Resistance and defiance are possible. We'll have a Jesse Owens before Hitler opportunity today. What message will the athletes and celebrities give? “End Racism” vs. “Choose Love.”,,, there’s no competition here at all. It’s “End Racism” by a mile." Steve Buckley, NYTimes https://bit.ly/42N1pAU
These hate mongers are just bullying an already marginalized community. They think they're easy targets, but these bullies don't know the history of Stonewall, and have no idea how tough these ladies can be.
Trans Lifeline and other orgs that are trying to help thousands of trans/NB adults and families with trans kids move to blue states need MASSIVE funding. They’re trying to save lives on shoestring budgets. PLEASE get monied queers to do the same. Trans continental pipeline and Pink Haven.
Trans Lifeline and orgs that are trying to get trans and non-binary adults and kids out of red states (like trans continental pipeline and pink haven) DESPERATELY need massive new funding. They’re doing lifesaving work on shoestring budgets. Can you donate big time and get others?
Let those transphobes be born with just ONE testical (whether biologically male or female) and see how fast they would act to surgically correct the error. Being trans is the same. Different only by degree.
You myst know a loy if celebrities , we need a charitable otganizatio. To help Trans people to live to safe blue states . Set ip a partnership with businesses to offer jobs to said individuals
Yep. People are people. End of discussion. My 9 proudly told me yesterday about her trans friend in school and I'm delighted she isn't weird about it and loves him like she would any of her friends 💜
I have raised a division 1 athlete and speaking to many including my nieces this is a battle I think the right has won over on a lot of the youth athletes and their parents as well. I had hoped Kamala had not run on that it was just a battle we couldn’t have won. Love to know everyone take
Agree. There are only 10 trans athletes in D1. I’m all for supporting trans athletes. But it’s a Streisand Effect. It makes their lives more difficult because the hate is focused on them continuously.
In the 70s Renee Richards was a celebrity. Today helping without PR helps more IMO
disagree, the lack of PR *is* the problem. hateful people have complete control over the narrative and there's little to no media pushback. things were better for trans people a decade ago before the far-right's propaganda barrage ruined it
we need counter-messaging to push back against the only public narrative being a "THEY'RE GONNA TAKE OVER SOCIETY AND EAT YOUR SOULS" that's corroding acceptance rates and justifying discrimination
sometimes it feels like we’re being erased from all sides tho, a trans man is the director of the aclu’s aids and lgbt project. we’re out here, they just call us confused little girls.
The Felon just announced 25% on all steel and aluminum coming into the US incl from Canada - but let’s all pretend this autocracy you now live under is really not!
Feb 9 2025, isn't Jan 19 2025 and this isn't just about trans athletes. PR is unfortunately helpful to let trans kids know that people want them to live.
Regardless, we should let those athletes indicate what support they want. Some are ok with being symbols, some aren't
Then how about y'all fuckin stop feeding them easy breakfast?
No sane person finds it okay, that boys participate in girls sport. This is not "far right", as you just clearly fuckin seen. Grats. You just got a orange monkey elected, idiots..
what is equality,really?
As a female I could not play sports for 18 yrs of public schooling, we could not hold most jobs, we were forced to wear skirts n dresses everyday for 13 years.. shop or auto mechanics, NO NO NO ..there are millions like me.. how do you think we view equality demands?
There is no legitimate reason for a trans woman who never went through a male puberty and has sub-female norm T in her system to not compete with other women, but cis women with conditions that overproduce T to compete, except for bigotry.
Rules based around T levels, how long they've been below threshold, whether there was high T levels during puberty... these can all be real issues, and more to the point, *sports leagues already have these rules*. But what is the point of dragging in chromosomes or birth anatomy, except hate?
The science on how various levels and timings of T exposure affect later performance is varied, evolving, and appears to vary from sport to sport, and which populations are studied (general vs. athletes). For example, with an athletic population in the West Point study, trans women on blockers...
No goals at all and no bigotry. All I was doing was asking a question. If there is no Inherent advantage for one or the other in this situation no issue. Appears from your posts there is none. Sadly, the Haters on the Right don't care about facts/science.
All ten of them? And if the numbers were greater, it would send a clear message to them that official society does not recognize them as they are. Also, transitioning really does level the field. Also, separating trans people opens the door to finding other physical reasons to exclude people.
Count me out on supporting trans athletes unless they want to compete against the gender that they were born. There's no acceptable reason to allow born men to compete against born females.
Just remember those who are born male who have not completed male puberty have absolutely no unfair advantage over women in competition and should be allowed to compete with no restrictions as trans women. People who have gone through male puberty is a different discussion.
Would you say we need a Trans Rosa Parks? Someone who is upstanding in every way and is willing to take the heat and ideally the wit to dish it back out?
republican made it a state issue 8 years ago, including genital checks of minors. colleges and the olympics had policies in place for trans participation long before then, it was never a free for all. I think they were conscious of the streisand effect, which made them reactive instead of proactive
Staying silent when people are being systematically attacked allows the attackers to win and slaughters the innocent. Nazi Germany proved that - or should have. Reagan proved that with the AIDS pandemic - or should have.
Once we start accepting discrimination against one group we start on a slippery slope. AOC has talked about it. When it is about Trans people we say Trump is not talking about me, next he goes against natives we say not about me ultimately he we will come after people like me
I think Kamala probably should have toned it down a bit instead of putting a divisive policy front and foremost in her campaign. It's the kinda policy you want to sneak in once you've secured the presidency!
She didn’t run on this. Being inclusive is not running on an issue. She very clearly ran on what policies she had to help the middle class and poor people and what a clear present danger Trump is. Trump is the one who ran on his bigotry and ran false ads about VP and trans inmates.
She could've run ads showing the data on how trans girls and women don't actually perform better than cis girls and women, but she didn't. Or ads that connected the hate towards trans girls and women to purity culture and misogyny towards cis women, but she didn't.
We can't cut anyone loose. We need to defend trans people because they are being attacked by our enemies first! We can't wait until they come for us. That is the whole point. If you are unfamiliar with trans stuff, educate yourself.
The bizarre thing is that this is exactly the type of thing that should be thrown back to the states if you really believed in states rights. Abortion doesn’t deserve federal protection but you want to legislate on little league rules?? So ridiculous.
Kamala didn’t run on trans rights—she barely mentioned them. Donald ran hate campaigns against trans people, though.
Do you think abandoning a minority means they won’t come for you? Because fascists come for everyone. One group losing their rights means that all of us will lose our rights.
She didn’t run on it. And fuck the Trans haters. If there were only 10 black player or 10 Jewish players impacted, would you say the same thing? Equity for all or none?
Followed her campaign daily, watched several of her speeches, she never ran on trans issues, that’s a falsehood planted by Trump/MAGA/RW-media to fire up the base.
Kamala Harris did not run on trans athletes. Trump attacked her as being extreme on the subject of trans rights, totally lying about the reality, about the stats, as usual.
except she DIDN"T run on trans issues. She ran on EQUALITY FOR ALL issues.
Trump ran against trans people, and cast Harris as his opposition on the issue, and it stuck, because she lacked the political skills or instinct to explain her position in a politically palatable way.
I think this issue is MORE complicated than everyone is making it. The bottom line is that a trans girl/woman does have a biological advantage over biological girls/women. It is unfair when an athlete loses because the field is not level. I wish I had an answer that makes it fair for everyone.
Harris lost because she is a non-white woman who ran against a white male. Her loss had NOTHING to do with her stances on trans people in any way shape or form. It had everything to do with this being a highly racist and misogynistic country and because MAGA knows messaging. Dems don't.
About 12% of the LGBTQ community and less than 1% of US population are trans (Gallup 2023/24) It’s a small percentage that all the focus is put on. I am not saying trans rights are not important. I am wondering if my LGBTQ community pushed too hard, too fast.
There will be a time when standing up for human rights is the right thing to do.
Perhaps tomorrow is a better day to fight for human rights? Or maybe the day after tomorrow? Human rights will be for everyone ... sometime in the future.
Certainly standing up for human rights is always the right thing to do. I didn’t imply otherwise. This country moves slowly. Sometimes winning a race takes a slow and steady pace, not a sprint. I am a lesbian that has been around for a minute. It took decades to get marriage equality.
I disagree. The fight for human rights is neither a sprint nor a marathon, it is more like a tug-o-war. If we stop pulling—even for a second—the other side wins, and we all loose our rights.
We must never, for a second, stop the fight for *any* of us.
Oh but she did. She absolutely did. Turns out most Americans don’t care about plight of migrants, women’s health care, voters rights when it comes to presidential elections. They just don’t.
And failed to move too many voters. Without winning we can’t now protect them. Millions who voted for Biden didn’t show up for Harris. And here we are in far far dangerous place.
I have just learned that someone in my family is Trans and wants to transition. I was told in confidence, so she doesn't know I know but she has my support 100%.
I never understood why people care what other people do when it hurts no one. The lgbtq community, women that want/need an abortion etc. how does that hurt anyone’s life? The “religious “ right need to mind their own damn business.
Me too!! So much acquired ignorance just ticks me off. Marginalized peoples are such easy targets. The MAGAT's just believe what they hear on Faux News, not what they learned at school. Science rules. Trans people are real. Climate change is real. Believe what you know not what you are told.
Stand together and stop elevating the cause of any one group. Trump and his sycophants are not going to stop discrimination against gays, trans, black, brown. Stand together to regain the strength in numbers, reclaim governance and fix the problems! Isolating groups is putting a target on them.
This is a really good documentary on Trans Lives in NYC. It covers decades of Trans/Gay culture in the Big Apple, and how Giulianni and Bloomberg targeted the trans community and radically changed the culture of the city.
Hey everyone can we go to this YouTube story and flood the comment section with support for Federal Workers! Let's try for 3,000 comments saying "I support Federal Workers and Trans Rights!" https://youtu.be/9xajeh7UsFI?si=EFzY7LQH8epzEg7l
"Former Olympian Jenner has voiced strong support for Trump's executive order on social media platform X.
"Another victory in the fight for protecting women's sports! President Trump signs an Executive Order keeping biological men out of women's sports!" Jenner wrote."
Because she is a fool! She couldn't care less now she has largely retired from sport, she got what she wanted, to hell with anyone else! She is utterly selfish!
I always have and always will support the trans community. I agree that competitive sports needs to be fair. If you are born male with just the god given physical male ability you do not belong in women's sports.
Women have fought too hard to get to where we are at in sports. No hate.
You may want to inform yourself better before spouting "god given physical male ability" bullshit. Or at least don't say you support trans people when you clearly don't.
If you were as educated on the subject as you claim to be, then you would be aware of the various studies that have shown that the muscle mass and bone density of trans women who have undergone HRT is similar to that of cis women.
If you are not a female athlete stfu. Your opinion was not asked for. Women support women. Scared, weak people make excuses to hold back our trans sisters.
Try doing research before spouting off again, trans women don't have a natural advantage. Stop lying to us, you don't support us if you believe the right-wing lies without question.
As do I. 100%. And I stand AGAINST anyone who does not. Family, co-worker, neighbor-- doesn't matter. If you don't stand up for the trans community, I stand against YOU.
We should all stand with any targeted group. Because we are ALL in a small group somewhere. And may be targeted next.
For anyone thinking they won’t be, watch the next month very carefully.
I am not a follower of J.k. but i seem to recall years ago she was taking heat for having LGBTQ stuff in her book? Then many years after she seems to be opposed to LGBTQ? Maybe you know more on the Rowling situation.
Wow she actually found your comment out of millions of people replying. That actually surprises me considering she's got tens of millions of Potter fans, or maybe she doesn't and the whole thing is a Potemkin village?
🇨🇦 stands for trans LGBTQ2+ we have a refugee immigration program that is for the first time in history open to USA citizens ! Our trans communities are our family too. We will not stand by ! Boycott Tesla , Amazon etc get the $ to pressure the stock market to dump Trump
Unlike yourself, the trans community no longer has the safety to travel freely. Please use your voice to speak out where it matters. Verbalizing support isn't enough
As a mother of an amazing 26 year old trans son,.... I will stand with the trans community and fight for their right to live their truth! Thank you to all who stand together with us 🏳️⚧️❤️ Thank you, George Takei, for all your posts!
Thank you, cuz we are terrified &, from others, we have been feeling nothing but h.ate, disgust & disdain. &, yes, that includes from the Qu€€r community 2. We need you.
Millions of people with you, politicians and haters, should be ostracized and called out, who wants to start, # 1 Musk who also hates Humanity, crawling over the world spewing hate
Trans people have always existed. We should be open to have a third gender with all the designated gender privileges including sport, bathroom, medical specialties etc. Else there always will be debates about silly things like bathrooms.
In New Zealand, new buildings now pretty much always have unisex individual cubicles with a sink. Much better for everyone, including CIS men who hate urinals.
Bathrooms? I give you the same solution I give others. We already have "family" bathrooms in public places. Or stalls with a changing table. They are large so Mom, Dad and kids can manage
Mandate "family" bathrooms in every public building.
Then, everyone is accommodated
Bathrooms would be unnecessary. Trans women can just use the ladies' bathrooms. They're women. There's no need for a separate bathroom for them. They're just trying to pee.
Thus, the reason Dems lost the election. Too much emphasis on minorities. Now the are the minority! Better work, if possible, ti get the straight, white male vite back!!
Thank Mr. Takei. Your voice has always been one for equality and compassion.
Back in 2020, you once retweeted my "Vote Deadline" Twitter account which was a school graphic design project but also my means to get people to get out and vote. Today, seeing you stand up for us today fills me with hope.
My first boyfriend was trans. I knew he was when I began dating him. We lived in a small town and his dad was a hard core vietnam colonel. It took him many years later to finally come out. When I saw her 20 years later, her makeup was incredible (and I worked the industry) and she was so beautiful.
Where I used to work, they had a talk about being trans which I chose to attend. And one of the most disturbing things to me was the level of rejection of trans-women by lesbian groups.
a term I hate to be honest, there is nothing feminist about them
the term "gender critical" seems more appropriate, as they often engage in the denial of reality regarding the existence of gender and the role it plays in society.
bigotry is reliant on ignorance, and noone is immune to being ignorant - though you would think some cohorts who are often victims of bigotry would be more awake to recognising their own ignorance.
It is THE wedge that the bigots in society found success, creating and perpetuating the lie that womens rights and trans rights are mutually exclusive.
It's been so successful they have managed to convert a lot of otherwise progressive women to supporting right-wing misogyny.
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I wish more straight cis dudes followed my lead.
These hate mongers are just bullying an already marginalized community. They think they're easy targets, but these bullies don't know the history of Stonewall, and have no idea how tough these ladies can be.
In the 70s Renee Richards was a celebrity. Today helping without PR helps more IMO
Girls and women are getting fucked by you lot. Misogynistic logic 101.
Regardless, we should let those athletes indicate what support they want. Some are ok with being symbols, some aren't
find someone to stir up hate against, always.
No sane person finds it okay, that boys participate in girls sport. This is not "far right", as you just clearly fuckin seen. Grats. You just got a orange monkey elected, idiots..
As a female I could not play sports for 18 yrs of public schooling, we could not hold most jobs, we were forced to wear skirts n dresses everyday for 13 years.. shop or auto mechanics, NO NO NO ..there are millions like me.. how do you think we view equality demands?
There is no legitimate reason for a trans woman who never went through a male puberty and has sub-female norm T in her system to not compete with other women, but cis women with conditions that overproduce T to compete, except for bigotry.
Which tells us something about how messaging works. Hopefully we can turn that information about messaging to our advantage.
Why did you groom your child to be a Div 1 athlete? Hmm.
Do you think abandoning a minority means they won’t come for you? Because fascists come for everyone. One group losing their rights means that all of us will lose our rights.
Trump ran against trans people, and cast Harris as his opposition on the issue, and it stuck, because she lacked the political skills or instinct to explain her position in a politically palatable way.
Perhaps tomorrow is a better day to fight for human rights? Or maybe the day after tomorrow? Human rights will be for everyone ... sometime in the future.
We must never, for a second, stop the fight for *any* of us.
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But we don't, so yeah I stand with the oppressed, the marginalised, and those too scared to stand alone.
Be You, and be Proud to be You
"Former Olympian Jenner has voiced strong support for Trump's executive order on social media platform X.
"Another victory in the fight for protecting women's sports! President Trump signs an Executive Order keeping biological men out of women's sports!" Jenner wrote."
Women have fought too hard to get to where we are at in sports. No hate.
Are you making any donations?
If so, where?
For anyone thinking they won’t be, watch the next month very carefully.
Bullies and bigots piss me off.
Feb 17, 2025
1) Trans person
2) Traitor
For me, the answer is easy #1
But offer support and comfort. Those are needed too.
Trans rights are human rights.
There are still enough of us fighting back though.
The puberty blocker ban continued by LGBTQ+ traitor Wes Streeting is proof of that.
Mandate "family" bathrooms in every public building.
Then, everyone is accommodated
Yes, we do.
Back in 2020, you once retweeted my "Vote Deadline" Twitter account which was a school graphic design project but also my means to get people to get out and vote. Today, seeing you stand up for us today fills me with hope.
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the term "gender critical" seems more appropriate, as they often engage in the denial of reality regarding the existence of gender and the role it plays in society.
It's hard to have an awakening. But it's refreshing once you do.
It's been so successful they have managed to convert a lot of otherwise progressive women to supporting right-wing misogyny.