#LGBTQ+ people unite!

[theeiris16]

This is real. Stop sitting on the internet arguing with other people about celebrities. Who is who and all that bs. Ts is getting out of hand fr.

We’re taking multiple steps back in history. Everything your grandparents and great grandparents build is getting knocked down.

Mention these topics to your favs and get them to talk about it, yeah it maybe annoying but is getting scary out here and this shit will affect them too.

There is hundreds HUNDREDS of pages republicans have wrote that’s stripping minorities and women’s rights.

AMERICA HAS A FUCKING PROBLEM.

[uncanny-tranny]

The first mistake I see people make is assuming there are completely "nonviolent" ways to be transphobic. It seems like some people conceptualize transphobia as being either violent (which is always physical in some way) or nonviolent (which is "simple" emotional, verbal, or psychological abuse)

It seems, also, that people presume that when somebody has "noble" intentions for their transphobia - "I'm trying to save you!" for instance - it is suddenly nonviolent. Consider, though, how a transphobe would "save" a trans person. Would they allow that person to exist unadulterated (including being able to transition), or would they prefer to put them through conversion therapy, or revoke their access to bodily autonomy, or force them to have children, or anything that will prevent them from transition or even identifying as trans or otherwise tying them down with the obligations that prevent transition or identifying as trans?

There is no true "nonviolent" way to be transphobic because being transphobic relies on denying one the ability to autonomy and personhood. Fundamentally, even the transphobes who "want to save us" only do so in their own self-interest to save them from the horror of knowing that more people than they are alive and thriving.

[divinum-pacis]

First United Methodist Church in Charlotte, N.C., hosted hundreds of LGBTQ people and their allies May 1, 2024, for a celebratory sing-along after the United Methodist General Conference lifted a ban on gay ordination. (RNS photos/Yonat Shimron)

[miguelinileugim]

As a westerner I would feel A LOT worse about imperialism if its victims weren't a lot more homophobic, transphobic and bigoted in general than its perpetrators. Like okay sure we're evil but gay people can marry here while in your country they get sent to prison, at best.

[vinecine]

Bottom surgeries and these "geneder cares" are nothing more than Unit731 experiments on people, just in "legal" ways.

[espiritogato]

People are people,

Love is Love

❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙💜

[macer84]

I fucking hate the HSR community because there are several dozen Argenti x Boothill fic despite them having literally no screentime together, meanwhile I feel like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel searching for Argenti x Caelus even though you could cut the sexual tension between the two with a FUCKING KNIFE.

[raviosprovidence]

"you don't use queer because you're so desperate to be normal!!!" if you had to partake in one conversation with me irl your bones would melt from how weird and cringe I am

[gryficowa]

Blue people's logic: Fuck LGBT+ people and non-white people from Palestine, because they only need to be safe in the USA!

Say you're a liberal without saying you're a liberal

[i-spilled-my-soup]

tsats calls the gender binary an archaic idea and i feel like it’s more modern honestly...

[b33viemm]

More and more states are passing a large number of anti-trans laws, and hostility is going up very fast. Trans people's safety is limited and what we have is being cracked.

State governments are trying to find us. In general, it's good to be careful about what you share on the internet, all that online safety stuff, but if you are a trans person living in a hostile state you need to be incredibly careful about what you share about yourself, especially with the amount of surveillance we live with nowadays. Missouri and Texas have already tried to gain access to people's medical records and history by buying clinics, and while they failed it's a reminder that they are trying to track us down. Missouri also tried to release a survey with questions about your gender experience in the state, essentially making a list of trans people. This directly parallels what Hitler did to find Jewish people, which was adding questions about one's ethnicity to the 1938 German census that were not there before. This is not a coincidence. We have seen this before and it cannot ever happen again.

Using a VPN, UBlock Origin, and/or switching to Firefox (which has built-in privacy features) can help somewhat protect you, but it is the minimum. Don't share photos of yourself on large public platforms without a verification process, and if you post on any trans-related forums do not share identifying info past what your state is. Do not share personal information about your family, such as ages, locations, or names as those can be used to track you down if they know where you are. Be careful if you attend any protests and make sure to cover any identifiable features you have, like piercings or tattoos. Leave your phone at home. It is as powerful as it is dangerous to you.

Anti-trans government officials are pushing more and more severe bills that will put us (and ARE putting us) in danger. A bill in Florida allowing the kidnapping of trans teens might actually get passed. The feds will sit by and watch genocide happen. We cannot. Please, if you live in a dangerous state get out. If that's not an option, do all that you can to stay safe. I'm not saying sit and repress yourself, or stay in the closet forever, but please please please be very careful what you do. This is real and happening around us and we can't deny it, no matter what the anti-trans propaganda articles say about the trans-genocide not being an actual threat.

It's not a nightmare. It's reality, and we are not waking up.

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[uncanny-tranny]

Whenever people say something along the lines of "hormones are useless if [reason]!" I just think about what testosterone has done just to my mental well-being. If testosterone had done nothing to my physical appearance or the way my body functions, I would still take it because there is so much more to it than if somebody looks or "functions" a certain way. Do you know what it's like to truly fucking smile - without outside stimulus? Do you know how fucking soul-wrenching the realization that I can smile now was? Because I have gone my entire life until these past few years, being unable to smile without outside stimulus and it destroyed me.

The idea that hormones are useless after a certain age, or for a certain "type" of appearance, or for people who are outside of the "standard" is, to my mind, no less than a psy-op. So if you are worried that hormones aren't "right" for you because you were told you were "too far gone," I am so sorry. Take the hormones if you still want to see how it helps you or how it changes you. You have nothing to lose but your chains.

[divinum-pacis]

Participants from Jewish Queer Youth walk in the New York City Pride March on June 25, 2023. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

[glendaleumc]

Happy PRIDE Month, y’all! 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️ We remember all those who have fought + sacrificed their lives for us - many of whom were black + brown trans folx. We continue to work for a better tomorrow so that all people - no matter the color of your skin, who you love, or how you identify - can safely live OUT + PROUD! Our commitment to inclusion + justice continues throughout the year - not just for one month. Learn more about us, find community, + get connected into this work at GlendaleUMC.org.

[fishin-in-a-graveyard]

Why do you rich fucking white  (Able-body, Neurotypical, Cisgender, Straight Etc) people insist on seeing every socio-political conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization?

This isn't about you! So either get with it or get out of the fucking way!

-Socko

[knox156]

Intolerance for many LGBTQ people is far too common these days, and while it usually comes from outside the LGBTQ community, sometimes it from within it.