“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding”
Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.
We are all in this together, and we all go down together.
I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.
We are all in this together, and we all go down together.
I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
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Sean Satori
FWIW, the choice was scrubbing their website or potentially closing down because their funding was turned off. Sure they could have sued, but what then?
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Is it going to be easier when the choice is...
deport all POC or lose your funding?
no women allowed to vote or lose your funding?
You're balancing people's rights against dollars, and you caved.
Where does it end?
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lipiixrgfx2r
just proves how little they care about their (minority) constituents
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. /1
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
They’re going to get crushed under the heel anyway, better to do it with intact morals.
Anyway, for the time being, where are trans people supposed to go if they need care?
Yes it matters. Maybe you should be outraged? Maybe you should care at all? Maybe you should shut the fuck up and listen???
Removing information makes it more difficult for people needing care to find it, reducing the amount of care being provided. That is denying care.
Consequentialism, how does it work
We “all” need to stand together.
Their leadership are cowards and deserve the shame.
They've had time and proven they are a domestic terrorist - call in the Marines and get this job done.
It’s always “radical” Democrats.
Executive orders don't change the law!
It's complying in advance
(See also disaster relief being shut down.)
NO ONE has to help them hurt trans people. Make them make you*
*They can't make you!
Forcing compliance draws them out of Washington into the real world
Bring it
Trans people were essentially told to perish by every non-voter, and now they are getting what they asked for.
I do not think transgender people needed to be sacrificed, but I guess they did.
Palestinians didn't benefit either.
It didn’t win things for her. And now “following the law” is our erasure
This is what causes people to become complicit in our own eradication.
Never.
There are some lines I will never cross. This one I will always hold firm to.
Here's mine. Please help if you can.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lyings-transition-fund
Managing— THRIVING, even— without it is very much possible. When your work becomes so politicized, even if unjustly, you can’t expect to rely on federal funding imo.
Others did sue. Successfully. So, the door IS open.
People who think they're going to fight the good fight, but only if they don't have to give up their stuff, are less than useless.
#ursulakleguin
Good for Maine and their Governor!
Any group that capitulates and does as the fascists wants are just giving the fascists justification for their cause.
And we know what's going to happen. They'll come for all queer people eventually, and being a quisling won't save WWH
Now is our time, it's up to us.
Share.
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Never trust a liberal, they'll always betray you
(The answer is "to line your own pockets")
Like even if morality doesn’t sway you, reality should- this is just the first fight. They think trans people are an easy target. If we don’t fight like hell now, they’ll keep going
Oh my fucking god. Idnshdidbshfkdnsudbdfuckingwhatthefuckevenisthisndjshdbrkdbd
Here's the link to the chancellor saying that our pronouns are inconvenient and that marginalized folx just need to sacrifice themselves for the greater good:
https://csusystem.edu/a-message-from-chancellor-tony-frank-to-the-csu-system-campuses/
Frickin War and Peace novel.
I think he did that on purpose to detract from the core message.
If you meet a grizzly in the wild, you puff up, raise your hands over your head, make yourself bigger than you’ve ever been. We should all go around screaming “Hey, bear! Hey, bear!” Watch them cower and run.
Remember back in grade school when the teacher tried to keep as all in from recess until somebody told them who drew the naughty picture on the blackboard? I don’t know about you all, but in my school the teachers never won that battle.
Also, they will still lose their funding. So there is that.
“Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me”
So many people selling their souls for so little these days.
We know where it progresses, without resistance.
I saw this earlier and don’t remember who posted it. Maybe you?
But it would be so much easier if we had the support of others, individuals, organizations, government representatives, and more.
We are always stronger together.
And right now, we must all be strong.
🩷🤍🩵
Because I wanted the funding.
They stopped treating trans minors and adults in one of their wings, as it has affected me (I’m 27) and wouldn’t message me back, fill my HRT, nothing.
I’m definitely not the only one.
All because they don’t want to lose their federal funding.
They are on the wrong side of history.
FFS
How do you think Carter imposed a 55 mph speed limit?
oh boy! that time is now. silence and failure to resist in any form is complicity. protect the people who are in the least safe places. do not bow down to anything 🏳️⚧️
I wonder if I remember how to make a Molotov cocktail...