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A lot of bad things have happened to trans people in the past week and then some. I'm going to provide a little briefer on some select news items right here to demonstrate what's going on, a little bit of the story, why we need cis people to step up 1/13
A lot of bad things have happened to trans people in the past week and then some. I'm going to provide a little briefer on some select news items right here to demonstrate what's going on, a little bit of the story, why we need cis people to step up 1/13
Here's a quote from a popular right-wing political commentator in the US calling to prevent trans people from having bodily autonomy. 2/13
He recently put out a transphobic documentary that uses photos of children without their permission and potentially includes child pornography (???). Ads for this documentary are circling on youtube, and you can report it. 3/13 https://twitter.com/WibDoesTweets/status/1533411188985548802
In the UK, two women had a recorded conversation where one literally said they need to reduce the number of trans people. One of the women here is known for writing a propaganda book arguing that (surprise) trans women shouldn't be allowed in society 4/13 https://twitter.com/setoacnna/status/1533204551251132417
You'd think that a discriminatory book based on incorrect science wouldn't be a big deal, but many newspapers are okay with promoting it! See positive reviews for this book in The New York Times and The Guardian 5/13
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/18/trans-by-helen-joyce-material-girls-by-kathleen-stock-reviews
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/18/trans-by-helen-joyce-material-girls-by-kathleen-stock-reviews
So, a few rich people with notable publishing platforms have called to eliminate trans people. How does that influence everyday people? Ohio just put out a law that allows high school girls to have their genitals examined 6/13 https://twitter.com/MorganTrau/status/1532417493658177536
It is clear that this will be used to target Black girls, based on how the Olympics handled Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/us/black-women-athletes-treatment-olympics-spt/index.html
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In Texas after the Uvalde shooting, a trans girl was assaulted because trans people were blamed for the shooting (including by a sitting Congressperson!). She was on her way back to her halfway house, after her parents kicked her out for coming out...
https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/05/25/texas-trans-girl-assaulted-over-gop-lies-about-uvalde-shooting/
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https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/05/25/texas-trans-girl-assaulted-over-gop-lies-about-uvalde-shooting/
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... and she only came out because she was going to be force-outed by her school. This next school incident is even worse though 9/13
In WI, a trans girl was harassed in school. She filed a Title IX complaint because she was being discriminated against her sex (female, of course). The school went virtual after receiving bomb threats and eventually dropped the complaint. 10/13 https://fox11online.com/news/local/kiel-school-district-ends-title-ix-investigation-amid-ongoing-threats
Closer to home, a Ventura school (CA) was vandalized bc they supported a trans student 11/13 https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/newbury-park-elementary-school-sprayed-with-graffiti-amid-transgender-controversy/
Florida just announced that it is ending transgender care for adults under medicaid by deeming that this care is experimental, despite it being implemented for over a century at least 12/13 https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1532451014300733440
That's not all, of course, but just a few of the major highlights over the past week or two. This is what is happening right now, and how the statements made from these larger platforms lead to violence. Please actively fight this. We deserve to live too 13/13
Here's a more detailed thread with a lot of overlapping information https://twitter.com/minusplnp/status/1533758348130238465?t=sJy-om787Fe7mFtVGJh5fg&s=19
