before we start posting that july is gay wrath month let’s consider that july is disability pride month first and foremost. the “be gay do crimes” memes can wait
before this post breaches containment and people start going “why not both hehehe” i want you to seriously consider the very long history of disabled people’s existence being pushed aside and/or seen as secondary. i promise you it’s not going to hurt to hold onto the memes and give disabled people space for visibility and celebration.
i say this as a disabled trans person whose trans identity is made front-and-center to the (mainly cis) people who know i’m trans but my identity as a disabled person is brushed off by the very same people.
the us govt is poised to strip disabled people of every right we have gained in the past 27 years as we speak. not theoretically. right now. the DOJ put out a memo that says that states do not have an obligation to give us the services we need to survive unless we are institutionalized. they are trying to resegregate disabled people. they want us either dead or detained in for-profit institutions. ask yourself: have any of the pride celebrations you’ve attended this past month addressed this? made any meaningful effort to stand in solidarity with the disabled community while our rights to exist in public are being specifically targeted and systematically dismantled? have they offered any action items? words of encouragement? anything at all?
the nazis gassed disabled people first (look up aktion t-4 or watch the documentary disposable humanity.) the left’s deliberate ignorance to our plight in favor of doing molly at the physically inaccessible corporate-sponsored pride parade is not unnoticed and will not save you from meeting the same fate we are headed for. fighting for us before we are gone is your best chance for survival.
***i am a disabled trans man***











