Cisqueers celebrating #Pride like nothing abnormal is happening: trans people see you. We see you abandoning us. We hear your silence. It is suffocating us. We are dying.
Please say something.
Please say something.
Twitter hashtags won’t save us from the trans genocide currently going on in the United States.
Please, please, contact your representatives HERE and TELL THEM that you want protections for trans people in your state. Your inaction costs lives.
freedomforallamericans.org
Please, please, contact your representatives HERE and TELL THEM that you want protections for trans people in your state. Your inaction costs lives.
freedomforallamericans.org
More anti-trans legislation has been ENACTED INTO LAW this year in the United States than in the past ten years combined.
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If your state is RED on this map, it means that YOUR LEGISLATORS have attempted to pass anti-trans legislation in 2021.
Many of these bills have passed. Many more are STILL BEING CONSIDERED.
RT this 🧵 and find out how to help👇🏻
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Pride #PrideMonth2021
Many of these bills have passed. Many more are STILL BEING CONSIDERED.
RT this 🧵 and find out how to help👇🏻
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Pride #PrideMonth2021
FIRST THING:
As a resident, KNOW what’s going on in your state and WHO to talk to about it. This tool can help.
freedomforallamericans.org/legislative-tr…
As a resident, KNOW what’s going on in your state and WHO to talk to about it. This tool can help.
freedomforallamericans.org/legislative-tr…
SECOND THING: Get LOUD. Talk about the trans rights crisis right now. Talk about it to other cis people. Bring it up to coworkers, to clubs, to internet friends, to absolutely anyone and everyone who will listen. Your silence on this has been killing us.
THIRD THING: Use your power to tangibly help trans people. Center trans voices on trans issues.
If you are a journalist OF ANY VARIETY, interview trans people and trans activists. Tell our stories. Get people to care.
If you have ANY influence—use it to protect us.
If you are a journalist OF ANY VARIETY, interview trans people and trans activists. Tell our stories. Get people to care.
If you have ANY influence—use it to protect us.
FOURTH THING: Money. I know, it sucks. We’re all broke after the pandemic, but directly donating to trans people is incredibly powerful, espe as many trans people rn are RUSHING to get medical care and legal changes before it’s too late.
Trans ppl add your need posts below.
Trans ppl add your need posts below.
FIFTH THING: Cis people MUST hold other cis people accountable. Call out “lgbt activists” who have been silent on these issues. Call out people in your daily life.
YOUR SILENCE IS VIOLENCE.
YOUR SILENCE IS VIOLENCE.
SIXTH THING: Question EVERY narrative or opinion on transness or trans issues that comes from a cis person.
Call them out on it. Center trans people in discussions of our own issues. Treat us as experts in our lived experience. Accepting any less as legitimate is killing us.
Call them out on it. Center trans people in discussions of our own issues. Treat us as experts in our lived experience. Accepting any less as legitimate is killing us.
SEVENTH THING: Educate yourself. Find trans writers, activists and speakers and LISTEN genuinely. Do not attempt to insert yourself.
EIGHTH THING: Show up for trans people in your life. Offer them safety, or assistance, or patience with deadlines right now. Offer to help pick up their burdens. Offer to be a compassionate ear. Do NOT do this to be a savior, do this because we are suffering right now.
It is far, far too late for performative activism from cis people. We are dying. We are dying, and every day we see the vast, vast majority of cis people in our daily lives do nothing but look away uncomfortably.
Do better. #pride
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #CisSilenceIsViolence
Do better. #pride
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #CisSilenceIsViolence
The truth of this is devastating. While writing this thread, I couldn’t find a single article from the last month or more written on most of these bills. Your silence is violence. Your silence is compliance. And trans people are paying the price.
A few writings of mine to introduce cis people to these concepts are as follows:
link.medium.com/QO3v0x3CKgb
link.medium.com/QO3v0x3CKgb
And understand queer and trans history and how they have always been intertwined:
link.medium.com/51QnjuhDKgb
link.medium.com/51QnjuhDKgb
#Pride without trans people would not exist. Queer rights as you know them without trans people would not exist.
link.medium.com/6aMLnMlDKgb
link.medium.com/6aMLnMlDKgb
Many, many people have attempted to eradicate trans people throughout history. It won’t work. We will keep being born, in every culture, in every era, in every society and time and place.
The trans experience is a human experience. Attempting to eliminate it won’t succeed—it will only cause pointless human suffering and limit the progress of queer liberation and feminism at large.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Pride #PrideMonth2021 #LGBTQ #CisSilenceIsViolence
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #Pride #PrideMonth2021 #LGBTQ #CisSilenceIsViolence
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