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It upsets me greatly the number if comments, not necessarily here, that are just like “lol he doesn’t mean it! Hes saying it for his base!” “LOL he will never be able to do it!” Like yes he can and he will… he is just as much a stupid hog as his followers. People need to stop pretending these is secretly an adult behind the Republicans, they are exactly the clown fascists they appear to be.
Like its really not comforting to see nominal allies not taking our extermination seriously.
He’s going to do it (and so is DeSatan). It will be red meat for his base and democrats will secretly love it, having an issue to fundraise about without really giving a shit about the outcome.
Trans and LGBT comrades should get organised, arm themselves and begin making escape plans
We should all be forming cadres and making plans to fight back and develop underground railroads.
Already have an escape plan in motion. Not only am I queer, but I am Jewish too so my ass should have started this a long time ago. Other than this site, I’m just going to keep my head down and fake being as :frothingfash: as I can until I’m safe.
I decided I’m going to be a lib and unironically try to find refuge in :kkkanada:. Not the best, but at least it would be the easiest move and Canada has some really good LGBT laws. We may have lost the culture wars in the states, but it’s not over yet in Canada. However, I an not ruling out taking the plunge and fucking off to Ireland. It’s not a settler-colonial state, it’s completely out of both fourteen eyes and NATO, and the Irish people voted in gay marriage via a popular vote.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that Toronto is majority foreign-born, so I can find strength in numbers from People’s Party hogs. That, and any non-American country has the advantage of hiding leftism behind Patriotism. Whenever someone suggests doing something fascist or lolbertarian, just respond “what are we, a bunch of Americans?”
The main reason Trump does this is that DeSantis is already halfway there as governor of Florida and that Trump has to one-up him. He absolutely is serious about this because all red states are moving into that direction at full speed. That means that even before the primaries have started, trans genocide is the Republican consensus, which means Democrats are almost guaranteed to be completely unwilling to push back against this.
Liberals aren’t allies, they never were. Allies stand up to fight, liberals are along for the ride.
“lol he doesn’t mean it! Hes saying it for his base!” “LOL he will never be able to do it!”
Isn’t this what people were saying about his Muslim ban and border wall back in 2015?
It doesn’t really matter whether he means it so long as it is popular enough with the right people. And these things are guaranteed to be coming down the pipeline. Trump is hardly alone in this, he isn’t even a leading figure in transphobic policy (yet). Desantis would so the same things, just more effectively, and there are hundreds of Desantises ready to be given power by the usual mechanisms. Trans people are a central focus of reaction and we will not be able to take the heat off of that without crushing reaction itself, which requires, and has always required, ground-up radical organizing (that liberals will then try to recuperate).
What a time to be questioning your gender 🙃
the day I realized I had to transition, I woke up from a dream in which I had and was happy. waking up into my (then) normal life was devastating. so I went on reddit to distract myself and that day of all days was when news of the Trump EOs directing the federal government to hurt trans people while the administration was quoted, promising genocide, had hit the top of all the trans subs. I bawled for a bit and I was a mess for a few months but I transitioned and my dream came true.
ignore the news if you need to. if it’s very important, you’ll hear it even if you’re trying to avoid it.
Why did Western right wing decided to go full Hitler against trans people?
Absolutely maddening that while being taught about the book burnings in middle school and high school that they conveniently gloss over what the contents of the first book burning were and where they came from other than “literature the Nazi’s didn’t like”. I was several years into my transition before I learned about the Institute für Sexualwissenschaft.
Found it frustating too when teachers/book talk about communism bad because it arrest dissidents/political opponents, but never talk exactly what are those dissidents/political opponents beliefs are.
It’s like that with most of our education system
They teach us about the book The Jungle yet they never assign it to our reading lists, curious isn’t it?
They teach us about Helen Keller when she was a child but never about her socialist activism as an adult
They teach us the sanitized version of the civil rights movement where Martin Luther King “had a dream” and Rosa Parks sat on a bus but never about Dr. King’s more radical anti-war stance or his downright socialist stance on poverty that let to the Poor People’s March let alone about the Black Panthers
And not just any old studies of trans people but the entire fucking archive of Berlin’s institute of sexology, the first institution of its kind, that they shut down after taking power in 1933. Decades of scientific work was lost.
The institute didn’t just research human sexuality, including gay, transgender and intersex studies, they also provided education and treatment on topics like alcoholism, veneral diseases, sexual counselling and contraception to professionals and the general public.
And look at this gem that I found on Wikipedia when reading about the institute:
The West German courts found that the foundation’s dissolution and the seizure of property by the Nazis in 1934 was legal. The West German legislature also retained the Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, making it impossible for surviving gay men to claim restitution for the destroyed cultural center.
Germany must perish. :germany-cool:
declining empires love to have crises of masculinity. it’s their favorite thing.
I hope people were right that hyper-focusing on children’s genitals is part of what lost republicans ground in the mid-terms, because they are leaning into it very hard and the severity of their language is increasing quite a bit. It’s terrifying.
I do think anyone who isn’t an Evangelical, Mormon, TradCath, etc is moving in that direction, I’m cautiously optimistic. It’s one of those issues that a lot of people don’t have a lot of direct experience with. But I think most normal humans capable of empathy will see some videos on YouTube of the struggles that trans kids go through and realize they’re not down with the GOP’s trajectory on this.
I do think this notion of trying to ban adults from gender affirming care has gained some steam in recent months among reactionaries. That I know will be super unpopular with most Americans.
Yeah banning adults from gender affirming care does seem like a place many people will draw their line. I also wonder if a lot of the reactionary side of this is mostly from very online people who follow like libs of tik tok and Jordan Peterson and get all worked up about some bullshit they post. If your average, run of the mill republican voter isn’t following that shit, videos like this probably sound pretty deranged.
I also wonder if a lot of the reactionary side of this is mostly from very online people
Virulent transphobia gets a lot of air time on Fox News and the like, so I’m not as confident about that.
