it was essentially how VP Kamela Harris put it 4 years ago when talking about pre-existing medical conditions like breast cancer...
(Women's rights march--2022 roe v wade)
with the US presidential election season open the republican party and its neo-conservative base are going after Women's right to choose, the LGBTQ community and specifically the transgendered.
it is in essence a 'cultural war'.
2019 New York Pride Parade....with millions in attendance
Male supremacism is a social hierarchy which places cisgendered—or straight—men as superior to others and justifies their social and political control. Misogyny—a key element of male supremacy— propagates disdain and prejudice against women and perceived threats to this social order. Mainstream misogynists promote policies and laws that restrict the rights of women and LGBTQ communities, whereas fringe elements endorse violence to achieve these goals. The United States has seen a roll-back in civil liberties in favor of male supremacist ideals with the end of protections like Roe V. Wade in 2022, and an increase in anti-trans legislation.
Recent legislative attacks on birth control, trans student athletes, abortion care and drag queen story hours all stem from this ideological root. Misogyny is a driving factor in incidents of gender-based violence, mass violence, and domestic extremism. Nearly half of mass violence perpetrators have a history of domestic violence or misogynistic behaviors, or both.
Keystone trans Conference....
Male supremacist violence impacts ethnic and racial minorities disproportionately. For example, from March 2020 to March 2021, of the reported 6,600 crimes against Asian Americans in the U.S., the majority targeted women and nonbinary individuals. Likewise, Dept of Justice reports found that transgender individuals face greater threats if they are also a person of color
'Femme-Fever' gathering....
'Erin in the morning' ....without question 'the best blog' on keeping up with Trans-rights and the assault by the neo-cons on a transgendered person way of life...
https://www.erininthemorning.com/
On Wednesday, January 15, 2024 Maine scheduled a working session on a bill titled “An Act to Safeguard Gender-affirming Healthcare,” a bill that would declare the state a refuge for transgender people fleeing hostile states. In the past two years, similar measures have been enacted or issued through executive orders in 14 states and the District of Columbia. These laws have proven effective
In response, major anti-trans Republican accounts such as Libs of TikTok and Riley Gaines attacked the bill on social media, erroneously claiming it would require the state to “take custody” of trans youth being denied gender affirming care.
here is a very disturbing piece that i believe is an accurate assessment of things on the cultural landscape.
TG Vanity Club dinner at Keystone Conf. 2022
As you may have figured out by now, I am in the camp that sees the MAGA movement as a form of neo-Nazism.
and whoever the Republicans chose in 2024 (Probably Trump), if elected, which would lead to the end of the American Republic and possibly Civil War 2.0. Make no mistake, the leading Republican candidates all want to usher in a Christian-Fascist state.
Central to their thinking is a hatred of the LGBTQ community, Muslims, non-Christians, secular humanists, and the left, which is anyone who is a member of the Democratic party, or progressive politically.
They want to restore traditional American life where white male Christians were in charge and minorities knew their place as did women
It is hard at times to figure out what they truly believe. It is not at all clear that they would be in favor of ending same-sex marriages, or making homosexuality criminal again, although many of his supporters are.
But one thing is clear the Republicans have a hard-on (pun intended) in the T community. The MAGA movement would like to simply eliminate the transgendered community through legal shenanigans by defining gender as either male or female assigned at birth, forbidding changing birth certificates and other official documents, including name and pronoun choice on official documents, outlawing gender reassignment, and stigmatizing the Trans community as mentally ill.
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as a general rule i have tried to always have a 'live and let live' attitide regarding people... at times it seems the world is a crazy mixed up place with a wide variety of people...and there are times when one needs to stand up and be counted for what they believe in or get trambled under foot by those wishing to take away their right to exist as they choose.
having said that i do believe 'Peace' is always available...and anything less is just a cry for help.
...does this t-girl look like she should be cast out from society simply because she chooses to live as a transwoman?... to me she doesn't look like she'd hurt a flea....and just seeks to be happy in her self-expression...
be well sisturs, peace, alyssa
great post alyssa thw world can only hope that the average USA citizen does the right thing and see through the right wing fog