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People need to be allowed to keep their ID cards
I hope everyone is aware of the threat to đłïžâ⧠ïžtrans Kansansâ IDs. If I had a Kansas ID, Kansas would ask me to surrender my ID. It’s nonsense. There’s never been a reckoning. Anti-trans moral panic is hotter than ever.
On a journey toward truth
New art, ancient thought. Truth and the meaning thereof isn’t in a dictionary. It’s something you go on a journey to find. Philosophy by Guillermo Hurtado.
Will everything be OK?
No one can promise, but we can prepare. Put your plan into action. Uncertainty is a fact of life. We can promise each other we’ll do the work. We can iteratively take that moment to think about what we need and to prepare.
âCisâ or âbiologicalâ?
Theyâre both adjectives, but we have preferences. No, âcisâ doesnât imply that trans people are better. âCisâ implies that trans people are equal. People who object to this equalization are transphobes.
Biologicals first!
OK, said the pack of hungry tigers. A slogan like âBiological first!â might not work out so well for them. If weâre tied up by hungry cartoon tigers, our best bet is to untie each other.
âLabels are for cans,â yet you do see âtransâ
The âsoup can logicâ of using âtransâ but not âcisâ. When people arenât comfortable observing that some people are cis, often their discomfort rests in a belief that trans people arenât people but soup cans.
3 strategies to fight transphobia
From âEl terfismo en AmĂ©rica Latina,â an article in VolcĂĄnicas. Expose TERF connections to the Religious Right, multinational companies, neoliberal regimes & white supremacy. Give trans people platforms. Keep at it.
Nervous about sharing your uninformed opinion? Then don’t
Feel relieved? Good. But it was never about your feelings. “Just asking questions!” isn’t credible when the speaker is demonstrably not naive. Lots of people know lots of real information about trans kids.
Human rights don’t ‘trickle down’
Why must some discussions be silenced in favor of others? The commissionâs name itself is peak Orwellianism. I must admit, sadly, that many rights are alienable. The Commission on Unalienable Rights has come to take them away.