked the no fly list published email communications of conservatives intentional efforts to ramp up their anti-LGBTQ hate. as was incredibly obvious, the moral panic is intentional and planned out''
followed by a screenshot of the hacker website, named maia with the text:
this file ("Deutsch emails") contains the complete source of email threads for the 2023-03-08 Mother Jones story “Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country”. the emails are comprised of communications spanning 2019-2021 principally regarding an attempt to pass a trans youth transition treatment ban in south dakota in 2019, spearheaded by republican rep. fred deutsch and sen. lee schoenbeck.
there are extensive discussions between deutsch and notorious anti-gay and anti-trans “experts” associated with known hate groups targeting transgender healthcare in the united states, including dr. quentin l. van meter and dr. michelle cretella of the catholic medical association, dr. andre van mol of the christian medical & dental associations and american college of pediatricians, dr. michael k. laidlaw of the kelsey coalition, dr. william j. malone of the society for evidence-based gender medicine, dr. paul w. hruz of the national catholic bioethics center, laura haynes of narth, and deacon dr. patrick w. lappert of catholic reparative therapy group courage international. participants discuss crafting their language to avoid acknowledging that transgender people exist, constructing new ways to define doctors as criminals for providing gender-affirming care, and targeting a federal agency publication that correctly points out the dangers of anti-gay conversion therapy. their emails frequently digress into personal vendettas and ambitions of destroying established professional groups such as the endocrine society, and they typically celebrate their anti-trans legal and political achievements as a victory of the christian god.
the emails describe a wider national effort against transition treatment for minors, which included discussions with idaho rep. julianne young and sen. steve vick, georgia rep. ginny earhart, and florida rep. anthony sabatini. several anti-lgbt conservative legal groups are intimately involved in the discussion, including alliance defending freedom, adf-affiliated detransitioners hacsi horvath and walt heyer, eunie smith of eagle forum, adf-linked attorney vernadette r. broyles of the child & parental rights campaign, jane robbins of the american principles project, kara dansky and natasha chart of women’s liberation front, richard mast of liberty counsel, and emily zinos of minnesota family council and hands across the aisle. more recently, the transphobia-captured state of alabama harassed the endocrine society and wpath with subpoenas for their internal communications regarding hate groups and individuals participating in the deutsch emails, including segm, the american college of pediatricians, michael laidlaw, william malone, andre van mol, michelle cretella, and quentin van meter. the release of the deutsch emails is in the public interest and brings an equivalent level of transparency to the internal work of these major anti-trans advocacy and lobbying groups.
CLARIFICATION: i, maia, am not the source of this email leak, merely a publisher, since i feel that this should be more widely available than just to selected journalists''
and finally a link to maia website with the emails
Also here's a link to the news article about this if you don't have the spoons to read all of those emails
Signal boost this one you guys. People need to see this
thanks @nyancrimew
I see a lot of people joking about the adhd thing of "I have a appointment/phone call at 3pm, guess I won't do anything all day!"
But no one seems to make the connection that it's a time blindness thing. One of the symptoms of ADHD is not having a good and accurate sense of time. And not doing stuff prior to an event with a hard deadline is an obvious coping mechanism for that.
Can I go to the store? It's 10am and the appointment is at 3pm. How long does going to the store take? An hour? Three hours? Five hours? I DON'T KNOW!
I get anxious trying to do things before appointments because I'm aware that I don't know how long those things take, and that if I think I do, I may be very wrong. Too often I've been like "hey I can walk to the corner store and grab a drink, that'll take like 15 minutes!" and then an hour later I get back and whoops my rice has burnt.
Plus there's also the fact that ADHD people know that motivation and focus is a two-edged sword.
Like, let's say you decide to play a video game. You've got time, you can pause/save whenever, so this should be a perfect fit to make good use of your waiting-time. So you start playing and WHOOPS you get really focused for some reason today (because people with ADHD do not get to pick when their brain decides to focus) and the next time you look at the clock it's 2:49 and you haven't showered or dressed and the appointment is 30 minutes away. Fuck. (you could have set an alarm, but now you're asking people with the forgetting-things-and-time-ignoring condition to remember it set alarms)
And with motivation, it can be almost worse. Instead of playing a game, you so something useful or creative. You clean your room or fix your plumbing or write a story or draw a picture. And suddenly it's great. Your brain is firing on all cylinders. You've got all the motivation you can ask for, and you are FLYING. the ideas are brilliant, your hands are nimble, you're getting stuff done you've been putting off for weeks or months. And then the alarm goes off. Time to go to your appointment. Fuck.
You drive there, your brain still full of ideas and plans. But by the time you get back, the motivation is gone. You may still have the ideas but you don't have the drive to write them down. You can't force yourself to do it. Your sink is still in pieces. Your room is half-cleaned, and you have to shove all the sorted clothes into one big bin just so you have somewhere to sleep. You've left things half finished again, in a cycle that has been repeating your whole fucking life. It seems sometimes that nothing ever gets finished.
So next time you don't even start. There's not time. You've been burnt too many times. Why add another half-completed project to your pile of shame?
My point is that people seem to be going "lol I can't do anything all day if I have an appointment at 3pm" like this is a quirky "oh I'm so scatterbrained!" weirdness they alone have, and not a major complication of a disabling mental illness.
(and that's not even getting into the secondary effects. If you know that having an appointment ruins your whole damn day, you're going to avoid them. Even when it's things like "going to that party" or "meeting your friends for a drink/game" or "going to a movie with that cute girl from your math class". Things you should enjoy. Things that'd help you be social. Things that make you feel human.)
People really don't know what transunity is or don't believe that even if you don't like certain people for whatever reason, they still should be afforded the same rights and protections as you.
Transfemmes that do wrong (I personally know one who gets me mad everytime irl because she abused my partner and me) still deserve transunity and the right to live in a world free from transphobia (yes, all legs of transphobia, too).
Transmascs that do wrong (I've mostly experienced them online) still deserve the right to live in a world without transphobia and deserve transunity.
Transneutral and all other trans people deserve the right to live in a world where there is transunity and no transphobia.
Hell, even cis and gender nonconforming (whether cis or trans or whatever) deserve transunity and to not live in a transphobic world.
If you want the world to be a better place, for the trans community to be better, then get over putting your personal shit onto whole demographics.
Why are you so for hurting that person who did you wrong that you'll gladly hurt yourself in the process? And not only yourself, but really all people?
I’m reading The Deviants War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America and the entire point of gay pride as a concept comes from police raids on bars, clubs, public restrooms, etc where gays were humiliated and outed in the newspapers (sometimes with their addresses!) and had careers ruined and lives upended by being associated with perversion and vice squads and all that and they responded by going “no I’m proud” and took that pride to the streets in defiance of the huge mechanism of shame that existed to oppress the gay community into obscurity and so the fact that people are now trying to apply conservative dogma to pride parades to make them “safe for children” or in other words “safe for people with oppressive conservative values” is simply insane
To phrase this more clearly: “public indecency” laws were the primary tool for brutally enforcing gender and sexual conformity, so applying a “public indecency” lens to pride parades of all things is a slap in the face of everyone who ever suffered under gender & sexual oppression and took their anger (and yes their pride!) to the streets. If it makes you uneasy or uncomfortable maybe you’re not on the side you think you are!
“if you consume enough problematic media then there will be a point in which you become desensitized and replicate the behavior”
right, that’s why all my media studies professors moonlight as serial killers
half-serious quip aside, what you’re saying is that you think people have the inherent moral fiber of overcooked pasta and if you don’t spoonfeed them pre-digested purity, they will revert to their baser nature of amoral, immoral, cruel and murderous beasts which, frankly, means you’re a dehumanizing cunt
This is almost 1:1 the argument of ‘If you don’t have God, how can you be moral?’ Execpt, this is about consuming fiction.
How can you leave this absolute Mic drop in the tags
