The acceleration of anti-trans attacks isn't what scares me most at the moment. What scares me most are non-trans people who believe the GOP will stop at the military ban and passports and gender-affirming care for youth. Nothing could be further from the truth. (thread) - ThreadSky

charlotteclymer.bsky.social • 1 day ago

The acceleration of anti-trans attacks isn't what scares me most at the moment. What scares me most are non-trans people who believe the GOP will stop at the military ban and passports and gender-affirming care for youth.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

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taitik.bsky.social•23 hours ago

It won't stop until you stop it.

tessagrace793.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Brilliant post! We’ve all been trying to warn Dems but their own transphobia is more important to them than logic or doing the right thing. The GOP wants to eradicate us and sadly I think the Dems are okay with it. Just two cents from a former lifelong Dem voter, donor and worker bee.

reecer118.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Just look at what Iowa is doing. It’s the blueprint.

wokeoldlady.bsky.social•20 hours ago

And right on cue...

alethaann.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Agreed!

madhattermn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Correct. They won't stop pushing until people who have been unwilling to stick their necks out for trans people find the courage. This profoundly worries me.

chrismontrose.bsky.social•1 day ago

Project 2025 wants to start a war so they can reinstate the draft. Not on our watch.

stupendously.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The education plan, where all kids receiving federal funding ages 12-18 will on leaving school sit military entrance exam(as opposed to aptitude test and registry for potential future draft) I think it’s spelled ‘conscription’. There is ZERO noise on this.

sweet2020.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Hmmmm. Bone spurs is against people being in the military. Someone will need to take him out , at that juncture, install Vance. Jesus C

gmsingh123.bsky.social•22 hours ago

This narrative always strikes me as odd, the GOP have more in common with the Three Stooges than they have with evil masterminds.

parkerray.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Agree

adayinmylife64.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Not saying trans people are things.

adayinmylife64.bsky.social•14 hours ago

They want to eradicate anything trans.

lukebosullivan.bsky.social•1 day ago

And it's not only trans people who are at risk too. The moves are already being made to stop gay marriage, interracial marriage, deny citizenship to native americans and other non-whites, give more power to the rich and powerful. The anti-trans stuff got the "buy-in" from people to do this.

akabinky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Once you start standing idly by while other Americans lose their rights and liberties, it's only a matter of time before they come after rights like the 2nd amendment. Can't consolidate power, and the people get to keep their guns. Slippery slopes flow one way, down.

jeanc2024.bsky.social•17 hours ago

You are correct, They have already proposed rescinded gay marriage, they will start with a few states, then go to SCOTUS for the final nail.

helenbrenner.bsky.social•1 day ago

They start with the weakest, testing the waters, setting precedent. Then they move up, systematically targeting bigger groups and applying precedents. If people think they’ll stop with small groups that don’t affect them, they’re in for a rude awakening—sooner than later. Scary times.

marikula.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is the stupidity of the simplistic idea that gender, & sex are not varied doesn't withstand the rigors of the scientific method. Fantasists, deniers,like wife beaters, or fascists, are wrong. How did WW2 & past generations answer the very same existential threats? We are a science based society.

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kjellkamfjord.bsky.social•1 day ago

The reasons for the backlash against trans activism are many.

Reducing them to hatred of trans people is easy and convenient, but misses an entire universe of reasonable values and arguments.

tvguy725.bsky.social•23 hours ago

No.

kjellkamfjord.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Well argued.

bipolarbearband.bsky.social•21 hours ago

It’s all that needed to be said. Trans people are people. Go argue with a rock if you disagree.

kjellkamfjord.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Of course trans people are people.
I've never seen even the most hard core anti-trans folks argue that trans people are not people.

Yours is the strawest of straw man arguments.

bipolarbearband.bsky.social•20 hours ago

If you think now is a good time to argue about ‘the reasons for the backlash against trans activism’ go find a good rock.

dichotomist.bsky.social•1 day ago

You are right.
Every.
Damn.
Word.

ahududude.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of the Nazis’ first book burnings was at the Institute of Sexology. It didn’t start with the Jews or the unionists or Catholics. It was queer people, then people with disabilities and mental illness.
Considering these 🏳️‍⚧️ attacks and RFK Jr’s obsession with mental illness…
It’s a carbon copy.

colosavvy.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I just posted a related response to the final post.

ahududude.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Nazis didn’t start with the Jewish population: It started with queer people in the early 1930s. Their first book burning was at the Institute of Sexology.

It’s MAGA’s entire playbook: Copy the Nazis.

https://hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology

chilechezo.bsky.social•17 hours ago

pathetic country we live in

tompaine1.bsky.social•1 day ago

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charlotteclymer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anti-trans attacks are not about safety or fairness or genuine concern for anyone trans. They're about pandering to the discomfort non-trans people have with trans people. The GOP is all too happy to keep pushing the envelope and having a steady scapegoat.

taitik.bsky.social•22 hours ago

until people learn this thing that society will show how it treats LGBTq people, disabled and elderly people etc. when society throws any of them overboard then dictators have a chance to come to power

taitik.bsky.social•22 hours ago

whoever wants to get to power uses topics that are problematic. and they find a loophole. so they go for it like anything. they found an ultra conservative association and a hunt for LGBTq minorities and people go blind

charlotteclymer.bsky.social•1 day ago

The GOP can do this because they know Dem leadership aren't going to push back out of fear of being labeled as "woke." So, Dem leadership think they can just focus on broad economics, voters will be able to tell what's important, and the GOP will look terrible by comparison.

This is a fatal error.

beachjon.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Democrats need to be woke as fuck! And as Jane Fonda said, woke means that you give a damn about other people.

charlotteclymer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right now, the GOP sees an open goal and basically no goalie in sight to defend it. Why would they stop kicking at it because they've already scored a few times? When Dems are too fearful to fight back, the GOP just keeps upping the ante. Things that weren't in the convo are suddenly immediate.

charlotteclymer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Soon, we will see state bans on gender-affirming care for adults. We will see legislative efforts to permit employers to fire employees for being trans, directly challenging the Supreme Court's Bostock ruling. We will see federal legislation to permit housing discrimination in all 50 states.

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•1 day ago

Charlotte, you’re saying soon but it’s now. Texas has proposed legislation to ban ALL GAC and Iowa (Idaho) just revoked their civil rights protection based on gender.

felismala.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I believe texas might already be floating a complete ban on gender affirming care Texas House Bill HB3399 may have been amended to include all ages.
https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/tx/89/bills/TXB00076559/

charlotteclymer.bsky.social•1 day ago

If no one with power and influence push back with those, why not keep going? We could see federal legislation on banning gender-affirming care for adults. We could see deportations of transgender Americans. We could see trans people incarcerated without rights or due process. There's no end to this.

jrriver.bsky.social•1 day ago

Iowa

charlotteclymer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Meanwhile, the GOP will use all of these newer issues to keep hammering Democratic electeds, asking why they're so silent, what are they hiding, why don't they care about all this? "See, voters? Trans people are a scourge. We'll do something about it."

There's no incentive to stop the propaganda.

bulgarianintern.bsky.social•1 day ago

Based on the recent orders, LGBT folks are now considered a national threat. This change hints at preparations for upcoming changes in civil rights for LGBT folks.

The cruelty is the point. Private security companies and prisons are getting ready. They won't let people out.

jayt.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Look no further than Texas

pauletteparis1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Already starting. 🤬😪

sat88.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Already started. So sickening, cruel and offensive. Please know the trans community has plenty of allies ready to help you in fighting against these inhumane efforts.

bulgarianintern.bsky.social•1 day ago

Re Bostock.

https://bsky.app/profile/bulgarianintern.bsky.social/post/3lizprk4eqs2y

bulgarianintern.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hear that argument, but there are problems with it. Even for minors, although it is an edge case. They would need to recognize gender dysphoria as a condition to scope estrogen since estrogen is a therapy of some prostate cancers.

nectere.bsky.social•1 day ago

Already happening, Texas is at the front of the line per usual.

cargoweasel.com•1 day ago

I've been screaming from the rooftops for years that the goal is to implement Russia's policies for LGBT people here, and nobody's fuckin believed me.

cargoweasel.com•1 day ago

"oh they'd never be able to" "there's settled law" "americans wouldn't stand for it" "russians are really religious and orthodox" "we'd fight" "youre being Russophobic"

cargoweasel.com•1 day ago

fifteen years ago russia had pride parades, queer neighborhoods, gay publications, gays in the military, gender clinics, advocacy groups. its all gone now. they started claiming they were "protecting" minors from "grooming". same shit. it all happened before. and its happening again now in the US.

terisa1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump and his crew got "instruction" on this from Putin.

sweet2020.bsky.social•22 hours ago

You mean Krasnov, Donald krasnov

cargoweasel.com•1 day ago

scott lively and other US evangelicals worked closely with Russian officials and with Ugandan officials over the last 20 years to implement their policies as test runs for deployment in the US.

terisa1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hate that the only way I can agree with a post is to give it a ❤️. While what you said is absolutely true, and part of the Christian Dominionist cabal of this coup, I just can't stick a ❤️ on it. I need a 😭

hernannadal.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The history of human rights teaches us one thing: oppression never stops at the first target. When a government attacks a marginalized group, it’s testing the limits of what society will tolerate.

hernannadal.bsky.social•17 hours ago

First, they target trans people’s access to healthcare. Then, it’s IDs and legal recognition. Then, it’s book bans and censorship. And once the machinery of state oppression is normalized, it expands—because the goal was never just trans people.

hernannadal.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Silence is complicity. If you think this doesn’t affect you, wait until the next group is named. The fight for trans rights is a fight for everyone’s rights.

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The problem is many think they’re not in a demographic at risk.

Most will find out they are the hard way.

lobleytea.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Yeah, it has already affected cis women, but people are still in denial because the truth is just too awful. Attacking trans people is just how they get their foot in the door for everything else. They will definitely find out the hard way.

charlesbaz.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The GOP will not do a goddamn thing. Trump MUST be removed from office by any means necessary.

lathoril.bsky.social•1 day ago

I believe they will not stop until every trans person is detransitioned and in hiding or dead.

At this point, I feel like I might be the only thing keeping my daughter’s life even remotely stable, but I also feel my legs giving out.

notsosweetmelissa.bsky.social•1 day ago

Please don’t. I hear you.

lathoril.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don’t what?

lmpasp.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think she means please don't let your legs give out.

lathoril.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Ahh. I’m trying.

lanifty.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I’m with you! I am terrified for my son!

saltytherapist.bsky.social•19 hours ago

They’re denying visas to people who are trans.

brianbutzke.bsky.social•1 day ago

Iowa just removed "gender identity" from their civil rights act today. It's all happening at lightning speed so we don't have time to fight against it.

lanifty.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I hate that my trans son is living in Iowa. Gotta get him out of here!!

lobleytea.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Every time I see or hear some op-ed on how Dems' biggest mistake over the past few decades was focusing on 'woke' social issues, I cringe, because this is how you gaslight the opposition to fascism.

leeleeb50.bsky.social•1 day ago

Charlotte, I am so terrified for someone I care about and all in the LBGTQI community. 😭

oregonamis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hide them if necessary.

sydneyskye.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am in texas and i am terrified, and can barely function and hardly leave the house anymore. This is while having a supportive family and community, never having been outed in public, and i even had my FFS last year. The proposed bill here today banning gender affirming care isn't helping either

jsbark.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Can you get out of Texas? There are safer places.

sydneyskye.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I'm making my plans, my family is here at least and i have my own stockpile of hrt for now

whteva324.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Unfortunately it’s not just about trans either. It’s now about the homeless. It’s about the poor. It will be about everyone that is not white male. Count on it.