Christine Lemmer-Webber@cwebber@social.coop
UK looks like it move towards banning trans people from all single-sex spaces https://archive.ph/taXyE
But wait there's more... trans women will definitely be banned from women's restrooms under this, but what about trans men and women's bathrooms?
The proposed law says that they might also be banned from women's restrooms, or maybe men's, it depends on whether they make people uncomfortable or something completely unclear
What the fuck is this nonsense
Cait the Proud Trans Woman@oldladyplays@wargamers.social
@cwebber@social.coop
You've probably heard of the engineering principle of "unintended consequences".
This, on the other hand, is what we call "an intended consequence", or, the machine working successfully as designed.
The intent was laid out 46 years ago, in 1979, when Janice Raymond wrote The Transsexual Empire. In that vile book, she called for genocide of trans people.
She said you can't use death camps, that's messy and public opinion will turn against you. In 1979, this made sense. We all knew family who'd been affected by the war. Now, we're learning that the US isn't as exceptional as it thought.
Instead, she said, you have to legislate them out of existence. Make life as a trans person so difficult that they simply cease to exist. If that happens by self-harm, fine. If it leads to desperate crime which has us locked up forever? Fine. If it leads to total poverty? No problem. If it's deep-seated addiction, tearing the body apart until it can't hold anymore? Excellent.
Someone in Project 2025 has clearly read it. It's exactly what we're seeing. Systemic pressure from the top down to repress transness in any and every way imaginable. Make health care unavailable. Make being in public difficult and unpleasant, by restricting bathroom use. Don't allow ID changes, and charge people who use altered gender markers as fraud perpetrators. Lock 'em up. Deny their existence. Scrub anything about them from every public source of information. Make acknowledging their existence cost you everything, even if you're not trans yourself. Ban the words from use. Fire anyone who's revealed to be trans, and do so for publicly-applauded bigotry.
It's from the textbook of repression. Every authoritarian state needs an internal enemy. Someone to blame it all on.
This time it's us. Again.
They did the same move in 1930s Germany. Berlin had been the queerest city in the world before that.
They died.
Let's not.