You know what bugs me? We grew up with all this lip service to the "horror and absurdity of the Holocaust", we witnessed the birth of a collective consciousness for humanity, rooted either in awe or guilt. We got existentialism, Hannah Arendt, the United Nations, I dunno what else came out of the short videos Eisenhower made public for the people to see. They made us think that the 1930s was a mass hysteria caused by the Great Depression and a good deal of Goebbels' propaganda. We now see state after state and country after country falling for this anti-transgender bullshit, and some of us do have an "aha" moment realizing that this is exactly how the Jews were vilified and targeted, and then there are those still thinking that TERFism is a matter of opinion around a divisive new "ideology". The moment you think its a novelty you have already fallen for it. Next morning you believe the litter-box hoax and join the choir of men condemning trans women in women sports. Even the details of pointing out the anatomical features is out of the antisemitic playbook, and then you have Rowling engaging in Holocaust denialism and using British libel laws to silence a journalist. Transphobes are crap people, because transphobia is rooted to a type of the Fascist personality, and I don't think it is an isolated opinion. Cis women should stay away from transphobe boyfriends as much as trans women do, because the saying is "an abuser will treat a trans woman in public as he would treat a cis woman privately". I have a dream, one day you should be kicked out of your job for being a racist, transphobe or homophobe, and not for being black, brown, gay, or trans. Until next time. Drop dead 'phobes!
Proposed restrictions on LGBTQ+ rights have proven far harder for politicans at home and abroad to unite against than the government’s “foreign agent” bill....
A bleak thought, what if the surfacing of the anti-gender rhetoric draws an actual heat map of Russian influence unfolding. Some of it is in mainland Europe (Hungary) and of course a lot more is right in the US. This can be the new cold war, but I am not sure which side the US will be on this time around.
Um that person is clearly rage-baiting for the sake of some far-right troll ideology? I have met no real trans person that would exhibit this type of behavior. This is a fascist.
https://piped.video/watch?v=cEhis4L4ohY cliches https://piped.video/watch?v=Ns8NvPPHX5Y and genocidal stereotypes https://piped.video/watch?v=cEhis4L4ohY . There is no such law in a free country and it shouldn't be lest the country wouldn't be free. Being transgender is not illegal, and if you want to make it illegal you are against a score of personal freedoms and rights. She might want to find somewhere cozy to sit, because no matter how butt-hurt Knowles feels about freedom of expression and freedom of speech and several other freedoms protect people's clothing choices, as well as sexual orientation and gender identity. There is not immediate harm to anyone from a person coming out as transgender. There is not harm from a drag queen reading stories to kids either. It is some downright Hungary/Poland/Romania/Florida Don't Say Gay shit, where they want to make it a sexual offence and start killing trans people of for existing. Transness is not a delusion as per all mainstream medical organizations, https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/07/advocating-transgender-nonbinary-youths https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46067559 https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2600-leaked-anti-trans-lobbyist-emails . It is also not a fetish (TERFism is a fetish though, did you know the Wikipedia article on TERFs says it is an unhealthy obsession? https://ghostarchive.org/archive/RVLbw). This AuTOGyNefILiA stuff is a debunked theory https://genderanalysis.net/2016/04/alice-dreger-autogynephilia-and-the-misrepresentation-of-trans-sexualities-book-review-galileos-middle-finger/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026120934690 and there is also a bit in Imogen Binnie's trans-fem literature "Nevada" where a closeted trans person shrugs away his feelings and says "I am not this kind of trans that transitions."
AGP is a honeypot that catches a subset of trans women and directs them away from transition.
Thus, it is effectively an anti-transition propaganda mechanism. This aligns with Trump's military ban leaked memo. "You can be trans but suck it up, don't transition, and if you have mental health issues go fuck yourself". What reasons are there for anyone sucking up to mental toll? When put this way, without all the TERF/nazi dogwhistling ("groomers", "trans-identified males", "biological males", "degenerates", etc),
it gets harder and harder to keep pretending that the driving force behind the anti-gender movement is not hatred.
How can you possibly say "I want mental health outcomes only for cisgender people" without being exposed as a total hatemonger and bigot? https://genderanalysis.net/2015/09/paul-mchugh-is-wrong-transitioning-is-effective-gender-analysis-10/
As a conclusion I did not know of this Michelle Knowls type, but she is doing actual harm either for money or for politics, this is just hate-speech, and she should be in jail for spewing it out.
I can understand why all the other things would be listed here, and I would understand if sexuality in general was considered inappropriate for children, but why homosexuality in particular? This is strange to me....
This is outright false. If there aren't graphical or explicit illustrations that are deemed pornographic, then homosexuality and heterosexuality should enjoy the same status as encyclopedic knowledge. This is some "Don't say gay" stuff.
And just to clear this up, trans people can also be binary. Clarification necessary become some think that transgender is non-binary or transgender is "third gender". Both are wrong.
We are so irreverent we go against the woke crowd, risking being cancelled for the backward bullshit we believe.
Zoe Quinn, Keffals, and Sophie Labelle:
We have had to undergo major life changes to escape angry misogynist and transphobic crowds that threat us with rape and death for just existing / calling out human rights violations.
Here's the thing: the censorship issue doesn't just affect school and public libraries. It affects you too. If they succeed in getting books pulled from libraries and librarians fired or prosecuted, they won't stop at libraries. They're going to move on to book stores and your home book shelves. And then they're going to move on to speech outside of books that they don't like. They're not going to be satisfied at just stopping a few book checkouts and taking a few jobs at the library you don't even use, so it doesn't affect you. When your speech on the internet is monitored and "corrected," and when what you say out loud is criminalized, maybe you'll see that it affects you. It starts with getting an LGBTQ book off a public library shelf. It ends with the death of free speech. Don't let it come to that. #libraries
the anti-woke folk are obsessed with not wanting to feel guilt, and they project it on children as a means of virtue signaling, as in “white kids shouldn’t be made to feel guilty for being white!” but isn’t this the hallmark of the sociopath? inability to empathize and have remorse? how do you look at our jagged, murderous histories giving rise to the jagged murderous present and take only from all that a righteous refusal to empathize with other human beings and feel things?
@seachanger They also say nobody should be made to feel uncomfortable due to their sex, but if you point out this should also cover misgendering for trans people, they will stone you
Even contemplating that "pretending a gender identity" is a backdoor for bad actors is preposterous though. No such evidence from all countries that have self-identification laws. On the contrary abusers and rapists are prevalent in all walks of life without even going through the fuss of "pretending to be trans". Scores of trans people use bathrooms all the same because they are cis-passing. Majority of women feeling ok with trans women using the bathroom. Cis people with non-conforming appearance getting targeted, prominently lesbians. So just the fact that this makes the list is unacceptable and an outcome of toxic evangelical propaganda on the subject. Bathroom usage by gender identity is enabling exactly zero predators. So please stop bringing it up.
Women feel unsafe in presence of men? "Outrageous! NOtaLLmEn"
Trans women want to use the bathroom? "They will rape them because they are biologically men." OR "A male rapist will pretend to be trans to rape them".
You can't beat that logic. That's why the nazis like it. Next step is "black men".
Um duh? Trans/NB inclusive woman only does kind of cut it. As long as cishet males watch transgender porn, sure all trans/nb/fem people belong to the protected space.
What boggles me is that the latter "universal toilet" is what most conservatives ferociously battled when it is called a "gender neutral bathroom", like disabled bathrooms and residential ones. Face=palm.
Cancelling authors is not like banning books. Oppressing transgender voices is instead much like burning and banning books lists, Florida-style. People are very much aware that Martin Heidegger hailed the Nazis and they can read his work at their own risk. This is not the case with Rowling, who people think is reasonably skeptic towards a radical, dangerous idea. At least this is what Facebook, in contrast to Lemmy, would have you believe. If people are similarly aware that Rowling is a holocaust denier, an obsessive hatred monger in disagreement to all major scientific and medical bodies, an accolade of antisemitic conspiracy theories, and a supporter of trans genocide, then there might be a place for her on your fucking bookshelf. You know, when she is history, not a direct threat to democracy, human life and people's health care and well being.
It is not her own personal opinions, but a part of an agenda, for which she is lobbying and towards which she working. It is well documented by now, see the RESIST research program for example. Also watch her chats with transphobe Helen Joyce about transgender eradication. Hate speech is harming people and should not be protected as free speech. On the contrary, bigots have reclaimed the term free speech to silence queer voices, the ones they disagree with. So unless you condemn the surge of anti-transgender legislation that also restricts free speech for queer voices, I don't think you have much of a leg to stand on.
It is being heavily debated and debunked by all major medical and humanitarian organizations. You people love pretending there is no substantial comeback to this propaganda, just ignore it and continue spewing hate. Free speech is not protecting you from criticism and it does not mean we are obliged to hear or platform it. Society is just showing you the door. Read the room.
Georgia’s other Russian-style law is fueling a bitter culture war (www.politico.eu)
Proposed restrictions on LGBTQ+ rights have proven far harder for politicans at home and abroad to unite against than the government’s “foreign agent” bill....
Do your best to help them out (lemmy.ca)
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[US] Rep. Robert Garcia calls out Peru for classifying trans, intersex & nonbinary people as mentally ill (www.advocate.com)
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)
oars (OpenAgeRatingsService) in appdata.xml files: why "sex-homosexuality"?
I can understand why all the other things would be listed here, and I would understand if sexuality in general was considered inappropriate for children, but why homosexuality in particular? This is strange to me....
Switzerland’s Nemo is first nonbinary singer to win Eurovision Song Contest (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Students walk out during Jerry Seinfeld’s commencement speech at Duke (www.independent.co.uk)
Women-only museum becomes a toilet to keep men out (www.bbc.com)
Australia’s Mona asked a court to reverse its ruling that allowed men inside a women’s only space....
Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England (www.theguardian.com)
J.K. Rowling Is So Transphobic Even Elon Musk Wants Her to Shut Up (www.thedailybeast.com)