The human rights of LGBTIQA+ people are being challenged, curtailed & politicised.
"After meaningful progress for LGBTQIA+ people in recent years, that same community is now faced with some setbacks & rising hostility."
Joe Ball, Victorian Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Communities
#AusPol #USPol #EUPol QueerRights #HumanRights #Democracy #Genderism #Resistance .
The human rights of LGBTIQA+ people are being challenged, curtailed & politicised.
"After meaningful progress for LGBTQIA+ people in recent years, that same community is now faced with some setbacks & rising hostility."
Joe Ball, Victorian Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Communities
#AusPol #USPol #EUPol QueerRights #HumanRights #Democracy #Genderism #Resistance .
[CW transhate]
So here's the thing. TERFs - that's an easy one. Usually vatnikoids these days, stuck in a 100+yo suffragette #feminism that was highly appropriate when there still was a Kaiser in Germany, but hasn't since, because it has achieved its main aim.
Deal with them as with any other reactionary (the "R" in #TERF means REACTIONARY. There is nothing "#radical" about these rank and usually decrepit boomer booj.) and you're set.
BUT: what about individuals who claim to be #trans with a vengeance, only to rant and rail against the "#woke #genderism #conspiracy", and who even promote the views of the most extreme breed of religious right fanatics who call consciously #queer people "animals" that ought to be "culled" etc?
It's not a numerically significant problem, but these few people do have a toxic impact at the boundary of queer communities and the so-called "normal" people that is utterly without proportion to their numbers. They are the "good trans" the trans-haters leverage against queers.
How does one confront them? I am always tempted to #deadname them (since it seems highly likely they are not trans at all, just batshit insane - "cosplaying as trans" if you will)... but THAT is a road that does not look like it could lead to anything good.
Er komt nu wel een duidelijk beeld bovendrijven van de presidentsverkiezing in de VS.
Als je een oude blanke man plaatst tegenover een niet-blanke jonge vrouw, dan kiest de VS de oude blanke man, elke keer.
Alle campagnevoering van de Democraten in de Swing States was net voldoende om de Democratische stem ietwat te behouden, maar aan de MAGA kant kwamen ze uit alle krochten en riolen om er maar voor te zorgen dat Die rare vrouw het niet werd.
There are so many ways in which sexism (or rather #genderism) in the workplace hurts everyone.
I don't know how many millions of guys are stuck in jobs that are wearisome and annoying but the highest-paying ones they could get because they have to 'feed the family', whereas their wives get to work jobs that are much nicer (or if they aren't, they can call it a day at noon because women get to work part-time if they wish).
I'm not saying that this is worse than millions of women being stuck in low-paying jobs or roles below their level of qualification, but it is not great either.
I am not personally affected by this, but I would love to live in a culture where families have more options of balancing the need for bread on the table and everyone's need for self-actualisation.
An diesem Vorfall werden die Grenzen des #Genderism deutlich. Wahrscheinlich wird im Ergebnis nur eine Lösung übrig bleiben, die für #Transmenschen eine eigene Sportkategorie einführt. Bei Wettkämpfen, in denen physiologisch bedingte Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern zu berücksichtigen sind, wird es dann künftig wohl männliche, weibliche und Trans-Riegen geben müssen. 2️⃣
I've linked an amazingly cogent article that describes why I am not only a #feminist, but why I rail against #genderism
#racism, and all -isms that tell people they have to be/do something against their will. The fight against coercive forces are a theme of most of my stories.
It discusses a panoply of issues and why people think that way. Spoiler: It's all about power over other people, and maintaining it for a few who consider themselves deserving or better than you. And it isn't surprising they are willing to use violence to get that power and keep it. Look at the wars in the last two centuries. Look deeper at the anthropological discoveries of the roots of our patriarchal civilization. Violence and power. Lots of dead people.
It important to understand what is as a way to help maintain progress when they try to con us.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/04/18/male-supremacy-core-hard-rights-agenda
#hate #violence #splc #lgbtq #rights #civilrights #partiarchy #gender #writingcommunity #writers #writersofmastodon #fiction #writing
#Veganism is #intersectional. If we will look at our internal biases, we may discover #racism and #genderism and also #speciesism. These are all related to our own sense of relatedness and compassion.
