𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

"where were all the trans people before?"

We hid. And if we didn't hide, we died.
- we were deemed clinically insane.
- we we imprisoned.
- we were put in institutions.
- we were forcibly medically castrated.
- we were tortured with electric shocks.
- we were lobotomized.
- we were hunted down and killed.
- our murderers claimed "panic" and were set free.
- many of us chose the "easy way out" instead.

Helping trans people exist is good, actually.

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Show threadEm Dec 22
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Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Dec 22

@Lana

All of this -- if we were fortunate enough to know ourselves. If we were lucky enough to realize who and what we are, in a society which took every opportunity to tell us that it was wrong, and to hide the fact that we even existed.

A big part of the reason there 'were no trans people' back then was because society erased us, carefully, methodically and mercilessly.

Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 22

@theogrin @Lana exactly!

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115762245315810699

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] #NeverAgain means no #TransGenocide must be allowed to ever happen again. - *By any means necessary!* https://web.archive.org/web/20220309160330/https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1221503438845952000

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Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 22

@Lana #NeverAgain means no #TransGenocide must be allowed to ever happen again.

  • By any means necessary!

https://web.archive.org/web/20220309160330/https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1221503438845952000

Jessica Price on Twitter

“Here's the thing: pre-Nazi Germany was GAY AS FUCK. Homosexuality was referred to in England as "the German custom," for the French, it was the "vice allemande," and the Italians winkingly called gay people "Berlinese." 1920s and early 1930s Berlin was a gay mecca.”

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Show threadDeanFarrellDec 23
@Lana I've known trans people since I was 17 years old. (I'm 59 now.) They've always been there. They're just more visible now, I imagine because they're tired of being oppressed and are determined to do something about it.
Show threadRustyRingDec 23

@Lana

I already went through this with gay people. (Took me some time to grow up on that topic.) Society stopped persecuting them, and suddenly "everyone" was gay. And I was like, this is ridiculous, they must be imagining it.

Eventually I figured it out. Just like you said.

And these days, I sometimes find myself thinking, "Come on. All these people are trans?"

And then I think, "Yes. Always have been. I just know it now."

Show threadSinnamon (despicable arc 😈)Dec 23
@Lana And some of them hadn't even dared to question their own gender because of lack of referents.

"If you're so convinced that humans can't have wings, you'll never dare to imagine what you would do if a medical procedure to implant wings on humans appeared tomorrow"
Show threadbe3nDec 23
@Lana where did all these left handed people come from? before the 1970s the US had zero left handed people. now it’s 10% some must be faking.
Show threadMonica.SjöblomJan 7
@Lana
Trans people are people! Leave them in peace! And don't touch them or harm them. They have the same rights as we all have!!!!
Show threadMonica.SjöblomJan 7
@Lana