Tracking the Anti-LGBTQIA+ Movement

[Trollheart]

"Transvestigators"! Love it! Also for you to use if you want: transquisitors.

[Lexi Darling]

"Transvestigators"! Love it! Also for you to use if you want: transquisitors.

Everybody expects the Trannish Inquisition.

[Trollheart]

Their main power is hate. Hate and fear.
Two: their two main powers are hate and fear. And jealousy.
Three: their three main powers are hate, fear and jealousy, and an almost fanatical devotion to Trump.
Four: their four main powers are hate, fear, jealousy and an almost fanatical devotion to Trump. And ignorance.
Sigh.
Among their main powers are...

[Lexi Darling]

Proposed HHS Rule Would Ban Trans Healthcare From Essential Health Benefit Coverage In ACA Plans

If this goes through, it will be absolutely devastating and lead to countless adult trans people, especially in red states, having their coverage for HRT removed. Most trans people are not well-off by any means and rely on insurance to afford HRT. I'm tired of saying "fuck this administration", all I can do now is just hope that it doesn't get implemented.

I'm not sure if I'd be directly affected by it; even though my state is purple, our governor is very pro trans and it seems like this would just eliminate protections rather than forcibly mandate that gender care not be covered. So I'd be at the mercy of the powers that be I guess. And on a related note, one potentially positive personal bit of news is that I found out that my husband's health plan covers domestic partnerships of any sex, so the fear I'd previously voiced about same sex marriage being repealed and being cut off from my healthcare seems like it will be fine. Small silver linings I guess.

[Lexi Darling]

"I Cannot Imagine Surviving": Read the Stories of the Trans Women Facing Forced Head Shaving and Medical Detransition in Florida Prisons

Trans Prisoners Say Trump's Ban on Gender-Affirming Care Could Be Deadly

I think everyone should read these articles. This is soul crushing, deeply upsetting and terrifying. This is what MAGA wants nationwide, what the "people" behind the Texas adult HRT ban bill have indisputably announced that they want to do to all of us.

I'm struck with a certain numbness in my soul just thinking about the amount of people out there who will cheer on this inhuman, barbaric, monstrous abuse of human life, and those who will still support the Trump administration unwaveringly. This is what the right and their useful idiot "feminists" of the TERF movement's campaign of demonizing us and reducing us to a "political issue" has done. They spent years and billions of dollars in media propaganda and political campaigns calling trans people predators and child groomers and mentally ill and positioning us invariably as "the enemy", and even the people who could speak up for us don't, because that would be bad for their optics.

I'm ashamed to live on the same planet as the hateful brutish filth that support this.

[Lexi Darling]

Trump administration pauses $175M in funding to UPenn over trans athlete policy

They're removing funding for a school because a trans athlete swam for the school three years ago. What is these sickos' deranged obsession with us? We're living in the creepiest most pathetic dictatorship ever.

[Lexi Darling]

Hungary just made all LGBTQ+ Pride events illegal and MAGA is desperate to do the same in the USA

[Lexi Darling]

Aldi just became the first UK supermarket to provide free in-store period products and transphobes are mad

I wouldn't normally post such inconsequential fluff on here, but I thought this was funny in how pathetic it is; even when trans people are being legally erased from public life transphobes still just never stop whining and moaning and pretending they're victims. For being the "preferred pronouns are policing our speech!!" crowd, transphobes certainly like to try to police others' speech.

Also since "people who menstruate" is apparently an incorrect thing to say and they'd rather it say "women", good on them for letting us know they don't think women are people I guess.

These people are so deeply pathetic and sad. There are so many awful things happening worldwide at the moment and yet this is what they find the energy to get worked up over.

[Auroras In Ice]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-proposes-bill-punish-supporting-122442691.html

Arkansas bill to direct lawsuits at people who use trans people's preferred names and give youth "gender non-conforming haircuts". Not even sure what to say about these demons anymore.


Here up north, the right found out that our new PM's kid is trans (or non-binary) and have been going bonkers about it. Attacking the family of politicians is looked down on most places, but it's extremely taboo in Canada. As someone who doesn't care much about decorum or civility, this is one of the few things that I think is a good solid line to draw. It happens, of course, but it's typically immediately clamped down on, often with the strongest rebukes coming from one's own side for stepping over this line. Not this time, though. Conservatives are just staying quiet and looking the other way.

[Lexi Darling]

Read this thread. This is a declaration that he is coming for us.

I'd like to share one thing that happened recently. Aaron and I went out for brunch a few days ago and overheard this older guy there parroting all the anti trans maga rhetoric to the restaurant clerk, right down to the "they're transing the mice" and "12 year olds are getting bottom surgery" shit. Aaron spoke up and started calling out the lies and got into a debate. All the old man could say in defense of his arguments was "look it up" and accuse my husband of watching "too much CNN".

Those are the kind of people the MAGA cult leaders are telling bold faced lies to, and now they're being told by the richest man in the world that trans people are violent sex criminals who blow up cars as acts of terrorism.

Trans people are not safe in America.

And for reference here's a link to a thread explaining quite a few reasons why the statistic image he used is deliberately manipulated and disingenuously presented.

[Lexi Darling]

Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report

[Lexi Darling]

Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment

Still on hiatus for a bit longer, I just had to pop in to post this. Very inspiring.

[Lexi Darling]

Columbus Schools changes student profiles to birth names after dropping transgender policy

This is so fucked up and dehumanizing. Like, I changed my name, what the fuck relevance does the name I was given before I was even conscious have? This is utterly disgusting and tracks with other conservatives' allegations that being trans is adopting a fraudulent identity of some sort. But this is just so bizarre, it doesn't just fuck with trans people, people change their names for a multitude of reasons. If I for some godforsaken reason went back to school in an Ohio college, they'd be forcing me against my will to be "Alexander D." instead of "Alexandria F.". This is utterly absurd and exists solely to cause humiliation, confusion and distress. What the fuck. Why are these people so obsessed with us, this is deranged sadistic psychopathic behavior.

[Lexi Darling]

Cis woman 'fired after customer accused her of being trans' says it felt like a 'stab in the back'

Another example of how the bathroom paranoia hurts everyone.

[Lexi Darling]

This is what Trump's hateful rhetoric is emboldening.