Paige EdwardsMar 22, 2024
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

The ongoing anti-trans pogrom in America continues largely unabated, and vastly under-reported. Mirroring the peculiar UK style of trans persecution, three states (and counting) are now trying to pass laws that would end state recognition of trans people under the guise of protecting women's rights. These bills would legally categorize sex based on reproductive capabilities, and would likely result in banning changes to birth certificates, driver's licenses and other forms of identification; in addition to the usual restriction of bathroom access based on assigned gender at birth clauses common in anti-trans crusader bills.

https://truthout.org/articles/gulf-south-states-advance-bills-to-end-legal-recognition-for-trans-people/

"Should these bills become law, an increasing number of states will not legally recognize transgender individuals. The implications of such legislation are profound: individuals who have long since updated their identity documents may face the reversion of those documents back to their assigned sex at birth. These state-issued identification documents could then be employed to enforce additional anti-transgender laws, including bathroom bans. Moreover, these restrictions are bound to create complications for transgender individuals who have legally updated their federal documents to align with their gender identity, as these documents would conflict with their state-issued ones."

Although it is indeed important to take what amounts to the forced outing of trans people seriously, I think far too many people are sleeping on what it actually means to end legal recognition of trans identities in our society. While this all might seem like a giant game of pretend to cisgender people laughing at fascist politicians in Red States, the simple truth is that if, legally speaking, trans people don't exist, then they cannot legally be considered the target of persecution or discrimination for their trans identity. Laws like these so called "Women's Bill of Rights" not only harm trans people psychologically, and expose them as public (and even state-sanctioned) targets for hate crimes, but they are also a very clear precursor to further acts of legal persecution designed to chase trans people from public life, justify their segregation from society, and yes quite possibly eliminate them entirely.

If you want to *legally* end trans people, one of the easiest ways to start that process is to begin by insisting that there really is no such thing as trans people at all. This is part of a historically documented process of dehumanizing, and legally "unpersoning" a target group. Once trans people don't legally exist, you can quickly and efficiently strip their civil rights; and after that part is accomplished - all bets are off. This is literally the historically recognized recipe for a pogrom; which is what trans people have been trying to tell the rest of America is what's going on here, all along.

#TransRights #Fascism #USPolitics #Pogrom

Gulf South States Advance Bills to End Legal Recognition for Trans People

Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have introduced bills to define sex in a manner that excludes trans individuals.

Truthout
Mar 22, 2024 at 12:34amWeb
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024

Just gonna leave this in my replies because the lib in my mentions pulled a ninja delete to make me look unreasonable - this post was in response to a reply talking about: Republicans, tories, oil oligarchs, democracy and NOT mentioning even one time "an anti-trans pogrom."

She's playing it slick now that she caught that block, but this is how it went.

Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024

Or I'm a fool and I just don't know how threads work and didn't notice she'd split it off into two separate reply strings.

This was the comment the above screenshot was in reply to:

https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/112138088217466937

Lady genuinely made me upset, and b/c I couldn't find it, I figured she'd deleted it.

Nicole Parsons (@[email protected])

@[email protected] So much of the public policy of Tories & Republicans can be explained as oil oligarchs using religious fundamentalism to hijack policy making. It's a religious attack on the secular belief that people should be equal under the law. They don't believe all people should have full agency & autonomy. They seek to preserve systems of semi-citizenry, government imposed poverty, and unfair social hierarchies. Workers are serfs https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/billionaire-tim-dunn-runs-texas/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_patriarchy

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Show threadKraftwerk-Das Model CollapseMar 22, 2024
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes tbh masto threads are a bit of a trashfire
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024

@dngrs yeah, I got caught for a loop because after the 2nd reply, she went back to the first thread string off the main post, to post the rest of it. So to me it looked like she'd deleted it; but it turns out if I'd just kept scrolling down, it was still there.

I can't say I feel too bad tho, because I mean... just read that shit. Exhausting.

Show threadnerd teacher 🦇Mar 22, 2024

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I think it's partly that the block straight up removes the posts when you're viewing from your own instance while logged in (thankfully), which was the issue I had when I went to look at what was happening. Because I've had this person blocked for a long time for many of the exact same reasons. As a result, I had to go view the thread from another instance to get the context.

But also my non-binary ass is sitting with you in the "There's an anti-trans pogrom" camp. We're not simply canaries in coal mines, which I think is a detrimental perspective with regard to *any* marginalised group of people.

Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024

@whatanerd No, she deleted it, I checked. Because it would make her look terrible. Because she was being terrible. So not only did she hijack my thread, but after catching that block she pulled the ninja edit to make it look like she hadn't done what I told her not to, and I hadn't responded reasonably, a SECOND time before she caught that block.

And yeah, I absolutely agree with you - we are not just canaries in a coal mine, and we're not just another focus group to recruit in the cause to "elect liberals."

I tried very had to be reasonable with her. I tried very hard to make a connection. She just refused to stay on topic, or even give me a throwaway line in the middle of her campaigning for a coalition to "protect democracy."

Again, I gave Dems my vote down the ballot in 2020; the anti-trans pogrom continues unabated. In fact, it's literally worse now.

Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024

@whatanerd Holy sh*t, you were right. I'm sorry. I swear I looked and looked, but I guess she split it off into two threads and because I was busy telling her to stop and acknowledge what the thread is ABOUT, I didn't notice. I swear to the sky this was NOT there when I looked earlier. But it is now, so I must've missed it.

https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/112138088217466937

Nicole Parsons (@[email protected])

@[email protected] So much of the public policy of Tories & Republicans can be explained as oil oligarchs using religious fundamentalism to hijack policy making. It's a religious attack on the secular belief that people should be equal under the law. They don't believe all people should have full agency & autonomy. They seek to preserve systems of semi-citizenry, government imposed poverty, and unfair social hierarchies. Workers are serfs https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/billionaire-tim-dunn-runs-texas/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_patriarchy

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Show threadnerd teacher 🦇Mar 22, 2024
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I thought for a moment it was just that my alt account's server cached it, so I was seeing it on my own, lol.
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024
@whatanerd No, clearly I'm just emo and crying; forgot how threads worked/didn't know it was a separate thread she'd done that in.
Show threadMedea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀Mar 22, 2024
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes going to go with very basic foods tonite but with zing .
Eating baked tofu marinated in Red Rooster Hot Sauce
Show threadRick MycroftMar 22, 2024

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes ^this

Having to continually debate your right to exist is a lot like this:

Fascists (or whatever label they use) never debate in good faith. At no point will they say "The medical science you've presented seems overwhelming. Not everyone fits into those two binary boxes. You're right, we're done."

If debating fascists solved anything, why are there still fascists?

First they came for trans people, so we punched them. So far, it's all good.

(I'm an old white CISish guy, but if I'm not on their list eventually, then I'm not living right.)

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 22, 2024

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Anti-trans laws, along with reproduction laws, are funded by religious bigots imposing their beliefs on everyone.

Malign influence campaigns by the likes of Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks, & other oil-rich religious fundamentalists believe people have biblically prescribed roles in life.

POC as servants to economies owned & run by whites, women in permanent subservience to men, children as property of parents, the planet & democracy as theirs to fry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarianism

Complementarianism - Wikipedia

Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024

@Npars01 I don't disagree with anything you said, but even in this "everyone in their place" religious right wing worldview, there is absolutely no "place" for trans people. Therefore, I do believe it's correct to describe it as an anti-trans pogrom.

I don't mind you adding additional information about the goals and motivations of the people behind this, I write about those people too fairly often. But the context here is that it's an anti-trans pogrom. Yes, it's part of something larger (specifically, American fascism and Christian nationalism), but that something larger still includes "no trans people" and there's really only *one* way to accomplish that goal.

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 22, 2024

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Anti-trans laws are the "foot in the door" for a whole host of anti-democracy initiatives.

Thwart anti-trans laws now, or face an onslaught of civil rights rollbacks for everyone later.

I understand wanting to focus on anti-trans issues.

However, the preservation of LGBTQ rights, especially trans rights, means forming alliances.

Trying to build a coalition of allies means acknowledging how anti-trans laws will impact everyone's civil rights.

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 22, 2024

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

You are welcome to decline to seek a broader coalition to protect trans rights, and go it alone. Your choice.

Unwanted offers of a coalition with broader civil rights movements can be perceived as distasteful.

Divide & conquer is pervasive in anti-democracy movements.

Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024

@Npars01 So basically, you still don't want to talk about an anti-trans pogrom, right?

Okay well thanks and I think we're probably not gonna get along. Have a great life.

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 22, 2024

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Again, your choice.

I comment on what I know: civil rights abuses.
Restrictions on access to trans medical care is a civil rights abuse.

Bathroom laws are a civil rights abuse.

Using targeted harassment campaigns on trans to get evangelicals to vote for the GOP & Tories is a civil rights abuse

Misusing school boards and public education systems to impose religious bigotry on trans is a civil rights abuse

Fear mongering about trans on Fox News is a civil rights abuse

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 22, 2024

@[email protected]

I'm not sure why it is so hard to persuade trans advocates that it is advisable to form coalitions to further their civil rights aims.

Perhaps there's a concern that trans civil rights advocacy will be subsumed into advocacy for women's rights, POC rights, pro-democracy rights, migrant rights, seniors rights etc.

All I know is there's strength in numbers.
And plugging into the funding for the advancement of civil rights is simply prudence.

But, your choice.

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 22, 2024

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

So much of the public policy of Tories & Republicans can be explained as oil oligarchs using religious fundamentalism to hijack policy making.

It's a religious attack on the secular belief that people should be equal under the law.
They don't believe all people should have full agency & autonomy.

They seek to preserve systems of semi-citizenry, government imposed poverty, and unfair social hierarchies. Workers are serfs

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/billionaire-tim-dunn-runs-texas/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_patriarchy

The Billionaire Bully Who Wants to Turn Texas Into a Christian Theocracy

The state’s most powerful figure, Tim Dunn, isn’t an elected official. But behind the scenes, the West Texas oilman and lay preacher is lavishly financing what he regards as a holy war against public education, renewable energy, and non-Christians.

Texas Monthly
Show threadAnarchoNinaAnalyzesMar 22, 2024

@Npars01 And yet another toot in this thread that does not say "it's an anti-trans pogrom."

Look, I'm trying to be polite here okay? I get that you really want to take this conversation in a different direction than my intentions for this thread. I would rather you simply not. I'm a trans woman. I think it's super important to tell people that there is an active effort to literally remove trans people from society, and likely kill us all.

I don't really want to dilute that message and fold it into a larger political discussion about the right - which is now wholly fascist. It's important. If you're here for something else, and can't even put it in the context of the anti-trans pogrom I'm talking about, then I'd just rather you did that elsewhere.

I tried to hint that in my last post, now I'm telling you to not do this; I write a lot about why Republicans are fascists and dangerous. This is a thread about the anti-trans pogrom, being written by a trans woman - if that's not what you want to talk about, go do it someplace else.

Show threadPhil LandmeierMar 22, 2024

@Npars01 Yes, with a time-machine I could fix some serious problems.

Back when the King James Bible was being translated from original sources, the committee of scholars had to choose words. Sometimes these words didn't have exact translations into English. One example is use of the English word "eunuch". But that's another topic.

The problem word here occurs in Genesis and the committee chose "dominion". The problem here is that the word used in the original text doesn't translate to English exactly. It's a word that combines "dominion" with "husband", as in being a steward, caretaker, nurturer. This is very different from the word dominion by itself.

So here we are with people believing that we are to dominate everything on the planet and that God told us to do so. This is a problem.

Of course, 400 years ago, nobody ever imagined that humans could ever someday dominate the whole planet. But yes, we can. We can destroy it too. Nobody thought of that in the 1600s.