Trans children in the United States are under unprecedented attack right now.
If you live in one of THESE states, bills to criminalize trans existence are moving through your state NOW.
Info to help in reply:
HERE you can find info on what bills are a threat, how far they are in the legislative process, and who to contact about them. Contact your reps and advocate for trans existence. It is life or death for trans kids right now. Please. #ProtectTransKids
Arkansas literally made it illegal to provide gender affirmative care.
It is literally illegal to treat trans people. People are going to die. Those working against us will see this as a success, and unless CIS PEOPLE move to help us, they will push their advantage.
This shouldn’t be necessary, but also setting the precedent that medical care deemed necessary by a doctor can be made illegal by the state should scare cis people as well.
Additionally: if your state has ANY PIGMENT WHATSOEVER, anti-trans laws in general are being passed there RIGHT NOW.
Anti-trans bills aren’t just in red states. Please check and act!
It shouldn’t be necessary to have a secondary concern to advocate for trans people, but it should scare cis people that many of these bills set the legal precedent that the state can conduct forcible genetic testing and use the resulting data to limit access.
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Tw eugenics, queer phobia, violence, medical abuse
The curious thing about anti-queer eugenics is that they will never actually work; being queer is not heritable or contagious. Anti-queer eugenics attempts operate on the false belief that we can be eliminated.
These crusades never succeed at eliminating queer people (it’s not possible, we will always be born into every population); but they do succeed at driving us into hiding. For the perpetrators of these actions, that is often good enough.
They often argue that this is “proof” that they’ve eliminated the “evil influence” or that queer people chose to be queer all along.
You can’t eliminate us. You can only make us suffer from your cruelty.
The impacts of chronic severe depression are so consistently underestimated. I think this is because “depression” has become a blanket term and many people do not realize there are actually multiple forms of depression. Here’s a brief thread of types and their differences. 🧵
While DSM criteria are hotly contested, it’s important to know key differences in how depressive issues can manifest.
One of the first major distinctions is the distinction between bipolar depression and unipolar depression.
Bipolar depression is usually shortened to “bipolar”, and can be especially difficult to cope with. This depression manifests as recurring episodes of severely depressed activity followed by severely elevated activity.
All the discourse around Lil Nas X “damaging children”, but almost no discourse on how his art is a direct result of the traumatic anti-queer tactics used against our generation, really shows how the majority of Christians in the United States still believe in conversion therapy.
And before 100000000 Christians come at me about how these people aren’t “real Christians”, TELL THEM THAT, not the victims of their abuse. If you’re more concerned with proving your own innocence than helping victims, you’re part of the problem.
Tw Christianity, abuse, suicide discussion
I guess here’s a bit of backstory about me: I grew up deeply Christian (Presbyterian). I’ve read the Bible in its entirety. I was a true believer.
When I was 16 and questioning, the national Presbyterian church allowed...
Ever notice how every photo of Alan Turing looks so *young*?
It’s because it is. He died at 41 as a direct result of the horrific abuses brought upon him by the very same government that now claims him as a symbol of national pride.
Celebrate queer people while we’re alive.
For those who don’t know, Turing, as a young mathematician and computer scientist, cracked the Enigma Code, the code the Nazi and Axis powers were using to communicate tactical information. It is generally accepted that this contribution was a major turning point in the war.
Sometimes I think about what art, poetry, science, and humanity we’ve lost due to cruelty against queer individuals and refusal to allow us to simply exist. But I have to stop myself, or I’m overwhelmed with the grief of it all.
Fr I’m so tired of the era where queer assimilation was validated and the norm... we’re learning that it won’t save us after all and being ourselves again
Like I truly believe the marriage equality decision and then corporations taking over pride and it becoming viable to market to queer ppl had a huge impact on many “more acceptable” (white, affluent, cis, abled) queer ppl believing they would be embraced if they just behaved
And the rise of certain queer celebrities (Ellen Degeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, etc) being generally accepted was interpreted as something that represented inevitable progress rather than progress that was fought for has allowed for acceptable queers to distance themselves