Mallory's Musings & MischiefMar 19, 2023
I may be a bit biased, but I truly believe that trans people are the vanguard of a better society. People are fighting against us so hard because in so many ways we are the focal point of the failures of modern society. There's a reason so many trans people are some flavor of socialist or anarchist. The system is broken. It's broken for everyone, but we feel it in a very visceral and personal way.
Niamh Mar 20, 2023
Show threadMallory's Musings & Mischief

When people say "Trans Rights Are Human Rights", what they mean is that our fight is your fight too.

Shall people have bodily autonomy or not?

Shall healthcare be a human right or not?

Shall people have equal rights and opportunities regardless of their gender or not?

If trans people can't have rights, no one has rights, not really. They'll start with us, but it won't end there.

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Show threadLambdaMar 19, 2023
@malcircuit relevant as ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
First they came ... - Wikipedia

Show threadJim GoodallMar 19, 2023
@malcircuit
It's all the same fight.
LGBTQ rights
Abortion rights
Black rights
Immigration rights
Poverty rights
The enemy remains the same.
Show threadJayMar 19, 2023
@atpfm Thanks for the https://5calls.org/issue/transgender-state-legislation/ link, I’m picking up the phone tomorrow morning. @malcircuit
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Show threadElliotMar 20, 2023
@malcircuit This is it.
Show threaddodeMar 20, 2023
@malcircuit I'm not sure where you are geographically but which rights are missing in your country?
Show threadcalcifer 🧯Mar 22, 2023

@dode the UK has a "rape by gender fraud" precedent, so you wouldn't have to look far. In the US, there are several states actively restricting the right of trans folks to access adequate health care. And that's just a couple of examples you could have googled instead of being a sea lion at a trans person

@malcircuit

Show threaddodeMar 23, 2023
@calcifer @malcircuit we also have some healthcare issues in the UK. I hadn't considered the legal situation which I guess falls under rape by deception. That gets into the very messy space of what each party in a relationship understands to be the meaning of words. If we lose common understanding of words and aren't able to agree on definitions conflict becomes more likely. One reason why questions and discussion is important (no sea lions)
Show threadSphinx of Black QuartzMar 20, 2023

@malcircuit

"If X people can't have rights, no one has rights, not really" is how fascism metastasizes. Once you decide it's okay to take a right away from a group, no matter how small, it's not a right any more — it's a privilege, to be granted only reluctantly, and only to the chosen few. In a few short years, the very concept of "human rights" is eroded and ultimately abolished.

Show threadbgt loverMar 20, 2023
@malcircuit I would boost it three times if I could, but well, I can't, so hopefully a boost and a reply kinda ballances it out rofl
Show threadrastinzaMar 20, 2023

@malcircuit While I agree that developing just rights for trans people would improve society I do not think that trans people themselves are the vanguard of a better society.
Trans people are a minority who have initiated a fight to obtain better recognition in society and more equitable rights. I believe that when these rights will be obtained, most of these people will have no more reason to fight and will thus stop doing so.

I believe it's easy to explain why many trans are socialist or anarchist: in a political landscape where conservatives and most of the right wings is against their requests it's quite natural to turn to what's opposite to that; that would be progressive ideologies, which most left parties include, some branches of communism and definitely anarchy.

I do not think that trans rights will result automatically in other rights.

Show threadJhada Addams 🏳️‍⚧️ 💖💜💙Mar 20, 2023

@malcircuit Yes. THIS.

“UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE, WE ARE NONE OF US FREE.” EMMA LAZARUS, 1883