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People need to be allowed to keep their ID cards
I hope everyone is aware of the threat to đłď¸â⧠ď¸trans 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.
What transphobia sounded like in 2010
âHow Evil Worksâ (2010) by the editor of WorldNetDaily. In discussing racism, antisemitism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia, the author of course purports not to perpetuate them, but he very much does.
Classic transphobia â since 1981
Classic anti-trans arguments in âThe Spiral Pathâ by David Fernbach. Trans people have genders, but we donât uphold, benefit from, or depend on the gender system any more than cis people do. Thatâs transphobic disinformation.
Ironic fiction doesnât tell you who trans people really are
Itâs rough entering Grace and Rubieâs restaurant. Good thing itâs fiction. Janice Raymond brought up this fictional story in her 1979 book to describe what trans women are really like. Thatâs not analysis. Itâs disinformation.
Transphobia since the 1970s
Janice Raymondâs âThe Transsexual Empireâ. It’s a transphobia classic. We can look at its irrationality and spot its repetition in today’s transphobia. Today’s transphobia isn’t new.
On âA + Eâ by Ryszard Merey
Book #6 in my Trans Rights Readathon week. Drama club, drawing, dance parties — Ash and Eu are pulled together and apart and together as in an oceanic tide. As queer as you wanted high school to be.
On âThis Kid Can Flyâ by Aaron Rose Philip
Book #5 in my Trans Rights Readathon week. When she was 14, Aaron Rose Philip published the memoir This Kid Can Fly about herself, her family, and growing up with cerebral palsy. Today she’s a model.