deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)
This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects.
The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.
ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers.
Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)
This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.
I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.
Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.
(As an interesting aside: isn’t it funny how all these sites attribute these things to an algorithm error? Itsn’t that funny.)
Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.
And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.
So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.
if you put trans women in danger because you can’t help running your fucking mouth, you are the ENEMY and will be ERADICATED
if you are a cis person who scrolled past this without reblogging because you don’t feel like it’s a necessary message for your other cis friends to see, i want you to know you’ve made it that much harder to trust you
My uncle posted a transphobic video about how there are only two sexes/genders (the speaker was too ignorant to differentiate) and I want to link him to this article I read on how biological sex is a spectrum and how scientists only condensed it to binary to be lazy/make it simpler to talk about but ignored all the variations of biological sex. It mentions the bell curve and the variations such as XX, XY, XXY etc.
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Honor those killed in anti-trans acts of violence; mourn the lights in our community that have gone out; say their names and tell their stories; and vow to fight for those still with us.
I don’t often get political… but something has happened
Trump. He and his administration are trying to change the law so that whatever gender you were “born as” is your unchangeable sex/gender.
[1.4 MILLION AMERICANS]
This is from a new New York Times article, regarding the technicalities of what has been said. They go even further to discuss what they accurately call “biggest battlegrounds” for transgender students: the bathrooms and locker rooms.
We can’t be quiet about this. They are trying to erase who we are. To make it so that we just DON’T EXIST. As a transgender male who lives in America, this scares the shit out of me.
As I said, I don’t normally get political on my blog, but you all need to know about this.
don’t let this happen
“wrongfully extend civil rights protections to people who should not have them”
If that doesn’t send a chill down your spine I don’t know what to say
List of people who throughout history have thought that people “Shouldn’t have civil rights protections”
1) Fascists
2) That’s it that’s the whole list
I cannot believe you just reblogged a post i made,,,, you know it’s bad when a popular blog you like reblogs a political post you made.
1. To protect: human rights, civil rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, Muslim rights, Latinx rights, workers rights, women’s rights, the environment, your soul, everything worth protecting on this earth.
2. BECAUSE POSTING ON THE WEB ABOUT ISSUES WITHOUT VOTING IN PEOPLE WHO CAN ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES IS BRINGING THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS TO A GUNFIGHT.BRING YOUR VOTE TO THIS FIGHT.
3.ACTIONS ARE WORTH MORE THAN WORDS, ESPECIALLY HERE.
5. Give the hatemongers bad news. When the folks who want to overturn Roe V. Wade, ban trans people, build up those new concentration camps, and rewrite the laws to make a permanent one-party state, wake up on Wednesday to check the news, here’s what they’ll see:
6. The satisfaction of watching the BLUE WAVE POP THAT RED BUBBLE.
The difference between abuse & neglect and genuine love for a child that may be trans.
THIS IS IMPORTANT PLEASE SPREAD IT LIKE WILDFIRE.
I love this post so fucking much. If it’s ok for girls to wear jeans, then how come Guys aren’t allowed to wear Skirts? Seams like a stupid rule to me.
Also, adding those qualifiers that girls toys are “lesser” to young boys is one of the things that contributes to misogyny when they’re adults.
LGBT BRAZILIANS TAKE CARE WITH DATING APPS AND GRINDR, THEY WILL BE USED TO TARGET VICTIMS PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST
ALSO!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Whatsapp (the most used messaging app in Brazil), if you receive a contact from a “juridical support group for LGBT+ people who are being harassed” called “REAJA”, DO NOT INTERACT!!!!!!! Apparently, this is not a real support group but it’s a trap that are targeting LGBT+ people to physically harm them. They people behind “REAJA” have very malicious intentions.
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