Thread by @AlexPetrovnia

This is a map of every US State that has considered anti-trans legislation in 2021. It’s June.
RT this 🧵 and read below how to help #ProtectTransKids.
Many of these laws are PASSING. We MUST ACT NOW. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1402045647847673856

The amount of people replying or quote tweeting this saying they’re so glad their state is “safe”, have MISSED THE POINT.
NOWHERE IS SAFE UNTIL WE *MAKE* IT SAFE.
Call your reps and TELL THEM to enact trans protections this #Pride
Or this will be in your state next.

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…

SECOND THING: Get LOUD. Talk about the trans rights crisis right now to other cis people. Bring it up to coworkers, to clubs, to internet friends, to absolutely anyone and everyone who will listen. For Pride, FOCUS THE TRANS RIGHTS CRISIS. #PrideMonth2021 is for activism.

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 NOW. Get people to notice.
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, esp as many trans people rn are RUSHING to get medical care and legal changes before they're stolen from us.
Trans ppl add your need posts here

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. Prioritize trans lives. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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.

SEVENTH THING: DO NOT tolerate transphobia around you. Whether in your online spaces or IRL, you have the power to make "gender critical" opinions socially unacceptable. Do not treat them as worthy of discussion. Treat these opinions as what they are -- violent bigotry.

EIGHTH THING: Educate yourself. Find trans writers, activists and speakers and LISTEN genuinely. Do not attempt to insert yourself. Trans activists and writers link your work here, whether fiction, nonfiction, etc.

NINTH 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 make trans people comfort you about your discomfort with us.

TENTH THING: Deeply, truly work on understanding that transphobia has been built into you from your childhood, and that it takes CONSCIOUS EFFORT to unlearn. Being a trans ally will not always come easy. You must be willing to be uncomfortable to save us from extermination.

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