Stonewall didn’t start with a rainbow. It began with a brick thrown in defiance, by those who refused to be erased. At the origin of queer liberation stood trans women, drag queens, sex workers, and other gender-nonconforming people who risked everything to stand against state violence.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-hypocrisy-behind-trans-erasure-in-the-lgbtq-movement-d4f124d33e89
#TransErasure
@persagen I guess the question is not if #trans people are leaving the #UK but merely where to and how...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl15b2_Zk-w
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TERFisland #UKpol #NHS #AntiTransHate #TransErasure #TransGenocide #TransDemocide
Although it isn't making even the fringes of the mainstream discourse surrounding the fascist GOP's election-rigging SAVE Act, the reality is that unless nazis with an eliminationist agenda towards trans people make some sort of exception, the bill will likely disenfranchise every trans person in America who has legally changed their name, and quite possibly most people who are in the process of transition and thus have ID that may be inconsistent with their presentation or other documents:
Federal Voter ID Bill Attacks Trans Voters — and Anyone Else Who Has Changed Their Name
"Much of the news coverage of the SAVE Act has focused almost entirely on the broad category of “married women” — a bloc of 69 million who may not have updated documents. But arguably, such a law is aimed directly at transgender people in addition to affecting married people who change their names. And that’s not to mention the 140 million U.S. citizens who don’t have passports and tens of millions who also don’t have easy access to a birth certificate. Regardless, the fact that trans people are at the center of this story has been easy to sideline: A story published by NPR last week listed eight things to know about this legislation — but didn’t mention the implications for trans people at all."
At this point can anyone who has been paying attention (a very small group indeed, as far as I can tell) claim to be surprised that trans-eliminationist nazis are trying to pass a law that further erases trans people from public life and social participation, yet most of American society hasn't even registered that as a potential consequence of this disastrous, anti-democratic bill? After all, when the president of the United States signed an executive order more or less saying that trans people didn't exist, which historically is a sure sign that a government intends to make that a reality, most Very Serious PeopleTM in our discourse shrugged and pointed to public polling as an excuse to not speak out to defend trans people. So why would this act of erasure and disenfranchisement be any different?
"Benfield is concerned that not naming trans people as a target of this legislation contributes to an insidious process that is ongoing: the erasure of trans people from public life in general.
“It’s going to affect lots of different kinds of people,” she said of the SAVE Act. “But the reason that the erasure of trans people worries me in this conversation is that it’s consistent with strategic erasure from the public sphere that’s already been happening.”
That strategic erasure includes President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders attacking so-called “gender ideology” and both state and national legislation that attempts to criminalize support for trans youth in physical and social transition. There are now only two genders — “male” and “female”— and anyone who falls outside of that could potentially face being pushed out of public life, including schools, sports, restroom facilities, and now voting itself. Even policies like Trump’s executive orders that aren’t immediately enforceable create a chilling effect, pushing trans people into the closet through intimidation."
I would hope that because it requires sixty votes in the Senate, the SAVE Act is a dead on arrival bill; but I can't say I'm all that confident in a Democratic Party that is openly blaming the results of an election they seemingly *tried* to lose on their (actually, nonexistent) support of trans rights, and its ability to protect people like me. Even if the SAVE Act is shot down however, the fact that this attempt at the mass disenfranchisement of trans people in American civic life doesn't even rate a talking point in this very public debate, strongly implies that when these bills only target trans people, the establishment "opposition" to the fascist agenda will continue to shrug, offer empty words of condolence, and simply let it happen; which is pretty much par for the course in the fascist Trump 2.0 era.
To say that living in a society where your rights and even your existence are not so much up for debate, but rather already judged to be either irrelevant, or non-existent, is surreal and unnerving, would be an understatement of massive proportions. I guess there is one upside here however, because if trans people can no longer vote, perhaps I'll finally be free of liberals who honestly don't give a rats ass about my life, screaming at me to support a Democratic Party that doesn't care whether I live or die, while pretending their party is a much better advocate for my right to exist, than they actually are.
#Fascism #GOP #SAVEAct #LBTQ #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Disenfranchisement #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransErasure #Trump #Transphobia
#Maine governor criticizes #Trump administration for freezing funds amid #transgender athlete dispute: ‘It’s not rational’
By Alyssa Vega Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2025
"Maine #GovernorJanetMills criticized the Trump administration on Monday just days after it moved to cut all federal #education funding to the state. The move came in response to Maine’s refusal to enforce the administration’s directive to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
In an interview on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' Monday, Mills said the state received a series of letters from federal agencies, culminating in an April 2 letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, which the Maine governor described as 'appalling' in tone and substance. Mills said the next day Rollins threatened to pull all education funding to the state.
" 'Because there are maybe two — at most — two transgender athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to shut off funding for our school nutrition program, the school lunch program entirely, on which 172,000 Maine school #children rely for their school meals. That didn’t make any sense,' Mills said. "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NRfNV
#USPol #TrumpHatesChildren #TrumpIsABully #MadKingTrump #JanetMills #GovernorMills #TransgenderAthletes #TransAthletes #ProtectTransYouth #SeeYouInCourt #MaineResists #TransErasure #TransgenderRights #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
#Trump administration refers #Maine to #DOJ over #TransgenderAthletes
by Brooke Migdon - 04/11/25
"The Department of Education on Friday referred a #TitleIX investigation into Maine schools to the #JusticeDepartment after the state failed to reach a resolution with the Trump administration over a finding that it violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender students to participate in girls’ sports.
" 'The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda [sic] over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,' said Craig Trainor, acting assistant Education secretary for [WHAT A JOKE] civil rights.
"The Education Department in its announcement said it will also initiate administrative proceedings to determine whether to terminate federal #K12 education funding for Maine’s state education department, including formula and discretionary grants.
"'The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department,' Trainor said. 'Governor [Janet] Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom — be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.'
"Both the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which recently began investigating schools and states that allow transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, said in March that Maine had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination that the Trump White House says prohibits trans athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s teams."
#TransgenderRights #FollowTheScience #Transphobia #TransErasure #ProtectTransYouth #MaineResists #TrumpIsABully #SeeYouInCourt #AbortionRights? #WomensRights? #ArrestingMiscarryingWomen? #TrumpDoesntGiveAShitAboutWomen
Think about this. In America, the 'land of the free', the bastion of 'free speech', proclaimer of the 1st Amendment, you can publish and have posted on govt health/science sites all the papers you want about suicide rates amongst serial killers or the preferred diet of modern cannibals.
But your papers cannot so much as mention transgender people. They cannot be said to exist.
When and how do we burn this thing to the ground? Asking for a friend in a Guy Fawkes mask whose identity I can't remember.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/03/12/doctors-lawsuit-trump-research-transgender-lgbtq
I got a little something extra in the mail from Mr. Rubio today.
I would prefer zero bigotry, but I at least preferred when they were afraid to do it in public, let alone in writing.
@rogerparkinson #Trans people.exosted even in prehistoric times.
The #Nazis were just efficient at #democide and #genocide against them...
#TransRightsAreHumanRoghts #TransErasure #TransDemocide #TransGenocide #TransHistory
The latest news from the US about #transuicides and the overall #transerasure happening is hurting my heart in ways I honestly have never felt before. Even though it's been almost a year since I started my gender experimentations and crossings, especially with my gel nails every month, and my self exploration in that sense, understanding that I personally don't care about having a specific gender, feeling that being called a man or a woman is meaningless and I'm something else entirely, something that I can't really define because it's not static, giving myself the biggest possible freedom in this sense, I've always been afraid to include myself under the #trans umbrella. It always felt like I was still a male trying to appropriate something that wasn't mine, forcibly trying to enter a space I didn't belong to. Now it feels different. Now everything feels like it's touching me directly. It feels they're erasing me as well. It feels they want to kill me as well.
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@larsmb if that's not evidence of #TransGenocide with #TransErasure then IDK what is!
@flexghost next up is #TransGenocide...
- Cuz they're already full-steam ahead on #TransErasure!
@grincheux @danirabbit no, for people from the USA travelling abroad.
- The result is the same tho: #TransErasure to ease #TransDemocide and #TransGenocide !
Hm. Mastodon was my nice retreat from the politics of twitter. But my federated timeline appears to now be filled with repeated transphobic articles and Non-CW descriptions of gender crit activities and negativity.
I just want to break away from all that. It takes me to a dark place if I think about it.
RT @temptoetiam@twitter.com
wow Wow WOW
Superbe combo
Décision déplorable
× Implémentation absurde,
c'est du très haut niveau.
#TW literal #TransErasure https://twitter.com/s_palm/status/1555113804475772929
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/temptoetiam/status/1555291337850855432
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