And the I too...
My friend is a lawyer and they've had their passport essentially confiscated by the government, instead of it being renewed. (They changed their gender) I am not optimistic, for the outcome, but it's oddly satisfying seeing a licensed attorney pissed off and going to bat. I hope they kick ass.
When I see shit like this, I always wonder what it looks like in the commit logs, work items, and timesheets.
git commit -m “man idk just fucking kill me”Damn USA about to include itself on its own travel advisory list
And soon sane countries will have the USA on their list of places LGBTQ people should avoid, and shortly after everyone is advised against visiting.
Already planning on contacting my member of parliament next week and asking why Smartraveller hasn't updated it's page on the USA re: LGBTQIA+ discrimination yet. I don't feel that it is safe for me to travel there with my X gender marker on my passport.
Literally TQIA+ erasure.
T is Trans, but idk the rest qia+?
To my recollection, queer, intersex, and asexual.
This is not ok but it's also really dumb I hate it
I don't understand the train of thought. Do they need to compartmentalise their hate because they don't trust the capacity of focus of their audience? Are trans and queer people so bad, they make gay people good in maga's eyes? Are the social advances for gay people too settled for them to think it's worth the effort to try and revert them? Do they want gay people to Stockholm syndrome ourselves in relief for not being a target for the moment? Am I assuming too much thought on their part and they just want to break stuff?
USA politics are tiring as fuck and the fact that we can't ignore them because they are going to affect the rest of the world to some extent is infuriating.
Divide and conquer, some lgb folk are at the same time transphobic
Plus, this sets both a clearer and more direct target
The Nazi's went after the communists first rather than the SPD, same here
They hate all of them, but they're trying a divide and conquer approach. If they go for all the letters at once, they'll get too much pushback, but they find that TQ+ don't enjoy the amount of support the others have. Once they're 'done', they'll move on the others.
Are the social advances for gay people too settled for them to think it's worth the effort to try and revert them?
It's this one. Public opinion is accepting of the "LGB" portion by an overwhelming margin. I know a lot of queer folks whose conservative families are perfectly accepting of them these days, way different than it was 20 years ago. People who are intersex can get fucked though, apparently.
Are trans and queer people so bad, they make gay people good in maga’s eyes?
The chief of Germany's far right extremist party, the AfD (which is pretty extreme even by european far right standards), is a lesbian woman from Switzerland, and her girlfriend/wife seems to be some sort of "leftist" activist from Sri Lanka. There are definitely societal advances being made even among the extreme right, though it's quite possible that that gets reverted as well once migrants, trans people and dissidents are 'taken care of'.
Man this is just getting petty now
WTF do expensive model trains have to do with it‽
L.. G.. B.. T.. I.... where is the H?
About 71.
I approve!
