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Trump exec order repeats: Schools forfeit funds for accepting trans people
Trump’s anti-trans executive order #8. They want to shut down individual trans people & they don’t want to leave room for any trans person to claim they’re discriminated against for being trans.
Rescinded: ‘Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ People Around the World’
Trump’s anti-trans executive order #7. I’m surprised anyone would still be asking ‘Does Trump support LGBTQI+ rights?’ 10 years after he escalatored onto the campaign trail.
Helen Joyce celebrates the 2025 trans U.S. military ban (TalkTV)
She doesn’t have stats on who it may affect, but she doesn’t want us to be trans anywhere. The anti-trans movement is excited by Trump’s 2025 Inauguration Day order defining male and female as unchangeable and acknowledging no other genders.
When the Nazis criminalized gay men
A story of persecution in ‘The Men with the Pink Triangle’ by Heinz Heger. The Nazis viewed gay people as weakening the gender binary. Gay men could be punished for “lewdness,” including simply hugging each other: prison or death.
100 years from now, transphobia will always have been wrong
A parallel between Wagner’s antisemitism and Rowling’s transphobia. 100 years from now, there could be a mass murder. But that’s not why Rowling’s transphobia is wrong. It doesn’t become wrong in the future. It’s wrong now.
This 1949 examination of fascist rhetoric shows us how we got here
More on the connection between transphobia and antisemitism. Max Horkheimer examined the social and psychological reasons why people become fascist agitators. This book analyzes antisemitic rhetoric in the US.
Transphobia, overt or underhanded
Either way, this behavior is proof of transphobia. Transphobes aren’t interested in trans people’s viewpoints. Instead, they turn trans people into a bad-faith debate. They see it as a publicity opportunity.
Posie Parker won’t tell us about the billionaires
On air, she alludes to a conspiracy theory — and then won’t explain it. In this March 2023 interview on Radio New Zealand, the anti-transgender activist Posie Parker says that billionaires promote the cause of being trans.
The worst transphobic words I’ve seen (this week)
…were also antisemitic. Modern antisemitism and transphobia are fundamentally linked, and the crush of anti-transgender legislation is an attempt to exterminate trans people.