This week we’re discussing something every trans person has to deal with, all these little things that add up in ways cis people likely don’t even realize.
It’s death by a thousand cuts with TRANS MICROAGGRESSIONS.
Let's talk about what they are and why they're awful, including examples of the most common ones!
“I was a theater and band kid. My sophomore year my school did Hairspray as our school play. It has a role that is traditionally played as a man in drag. My school followed that tradition. That is now illegal. It was explicitly asked if Rocky Horror Picture show and Hairspray would be banned under the new youth drag ban law. The legislature said yes.”
”Students and teachers will be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in #Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” #LGBTQ
Beverley Knight, who says she was canceled in the 1980s for defending LGBTQ people, states,
“Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Human beings are human beings. The end, full stop. I think the moral panic that exists right now is a confection. It is red meat to a particular section of the electorate. They said the same thing years ago about gay people.”
“There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orban. He’s fantastic…He’s a non-controversial figure because he says, ‘This is the way it’s going to be,’ and that’s the end of it. Right? He’s the boss. No, he’s a great leader.”
"It permits immigration, which, in their minds, dilutes the 'purity' of a people, and it requires that LGBTQ+ individuals and women have the same rights as heterosexual men. Such a world challenges the heteronormative patriarchal world traditionalists crave."
"Orbán’s takeover of the press, elimination of rival political parties, partisan gerrymandering, capture of the courts, and control of Hungary’s government are not just ideological, though, but also economic. Corruption and the capture of valuable factories and properties for cronies have allowed Orbán and his allies to amass fortunes."
"As soon as Senator Katie Britt started speaking, I knew exactly who she is. She is so many of the pastor's wives and Sunday School teachers I knew growing up in an Evangelical church. Be sweet. Obey."
~ Jess Piper
And the reason this matters — should matter to all of us — is that these white evangelical women not only want this for themselves: they want to impose it on all the rest of women.
blame the poor
idolize the wealthy
oppress #women, #LGBTQ, & other religions
blame the #Jews
gut social programs
recommend widespread semi automatic #firearms
protest #science
yell and scream when folks disagree with him
storm the capitol
preach or exalt violence
He was a long haired, Semitic, sandal-wearing hippie. He hung out with lepers and the poor. He preached loved others.
Today in Labor History March 9, 1902: Actor Will Geer was born. Best known for his role as Grandpa Walton in the long-running series, “The Waltons,” Geer also appeared in the groundbreaking film, “Salt of the Earth,” which portrayed the struggle of Mexican American workers at the Empire Zinc Mine. Because of his activism on labor and political issues, he was blacklisted in Hollywood for many years. In 1934, he became a member of the Communist Party. He also met LGBTQ activist Harry Hay that year and they became lovers. Together, they supported the 1934 San Francisco General Strike and demonstrated against fascism and for workers’ rights. Hay was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first major gay rights group in the United States, and the Radical Faeries, an anarcho-pagan queer spiritual-political movement.
"Republicans, he [Biden] said then, “want the ability to reject the final count & ignore the will of the people if their preferred candidate loses.” The #freedom to vote — and, therefore, #democracy — hobbled.
“Many of you [#Republicans]... are promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom,” he said.
His bond was set at $100k or 10% surety w/a GPS tether.
Plymouth police were called to #DanaNessel & #AlannaMaguire's home shortly after 8:30 AM Tues after receiving a call that Baldwin had rang the doorbell then sat on her front porch, acc/to a statement from #WayneCounty Prosecutor Kym Worthy.
Baldwin was still sitting on the front porch when police arrived, acc/to Worthy.
"This simply will not be tolerated," Worthy said in a statement. "Unfortunately, in today's climate #threats to elected & other officials have become normalized. Not by the #WayneCounty Prosecutor's Office, ever."
"While The Times notes Robinson 'told a congregation that "there’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,”' it ignored the vast majority of his hate-filled anti-LGBTQ comments and his remarks regarding Hitler and the Holocaust."
It's not news that the prevalent strains of bigotry and #Islamophobia that permeate segments of the global right-wing have proven advantageous for #Israel's interests, despite the undercurrent of antisemitic sentiment that often accompanies such ideologies. This paradox is exemplified by the continuing belief among most nationalist Israelis that Trump's policies were beneficial for the Jewish state, despite his cultivation of support from factions that espouse overtly antisemitic views.
A case in point is Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina, who secured his party's nomination with the backing of Trump's #MAGA base and evangelical Christian supporters, many of whom profess their support for Israel. However, Robinson himself has made controversial statements that seem antithetical to such support, including denying the #Holocaust, opposing abortion rights, and opposing #LGBTQ rights.
All the talk about native Americans respecting trans youth as "dual spirited," stands in conflict with the fact that some of the most vile, hateful, bigoted, anti-trans bullshit I've ever heard was from a woman of native descent.
Today in Labor History March 4, 1998: In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal laws banning sexual harassment in the workplace also apply when both parties are the same sex. Joseph Oncale had been subjected to repeated sexual harassment by male coworkers on a Chevron Oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.