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Tracking the Anti-LGBTQIA+ Movement

Started by Lexi Darling, Feb 27, 2025, 03:24 PM

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Feb 27, 2025, 03:24 PM
What if we just replaced oxygen with swag?
#1 Feb 27, 2025, 05:19 PM
What if we just replaced oxygen with swag?
#2 Feb 27, 2025, 10:19 PM Last Edit: Feb 28, 2025, 03:27 AM by Lexi Darling
Looks like Texas is going after adult trans healthcare.

I don't like to say "I told you so", but I'm gonna say "I told you so" to everyone who fell for the JAQ- off rhetoric of the piece of shit liars who tried to tell us "it's about protecting the kids" or "it's about protecting women's spaces" or "it's about protecting the integrity of women's sports" or "you can do what you want with your body but I don't have to respect you as a woman". TERFs have never done anything other than carry water for fascism.

This was always the end goal. They want our safety and happiness obliterated. They want us out of public life and denied healthcare, left to suffer with dysphoria-broken souls and holes in our bones. There is no "moderate position" on trans rights. You're either with us, or you're complicit in our removal from society.

What if we just replaced oxygen with swag?
#3 Feb 27, 2025, 10:49 PM
I'm with you, obviously, but you can't be surprised. It's fucking TEXAS! Don't you remember that pickup chasing after Biden's tour bus? I say again: it's TEXAS!  ::)

OT: I love your new avvy. I hope the kitty cat got a good severance package. A few cotton balls and a tuna every Tuesday at least, with an optional wind-up mouse?

#4 Feb 27, 2025, 11:04 PM
Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 27, 2025, 10:49 PMI'm with you, obviously, but you can't be surprised. It's fucking TEXAS! Don't you remember that pickup chasing after Biden's tour bus? I say again: it's TEXAS!  ::)

OT: I love your new avvy. I hope the kitty cat got a good severance package. A few cotton balls and a tuna every Tuesday at least, with an optional wind-up mouse?

I'm not surprised at all, I've expected this for a long time. I'm expressing my frustration with the people I've been arguing with for nearly 3 years who refused to listen when I said this would happen eventually.

And thank you! Francesca is doing quite well, she'll be comfortably enjoying her retirement from her avatar position just in time for her 10th birthday in May. :)

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#5 Feb 27, 2025, 11:30 PM
Very smart to document all of this as much as possible, in as many places as possible, and name as many names as possible. Since the way back machine can be wiped now, things actually can be scrubbed from the internet. Not only for the sake of cutting through the bullshit now, but also to help prevent these ghouls from covering their asses and doing revisionism down the line when this horrendous shit is looked back on with disdain and embarrassment. Make it as hard for those fucks as possible to launder everything. Every bit counts.

As well-documented and easily accessible information is on the rise of fascism in the early 20th century, it's clear by the sheer number of people who are still clueless or in denial about what is going on right now (not to mention the people cheering it on) that there will be much more needed to curb this cycle from repeating again (probably far harsher accountability). Turns out stupidity and evil overlap far more than I thought.

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#6 Feb 27, 2025, 11:32 PM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Feb 27, 2025, 11:04 PMI'm not surprised at all, I've expected this for a long time. I'm expressing my frustration with the people I've been arguing with for nearly 3 years who refused to listen when I said this would happen eventually.

And thank you! Francesca is doing quite well, she'll be comfortably enjoying her retirement from her avatar position just in time for her 10th birthday in May. :)

What's wild is how quickly the hysteria directed at trans people was whipped up and weaponized. It was always an undercurrent, but they really went from 0 to 100000 in a split second just a couple years ago.

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#7 Feb 28, 2025, 12:32 AM
Another reason why I started my Trumped! How to Dismantle a Democracy journal, though the speed of his attempts to burn down America has caught me off-balance. I will get back to it though.




#8 Feb 28, 2025, 01:07 AM
Quote from: Auroras In Ice on Feb 27, 2025, 11:32 PMWhat's wild is how quickly the hysteria directed at trans people was whipped up and weaponized. It was always an undercurrent, but they really went from 0 to 100000 in a split second just a couple years ago.

Yep. None of these people even pretended to care about any of this before the initial 2016 bathroom nonsense, and even after that people seemed to move on pretty quick. I have been using women's bathrooms since 2009 and I can guarantee most of these people have shared a bathroom with a trans person prior to this hysteria and didn't notice or care.

We've existed this whole time and yet surely if this were such a pressing issue you could find a post from 99% of these MAGA chodes talking about all these evil child grooming trans people that was made before 2022. Right wing influencers all started pushing this shit at the same time, it was an orchestrated astroturf; the evidence speaks for itself and yet if I ever said it's all a deliberate, well organized and funded christofascist persecution campaign against us, then I sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist to everyday people. Like, they have to remember pre-2022, they know this was never an actual issue. So frustrating and soul-crushing.

I see people being like "arrrgh I miss the days before all this newfangled woke gender nonsense in the schools blah blah", when like, I came out in high school and was generally treated well by the faculty and I wasn't even the only out trans person in my class. And that was all in the good old conservative Bush era.

The right preyed on the public's general (and understandable, we're less than 1% of the population!) unfamiliarity with trans people to enable themselves to spread any libelous reheated Anita Bryant shit they could think of that seemed logical to people who don't read or watch anything but Fox News.

And I'm backing up these articles on my local drives, to your other point. I'm very thankful for your support. <3


What if we just replaced oxygen with swag?
#9 Feb 28, 2025, 03:35 AM
What if we just replaced oxygen with swag?
#10 Mar 02, 2025, 06:21 AM
A bill is being introduced to ban LGBTQIA+ content online nationwide under the guise of "protecting the kids" from "pornography".

This is already happening on a less widespread scale, with book bans in libraries of "pornographic" content that actually ban things like children's books where a kid has two moms. They never mean actual pornography when they say this shit; there isn't any pornography in school libraries. I have seen right wingers call books teaching kids about having safe sex "pornography" because of course the party of rapists' rights activists would hate books like that.


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#11 Mar 02, 2025, 03:24 PM
Just waiting for the phrase "Party-approved literature/art" and another Bonfire of the Vanities.  ::)

#12 Mar 02, 2025, 09:04 PM
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#13 Mar 04, 2025, 10:51 AM
The EO banning trans women from sports was not passed as law for now.

Finally some good news. Hopefully this will be the start of some momentum that will encourage politicians to push back more and more against the right's anti-human rights campaign.

What if we just replaced oxygen with swag?
#14 Mar 04, 2025, 09:15 PM
In reality, I imagine that's mostly down to sponsors, who don't want to be seen to be getting drawn in to publicly being anti-trans perhaps. And all the money they'd lose from pro-trans organisations, of course. Can't forget the money. Always with the money.

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