they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever - ThreadSky

junlper.beer • 83 days ago

they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever

Reposted from Allison Chapman

‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".

The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.

Comments

tuckylasek.bsky.social•82 days ago

It might not be for everybody, but queer skateboarding is a really cool scene. It’s more about making art and organizing events than it is about skateboarding. If you like skate videos, you should check out the videos from There skateboards https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AUI0GBCjO60&pp=ygURVGhlcmUgc2thdGVib2FyZHM%3D

bunnynub.bsky.social•83 days ago

We've been around longer than America and we'll be around way longer still

orimarpot.bsky.social•83 days ago

They literally were mad at the thing having letters, wonder which one is next

kingofcatastrophy.bsky.social•83 days ago

Lock and load, dolls

gem-art.bsky.social•83 days ago

jesus 😞 this is gonna be a long 4 years huh

allhailmogambo.bsky.social•83 days ago

only 4 years is optimistic, unfortunately...

gem-art.bsky.social•83 days ago

yeah that’s the worst part 😭 like even if we CAN get these fucks out of office the damage and rhetoric will be around for a while

allhailmogambo.bsky.social•83 days ago

summoning a tulpa of luigi, in our time of need

gem-art.bsky.social•83 days ago

i just pictured a little transparent luigi just floatin around LMAO

woollahra.bsky.social•82 days ago

Why do I have a green plumber floating around my head.

"You nincompoop! You summoned the wrong Luigi!"

kitmik.bsky.social•83 days ago

there's a non-zero chance this ends with nuremberg trials for the trump administration.
an extreme case scenario, but not out of the realm of possibility. plus, i think what they're doing now will produce backlash like never before. we're gonna get woke 2: electric boogaloo. this time 10x woker.

jmawork.bsky.social•83 days ago

We will continue to vote and demonstrate. These idiots will fuck themselves over and live in misery

abbykebabby.bsky.social•83 days ago

it’ll be more than 4 years. the amount of pushback they can apply to prevent the undoing of this shit will be a significant obstacle if a lot of people don’t get on the same page and get the right out of our government entirely

gem-art.bsky.social•83 days ago

yeah 😞

kitmik.bsky.social•83 days ago

gem-art.bsky.social•83 days ago

god i fucking hope so 😭😭

ghost-of-laika.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yep, and I know they aren't "the real problem" but I can't help but feel personally spiteful towards all the accounts that felt the need to constantly say both sides are the same and supporting biden/kamala in any way, including voting, is actually aiding genocide.

morrighan.bsky.social•83 days ago

I don't know if I'll ever get over all the people who said she has to lose to push Dems left and punish Harris on Gaza, and that the solution to the trolley problem is to "simply destroy the trolley." Have to wonder if they're happy with what we got?

gem-art.bsky.social•83 days ago

right like what the fuck 😭

deedeejpeg.bsky.social•82 days ago

think the point of all that talk was to mention other actions that need to taken, like protesting and organizing in your community which is all very very true

ghost-of-laika.bsky.social•82 days ago

For some om sure and that group doesn't annoy me as badly, but being told that you are a genocide enabler because you want to also take 45 minutes to go vote and try and protect people is ridiculous. Even now saying voting to save lives means you lack principles.

lordo5432.bsky.social•82 days ago

Maybe, we can try to make that 2 years if we protest and advocate in our local areas. Be brave, be strong, never give up.

spenjak18.bsky.social•83 days ago

Seems the tangerine wants to be president for life at this rate... So probably way more than 4 years.

ayyyitsdarryl.bsky.social•83 days ago

As if he’s gonna make it another 20ish years, never mind the next decade.

cd3777.bsky.social•80 days ago

https://youtu.be/q0Ejkckqtac

occult-her-memetic.bsky.social•82 days ago

they had a plan in writing for over a year before the election outlining our extermination, and nobody gave a shit.

2A

philbert94839.bsky.social•83 days ago

So sorry this is happening

ladyjadyn.bsky.social•83 days ago

exercise your 2A rights

shyerwillow7.bsky.social•83 days ago

If you think that them keeping the LGB makes those groups safe, no it doesn’t. They’re testing the waters, and if we stay silent, they’ll go for us next. Stay strong, and don’t give these mfs any satisfaction

mxargent.bsky.social•83 days ago

Shit, this stuff was up for question in my lifetime. The panic under Bush was what cooked me to begin with. If this trans panic stuff is allowed to stick, it can and will get worse for everyone else.

ghost-of-laika.bsky.social•82 days ago

yes but all those LGB without the t people won, surely they will get what they wanted?

saeko.bsky.social•82 days ago

It's a bit naive to say this is a victory for them.

ghost-of-laika.bsky.social•82 days ago

It's the goal the set and have now reached, it's a victory that will only harm, but it's none the less thier goal.

quadriiiage.bsky.social•82 days ago

My favorite community, LTQIA+

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•82 days ago

in fairness, they will! In that what they wanted wasn’t the sublimation of them into the ruling class, but the complete ABlation of folks they deemed “too extreme”

tljcourier.bsky.social•83 days ago

Like I say wear your pink triangle like a badge of honor.

makevisualnovels.itch.io•83 days ago

https://GeneralStrikeUS.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/
There's a few efforts to mass demonstrate brewing. I can't say for sure how legit they are, but I'm trying at least to make people aware of them.

queenragdoll.bsky.social•83 days ago

Social Security update down as well. https://www.ssa.gov/people/lgbtqi/gender-identity.html

rowyourbot.bsky.social•83 days ago

This all started with some decaying minds in the UK. What kills me is when they started spraying the world with their addled hatred, some people saw the danger, and other people were like ‘oh, but they are …whatever they thought was always nice, like bourgeois and white and high-status and educated.

malken.bsky.social•82 days ago

I can smell their fear

woollahra.bsky.social•82 days ago

The biggest fuck you is a Polaroid of two transgenders in love with each other, outlasting these bastards... even if the two of them don't survive the next four years.

fifth-crusader.bsky.social•83 days ago

Outlive a fascist every day!

kayleesilver.bsky.social•83 days ago

I do not want my loved ones to live as art, I want them free to live as people.

deadbarchetta.bsky.social•83 days ago

It's such petty and pathetic behavior. It reeks of fear. They know they can't win this.

ayyyitsdarryl.bsky.social•83 days ago

Well, oppression is the mask of fear.

cria.gay•83 days ago

Of course, the jokes on them (not that any of this is funny), a lot of us are also part of the first three letters.

happyburger23.bsky.social•82 days ago

The dead are easily outlasted.

lengelmp.bsky.social•83 days ago

This shit makes me fucking sick. In no way shape or form is this ever ok. I’m so sorry you have to go through this. As an ally, I’m here for you

billiejane.bsky.social•83 days ago

I loathe Marco Rubio. I said it. Ban me. Idc.

bckrms.bsky.social•83 days ago

it’s so disgusting they’re trying divide our community. they have no fucking say in it yet they act like they’re the deciding party

danigirl630.bsky.social•83 days ago

We're never going to go away. We'll always be around no matter what they try.

sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com•83 days ago

live to see them die

manticorn.bsky.social•83 days ago

I have a strong feeling Trump is on borrowed time.

foxkidsclub.bsky.social•83 days ago

I would be shocked if this administration lasts to July, let alone 2026.

They are breaking too much shit and pissing off too many people.

gem-art.bsky.social•83 days ago

oh yeah i give it till about July before they either eat each other alive or do such dumbass shit that they’re completely removed 💀

foxkidsclub.bsky.social•83 days ago

My money’s on “military junta” tbh.

Doing “DEI in our military crashed a plane” and putting a drunken Fox News host in charge of it are NOT ways to take control of the military.

They really are playing with fire.

gem-art.bsky.social•83 days ago

oh my god yeah i was about to say the military is REALLY not gonna like all this 😭 especially the top brass

4thdslip.bsky.social•83 days ago

I want to believe this. He is coming in too hard and too fast with some of these EOs and mass layoffs. But a collapse of his administration requires the opposition to have a backbone, and I'm scared that won't happen.

cassminireviews.bsky.social•81 days ago

this is just the stress-test to see how much Americans will put up with. WHen he gets to the break-point, he'll scale back only what he thinks is that one straw that broke the camel's back. Everything else will stay in place.

xdresstera.bsky.social•83 days ago

It can collapse all in it's own, without the opposition. The problem is that an administration collapse would mean a government collapse and the real question is what or who props it up or takes over

4thdslip.bsky.social•83 days ago

Inward collapse definitely seems more likely than the Dems doing anything about this regime, yeah. There are already plenty of visible seams. But I am struggling to envision what that could even look like for us. It's far too nebulous to say right now.

foxkidsclub.bsky.social•83 days ago

I saw someone speculate military junta followed by punting government back to (most of) Congress and that does line up with what I’m thinking.

I am in no way downplaying how gnarly it’s gonna get, mind. It’s gonna be hairy for a bit.

manticorn.bsky.social•83 days ago

I just think he's a sickly old man with a terrible diet and flocked with yes-men.

catfishsushi.bsky.social•83 days ago

And, unfortunately, the best healthcare that money can buy (and maybe even things that it can’t)

ominouspooltoy.ing•82 days ago

If all else fails, the people are gonna have to make it happen.

sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com•83 days ago

idk i'm definitely not that optimistic for our government, but i am for all of us

winterwarpath.bsky.social•83 days ago

We have to work very hard and get out there to ensure this happens. We can't afford to just sit at home and ragepost and doomscroll anymore.

foxkidsclub.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yes, we do. We should be working on planning protests on trusted secure networks *right the fuck now*

lidice42.bsky.social•83 days ago

takacomics.bsky.social•83 days ago

I have a very strong feeling that there will be more attempts on his life in the coming years.

charliehorsephotos.bsky.social•82 days ago

Please tell me someone's doing everything they can to offshore knowledge and writings on both the trans community and Healthcare.

Burning books that make them uncomfortable is not uncommon for hatemongers.

fifth-crusader.bsky.social•82 days ago

Someone is: the entire intellectual community has digitized this stuff, be it on Wikipedia, academic papers, or what have you. Why do you think Musk wants to buy out the world's largest repository of open and free information?

oddfella.bsky.social•83 days ago

Elon and his cronies want to divide us. Fuck that. We’re not leaving Trans people to the wolves.

galaxypunch.bsky.social•82 days ago

Arm yourselves. Anyway you can. Peoples histories have been destroyed without issue for thousands of year.

smtk75.bsky.social•83 days ago

Just the tip…

https://bsky.app/profile/smtk75.bsky.social/post/3lh3jtrzyuc2z

thekookyceltic.bsky.social•83 days ago

They’re only doing this because they’re TERRIFIED of people they can’t control. And the funny thing about communities? They’re stronger than any institution or army. Pressure works. And beating these guys isn’t enough.

YOU WANNA MAKE ‘EM CRY. 🏳️‍⚧️

vincentbecherer.bsky.social•83 days ago

And eventually they will try to act like they never did any of this shit.

Do not despair, and do not let them off the hook.

metanautics.bsky.social•83 days ago

LGB??? Omg the asexuals caught a stray 😭

butchtendo.bsky.social•83 days ago

queerphobes have always had a burning hatred for aspec people, which is even odder than usual because most of them are huge fundies who blow a blood vessel if you're even SLIGHTLY horny in public

metanautics.bsky.social•83 days ago

That’s insane they literally don’t bother anyone they’re just chillin!

butchtendo.bsky.social•83 days ago

Tbh I'm pretty sure it's specifically BECAUSE we don't really engage in regular sex culture that people get upset. Like there's this weird standard where you have to be horny enough to have sex on the regular but not SO horny that it's a core part of your identity (unless you're a white guy)

denahyena.bsky.social•83 days ago

Eh, it's more for 'go forth and multiply' thing. You -must- have kids.

metanautics.bsky.social•83 days ago

Well the gays don't have (bio) kids but they were on the left side of the T so they didn't get cut...

vexwerewolf.bsky.social•83 days ago

We're going to live to see them beg.

kingofcatastrophy.bsky.social•83 days ago

When our turn comes, we won't make excuses for the terror.

meamdal.bsky.social•83 days ago

magevivika.bsky.social•83 days ago

I didn't realize that also hated asexual people but I'm not surprised, yeah, that tracks 💀

lying.bsky.social•82 days ago

They've tried before.

It didn't work then either.

leftinfighter.bsky.social•83 days ago

Cis folks, we cannot just be fretting about this, be proactive in leaving positive comments to trans people, share their work and gofundmes. These fash cannot kill your exercising of kindness, only you can forget to do it when blinded by despair.

yusufied.bsky.social•83 days ago

The cherry on top is that the additional descriptions still have travel info for non-binary people. They just removed the TQIA+ for pure spite. Which goes to show not only how monsterous they are but also incredibly lazy.

cassandraoftroy.bsky.social•83 days ago

Wayback Machine Internet archive may be your friend....

pnwjaycey.bsky.social•83 days ago

You were saying?

winterwarpath.bsky.social•83 days ago

Pick 2-3 issues that matter the most to you & fight like hell for them. Help your neighbors, organize, get in the streets. Tell everyone you know to not give in to doom-thoughts & don't let the flood tactics win.

If you live in a Republican state, call your senators. Not all are Trump loyalists

winterwarpath.bsky.social•83 days ago

If you protest, we aware to read up on your rights, carry multiple forms of ID at ALL TIMES. Do not resist arrest. Don't give them an excuse to get violent with you.

madamairlock.bsky.social•82 days ago

Good advice, but cops have never needed an *excuse to get violent with queer people. Expect violence just in response to having the audacity to protest while queer.

winterwarpath.bsky.social•79 days ago

Well of course. But don't swing on a cop or resist being put into cuffs, is more what I'm saying.

kazakariah.bsky.social•83 days ago

Time to make those collages and scrapbooks of all of us in the community. Make it as lgbtqia+ as humanly possible. We have work to do.

magusgoldstar.bsky.social•83 days ago

Hell, if they keep this up we might outlive the country

starling.zone•83 days ago

We need to get serious or we're going to lose. Art won't stop this.

alexashpool.bsky.social•83 days ago

Fuck these guys.

generalsocks.bsky.social•83 days ago

republican gays: "aT LeAsT tHeY wON't cOmE fOR uS"

tessaria.bsky.social•83 days ago

technically they didn't. and maybe they won't. they could have erased this section entirely but it's still there. LGB people seem to have secured rights in this country even under the most conservative government. TQ+ people will secure ours soon enough, even if it takes many years.

koupip.bsky.social•82 days ago

the issue here is not that, the issue here is once you run out of juice from the first group of people bc they are all gone and then you go "huh things didn't improve ?" they have to start grabbing the SECOND group of people to toss on the fire before it goes out

generalsocks.bsky.social•83 days ago

You’ve probably seen that famous comic - they will continue if no one speaks for the first groups they target

sillie.bsky.social•81 days ago

Once the rights of one minority are curtailed it never takes long before the next minority is on the chopping block. Any perceived tolerance is always temporary.

First they came for the Communists and all of that.

kylora2112.bsky.social•83 days ago

Obergefell and Windsor are both on the chopping block as soon as they can get to them.

xanamaus.bsky.social•83 days ago

And that's already in the pipeline via Idaho.

fembryo.bsky.social•83 days ago

Trump just made being trans cool and edgy again.

nallei-is-here.bsky.social•83 days ago

Y'know, I'm pretty sure one of the most common things rights would say is 'we don't want big gov'ment in everything deciding everything for us', and yet... they're fine with them deciding who's valid and who isn't. Who can get help and who can't. It's pretty unfair if one would ask me.

madamairlock.bsky.social•82 days ago

They have to remove trans people from travel advisories about other countries, because if they didn't the US would be added to the list. Trans people abroad should avoid the U.S. at this point. There is no other conclusion to be drawn from releasing an anti-trans executive order every day for weeks.

mindbeams.bsky.social•82 days ago

By "trying to erase them from existence," is this person claiming this is the first step to genocide?

tessaria.bsky.social•83 days ago

It's funny - the 'Other useful links' section of that page still links to pages that are fully TQ+ affirming. Like the Trevor Project is not suddenly going to change that. We're still here, even if they try to relegate us to the shadows.

tessaria.bsky.social•83 days ago

As a trans person I'm as terrified of this as anyone else. But I can't help but feel that this demonstrates a long-term win for human rights in the US. Namely, that lesbian, gay, and bi people are no longer at risk of erasure in the US even under the most conservative govt! Our time will come too ✊🏻🏳️‍⚧️

taittheterrific.bsky.social•83 days ago

No, as a gay person I see this as a method to separate us from trans and NB people so they can more easily break us down. Idaho has already started putting a court case in front of the Supreme Court to remove gay marriage, this is just the first step. Like boiling a frog in water.

zairenzu.bsky.social•83 days ago

I see it as a step one. They test if removing the TQIA+ would be safe then they get to removing the rest of us.

tysche.bsky.social•83 days ago

Not trying to be a huge downer, but gay people that aren't assimilated with cishet culture have never stopped being under threat
Shit in my town the local college kicks people out for being queer in any capacity. This country is homophobic to its core unfortunately

jn0sis.bsky.social•83 days ago

How? Like, most basic history knowledge would tell you this comes in phases.
They won't stop at just Trans people. That is not how their playbook works. Like, the iconic "First they came" poem clearly talks about how they go one by one.
The best thing to do is to stick together with your peers

tessaria.bsky.social•83 days ago

I gotta hold on to hope somewhere.

crysaa.bsky.social•83 days ago

it's scary to me how there is so much scientific research, evidence and medical and psychological consensus supporting trans people and still official institutions that should base their decisions purely on facts can do this so easily... they can do this with any knowledge humanity has now

laurusgrey.bsky.social•83 days ago

I will NOT be erased.

commiespacewizard.bsky.social•83 days ago

We have always existed, and we always will, and I hope they all die mad as fuck about it.

plarkimier.bsky.social•83 days ago

They won't stop until all the letters are gone. Keep going. They want us to fail.

kittypoo27.bsky.social•83 days ago

This. I cannot stress this enough. Their goal is to see you dead. Spite them by living. Spite them by persisting.

itsabbie.nekoweb.org•83 days ago

https://youtu.be/3NoKAOTE_ZI?si=z6mWLOvEMDuRBGIp

forgotherface.bsky.social•83 days ago

Not even a lick of work into it, smh. They erased trans people with a lazy "find & replace".

cofusedrobot.bsky.social•82 days ago

Once people are comfortable the trans, they will go for the gays.

karmapupper.bsky.social•82 days ago

And they absolutely WONT stop with just trans people. Y'all are just the easiest for them to target right now. And ANY fellow LGBTQIA+ person who disagrees is being willfully blind and arrogant. They WILL come for you if you allow them to take our trans siblings. DO. NOT. LET. THEM.

cassminireviews.bsky.social•81 days ago

us elders didn't *want* the youth to have to go through this...

bryanlutra.bsky.social•81 days ago

Trans people have always just been the tip of the iceberg, so true. They've already started removing gay history, a Smithsonian art exhibit of an artist representing their AIDS ridden husband got redesigned and the description/history scrapped. We'll see when Kekth Harring starts getting removed

mothtwiceborn.bsky.social•81 days ago

charliemartini.bsky.social•82 days ago

We’re not the queers they bullied when they were peaking in high school. We’re educated. We have money. We’re fit. We’re armed. And we’re exhausted of this shit.

ladyfoxglove93.bsky.social•81 days ago

They will come for everyone who isn’t a straight, white, cisgender, land owning, christian nationalist man. And when those men and they’re trapped (or complicit) wives and children are all that’s left, they’ll find reasons to come after them too. Like they won’t be christian enough or something.

thx1964.bsky.social•81 days ago

Exactly. These sorts of purges get worse and worse.

Not the right kind of:
* Christian
* Nationalist
* Breading
* Trump worship
* Background
* Distaste for others
* Skin/hair colour (only Trumps daughter lookalikes can be employed?)
* Clothes
* Height

And more that I can't even imagine.

ladyfoxglove93.bsky.social•81 days ago

All of this. No one is safe.

big-dee-anne.bsky.social•83 days ago

the fucking LGB shit

holy fuck

emzeegee.bsky.social•82 days ago

Minor detail, but $10 says they don’t know what “A” is.

iliketocrochet.bsky.social•83 days ago

Well, fuck them. Fuck them. I hate them. I will keep living to spite them.

strwbrryjen.bsky.social•83 days ago

do take care when taking pix of friends tho

pauline-vos.nl•83 days ago

This is disgusting!!

erikkennedy.com•83 days ago

'Laws and attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel.'

An incredible sentence to write in a country that is changing laws and jeopardising safety.

absolyssa.bsky.social•83 days ago

I hope someone at least remembers me on the other side. I know full well I'm not making it.

lanternstocking.bsky.social•83 days ago

They made a move to erase the aces along with the queers... is it weird that we find that oddly validating, as a variably ace system? 🌀🖋

this-is-john.bsky.social•83 days ago

Only way to actuallt erase trans people is to just erase humanity :(

pauline-vos.nl•83 days ago

Well they’re well on their way to do that as well I guess

this-is-john.bsky.social•83 days ago

orestes08.bsky.social•82 days ago

I mean, take pictures, but maybe don't post them on the internet 😬

thegrass46.bsky.social•82 days ago

They are scrubbing their websites of you like you don’t exist…

realhumanman.bsky.social•83 days ago

EXTREMELY telling that they changed the headline but left in the bit about X gender markers in the first paragraph bc they didn't read that far

darkinnerside.bsky.social•83 days ago

Rather than waiting for him to remove us from the world, why not crispr, gene modifying, gene engineering, vaccinate ourselves and build blue city state army?? But I want to join leathermen gang or army too.