Masthash

#transgenocide

@kitoconnell @TexasObserver

Every single one of those bills must be called out as the [attempted] #TransGenocide they are in law.

I'm still convinced the perpertrators of this will find out - like Eichmann - that laws don't make a crime less wrong or illegal!

Best fucking news I’ve seen in months!

A federal judge alga’s temporarily blocked #florida ‘s ban on care for trans minors!

It’s not the end, but it’s some fucking breathing room. Sorry to post it late!

#grfomystate #trans #news #uspol #goodnews #transnews #transgenocide

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-desantis-florida-033556c6a4c301d9ad342c74a6410800

We Want EVERYTHING! 🌹
4 days ago

"Right-Wing Think Tank Family Research Council Is Now a Church in Eyes of the IRS"

"The FRC, a staunch opponent of abortion and LGBTQ rights, joins a growing list of activist groups seeking church status, which allows organizations to shield themselves from financial scrutiny."

This is fine.

#Fascism #Theocracy #Evangelicalism #Church #FamilyResearchCouncil #Patriarchy #Bigotry #Misogyny #Corruption #Homophobia #TransGenocide #IRS #Democrats #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status

"As Pride Month began, Elon Musk stated his intention to lobby for the criminalization of gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors.
[...]
In addition to advocating against the life-saving care transgender youth need, Musk supported the exclusion of the transgender community from LGBTQ+ Pride events."

With the wealth and thus power he controls, that threat to lobby needs to be taken very seriously.

I don't care if you are a corporation, a government entity or a journalist and feel that you need the exposure. If you choose to continue using Twitter (or drive a Tesla, or...), you are supporting #TransGenocide .

🚨All remaining hormone prescriptions in #florida have been frozen at their current dosages for the next 6 months. 🚨

This is the ruling of the florida board of medicine.

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1664428285244080132?s=20

#floridaapb #transnews #boost #trans #transgenocide

Zoe Zephyr did a really good interview on The View today talking about #transrights. I'm posting this here in case you all want to see it.

https://youtu.be/UqB5wipYqLM

#letzoeyspeak #transnews #news #uspol #transgenocide

I will forever fight for our right to exist, rather than care about a cis person's tears.

#lgbtqia #lgbt #alphabetmafia #protecttranskids #TransRightsAreHumanRights #transrights #transisbeautiful #pridemonth #transgenocide

yesterday the law that prohibits both medical and legal transition has been introduced to the state duma

quotes from the proposed law:

medical staff is prohibited from performing medical procedures aiming for changing one's sex, including forming primary and/or secondary sexual characteristics of the opposite sex

medical procedures, aiming for correcting sexual development anomalies in children are allowed by the decision of a medical commission

this law proposes to abolish changing one's legal gender based on the sex change certificate

https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/369814-8#bh_histras

so, this certificate had been the only document giving the right to change one's legal gender since 2018, so the law effectively abolishes legal gender recognition at all
moreover, nobody will be able to get gender affirmative care, including both hormonal and surgical treatment which will lead to severe mental health issues and suicide rate increase

trans people are the ones our government has decided to throw under a bus for no apparent reason and the consequences will be devastating
there's nothing we can do, Yan Dvorkin, a notable trans activist, wrote in his telegram channel that the decision has been made and now they just need to consolidate it legislatively

nevertheless, they didn't abolish forced surgeries on intersex children and if the doctors and parents happen to choose the wrong gender, the child will have to live with it forever as there will no procedures to fix it

cc
@chjara@snowdin.town @ahriboy@mk.absturztau.be @avris@mastodon.online

#trans #transgender #TransGenocide #TransRightsAreHumanRights

I'm gonna keep making the post every time it happens. Please CW your anti-trans news posts. Please. #trans #transgenocide #transrights

@zinnia and at this point the #Politics in #Florida can only be named #TransGenocide, because everything else would be a euphemism of said athrocities.

I sincerely hope everyone affected can flee or at the very lest get medication smuggled in...

Jonathan Kamens
2 weeks ago

I'm thinking #today about how #crisis reveals #character.
The world is arguably in the midst of multiple, ongoing, concurrent, existential crises. The most obvious ones are #COVID, #ClimateChange, the #TransGenocide, and the resurgence of #ChristianWhiteSupremacy. 1/3

CyberWolf⚡🌈🤠🐺
2 weeks ago

Just remember: It's never about the kids, it's always about power and control.

#TexasSucks #GOPfascists #NeedToMove #TransGenocide

https://share.newsbreak.com/3ybjedop

There is a rumor that doctors in #florida are starting to drop #trans patients for even non-GAC related care due to fear of criminal investigation.

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1661732586522304518?s=20

#transnews #transgenocide #uspol #rumor

@zinnia at this point this is basically #Genocide againt #Trans people by medical #neglect and #discrimination.

No wounder every trans* and nonbinary person in #Florida is #GTFOmyState...

And the silence of @AuswaertigesAmt amidst the #TransGenocide is inexcuseable, espechally since reactionary #Christofacists like #Scheuer met #DeSantis, and since he's neither a diplomat nor member if the current cabinet this must be assumed to be an endorsement.

mxrn
2 weeks ago

If you want to know why the talk about #transgenocide in the US is neither hyperbole nor definition creep, this article by @xriskology is worth reading.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/is-the-conservative-daily-wire-really-calling-for-trans-genocide/

I also invite you to look at Art II c), e) of the Genocide Convention, and compare it to what happens in #Florida under #DeSantis.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention#Article_II

If you stumble over “national, ethnical, racial or religious group”, read the corresponding section in this WP article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

HB648, which would have banned gender affirming care for minors in the state, is now held up in committee, as republican state senator Fred Mills defected to vote with the democrats not to advance.

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/trans-youth-healthcare-ban-killed-by-louisiana-senate-panel/article_e3afa2de-16ba-5712-8968-342b83a70f3a.html

#news #uspol #goodnews #transnews #transgenocide #louisiana

last friday, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill defining gender as being biologically determined from birth and only allowing male and female genders. He signed this bill over the public protestations and pleading of his own, non-binary child.

#montanta #news #uspol #transnews #transgenocide

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/montana-governor-signs-bill-saying-trans-people-dont-legally-exist/

Definitely getting to the point where I'll be putting word filters up again. :aliceweh:

I don't wanna be "blind" to the shit that's happening to #trans folks lately. I just can't take that being boosted onto my timeline every time I open up fedi. I'm genuinely begging you to CW. You're making fedi inhospitable to the folks you're trying to rally for.
#transrights #transgenocide

Anna Nicholson
3 weeks ago

Blanka Vay, writing yesterday for @openDemocracy, on Hungary’s frightening rollback of trans rights:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/hungary-anti-trans-homophobic-legislation-gender-recognition/

I’m quite sure UK Tories will be delighted to see their own hateful proposal to redefine sex as ‘biological sex’ being tried out elsewhere in Europe 😔

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Hungary #UK #TransGenocide #fascism

azteclady
3 weeks ago

This thread explains exactly why what is happening is #TransGenocide and calling it that isn't hyperbole--let alone 'hysteria'.

This has happened before, it's happening right before our eyes. Can we care even a little?

Re: 90% on the screenshots; Hillary had a 90%+ chance of winning the presidency up until early November 2016. Remember what happened?

#TransBans #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Beginning of thread by Assigned Media (Even Urquhart) (time stamp 4:45pm May 19, 2023::

I think people still see the comparisons of this moment for trans Americans to genocide as a hyperbolic attempt to reach people emotionally, and what I want to describe in this thread is that we're trying to reach you emotionally, but it's also as clear a description as we can give.

In Texas, state authorities are attempting to access medical records and families of those children are trying to decide whether they should flee because they're worried the state might put them in jail for child abuse, based on illegally obtained private medical information.
Continuation of thread by Assigned Media (Even Urquhart):

How likely is it that the state will succeed in accessing these private records? If they do, how likely is it that they'll persecute families?

People don't know.

But if they get it wrong, if they assume it'll be okay, and they're wrong? It's the end of their lives.

You can never know how bad a situation will get in advance. All you can do is look at how bad things are and how much worse they are, and how quickly they've gotten worse.

Things have gotten so bad, so fast. What's the mechanism to stop them? The courtes?

Maybe there's a 90 percent chance the courts don't let states jail parents for child abuse for legally accessing best practice medical care.

Would you gamble your entire life, your children's lives, on 90 percent chance?
End of thread by Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart):

People in this country are fleeing for their lives from state-sponsored persecution.

What words are we supposed to use to convince the public that this isn't an appeal to people's emotions, it's what's literally happening? Right now.

The refusal to take it seriously, the religious faith that the mainstream has that it can't be that bad and something will stop it?

That's what makes the genocide comparison so apt.

If people cared, if they were paying attention, these states couldn't get away with this.

Give up your belief that someone will stop this. No one has stopped this. You need to act. You need to impress upon everyone you know to act.

If this isn't the American you know, insist upon that being true. Don't just assume it can't get that bad. It is. It has.

#texas attorney general Ken Paxton has begun investigating Texas Children's Hospital in Houston for providing #gac to minors, the second such investigation in two weeks. There are no allegations of illegal conduct.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/19/ken-paxton-texas-childrens-hospital/?utm_source=articleshare&utm_medium=social

#news #uspol #transnews #transgenocide

As protestors flooded the state house, the #Nebraska legislature, by a single vote, has overcome the fillibuster of State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, who has been heroically holding up every bill in the session to stop a ban on #healthcare for trans youth. The republicans wrangled the votes and merged the #gac ban with a ban on #abortion after 12 weeks.

Cavanaugh has vowed to stall as long as possible.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-transgender-ban-nebraska-filibuster-b0b88845d29f1aaadf7936b7304a0507

#news #uspol #transnews #transgenocide

Governor Bill Lee has signed into law a bill that defines sex as determined by genitalia at birth, and requiring sex to be listed on all legal documents. It is the fourth state to have implemented such a law.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/tn-enacts-law-rolling-back-trans

#news #uspol #transnews #tennessee #transgenocide

The #aclu of #oklahoma and the OK Attorney General's office have signed a binding agreement that SB 613, with bans #gac for minors in the state, will not be enforced until a preliminary injunction can be heard.

As such, #trans youth in the state will be able to continue receiving care for the next few weeks, despite the ban.

https://www.acluok.org/en/press-releases/oklahoma-attorney-general-signs-non-enforcement-agreement-health-care-ban-trans-youth

#news #uspol #trans #transgenocide #transnews

Hrefna (DHC)
3 weeks ago

There are a few things that really aggravate me about the #TransGenocide discourse:

1. The insistence on semantic nitpicking and ignoring semiotics. Relatedly this idea that it is "disrespectful" to use the word "#genocide." As if the word itself were reserved.

2. The ignoring of a vast body of scholarship that has and continues to analyze these questions and has for decades

3. The downplaying or minimizing the "next step consequences"—where this road ends, regardless of if we are there yet

Planned Parenthood is now pausing GAC in #florida until mid-June D:

For counseling or support to deal with these changes in Florida, call (561) 472-991 or visit https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned- parenthood-south-east-north-florida/medical- services/mental-health

#news #uspol #trans #transgenocide #plannedparenthood #gac #healthcare

M 1:59 PM

Due to new legislation taking effect immediately, PPSENFL will temporarily pause gender-affirming care services as we adapt to these changes. We will contact you once services resume in mid-June to schedule your appointment. Please utilize the MyChart messaging portal for any communication with your provider. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. We understand these obstacles to care may be challenging. If you need additional resources to cope with these changes, PPSENFL offers individual counseling and support groups for transgender patients and their loved ones. To learn more, call 561-472-9991 or visit us online at https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned- parenthood-south-east-north-florida/medical- services/mental-health.

#nebraska lawmakers in the house vote to advance a bill that combines a 12 week abortion ban with an gc ban for minors. Protestors swarmed the Capitol, shouting and stamping their feet, demanding the bill not pass.

#uspol #news #abortion #trans #transgenocide

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-transgender-ban-nebraska-filibuster-94f1e637e2d9034f608c793bf929e888

Fuck this guy (not Thought Slime, they're awesome).

CW: asshat advocates for trans genocide and Thought Slime talks intelligently about it while looking adorable.

https://youtu.be/Ggpe_JrYy-A

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#TransGenocide #Trans #LGBT #LGBTQIA #ThoughtSlime

On monday, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum signed a bill allowing public school employees to misgender #trans students. The bill also bars trans students from using the bathroom or locker room congruent with their gender identity.

The governor claims this bill will "protects freedom of speech"

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3994587-north-dakota-governor-signs-bill-restricting-transgender-pronouns-bathroom-use/

#news #uspol #northdakota #transgender #transgenocide

Info on SB 254

This document contains an analysis of how SB 254 is liable to legally work. There is misinformation floating around, so if you are concerned it is worth reading to get a clearer picture of what to expect.

I apologize if I have spread any misinformation.

#trans #florida #transgender #sb254 #transgenocide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-XB-tT0tjfskQwb8k5Jp0O_c9ckqkArMnpNsOJzr7dU/edit

From the article:

"A made-up story from the far-right Daily Caller was promoted by Microsoft’s MSN news service today... The Caller’s story, which makes the absurd claim that toddlers are receiving sex changes in North Carolina, is part of the extreme right’s ongoing effort to increase fear and hatred towards the trans community by spreading misinformation."

#news #uspol # trans #AI #tech #transgenocide

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/microsoft-ai-aggregates-lies-from-the-daily-caller

The same people who are right now on twitter trying to retroactively justify the lynching of Jordan Neely are literally the same people trying to justify killing us #trans folks.

Show some solidarity *now* fam! I'd rather share a foxhole than a gas chamber.

#jordanneely #transgenocide

APB Missouri

St. Louis County Judge Ellen Ribaudo has pushed back the hearing on #missouri AG Bailey's #transgender healthcare ban to July 20th, and in doing so has also extended the temporary restraining order on the ban until July 24th.

So... #hrt is legal in MO until at least July 24th

#news #uspol #trans #queer #lgbt #healthcare #transgenocide #goodnews

https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/judge-extends-suspension-of-missouri-ag-s-18079315.php

APB FLORIDA

The florida legislature has passed HB1521, which makes it a crime for trans people to use the correct bathroom. DeSantis is expected to sign it. Equality Florida has issued a travel advisory to queer people that we should avoid visiting the state.

#news #uspol #florida #floridapol #trans #transgenocide

Source: https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1653875842093842432?s=20

Yesterday, protestors flooded the Texas state capitol demanding the legislature not pass Senate Bill 14, which would ban puberty blockers and hrt for teengaers.

Democrats delayed the vote while cops cleared the gallery. Organizer Adri Pérez was arrestred, but all charges dropped. Organizer Sofia Sepulveda was banned from the capitol. An unknown second person was also arrested.

#news #uspol #trans #texaspol #protest #transgenocide

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/02/texas-trans-kids-health-care-ban/

A horde of texas cops milling about in the texas capitol building.

If you don’t want to see posts about violent state-sponsored transphobia from me, I will label them with #transgenocide so you can filter the content.

Zooey Zephyr and her girlfriend Erin Reed have both been targeted for SWATTING. Both are okay. The cops it seems did not respond to the false alarms.

#uspol #news #transgenocide #letzooeyspeak

Wilfried Klaebe
1 month ago

@realcaseyrollins They are not baseless, you just want to not acknowledge them. Just do a search for #transGenocide here and read a dozen results or two.
I don't expect you to see the light though, sea lion. Don't come crying later though.
@mlohbihler @shadowpages @parkermolloy @brendannyhan

HoosierMarxist
1 month ago

Tracking the #TransGenocide with #TransSafetyNetwork on this week’s Red Planet. Streaming now. (Follow the channel to catch the replay in a few days.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTiQKnurX0

#TransRights

@PinkNews And at this point I really hope one's gonna make a precedent case in Germany, forcing the legal recognition of the #TransGenocide and thus protections as per law...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul9yXgrEt5s

azteclady
1 month ago

This is #TransGenocide .

"the bill’s “lack of clarity is by design”.

“'It allows them to disclaim the worst possible interpretation while also allowing for the worst possible outcome to happen,' the executive said.

The passage of the bill in Kansas is part of a nationwide attack on trans rights which has swept across every state in America."

#Kansas #USPolitics #TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/28/kansas-trans-lgbtq-bathroom-bill-ban/

azteclady
1 month ago

This is how moral panics are started and fueled: other media jumped to agree with the first piece by right-wing fucker Bari Weiss, because "think of the children" kneejerks always against queer people, especially trans people.

(in Missouri, and Alabama, and Texas, and Florida, and Montana, and and and...)

#Christofascism #Transphobia #TransGenocide #TransRightsAreHumanRights #PressIsComplicit

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/raising-trans-kid-missouri-become-dystopian-nightmare-families-rcna75768

Two tweets by Chris Hayes, timestamp 9:31am Apr 28, 2023:

Two months ago a self-proclaimed whistleblower alleged a pattern of systemic recklessness and decption at a Missouri gender clinic. Subsequently, the same outlet that published her, published a follow-up interview with a mom who was unhappy with her child's care.

In response, the child at issue took to twitter to contradict her mother's claims. Meanwhile, there have been multiple stories by multiple outlets that have reported out other families' experience of the clinic, and no one other than this one mother corroborates the allegations.
Last tweet in thread by Chris Hayes:

In fact there have been now dozens and dozens of interviews conducted that in no way bear out the original allegations. If what the 'whistleblower' was saying were true, I feel like we would have a lot more than a single mom backing it up at this point?

(preview of the nbcnews story linked in my post)

@StillIRise1963 +9001%

Espechally those that tend to ignore the #TransGenocide and fake being shocked each time their #PropagandaOfTheDeed results in #StochasticTerrorism happening...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390

@justice_dazzle THIS is why #ForcedAdoption is coded as #genocide in many places and I sincerely wish those affected will not only escape that shit, but also force nations around the world to recognize the #TransGenocide as is happening in many states as the #crime it is and pursue all actions from granting #asylum & #residency to the affected to hard economic and political #sanctions against the #USA.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/vstgb/__6.html

God... if this analysis is correct, Florida could start rounding up and trying to kill the parents and doctors of trans kids within weeks on charges of "child sexual battery"

What the fuck do we even do!?

I guess... we need to prepare to take a LOT of people on. VERY fucking quickly.

#trans #transgender #transgenocide #florida

https://medium.com/@kk_89046/florida-would-rather-murder-parents-and-doctors-than-allow-access-to-gender-affirming-care-its-3a130032d3c1

Brevard County #Florida
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Spectrum Health is one of the only places in Brevard County that supplies #GenderAffirming Care #gac.
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This is their donation link: https://spektrum.health/donate
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And the latest update on what they need and how to help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lyURyVz7k
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#MutualAid #transgender #trans #ProtectTransKids #NonBinary #GNC #TGNC #TransGenocide

Hey there #Florida #Trans people. I hope you are doing ok, and are safe. Just got this news from a friend on Discord, and reached out to a trans friend in state.
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It looks like the #FL #politicians (#DeSantis are going after
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I have attached the 2 screenshots for more info.
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The provider mentioned in the first screenshot was #PlannedParenthood
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I will be pinning this post, and putting #links and #resources as replies to this update as I get them.
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Florida #HouseBill 1421 will devastate Floridian #TGNC people.
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#TransRights #NonBinary #InterSex #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #RonDeSatan #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQ2S+ #HumanRights #TransGenocide #USA #UnitedStates

Screenshot of a Discord message, white text on a bluish-purple background:

"If anyone here is in Florida or has trans family there, someone in the trans gnc employee resource group at my work has had all of their future trans health visits (including labs) canceled, and their medication is prorated as they try to figure out f there’s still any way they can provide trans healthcare with new laws"
A Text conversation between 2 people, composed of 5 messages. All text is white on dark background. One of the recipient's message bubbles are black, and one is blue.

Message 1 (black): So they're ending the ability to get prescriptions via telehealth. I got mine through a private practice endocrinologist so I should be okay for now 

Message 2 (blue): Ok. Well, that's good, at least. So, physical office visits are safe for now?

Message 3 (black): For now. They are also trying to limit it where only a physician can prescribe, not pa's or nurse practitioners but that hasn't passed yet

Message 4 (black):They are taking the same approach the did with abortion before the Dobbs ruling, where instead of banning it outright they are going to make so many restrictions it's just nearly impossible to get.

Message 5 (black):I am privileged in that I have a car and money to pay out of pocket so I will be okay, but a lot of people are going to be devastated

**I know nothing about plume. Literally saw this minus text and forwarding it for anyone it might help**

Via @goomy:

To our Plume community,

In response to the Missouri Attorney General's emergency rule severely limiting access to gender- affirming medical care, we will provide gender- affirming hormone therapy at no cost before the rule goes into effect from April 24 to April 27.*

If you're in Missouri and need immediate care, you can schedule your appointment here.

We are pulling together all available resources to help as many people as possible across the state, but we can't do it alone. We're calling on every clinician in the state who can join us in this effort, and applaud Planned Parenthood and other providers for expanding availability for gender- affirming care appointments up until April 27 as well. We'll be actively promoting on our website any and all providers that are still accepting appointments, in case we can't responsibly service everyone who needs it in time.

We understand how stressful this is for our Members, employees, and everyone in our community right now. Know that we'll be doing everything in our power to help you through this.

[Learn more about what we're doing in Missouri and how you can help.]

Please forward this email to anyone in your

community who could be of assistance.

-The Plume Cafe Team

#trans #transhealth #transgenocide

Screenshot of an email:
To our Plume community,

In response to the Missouri Attorney General's emergency rule severely limiting access to gender- affirming medical care, we will provide gender- affirming hormone therapy at no cost before the rule goes into effect from April 24 to April 27.*

If you're in Missouri and need immediate care, you can schedule your appointment here.

We are pulling together all available resources to help as many people as possible across the state, but we can't do it alone. We're calling on every clinician in the state who can join us in this effort, and applaud Planned Parenthood and other providers for expanding availability for gender- affirming care appointments up until April 27 as well. We'll be actively promoting on our website any and all providers that are still accepting appointments, in case we can't responsibly service everyone who needs it in time.

We understand how stressful this is for our Members, employees, and everyone in our community right now. Know that we'll be doing everything in our power to help you through this.

[Learn more about what we're doing in Missouri and how you can help.]

Please forward this email to anyone in your

community who could be of assistance.

-The Plume Cafe Team
JamieGC
2 months ago

Facebook killing reach of lgbt related posts, during build up to a genocide of trans people proves that neolibs will always side with fascists when given the opportunity.

Never trust them, or their US politicial party. It's up to us to fight back, with whoever will join us as accomplices.

#neoliberal #neolibs #trans #transgenocide #liberalism

That would be pretty much an act of war on the part of France, no? Promising violent retaliation to anyone guilty of being a Dane? Rather the definition of war, really.

Total war at that.

This is what is literally happening with #transgender people in the US right now.

The word for this is #Genocide. And I'm pretty fucking fed up that no one wants to say it out loud. #trans #TransGenocide

azteclady
2 months ago

Florida has changed it so that only 8 of 12 jurors can sentence someone to death. And now, SB1342 will make sexual crimes against kids warrant a death sentence.

Not for Republican politicians or priests, but for doctors or parents who "mutilate children's genitalia". No one is doing bottom surgery on minors, but puberty blockers and hormones exist.

#Transphobia #TransGenocide #Florida

Text of the bill here:
https://legiscan.com/FL/text/S1342/2023

Screenshot from the text of the SB1342:

(c) Engages in any act with that person while the person is less than 12 years of age which constitutes sexual battery, or in an attempt to commit sexual battery injures the sexual organs of such a person commits a capital or life felony punishable pursuant to subsection (2).

Section 2. Section 921.1425, Florida statutes, is created to read:
921.1425 Sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital sexual battery: further proceedings to determine sentence.-
(1) Legislative findings and intent
(a) The Legislature finds that a person who commits a sexual battery upon or in an attempt to commit sexual battery injuries the sexual organs of a person less than 12 years of age carries a great risk of death and danger to vulnerable members of this state. Such crimes destroy the innocence of a young child and violate all standards of decency held by civilized society. The Legislature further finds that Bufford v the state of Florida, 403 So. 2d 943 (Fla 1981), was wrongly decided, and that Kennedy v Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407, (2008), was wrongly decided, and that such cases are an egregious infringement on the states' power to punish the most heinous of crimes.
Two tweets by Ava (@FemK_Ultra, timestamp 2:14 pm Apr 14 2023):

Expanding the death penalty is never a good idea even if you think the people it would be expanded to deserve it, because the state should never have that power.

That being said, I'm getting a very bad feeling about where this is going. If you're trans and in Florida, leave.

Quoted tweet by Leading Report:
Breaking: Florida Senate committee has unanimously passed a bill that would give the death penalty to those who commit sexual crimes against children.

Ava @FemK_Ultra:
It cannot be a coincidence that the same people who are adamant on calling trans people groomers are also mobilizing the state to start executing child sex abusers, and while I really don't want to say that this is going to lead to death camps, the truth is it might.
Two tweets by Patrick S. Tomlinson (timestamp 8:24pm Apr 24 2023):

Unanimous juries routinely vote to execute innocent people. There's like, a whole Project about it.

This isn't justice. This is legalizing lynch mobs.

Quoted tweet by Sharon S. Brown:
Death cult. Florida to allow death penalty with 8-4 jury vote instead of unanimously! (link to a Reuters story) End quote tweet.

Patrick S. Tomlinson:
Ron DeathSantis is a dangerous fascist. Thankfully he also has all the charisma and broad national appeal of childhood cancer.
Tweet by @BoozyBadger@meow.social (timestamp 7:57pm Apr 15 2023):

The Florida Senate is well aware that this is a violation of the Eighth Amendment, and was expressly made unconstitutional in Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008). The Florida Senate is choosing an emotionally visceral subject to challenge death penalty limitations.

Quoted tweet by Leading Report:
Breaking: Florida Senate committee has unanimously passed a bill that would give the death penalty to those who commit sexual crimes against children.
end quoted tweet.

Boozy Badger:
This worries me because the next natural step is to challenge the proportionality limitation on the death penalty (Coker v Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977), as well as the national consensus limitations on the death penalty (Roper v Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005).
Amelia 🏳️‍⚧️ Baeddelia
2 months ago

The wave of new legislation functionally outlawing the existence of trans people and laying the groundwork for our imprisonment and execution are nothing less than another incarnation of the Nuremberg Laws and you're useless as an ally unless you take them that seriously.

Every time conservatives gain ground with anti-trans laws, they keep going. They're not going to stop. They need to *BE* stopped.

#transmisogyny #transphobia #fascism #genocide #transgenocide #nuremberglaws

Dr. Sean Munger
3 months ago

Latest blog. Fascism is undoubtedly on the rise and is enjoying its biggest surge since before we thought we defeated it in 1945. Don't tell me it can't happen here, and don't tell me we can just vote it away. Here's why, and why it's so hard to fight.
#fascism #transgenocide #history #histodons
https://www.gardenofmemory.net/why-fascism-is-on-the-rise-again-and-why-we-wont-stop-it/

Cait the Encourageable
3 months ago

I find it interesting that I get so much pushback from cis people about whether or not there is an impending #TransGenocide.

You're using your 2023 brain to assess this. That's the wrong point of view. It's not 2023 for trans people, it's 1933, and we all live in Berlin.

When we all looked at the horrors of the Holocaust, and said #NeverAgain, did we mean anything by that? Can we truly afford to be casual in our opposition to what is intended to reach the same conclusions: that the targeted group are subhuman, and don't deserve life?

You wishing it weren't happening isn't going to save anyone. What are you doing to help protect trans people? Have you even called your representatives at the appropriate government to tell them to lay off?

If not, what DID you mean by #NeverAgain? "NeverAgain, as long as it's not inconvenient for me or requires me to do anything?"

Cis people, we need you to stand the fuck up and fight back. I don't need you to tell me here how you do that; I need you to just DO IT. Don't virtue-signal. Just act. Call your reps. Get your ass out to a demonstration. Take a sign saying "I'm a cis ally!" Get on TV with it. Be noticed, standing up. When you hear transphobic talk at work or in the pub, SAY SOMETHING. Learn, so you can educate.

Bigots don't listen to the people they hate. We need your voices here, your bodies on the line beside ours.

If you're not building a secret room for us to hide in, you're really not paying attention.

[Toot updated on 03/04/23]

Reposting this because this was a fav'd toot from @Subrote who has now moved on another instance

#TRANSGENOCIDE

If you're #trans and live in a red state, its time to move. I'm fucking serious. Reach out to the community and we will try to get you somewhere safe.

This is not a drill, this is not catastrophizing, this is #genocide and it's not going to stop here.

https://transgenderlawcenter.org/equalitymap tracks how each state is threatening #transgender #trans people.

A map showing how threatened transgender people are by legislation in each state.

The worst states on the map: South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina. Florida isn't correctly marked as the worst, instead as second-worst.

The colours are: deep green, high overall policy tally, light green is medium, lightest green is fair, orangey red is low, and deep red is negative overall policy tally." title="A map showing how threatened transgender people are by legislation in each state.

The worst states on the map: South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina. Florida isn't correctly marked as the worst, instead as second-worst.

The colours are: deep green, high overall policy tally, light green is medium, lightest green is fair, orangey red is low, and deep red is negative overall policy tally.