I do wish people would treat #transphobia as the serious #redflag it is, cos if someone is repeating bullshit #pseudoscience talking points from #rightwing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to #antivax nonsense & undermining trust in #science & #medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!

#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Marxism#Communism#Socialism#Politics#Vote#Gay#GayRights#Trans#TransRights#Transgender#LGBTQ#LGBTQIA#Lesbian#Bisexual#Queer#Intersex#Asexual

After the recent attack at Barton Springs, I analyzed publicly available city hate incident data with the help of #Austin Free Press. We found that #LGBTQIA+ folks face more reported hate incidents than any other marginalized group.

We break down the data and report on what the city plans to do about it: https://austinfreepress.org/barton-stings/

#politics#USpol#Texas #news #transphobia #trans #extremism #law #police #transgender#racism

Well that was quick, we only just got used to Bluesky and now it gets cancelled already

#bluesky #eatshitterfs #lgbtqia #transgender #queer #transphobia #jkr #jkrowling #antifascism #antifa #antitransphobia

I harbor ill wishes for J.K. Rowling.
May her TV series flop.
May she develop an allergy to her favorite food.
May her coffee always be disappointing.
May her bras never fit.
May her new shoes give her blisters.
May she purchase a bag of onions only to discover that they are all, like her, rotten on the inside.
May her rotten interior give her incurable halitosis.
May children she encounters in public react with revulsion and run away. #JKR #transphobia #transmisia

Well that was quick, we only just got used to Bluesky and now it gets cancelled already

#bluesky #eatshitterfs #lgbtqia #transgender #queer #transphobia #jkr #jkrowling #antifascism #antifa #antitransphobia

I harbor ill wishes for J.K. Rowling.
May her TV series flop.
May she develop an allergy to her favorite food.
May her coffee always be disappointing.
May her bras never fit.
May her new shoes give her blisters.
May she purchase a bag of onions only to discover that they are all, like her, rotten on the inside.
May her rotten interior give her incurable halitosis.
May children she encounters in public react with revulsion and run away. #JKR #transphobia #transmisia

Stop 'joking' or otherwise implying/claiming that every politician/religious leader/person with social and/or financial power doing anything queerphobic "must be closeted".

It minimizes the fact that systematic harms exist because the people participating in disenfranchisement and societal abuse gain from them.

It perpetuates the idea that being queer is a bad thing (saying ‘well I’m just saying it because they think it is a bad thing does not undo the fact that you just made a bigoted joke/comment! you don't just get a free pass to be a bigot because the person you are talking about is one!)

A lot of people legitimately take it as a reason to have sympathy for the people you are talking about. I can't start to count how many times I've seen people respond to jokes about bigots being queer with "it's funny- but why else would they do this?! They are awful, but imagine hating yourself that much, really it's just sad!" Do not risk giving these assholes sympathy!

Even if the person IS closeted, that doesn't matter! It doesn’t nullify the harm they are doing or absolve them of horrible abuses of power!

These comments derail important social conversations with bullshit assumptions.

We don’t need to try to hypothesize why people hoarding power do things to take freedom (and with it power) away from whoever they can- the answer is right there in the question.

#Queer#LGBTQIA#LGBTQ#Homophobia#Transphobia

Stop 'joking' or otherwise implying/claiming that every politician/religious leader/person with social and/or financial power doing anything queerphobic "must be closeted".

It minimizes the fact that systematic harms exist because the people participating in disenfranchisement and societal abuse gain from them.

It perpetuates the idea that being queer is a bad thing (saying ‘well I’m just saying it because they think it is a bad thing does not undo the fact that you just made a bigoted joke/comment! you don't just get a free pass to be a bigot because the person you are talking about is one!)

A lot of people legitimately take it as a reason to have sympathy for the people you are talking about. I can't start to count how many times I've seen people respond to jokes about bigots being queer with "it's funny- but why else would they do this?! They are awful, but imagine hating yourself that much, really it's just sad!" Do not risk giving these assholes sympathy!

Even if the person IS closeted, that doesn't matter! It doesn’t nullify the harm they are doing or absolve them of horrible abuses of power!

These comments derail important social conversations with bullshit assumptions.

We don’t need to try to hypothesize why people hoarding power do things to take freedom (and with it power) away from whoever they can- the answer is right there in the question.

#Queer#LGBTQIA#LGBTQ#Homophobia#Transphobia

Imagine a world in which you can lose your job for calling someone by their chosen name. Welcome to today's world of teaching. In Florida, you can be fired for calling your students by their chosen name without parental consent. That's what happened to Melissa Calhoun.

Her district's superintendent said that parental input can’t be ignored. But what if the parents are just plain wrong?

No matter. SCOTUS gave a ruling earlier this year that essentially made parental input is the ONLY thing that matters. Parents across the nation can now exempt their child from any and all curriculum that "goes against their religious beliefs." This would allow parents to exempt their kids from any of the standards, including evolution, in biology, or the Civil Rights movement, in U.S. history.

From the teachers' and schools' perspective, this completely throws the concept of teaching standards out the window. It makes it pointless for teachers to plan curriculum in advance since they wouldn't know until the last minute which students, if any, would be allowed to learn it. And it would significantly increase teachers' workload since they must create alternative curriculum for students who are exempted.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-education-desantis-fc8c37368bca9cfd33b6676576c78f06

#transrightsarehumanrights #lgbtq #transphobia #education #schools #students #freespeech #censorship #fascism

Imagine a world in which you can lose your job for calling someone by their chosen name. Welcome to today's world of teaching. In Florida, you can be fired for calling your students by their chosen name without parental consent. That's what happened to Melissa Calhoun.

Her district's superintendent said that parental input can’t be ignored. But what if the parents are just plain wrong?

No matter. SCOTUS gave a ruling earlier this year that essentially made parental input is the ONLY thing that matters. Parents across the nation can now exempt their child from any and all curriculum that "goes against their religious beliefs." This would allow parents to exempt their kids from any of the standards, including evolution, in biology, or the Civil Rights movement, in U.S. history.

From the teachers' and schools' perspective, this completely throws the concept of teaching standards out the window. It makes it pointless for teachers to plan curriculum in advance since they wouldn't know until the last minute which students, if any, would be allowed to learn it. And it would significantly increase teachers' workload since they must create alternative curriculum for students who are exempted.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-education-desantis-fc8c37368bca9cfd33b6676576c78f06

#transrightsarehumanrights #lgbtq #transphobia #education #schools #students #freespeech #censorship #fascism

🏳️‍⚧️💬 The video Debunking Transphobia breaks down myths with compassion and clarity. It's a long, thoughtful, so take your time with the material, 'cause you don't have to take it all in at once.

https://www.metafilter.com/209964/This-video-has-taken-up-my-day-every-day-for-the-last-two-years

#transgender #transphobia #bestofmetafilter

🏳️‍⚧️💬 The video Debunking Transphobia breaks down myths with compassion and clarity. It's a long, thoughtful, so take your time with the material, 'cause you don't have to take it all in at once.

https://www.metafilter.com/209964/This-video-has-taken-up-my-day-every-day-for-the-last-two-years

#transgender #transphobia #bestofmetafilter

Also do not call nonbinary people transmasc/transfemme based exclusively on how you read their presentation.

Your opinions about what qualifies as masculine/feminine is not objective. The person may be trying to 'pass' or present in a certain way for reasons you are not privy (or entitled) to, they may have different cultural or personal ideas than you about masculinity and femininity, and they may identify as transmasc or transfemme based on something besides presentation.

Presentation is not the same as gender. That isn’t even trans 101, this is baseline queer 101!!!!

Just don't make assumptions about other people’s genders okay!? It’s really not that hard!

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#Trans#Transgender#Nonbinary#Transphobia#LGBTQIA#LGBTQ#LGBT#Queer

Do not call all AFAB nonbinary people 'transmasc' and all AMAB nonbinary people 'transfemme'.

Individuals may or may not identify with those terms for a variety of reasons, but assigning them to nonbinary people based exclusively on their AGAB is not okay!

You are effectively saying a person's gender identity can only be certain things because of their AGAB regardless of how they feel/identify- it shouldn't be hard to understand why that is transphobic!!!

There are AFAB transfemmes, AMAB transmascs, and nonbinary people (like me) that do not identify as either.

Calling someone a gender they don't identify as is still misgendering if the gender identity you are saying is not their AGAB or either 'man' or 'woman'.

Oh, you’re trying to make a general statement and this makes it easier for you?
It’s takes more time to check how a person identifies before using a term to describe them?
These are the exact ‘arguments’ we hear transphobes use for misgendering!!!
Are you really choosing to become one of the transphobes making excuses for misgendering trans people because it is ‘easier’!?!?

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#Trans#Transgender#Nonbinary#Transphobia#LGBTQIA#LGBTQ#LGBT#Queer

Also do not call nonbinary people transmasc/transfemme based exclusively on how you read their presentation.

Your opinions about what qualifies as masculine/feminine is not objective. The person may be trying to 'pass' or present in a certain way for reasons you are not privy (or entitled) to, they may have different cultural or personal ideas than you about masculinity and femininity, and they may identify as transmasc or transfemme based on something besides presentation.

Presentation is not the same as gender. That isn’t even trans 101, this is baseline queer 101!!!!

Just don't make assumptions about other people’s genders okay!? It’s really not that hard!

2/2

#Trans#Transgender#Nonbinary#Transphobia#LGBTQIA#LGBTQ#LGBT#Queer

Do not call all AFAB nonbinary people 'transmasc' and all AMAB nonbinary people 'transfemme'.

Individuals may or may not identify with those terms for a variety of reasons, but assigning them to nonbinary people based exclusively on their AGAB is not okay!

You are effectively saying a person's gender identity can only be certain things because of their AGAB regardless of how they feel/identify- it shouldn't be hard to understand why that is transphobic!!!

There are AFAB transfemmes, AMAB transmascs, and nonbinary people (like me) that do not identify as either.

Calling someone a gender they don't identify as is still misgendering if the gender identity you are saying is not their AGAB or either 'man' or 'woman'.

Oh, you’re trying to make a general statement and this makes it easier for you?
It’s takes more time to check how a person identifies before using a term to describe them?
These are the exact ‘arguments’ we hear transphobes use for misgendering!!!
Are you really choosing to become one of the transphobes making excuses for misgendering trans people because it is ‘easier’!?!?

1/2

#Trans#Transgender#Nonbinary#Transphobia#LGBTQIA#LGBTQ#LGBT#Queer

wtf is Humble Bundle doing selling Harry Potter related books and pinkwashing it by choosing The Trevor Project as the charity?

#HumbleBundle#Transphobia#Pinkwashing