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For Paraguay’s transgender women, survival often means leaving home
https://apnews.com/article/paraguay-lgbtq-migration-transgender-817bf7e45046cde11bb72d00ed363e87
For Paraguay’s transgender women, survival often means leaving home
https://apnews.com/article/paraguay-lgbtq-migration-transgender-817bf7e45046cde11bb72d00ed363e87
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UK businesses fear new EHRC guidance on toilets will be ‘unworkable’
UK businesses fear new EHRC guidance on toilets will be ‘unworkable’
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Elon Musk has attacked the Democratic Virginia governor nominee Abigail Spanberger, accusing her of “trying to weasel out” of a question about transgender students accessing bathrooms.
www.metroweekly.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Elon Musk has attacked the Democratic Virginia governor nominee Abigail Spanberger, accusing her of “trying to weasel out” of a question about transgender students accessing bathrooms.
www.metroweekly.com/...
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Community is what helps us.
This weekend, a very good friend ( @revoluciana ) reminded me to be myself, that I need to be more myself, that sometimes I need reminding to be myself. I loved the moments we shared this weekend, and will hopefully share again.
This morning, for reasons, old traumas hit hard. So, I remind myself who I am, parts of me I neglected in pain and anxiety, and take care of myself how I can.
More friends came in to help, even if they weren't there. I find myself calming to tea I received as a gift from a lovely marrying couple, and think of the beautiful moments they shared with us.
Hold to community, in light and in darkness. This was a middling-to-bad day, overall, though nowhere near as bad as pre-transition. Really bad days get harder, when community is needed most of all. And good days... well, celebrations are meant to be with community.
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J.K. Rowling slams ‘ignorant’ Emma Watson amid years-long feud over trans rights https://www.inbella.com/1296392/j-k-rowling-slams-ignorant-emma-watson-amid-years-long-feud-over-trans-rights/ #actors #authors #CelebritiesNews #CelebrityFeuds #CelebrityNews #DanielRadcliffe #EmmaWatson #HarryPotter #JkRowling #movies #transgender #TransgenderRights #X(formerlyTwitter)
J.K. Rowling slams ‘ignorant’ Emma Watson amid years-long feud over trans rights https://www.inbella.com/1296392/j-k-rowling-slams-ignorant-emma-watson-amid-years-long-feud-over-trans-rights/ #actors #authors #CelebritiesNews #CelebrityFeuds #CelebrityNews #DanielRadcliffe #EmmaWatson #HarryPotter #JkRowling #movies #transgender #TransgenderRights #X(formerlyTwitter)
Community is what helps us.
This weekend, a very good friend ( @revoluciana ) reminded me to be myself, that I need to be more myself, that sometimes I need reminding to be myself. I loved the moments we shared this weekend, and will hopefully share again.
This morning, for reasons, old traumas hit hard. So, I remind myself who I am, parts of me I neglected in pain and anxiety, and take care of myself how I can.
More friends came in to help, even if they weren't there. I find myself calming to tea I received as a gift from a lovely marrying couple, and think of the beautiful moments they shared with us.
Hold to community, in light and in darkness. This was a middling-to-bad day, overall, though nowhere near as bad as pre-transition. Really bad days get harder, when community is needed most of all. And good days... well, celebrations are meant to be with community.
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“I firmly believe that no one should be killed for their beliefs, no matter how harmful those beliefs might be,” Orr said. “But we are watching our rights being stripped away. We are having our friends’ lives cut short, & then we are told to stay quiet while those responsible are celebrated.”
In just a few short years, Orr has watched as the momentum toward recognizing the full #humanity & #rights of #transgender people has collapsed.
“I firmly believe that no one should be killed for their beliefs, no matter how harmful those beliefs might be,” Orr said. “But we are watching our rights being stripped away. We are having our friends’ lives cut short, & then we are told to stay quiet while those responsible are celebrated.”
In just a few short years, Orr has watched as the momentum toward recognizing the full #humanity & #rights of #transgender people has collapsed.
Orr recently left their home state of WV, finding it no longer safe after being threatened & assaulted.
#Kirk’s rhetoric of “#Christian #white #nationalism, anti- #transgender, …anti-woke culture-war framing, this isn’t on the edge anymore,” Orr said. “It has moved into what many consider the center of #Republican identity.” They said they were deeply concerned about how few people seemed willing to point out the consequences of this shift: “Who is actually fighting for us?”
“I firmly believe that no one should be killed for their beliefs, no matter how harmful those beliefs might be,” Orr said. “But we are watching our rights being stripped away. We are having our friends’ lives cut short, & then we are told to stay quiet while those responsible are celebrated.”
In just a few short years, Orr has watched as the momentum toward recognizing the full #humanity & #rights of #transgender people has collapsed.
While Orr was never named by #Kirk, they say Kirk’s rhetoric helped fuel an environment that makes #transgender Americans vulnerable to violence and that has paved the way for the removal of their #CivilRights; in February, #Iowa became the first state in the country to take away legal civil rights protections for transgender residents.
The past few weeks have filled Ash Lazarus Orr with a similar sense of foreboding. Orr has been at the forefront of resisting efforts to target #transgender Americans, including as a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit brought by the A.C.L.U. against a #Trump administration’s policy that would prevent transgender people from having their chosen gender on their passports.
But for those who were directly targeted by #Kirk’s rhetoric, this thinking seems to place the civility of Kirk’s style of argument over the incivility of what he argued. Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of #transgender people & his #racist throwback views about #Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated — like a position on tax rates or health care policy.
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who referred to a #transgender athlete as an “abomination” & called “the transgender thing” a “throbbing middle finger to God”; & who declared that #Islam, the world’s second-largest #religion, “is not compatible with Western civilization” & that it is a sword being used “to slit the throat of America.”
who referred to a #transgender athlete as an “abomination” & called “the transgender thing” a “throbbing middle finger to God”; & who declared that #Islam, the world’s second-largest #religion, “is not compatible with Western civilization” & that it is a sword being used “to slit the throat of America.”