THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/visa-ban-transgender-athletes
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/visa-ban-transgender-athletes
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This is the way with fascism, to keep inventing new out-groups to hate until the everything goes up in flames.
The question on the form should be exactly that: “When an armed agent of the United States Government forces you to take off all of your clothes, will they see a penis or a labia?”
Trans rights are human rights.
When they dgaf about either grp. #1 cause of death of children? Gun violence.
#1 killer of women? Straight white men.
#1 cause of maternal mortality? Homicide by father
CIS women and the LGB people need to wake up. Trans people are the canary in the coal mine of what they can get away with
This targeted cruelty is setting up for something that I don't even want to put into words.
Republicans want to commit cultural genocide on trans people--to erase them.
Right??????
And, again, people's official identity is already hugely rejected if they come from Africa, Asia, or South America.
(Pretty sure coming out as trans is the most honest thing I ever did, for the record.)
I wish I had been wrong but it sure seems to be going that way.
This is nothing new, it’s just completely out in the open where people who’ve been sheltered from it before have to see it in all its daylight ugliness.
When do they ban all non-white females?
Trying to wrap my head around lack of common & logic of people.
For anyone to believe it was ever about sports is mind boggling.
Here's the link to the proposed regulation & the comment form: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/14/2025-02648/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport
It’s cruel and unusual.
Or when they see 'it' because "they know it when they see it."
*people they don't like.
The simple phrase "don't" is simply just not in their vocabulary.
(Which is at best useless and at worst dangerous advice)
You wouldn't want to get on a plane to the US and then spend the next five years in jail for a "passport-fraud" offence.
It's usually other countries that warn their own citizens that travel to a certain country isn't safe, not the unsafe one.
Cold comfort, but I think it's important to know what these assholes have been doing all these years so we develop better strategy.
This summer will be a tourism desert amid the collapse of our government. People already felt unsafe traveling here. No one with any sense will risk flying into a US airport from the free world
But it would be a massive separate issue if US citizens are prevented from returning to what may be their only country of citizenship
deporting into statelessness is late-stage genocide
Trans folks already cannot access federal documents matching our identity. Every step the gov takes is one goose-step further into genocide.
You have more faith than me.
non-citizen IRAP workers got stopped by CBP, but it got enjoined pretty much the next day. never once did i see a story about any USC getting hit by it, and it would be major news.
https://youtu.be/NeYsNCUuJss?si=tXVME2F0UqJunWOz
I know that's not the point, but there is such a thing as solidarity, and abhorrence at fascism.
The same goes for international competitions.
I hope my daughter can gtfo of here. It's too dangerous for trans people right now and that breaks my soul.
Do not comply, especially not in advance.
trump v hawaii begs to differ
What are these idiots afraid of?
And why are they being so goddam cruel?
The cruelty is the point.
"Conform to what we want or be punished."
Since when did our government get to dictate how legal paperwork is issued in Non-USA countries?
If the US decided (and went through the proper steps) to only give visa's to countries with purple and green passport books, they could.
Remember how he said that he would not allow any transgender competitors at the Olympics and tried to demand the IOC to ban trans athletes?
So, so hateful.....just to think that way....but acting on those horrid thoughts is a million times more hateful!
😡🤬....mother fuckers
Trust, their idiot government bans Canadians and Mexicans from entering for things like unpaid parking tickets
They empower these little jerk offs at the border, who harass economy fliers like they are ICE
forcing USCs into statelessness would have courts firing out injunctions at inhuman speed
Certainly not after it's already happening. It only does the persecutor good by pretending like this isn't a real threat for the future of trans folks.
And this kind of mark on their file is almost impossible to remove. It's banning them from the country for the rest of their life.
(They are not inclusive, it is more complicated than that)
Something you might have wanted to look into before you made an ill-informed and rather racially prejudiced comment.
Also I don’t complain about China, from what I can tell they have the right mindset when it comes to foreign policy.
As far as Putin it’s clear him and our dear leader here are in cahoots so.
But, now trans women are not legally recognised in the USA as of 2025, but they are in Iran since the 80s.
Some stranger on the internet: "I need to call out people pointing out this fact!"
I hope nations boycott.
Deadnaming a trans person, even a quisling like her, shows that we are accepted only conditionally. And telling us we're wrong when we ask you not to do it communicates that our needs and feelings don't matter.
Deadnaming is always wrong.
Is the next step banning 'gay propaganda' as per Russia?
STAND. UP. PEOPLE.
The Republican party is the party of hatred and oppression, plain and simple
Last time the Turnip administration loaded the Cabinet with greedy fucks who were all in it to grab as much as they could - and they did, without consequences.
This time, it's being loaded with the most puerile "Yes" people they can find.
Burn it all down
You're a real MAGA sack of shit.
meanwhile, massive systemic attacks go under the radar (eg chevron) when those are actually what's used to enable substantial harm AND strip us of recourse
At what point is it no longer "a distraction"?
Because whether you're trying to or not the argument that you're making is that when the far right scapegoats and then persecutes a group of people, that persecution is a distraction and therefore less important
however i'm saying this particular policy does not pose a cognizable threat to your legal rights; we should be focused on what's genuinely threatening queer people
Also this is genuinely a threat and you’re just an idiot.
This is literally stage 7 of a genocide, and downplaying it is enabling it to develop.
Neither one of them is a 'distraction'. They are both bad things that they want to do.
You are very smart.
Do you even listen to yourself?
How do you not understand that?
Fuck off scumbag
i tend to struggle with the idea that they're doing this for any reason other than posturing, mainly bc segregation is not conducive to profit
Culture war garbage targeting their preferred minority is done, specifically, to condition the populace to gradually allow genocide into the violent order of governance. It's not a distraction; it's grooming.
Do you know what books are being burned in this photo? Any feelings on the policy behind why those books were burned?
(although i'm more direct services than impact lit nowadays... i did litigate the muslim ban tho so i'm gonna count it)
If it weren't for civil rights, you would be a slave or indentured servant working for decades without pay
If you’re prepared to throw minorities under the bus like this, are you someone anyone can trust?
You just don’t give a shit about trans people.
You don't know how fascism works at all, do you?
If someone commits a murder to distract from a bank robbery, the murder is still really bad.
There’s no *upside* to going “trans people being attacked is a distraction, so we won’t do anything.”
Fix your heart.
The same state apparatus that's capable of inflicting genocide on its own people doesn't care about environmental and conservation protections. That better?
Fuck's sake, brother.
The cruelty is the point.
The political agenda is to use power to enact their cruelty and discrimination. It is all interlinked, none of it is a distraction.
Liberal: the knife is a distraction from the whole army of Nazis with knives and guns and shit, stop struggling
It means “talk about”
This is action against trans people. This is active persecution. This isn’t just words.
That speaks volumes about you
promise?
As for business travel, I wouldn't travel to the US at this point.
But then again, let's see how the DJT movement play out in Canada.
https://bsky.app/profile/zackstanton.bsky.social/post/3liyqfix62k2g
But maybe for a start denounce and do what we can so these decisions don't come to pass/aren't applied?
https://bsky.app/profile/latticemindset.bsky.social/post/3lizfk2cuas2x
https://go.bsky.app/6dCw92a
What a pathetic nation we are. And Riley Gaines will rot in hell for eternity.
Plus, the Dems are largely indifferent to trans folks and many of them blame what support we did get for the 2024 loss (because otherwise they gotta blame themselves).
This activity is now solely reserved for the MAGA-folks.
I’m not sure, religion wise, but I hope hell exists for all of them.
Think that athlete might beat the Russian or American Olympians? Ban ‘em.
What athletes want to take that risk?
As much as I'd like to say "and then, suddenly when men are the victims people get vocal about it" I dont tihnk it'd even happen then
The US is controlled by fucking Nazis.
I don't know how this holds up constitutionally? They've not terrorists. Their not refugees. There's no country of cis people they can add to a list of LGBTQ countries to make it look "fair".
I called the NYC consulate recently to query whether Australians travelling with a passport that lists their sex as "x" (undefined) will be allowed into USA via NYC and they wouldn't answer me.
The Australian Passport Office said nobody has told them what's going on either. 😬
Qatar allowed Gay footballers in 2022
USA denies trangender sthletes in 2026 / 2028
BOYCOTT!
Then again, Qatar is not LGBTQ+ friendly either 😒