Tracking the Anti-LGBTQIA+ Movement

[Weekender]

Cops burst into women's restroom to remove butch lesbian, accusing her of being a man

Expect more and more of this shit as long as the right continues the anti trans crusade. The policing of gender hurts everyone, not just trans people.

ACAB

There isn't even a bathroom law in Arizona. Busting in on someone taking a dump...now that's a scandal.

[Auroras In Ice]

New PM in Canada.

Carney's got a pretty good track record for endorsing LGBTQ+ rights and diversity initiatives, but he's already tacking to the right on some key economic policies to undercut his dollarstore Trump Conservative opponent's key talking points which is not a good sign. He's a banker and business rat, so his views follow money not principles. If he's smart, he'll leave it at those specific policies but as we've seen everywhere liberals reliably shit the bed by trying to become right-lite parties to scoop up a handful of "moderate voters" that don't actually exist and then end up losing elections then never learning the right lessons from that because they only listen to donors and consultants. He's got a pretty good shot at winning the upcoming fed elections only riding the unity that's emerged to counter threats from the US, but in the best case trans and LGBTQ+ issues will just be frozen in place unless there's significant pressure to rapidly build strong protections for them. My trans and gay friends here are relieved but not optimistic, and I share that sentiment. Our left-ish party (NDP) is suffering from a severe leadership problem and the party's completely ineffective leader refuses to take the hint and step down, so there's unlikely to be much pressure from the left. We may buy ourselves some time, but more neoliberalism will only end up opening the door for the fash to walk through. 

Edited:

Texas bill attempting to make it a felony to identify as trans.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-bill-identifying-transgender-felony-201223947.html

I remember when transphobes used to concern troll about it being a "mental health" thing. Now, I guess it's a matter of criminality. Interesting arc. It's almost like it's just about hating and wanting to erase trans people from society.

[Lexi Darling]

@Auroras In Ice Yup, I remember that too. Just like when it was "identify however you want, just don't 'push it on The Kids'". Every single bit of the "reasonable concerns" the right asked us to "meet in the middle" on were all a lie. You give fascists an inch, they will take a mile. Every time. And anyone who actually thought republicans would stop if we conceded sports or bathrooms or puberty blockers is a damned sucker.

[Auroras In Ice]

I wonder if the pink triangle has any significance. Nahhh, I'm sure it's nothing. Just a coincidence. One of a great many that can be simply explained away.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle

[Lexi Darling]

Pentagon 'cherry picked' studies to support transgender service member ban, judge says

go offfff queen, drag their asses

[Trollheart]

I love that word "excoriate" - to strip the skin from.
Gotta laugh at this bit!

Attorney General Pam Bondi's chief of staff Chad Mizelle alleged that Reyes demonstrated a political bias, compromised the dignity of the proceedings and inappropriately questioned a DOJ attorney about his religious beliefs.

How do they keep a straight face? Either of them, I mean, as we all know they each have two.

[Lexi Darling]

House Republican adjourns hearing after exchange over misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride

Great to see more people speaking up like this.

[Trollheart]

Linking this story, which I posted in the "Trump Redux" thread, as it probably impacts upon a lot of the LGBTQ community.
Trump has to reinstate fired workers

[Lexi Darling]

Definitely one of the best articles I've seen breaking down the "concerns" of anti trans conservatives.

[Lexi Darling]

GOP lawmakers pass bill allowing child genital exams without parental consent

The Party of Perverts and Pedophiles strikes again.

[Lexi Darling]

[Lexi Darling]

11th Circuit Court Finds Florida School Was Not Obligated to Forcibly Out Trans Students

Some more good news.

[Lexi Darling]

Utterly disgusting.

Notice how they only meet with detransitioners, most of whom, including ones in this sham of an interview, never even started medical transition, and they never meet with any trans people. They literally have to shut ~99% of transitioners out of the discussion because they know that the actual fucking facts and evidence do not support their hateful narrative. This is entirely a kangaroo operation designed to trick people into crusading against trans healthcare, autism research and vaccines. Shame on this shithole government and everyone who supports this.

More of this nonsense.

It's not a normal way to approach medical treatment to try to ban medications and procedures that the overwhelming majority of patients are very satisfied with and has improved and turned around their lives, just because a small percentage of them were not satisfied. Everyone who enters medical transition is told exactly what it will do and what risks there are. And an even smaller amount of these detransitioners even transitioned medically. Here's a couple of the detrans snakes and the company they keep.

Maia "Poet" Abbruzzese, daughter of the founder of an anti trans activist group.

Chloe Cole Brockman, associate of members of far right fascist group the Proud Boys.

This is an astroturf operation funded by and aligned 100% with fascists; these detransitioners are being paid handsomely to be flown around the country to plead their totally good faith sob stories that surely weren't written to the specifications of their Russian handlers. The anti trans movement is just the fascists in the government and the fascists outside of it all parroting and agreeing with the same lies, over and over again.

[Lexi Darling]

Not a news item, but this is easily the best comprehensive video I've seen breaking down exactly why TERFism and the transphobic libel of this current anti-trans movement are at their core, fascist. The video creator didn't mince words about it and I'm not going to either; "gender critical" as a movement is both ideologically (and in a staggering number of cases, literally) aligned with the far right, and the video cites examples of nearly every prominent "gender critical"/TERF letting the mask slip or saying the quiet part out loud.

Anyone who is still being tricked into thinking these people are waging an anti-trans crusade in the name of feminism is quite frankly, a fool.

[Lexi Darling]

Olympic boxing gender row a result of Russian fake news, says IOC chief

As good as it is that this is being voiced as the official stance, the damage has been done and I'm 100% confident that this statement won't convince the right wing transvestigators. Like all conspiracy brainrot, once it takes hold, any piece of information that disproves the conspiracy is all a fake news plot by the woke deep state or whatever.