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(DIR) Post #AUj1q8ezHpot2XIiga by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-04-16T23:43:43Z
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The organized conservative campaign against trans lives is a tool of the right to raise money, extract control, and build arguments with a direct line to fascism. It inspires stochastic terrorism against trans people. It’s also a practice ground for all of the ways that fascism can come for any of us.A gift link follows. Don’t ignore this. How a Campaign Against Transgender Rights Mobilized Conservatives-https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/politics/transgender-conservative-campaign.html
(DIR) Post #AUj1q9AXOX3acO3urY by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-04-16T23:44:50Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/politics/transgender-conservative-campaign.html?unlocked_article_code=djDsEyFwu54tNgMRX976urls0tGVKMvy5Px1rNpvK2ssNdJ-r2TO093NJXtwwAB6NmQaLCV3t1KuO5bQ0_YvXoriKOelTdc9uQRvyHnZrPuV_6MKSguqoooT_1AlaaGls7YvZIAbpvlLu1ZQ7K092fxLAcLEtDXg5Q3_8E27ycZVUwCW7rOPvVwuFaftcBcmSn34ar0p4h5rcCEPIeocYQrt-UrtcjW8OW-s0C2PxgpbWzdNd_iYzTOsg9kZJAz0_v_LcbTZ46BbUmiJqO6-gZlQl96A-HXBDqSRHRMysueytKgH4hQzM2c0OHX4eLgOZsKoRooGPB_ak06URezuswVqZJ1w_GpYBbqp497kKyI&giftCopy=3_Independent&smid=url-share
(DIR) Post #AUkfAVt8j0NqF8aRN2 by rebeccabguinn@mastodon.world
2023-04-17T13:51:14Z
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@TonyStark we liberals set ourselves up for this. I’m sorry we just did. We gave them something that many have ambivalence. It became not just a personal choice for some but a personal choose that all had to embrace and many weren’t ready for this. Sometimes winning the war is knowing how and when to battle. We lose on this one even among moderates. Now i prepare to get the hate from my side.
(DIR) Post #AUkfAWK56pvzahBxMe by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-04-17T14:15:32Z
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@rebeccabguinn I’m sorry we lose what? Democrats didn’t start this issue. Republicans started attacking the trans community.
(DIR) Post #AUkfAWtsxiZfNjwYAi by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-04-17T14:16:17Z
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@rebeccabguinn Nobody’s asking for your embrace. They’re asking to be left alone.
(DIR) Post #AUkfAXO19gg2tC2c8e by rebeccabguinn@mastodon.world
2023-04-17T14:30:50Z
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@TonyStark no that’s not true…you have to make gender the second most important thing about you in many introductions..your name then your gender pronoun….Is an example. Instead of trying to get rid of gender stereotypes we are making our gender the most important aspect. I can’t have mixed feelings about trans in sports and there are reasons for mi iced feeling since at one time my daughter was in Olympic tryouts and the difference between male and female is undeniable
(DIR) Post #AUkfAXvh8TcEZdnVdA by rebeccabguinn@mastodon.world
2023-04-17T14:37:30Z
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@TonyStark Good 16 year old amateur boys are better than Olympic women in certain competitions like pipe. If we believe womens sports are valuable then they should be womens sports defined by chromosomes ( just hormones don’t make all the differences). Now should someone live their life as they want by all means do. But I think we have caused a backlash instead of letting acceptance come.
(DIR) Post #AUkfAYT18aGqEzO7ZQ by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-04-17T14:51:19Z
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@rebeccabguinn 16 year old boys are not competing against women in any sport. You’re repeating right wing talking points. Letting acceptance come- would you say that to Black people, gay people, Brown people, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous people, all women? Hope not. We fight for the marginalized, together.
(DIR) Post #AUkfAZ9YaQIYMvI5sO by rebeccabguinn@mastodon.world
2023-04-17T15:10:16Z
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@TonyStark. I’m sorry xy is xy even with hormonal therapy you don’t change ever cell in your body with surgery or hormones. Sometimes life is just unfair.
(DIR) Post #AUkfAZgsaWxA2Gshoe by curiouscatastrophe@mstdn.social
2023-04-17T15:36:18Z
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@rebeccabguinn @TonyStark You don't know what you are talking about. At least 1 in 500 people born with a vagina have an XY pair, thanks to dysfunction in the SRY gene, which is responsible for testosterone receptors. Please stop spreading transphobic talking points, and leave the physiology to the medical professionals.
(DIR) Post #AUkfAaT5hHWARnRCxk by rebeccabguinn@mastodon.world
2023-04-17T16:32:03Z
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@curiouscatastrophe @TonyStark i didn’t say there are aren’t genetic differences read all the post.
(DIR) Post #AUkfAb1TdR1WARWfYm by rebeccabguinn@mastodon.world
2023-04-17T16:33:28Z
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@curiouscatastrophe @TonyStark I’ve mentioned xxy and epigenetics. But these are not the norm even for trans
(DIR) Post #AUkfAbQI9AsBPP8UEq by curiouscatastrophe@mstdn.social
2023-04-17T17:01:06Z
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@rebeccabguinn @TonyStarkNot XXY, just XY, and a vagina. It's part of the reason biomed students no longer use their own samples to practice karyotyping. The largest study to date found a prevalence of ~1 in 500, but we don't really know how many people are like that, because testing isn't widespread. Again, you are clearly uninformed on this topic. Please don't opine on this stuff from a position of ignorance, your assumptions are both wrong & harmful.
(DIR) Post #AUl78AVC457i3J3YTw by curiouscatastrophe@mstdn.social
2023-04-17T15:29:38Z
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@rebeccabguinn @TonyStark'Many have ambivalence' because they've fallen for transphobic misinformation, as you so clearly have.Being trans is not a choice. Our only choice is to be honest, & face the unreasoning animus of the uninformed, or to hide ourselves from the hateful masses & live a miserably inauthentic, unfulfilled life. We deserve to exist without being attacked for who we are. Please stop echoing these harmful calumnies, & educate yourself.
(DIR) Post #AUl78B6PpgthukTHV2 by Heimdall@progressivecafe.social
2023-04-17T18:42:05Z
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@rebeccabguinn @TonyStark @curiouscatastrophe I am angry and have a right to be so. Almost 400 anti-LGBTQIA laws have been passed this year. Laws trying their damnedest to hide us, shrink us, kill us, and destroy our identities. Attacks on the trans community harm everyone and everyone’s rights and freedoms. This isn’t an issue to say will lost votes, if that’s even true. Lives are at stake, Rebecca. Human lives. That’s why Tony used “stochastic terrorism.”
(DIR) Post #AUl78Bd1sQz9XtjKKm by TonyStark@progressivecafe.social
2023-04-17T18:53:19Z
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@Heimdall @curiouscatastrophe @rebeccabguinn Additionally, the article I posted mentioned growing support for gay marriage (yay). However that wasn’t always the case, either.Changing Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage | Pew Research Centerhttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/We don’t fight for human rights and dignity because they’re approved all of the time. We do because it’s right. We also can multitask, by the way.
(DIR) Post #AUl78C668MEn03KXdw by rebeccabguinn@mastodon.world
2023-04-17T19:18:34Z
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@TonyStark @Heimdall @curiouscatastrophe TonyI live in red California, I work with Latinos. this issue does have some questions. The GOP wins on some aspects of transgender with the middle. That’s why it’s effective propaganda. To deny that it works with the middle is not wise. How do you get ppl to vote against the radical right. I can guarantee calling ppl transphobic and uneducated not going work
(DIR) Post #AUl78Cdm79AygV5R8S by curiouscatastrophe@mstdn.social
2023-04-17T19:26:50Z
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@rebeccabguinn @TonyStark @Heimdall It's effective propaganda because many people tend to prefer a simple falsehood over a complicated truth. The answer is not to give up and embrace the falsehood, but to educate people about the complicated truth instead. It's not a quick fix, but it's the only honest way forward.
(DIR) Post #AUl7Ev5pkmngHzPicq by Tilopa@convo.casa
2023-04-17T23:58:20Z
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@curiouscatastrophe @rebeccabguinn @TonyStark @Heimdall
(DIR) Post #AUmcDGcE3Q06CKDUe0 by Woodchaz@social.vivaldi.net
2023-04-18T14:06:57Z
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@rebeccabguinn @TonyStarkCan I just point something out? NOBODY was worried about this until the right started harping on it. It's a wedge issue. It's very rare that it even comes up, but they act like the sky is falling. Don't take the bait. BECAUSE the LGBT are smaller in numbers we MUST fight for them because they don't have the numbers. If we let the right have this one, they'll just move to whoever has the next least power & move up the chain till they get to us. We're in this together.