Dykes for Trans Rights – Tomennow a-barth Gwiryow Treus
Easter Monday saw an emergency protest organised in Aberfal/Falmouth against the recent disgusting transphobic and queerphobic Supreme Court ruling removing trans rights. We have kindly been provided with a copy of one of the excellent speeches made at the very well-attended protest, which we reproduce for you here.
Dy’Lun Pask a welas protest goredhommek restrys yn Aberfal erbynn rewlyans treuskasek ha kwirgasek a-dhiwedhes a’n Lys Worughel ow tilea gwiryow treus. Yn hweg dhyn y fey danvenys kopi a onan a’n arethow marthys gwrys orth an protest meur y attendyans, ha ni a wra hy dasaskorra ragowgh hwi oll omma.
Easter Monday saw an emergency protest organised in Aberfal/Falmouth against the recent disgusting transphobic and queerphobic Supreme Court ruling removing trans rights. We have kindly been provided with a copy of one of the excellent speeches made at the very well-attended protest, which we reproduce for you here.
Amongst all of the other violence the Supreme Court has enacted against trans women & trans fems, one piece slipped by almost unnoticed. The Supreme Court has tried to rule that a lesbian can only be a female sexually orientated towards/attracted to other females. This attempt at driving a wedge between lesbians and trans women & fems cannot be allowed to happen.
Lesbian trans women & fems have always been part of the history of lesbianism, and will always be part of the future of lesbianism. Lesbianism should not be defined by a Supreme Court to exclude trans lesbians, because not only does it set a frankly terrifying precedent for courts ruling on queer sexuality, but it denies the history and importance of trans lesbians. A vocal minority are not the sum total of lesbians, a community in which cis lesbians regularly poll to be some of the staunchest trans allies.
And that is a call to arms. Cis lesbians, and cis queer women, you need to mobilise and weaponise your cis-ness to protect your trans sisters now. You need to kick off and raise hell and refuse to let transmisogyny fly around you. You also have to love trans women in your community, you have to make it well known that trans lesbians are not only included but welcome in your lesbian-only spaces. Defy the ruling on every singular level, however you can. Trans lesbians of all kinds, we have to uplift the trans women & fems in our communities. There is no perceived anomaly that comes up with lesbian trans women & fems. There’s only violent transmisogyny and lesbophobia.
This isn’t an aside, but the transmisogynistic attacks are the primacy of this and I’m sure everyone and their dog are tired of the topic being derailed from the fact that this ruling is because of and about violent transmisogyny, so it’s last. Not only has lesbianism always included lesbian trans women & trans fems, but it has always also included all kinds of lesbian trans & GNC people: lesbian transmascs, lesbian butches who aren’t cis, lesbian butches who are cis, GNC women, Studs, lesbians doing gender in new and unusual ways. There is no history of lesbianism without a history of transness and gender fuckery. No court ruling can change that and no court ruling ever will.
There is no such thing as an isolated struggle. All struggles for rights, for lives, for freedom, they are all connected.
Dykes should fight for trans rights today, tomorrow, and forever.
Dy’Lun Pask a welas protest goredhommek restrys yn Aberfal erbynn rewlyans treuskasek ha kwirgasek a-dhiwedhes a’n Lys Worughel ow tilea gwiryow treus. Yn hweg dhyn y fey danvenys kopi a onan a’n arethow marthys gwrys orth an protest meur y attendyans, ha ni a wra hy dasaskorra ragowgh hwi oll omma.
Yn-mysk oll an freudh erel re reythhas an Lys Worughel erbynn benenes ha fems treus, rann a slynkyas ogas hag anverkys. An Lys Worughel re assayas rewlya ny yll lesboses bos marnas benynreydh hag yw dynys dhe/teudhys yn reydhel troha benynreydhow erel. Ny yllir gasa dhe hwarvos an assay ma a herdhya genn yntra lesbosesow ha benenes & fems treus.
Fems & benenes treus lesbosel re beu pupprys rann a’n istori a lesbosedh, hag y fydhons pupprys rann a’n devedhek a lesbosedh. Ny delledh lesbosedh bos styrys gans Lys Worughel dhe geas mes lesbosesow treus, drefen hemma dhe settya ragrewl skruthus a lysow ow rewlya war reydholeth kwir, mes ynwedh y nagh an istori ha posekter lesbosesow treus. Nyns yw minoryta levyel an somm a lesbosesow, kemeneth mayth yw lesbosesow kes sondys yn fenowgh avel nebes a’n kreffa keffrysysi dreus.
Ha henn yw garm orth arvow. Lesbosesow kes ha benenes kwir kes, y kodh dhywgh sordya hag arvegi dha gesedh dhe dhifres agas hwerydh treus lemmyn. Y kodh dhywgh gul tervans ha denagha bos treusvengas y’gas kerghyn. Y kodh dhywgh kara benenes treus y’gas kemeneth, gul dhodho bos aswonys bos lesbosesow treus yssynsys hag ynwedh wolkom y’gas spasow lesbosel-hepken. Eryewgh an rewlyans war bub nivel, gwella gyllowgh. Lesbosesow treus a bub sort, res yw dhyn lyftya an benenes & fems treus y’gan kemenethow. Nyns eus digomposter percevys a hwer gans fems & benenes treus lesbosel. Nyns eus marnas treusvengas ha lesboskas freudhek.
Nyns yw hemma neppyth a-denewen, mes an omsettyansow treusvengasek yw an dra posekka a hemma ha my yw sur bos peub ha’ga hi skwith a vos tewlys a’n fakt bos an rewylans ma drefen hag a-dro dhe dreusvengas freudhek, ytho an diwettha yw. Lesbosedh re yssynsis pupprys benenes treus & fems treus lesbosel, mes ynwedh pub eghen a dus lesbosel treus & GAK lesbosel: transwourels lesbosel, glucks lesbosel nag yw kes, glucks lesbosel yw kes, benenes GAK, Stallyons, lesbosesow ow kul genedh yn fordhow nowydh ha koynt. Nyns eus istori a lesbosedh heb istori a dreusedh ha kyjuri genedh. Ny yll rewlyans an lys y janjya ha ny’n gwra nevra.
Nyns eus neppyth a’n par ma strif enyshes. Pub strif rag gwiryow, rag bewnansow, rag rydhses, yth yns i oll junys.
Tomennow a dalvia batalyas a-barth gwiryow treus hedhyw, avorow ha bynari.
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