Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"
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They're also going to be forcibly de-transitioned, which is barbaric and cruelly sadistic torture that I know for many of them will feel like a fate worse than death.
Legal efforts are underway to obtain court orders preventing this, but they're having to name each individual inmate.
The Bureau is well aware of the risks, and it is still being done. In other words they actively want Trans people to be assaulted, victims of sexual violence, and to commit suicide. This is a genocide of Transgender people
It’s the biggest tell. Transwomen are the target because they check so many conservative fear boxes. Plus lot of their arguments make zero sense when applied the other way around.
I’m not gonna sit here and say that trans men are experiencing the same amount of *overt* hate than trans women are, but trans men are definitely being targeted too
However, I don’t wanna make this thread into “trans men hurt too” because it distracts from the very real and in some cases larger threat (eg v-coding) being made toward trans women with this prison move
One gross thing about this article is that they keep talking about (paraphrase) "even trans women who have had surgeries are going to be moved" - which sort of implies that trans women who didn't have surgery are somehow more reasonable to moved to men's prisons? It's torture either way!!
This is so fucked - "However, those rulings only protected the individuals named in the suits, not the rest of the population of trans inmates within the federal prison system."
I'm genuinely confused, I thought there were already court orders against this from trans women like a week ago, where the judge ruled that they could not be moved?? Was that just for those individual people?!
Last time it took a World War with nearly 100 Million deaths to unseat the Nazi.
I think I can condone a few Luigis as a substitute.
(I grew up under Apartheid - getting rid of fascist *always* requires some level of violence, because nothing else will convince them to give up power) 🤷
Snoozy can be a pacifist that’s OK. We need them too. My father was a World War II vet and he raised a fighter so I’ll be on the front lines with the rest of you. ❤️
at some stage do we all not need to stand up for our fellow humans ,isn't that the point of fighting against the nazi inpower or not, we all know what happened when people allowed them to attack what some people like to say are outside the norm,next week they come for women,they are already
In my post I specifically said “not to make it about me” and “in case anyone asks” because whenever an article like this comes out someone asks “what about trans men” as people rarely read the article and the OP didnt mention it.
You might, but a lot of people still don't. And there's nothing neat about it. I'm just extremely bitter. Like I said, not meant to downplay. I'm a raging bitch that at this point is anticipating an American Holocaust, mixed with fucking star wars clone troopers. Chill.
They’re never going to build the much hyped trans death camps. They don’t need to. This is America, we’ve already got prisons 💀
Trans Americans you’ve got two big goals moving forward: stay alive and DO NOT GET ARRESTED. Keep your guard up. Be smart, stay safe, especially if you’re at a protest.
“[T]he bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides [but we don’t give a shit because the head of the federal government says they are not real people.]”
Oh also, it’s very weird to describe the global campaign to erase, kill or otherwise destroy trans people as “vengeance” - what did any of us do that’s wrong?
we don't want "help" of the sort you are providing, for whatever reasons you're providing it. go find a stancil thread to do it in, his replies are like a sandbox to test new trolling tactics in
like check your fucking privilege, it's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN who are perpetuating most of this hatred and it's not even close. focusing in only on LGBTQ+ people who were anti-gay is just making it easier to open the door for them to do what they want to us. don't be a fake ally.
scape goating and hatred exists as a power play. people especially hate trans folks because we are proof that the gendered expectations of our patriarchal society are bullshit and we challenge the hierarchical power of cishet white men.
I am reading this an interpreting it as saying a cis woman currently in a women's prison could be sharing a cell next week with a person who has testicles and a penis. This seems like a class action lawsuite by cis incarcerated women waiting to happen.
To go further: they do not genuinely think of us as a personal threat but absolutely as a societal and cultural danger. We are not dangerous to them due to our actions, real or imagined, we are a danger to them through our existence.
This also means we are not "contained" even while incarcerated. This isn't about any genuine protection of cis inmates because they would never care about the well-being of prisoners, trans or not. This is about eliminating those inside and striking fear to those of us on the outside.
They have surely never read anything that even pretends to be associated with feminism, but they don't need to in-order to resemble the "classic" of transphobia by Janice Raymond: "the problem of transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence."
Punishments beyond laws.
I realize I am boiling this down to naive levels of thought, but it just seems so much easier in every conceivable way to let people live their lives. So much energy expended to harm and traumatize people who themselves just want to exist.
They don't think of us as human at all. Look at the language used against us, esp against trans women, but against all of us in general. It's dehumanizing, purposefully. This is a completely typical tactic to desensitize the public to our humanity - often with religious backdrop for good measure.
No one in this group should be there because of bail. The best the average person can do is befriend someone, write to them, and contribute to their commissary account to help them buy protection.
More cruelty! Although I know 47 isn't making these decisions because his brain is now mostly tapioca, the demons surrounding him are having a field day.
This is unconsconable and barbaric, yet another totalitarian policy by Republicans to dehumanize a segment of our population. Hopefully, the Courts will block this latest cruel move by the Trump administration!
This is murder. This is institutionalized and systemic rape of transgender women. Combine this with their efforts to make it illegal for trans people to exist in public and the end goal is clear. Make it impossible for trans people to stand up for themselves against the genocide.
I don’t understand how this crosses even rational basis review level of constitutional review. Where is the problem this solves? It CAUSES the problems it solved when the government started doing this.
The democratic party new strategy even further right. Out republican all Republicans. Sell out their base before trump gets too. I hate the party because they gaslight. They lie. They are foxes. They are more evil than Trump is. Vichey garbage. Enemies. Traitors
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Legal efforts are underway to obtain court orders preventing this, but they're having to name each individual inmate.
directly into the trash, along with all the others
How is it ok that people are known and expected to be at risk of violence when under federal supervision???
OLIGARCHIC
PREDATORS
YES! PREDATORS- that’s the GOP
Not a rhetorical question. What can be done?
"A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking a move by the Trump administration to transfer three transgender women to all-male prisons"
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/hypothetical-measures-were-insufficient-judge-blocks-trump-admin-from-moving-transgender-inmates-citing-substantially-elevated-risk-of-violence/
I think I can condone a few Luigis as a substitute.
(I grew up under Apartheid - getting rid of fascist *always* requires some level of violence, because nothing else will convince them to give up power) 🤷
I have a feeling you'll come around when they kill senators and congressmen they disagree with.
“This would mean transgender women currently housed in women's facilities would be moved to men's facilities, and vice versa”
In my post I specifically said “not to make it about me” and “in case anyone asks” because whenever an article like this comes out someone asks “what about trans men” as people rarely read the article and the OP didnt mention it.
(Just rhetoric, folks. Their treatment of trans people is unforgivable.)
Trans Americans you’ve got two big goals moving forward: stay alive and DO NOT GET ARRESTED. Keep your guard up. Be smart, stay safe, especially if you’re at a protest.
Because the demonstration of oppression for intimidation on scapegoats is the fascist point.
https://bsky.app/profile/gbbranstetter.bsky.social/post/3lirnttn4gs2c
And turn those prisons into schools.
Or maybe they liked it?
thanks in advance
I’m also dead serious. If you don’t think the unprovoked vengeance against people is drive by shame and guilt; welp sorry pumpkin.
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homophobia is mostly a straight people problem, transphobia is mostly a cisgender people problem.
blaming anti trans or anti gay movements on lgbtq people is so lazy and intellectually bankrupt.
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Let’s call it working theory that’s rooted in historical fact. You don’t have to read the comments
Real fucking ignorant and brutish to lift up the exceptions as a rule.
May everything that happens to those transferred inmates happen to his DOJ.
And it won't be the last.
Punishments beyond laws.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
Nothing now remains of the fortress prison except some residue of its foundation.
IMHO, transphobia is the Christian way.
fucking hate these assholes
Now I gotta figure out things to say about them
The democratic party new strategy even further right. Out republican all Republicans. Sell out their base before trump gets too. I hate the party because they gaslight. They lie. They are foxes. They are more evil than Trump is. Vichey garbage. Enemies. Traitors