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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.
When the Nazis criminalized gay men
A story of persecution in âThe Men with the Pink Triangleâ by Heinz Heger. The Nazis viewed gay people as weakening the gender binary. Gay men could be punished for âlewdness,â including simply hugging each other: prison or death.
100 years from now, transphobia will always have been wrong
A parallel between Wagnerâs antisemitism and Rowlingâs transphobia. 100 years from now, there could be a mass murder. But thatâs not why Rowlingâs transphobia is wrong. It doesnât become wrong in the future. Itâs 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 arenât interested in trans peopleâs viewpoints. Instead, they turn trans people into a bad-faith debate. They see it as a publicity opportunity.
Posie Parker wonât tell us about the billionaires
On air, she alludes to a conspiracy theory â and then wonât 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 Iâve seen (this week)
âŚwere also antisemitic. Modern antisemitism and transphobia are fundamentally linked, and the crush of anti-transgender legislation is an attempt to exterminate trans people.