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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2025-01-22

[thread 3/x] Transphobia
[thread 2/x] mastodon.social/@persagen/1134
[parent 1/x] mastodon.social/@persagen/1131







Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2024-10-09

BC Conservatives Using 2SLGBTQIA+ Student Supports as Wedge Election Issue, Experts Say
Rustad kicked off the election campaign by stating the SOGI 123 initiative is “too divisive"
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati

Transphobia tactics
mastodon.social/@persagen/1130

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2024-09-13

Trump using anti-trans rhetoric to distract f. his waffling on abortion
Repeats baseless claims that schools perform gender-affirming surgeries on children w.o. parents’ consent
19thnews.org/2024/09/trump-gen





Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2024-09-12

[thread] Canada, education, transphobia
mastodon.social/@persagen/1105

[subthread] Canada, transphobia: 1MillionMarch4Children
mastodon.social/@persagen/1110
* nospaceforhate.net





Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2024-09-12

Transphobia tactics
mastodon.social/@persagen/1130

Wedge strategies, tactics
Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth / meme
persagen.org/docs/transgender_

[thread] Weaponization of language
mastodon.social/@persagen/1107



Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2024-08-29

Transphobia tactics

* wedge strategies: persagen.com/docs/transgender_
* rhetoric/weaponization of language: mastodon.social/@persagen/1107
* memes/psyops e.g. mastodon.social/@persagen/1106
* populism...

Add:

Republicans rewrite bills meant to benefit everyone to push anti-trans agendae
19thnews.org/2024/08/republica

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2024-08-07

Trans People are a Menace to God-Fearing Toilets
counterpunch.org/2024/08/07/tr

* 2016: UK mainstream press carried story re: trans people/political correctness
* Oxford University bans the words "he, she"
* story not true ...

[thread] Weaponization of language
mastodon.social/@persagen/1107

Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth
persagen.com/docs/transgender_

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2024-08-02

Trump’s Divide & Conquer Scheme for Black America
Twisted political agenda behind smearing Kamala Harris a political/racial chameleon
thenation.com/article/politics

Tried/true wedge strategy/tactic, pioneered by Discovery Institute (intell. design)

* separate the T from the LGB ... etc. etc. etc.
* weaponization of language: mastodon.social/@persagen/1109
* eradication of public education: mastodon.social/@persagen/1104

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2023-09-17

Addendum 4
See also A1 re: Trump

Trump Schools Evangelicals on How to Talk About Abortion
Extreme rhetoric—and policies—are costing Republicans elections, he warns
motherjones.com/politics/2023/

* At Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand conference in DC (mastodon.social/@persagen/1110) Trump ticked off long list of his pro-life accomplishments
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2023-09-15

Addendum 1:

I'll expand on my post.

At the end of the day, "groom*" is a word in the English language. Times change, however.

In 2023 h/e - amidst a societal tsunami of polarizing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric / legislation / violence - and as a trans person I take exception to the CBC normalizing the use of that word.
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Slides: persagen.com/html/intro_01.htm
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https://persagen.com/html/intro_01.html#/25 Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. state legislatures • In the last few years U.S. states have advanced a record number of bills that attack LGBTQ rights, especially transgender youth. The ACLU is tracking these attacks and working with our national network of affiliates to support LGBTQ people everywhere. ... • LGBTQ people have a right to live in safety, to thrive, and to be treated with dignity.
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2023-06-25

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