just an annoying weed 😭
The comment I was responding to just said they were surprised that the arrested trans person prayed the Rosary in the bathroom before being arrested, i.e. they were surprised a trans woman could be a devout Catholic. (Admittedly, I think people who do successfully transition are maybe less likely to be devout Christians, considering Christianity’s role in conversion therapy and the anti-trans movement, so it’s not entirely unreasonable to be surprised.)
Hegemony is social and structural, the individual is coerced into it one way or another.
Yes, the Catholic Church is anti-trans, but you have to understand that trans people are just like everyone else, they are subject to the same influences and pressures as cis people, and they come from the same backgrounds - from religious families, from conservative families, etc.
While trans people in the U.S. form an alliance with lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, two-spirit, and intersex individuals - this does not mean every trans person accepts the label “queer” or thinks of themselves that way, let alone how they think of other trans people. There are many self-hating trans people, and lots of trans people who hate other trans people.
Caitlyn Jenner is a Trump supporting Republican who went on Fox News to deliver anti-trans remarks about a trans athlete.
Blaire White is a Trump supporting Republican who makes a living supporting right-wing and anti-trans talking points on YouTube.
The Log Cabin Republicans are mostly LGBT+ folks who are Republicans, and they show up to support anti-trans legislation, like in the recent California vote to ban trans athletes.
I think you have to understand that labels like “queer” and “LGBTQ+” are political identities, and lots of people who are queer based on their sexuality or gender identity will not identify that way. Some people remain closeted and hiding, but other people are open about their sexuality and just don’t connect the dots between their sexuality and the political struggles of people with those sexualities, refusing to identify as gay or queer and instead just insisting they’re “straight” even while openly engaging in queer sex.
Sure, it boggles my mind too, but it’s unfortunately very common. I think a lot of this has to do with the dominance one identity has, like one’s identity as a conservative or as Christian, over another, such as one’s identity as a queer person. When those conflict, it’s not surprising that sexuality or gender identity are not always the winner - especially in cases like Christianity where the religion can have a hold on your entire life (your job, your spouse, your whole family, your entire community - everything might depend on a religious identity like that and it’s very difficult to escape).
Trans bathroom bans are ultimately just a means of driving trans people from public life entirely.
This is not an exaggeration, the anti-trans movement literally aims to “eradicate [trans people] from public life entirely”, those are their words.
Here are some citations, numbers, and evidence to back up what you’re saying and why we should view trans bathroom bans as genocidal rather than about safety, like anti-trans activists claim:
When laws permit transgender people to access sex-segregated spaces in accordance with their gender identities, crime rates do not increase. There is no association between trans-inclusive policies and more crime. As one of us wrote in a recent paper, this is likely because, just like cisgender folks, “transgender people use locker rooms and restrooms to change clothes and go to the bathroom,” not for sexual gratification or predatory reasons.
Conversely, when trans people are forced by law to use sex-segregated spaces that align with the sex assigned to them at birth instead of their gender identity, two important facts should be noted.
First, no studies show that violent crime rates against cisgender women and girls in such spaces decrease. In other words, cisgender women and girls are no safer than they would be in the absence of anti-trans laws. Certainly, the possibility exists that a cisgender man might pose as a woman to go into certain spaces under false pretenses. But that same possibility remains regardless of whether transgender people are lawfully permitted in those spaces.
Second, trans people are significantly more likely to be victimized in sex-segregated spaces than are cisgender people. For instance, while incarcerated in facilities designated for men, trans women are nine to 13 times as likely to be sexually assaulted as the men with whom they are boarded.
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In society at large, between 84% and 90% of all crimes of sexual violence are perpetrated by someone the victim knows, not a stranger lurking in the shadows – or the showers or restroom stalls. But trans and nonbinary people feel very unsafe in bathrooms and locker rooms, though others experience relative safety there. In fact, the largest study of its kind found that upward of 75% of trans men and 64% of trans women reported that they routinely avoid public restrooms to minimize their chances of being harassed or assaulted.
These laws aren’t designed to protect cis women, they are designed to police gender (this impacts cis people too!) and eliminate trans people from public life.
Why is it confusing? The woman who was arrested, Marcy Rheintgen, is a conservative Catholic who thought when push came to shove, they wouldn’t actually arrest her …
ironic SEO image, at this point is Newsweek anything but a low quality right-wing rag?
Unlike most large American magazines, Newsweek has not used fact-checkers since 1996.
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In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had “taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders” since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine’s elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer’s opinion section and podcast.
from Wikipedia
thank you
where I live it’s not exactly perfectly fine to be out of the closet, lol - your mileage may vary, significantly, and people definitely still live in the closet, acceptance is not universal even if it’s much, much better than it was before (and you can see this in the generational differences, older people are less likely to come out of the closet and younger people are more likely to).
that’s a good point, but clearly what I meant by “aid” was FEMA aid - because she didn’t receive FEMA aid, she is in favor of dissolving FEMA entirely, without thought to what this would mean for anyone else
You’re right, falling short of expectations is a great justification to receive no aid at all. Or in the case of the article, being denied aid justifies denying everyone else aid.
The document was written and cosigned by a quartet of academic armchair warriors with colorful pasts. They included historian Andrew Orr, the director of the University of Kansas Institute for Military History. His recent academic contributions include a chapter in an obscure academic volume entitled, “Who is a Soldier? Using Trans Theory to Rethink French Women’s Military Identity in World War II.”
What do you think the Grayzone author thinks is relevant about the name of this chapter?
I searched through several pages of search results for every explicit mention of “genocide” between December 1st and December 31st of 2024, but without reference to Gaza, Palestine, Rwanda, or Uyghur.
At some point most of the results are just instagram and tiktok links - most of the news articles are in the first page of results. Nothing mentions trans or gender, etc.
I tried lots of other searches, such as just looking for Trump official or Trump administration official, etc.
This was notable, but genocide is not explicitly mentioned: https://glaad.org/trumps-nominees/
There was a lot of talk about Trump’s nominees for various positions in December, could the article have been related to that?
Was the person who said it a part of Trump’s prior administration? (Trump had no administration in December.)
maybe, but there are advanced methods of searching that allow you to filter by exact phrases or key-words, to search within a particular timeline, etc. and nothing with the word “genocide” is showing up associated with Trump and trans people even going back months and years. Do you know who published the article, like what website it may have come from? Anything to help narrow the search can be helpful.
the leftists seem to be good with guns, it’s the liberals and progressives who have trouble with them
(to be fair, the left is dead in America)
huh, I’m definitely not finding that anywhere …
Using crypto as the main currency would require too much of most people. Let’s not forget how many people who need to use currency but who are illiterate, who have trouble using websites or phones, etc. Crypto is not accessible to large segments of the population, and in that sense it is impractical and clearly not better than other currencies.
Let’s also not forget that crypto was specifically designed to prevent monetary policies from being able to influence the currency. Not only is crypto impractical for much of the population, but the government will have fewer tools to stabilize the value of the currency. It’s a nightmare on many fronts.
Literally any currency would be more likely and “better” than crypto. The alternative to crypto is not trading gold, but using other major currencies, like Euros. It’s unclear if the U.S. dollar collapses what currency will replace it, but I suspect that will be determined by geopolitical dominance more than anything else.
Yes, they might find a way to force crypto to be used in a case like that - but I think that would be a logistical nightmare and they would probably have to setup some kind of system to make it feasible.
I do suspect the currency of whatever geopolitical entity demands the most economic power in the vacuum left by the U.S. collapsing will become the new global currency, but it’s also possible that this hypothetical world become more economically isolated, such that there is no single accepted global currency.
But yeah, Euro or Yuan would be my guess as well.
Are you sure the word “genocide” was used? I think they have generally kept to more round-about language like “eradicating gender ideology”, etc. - I don’t think they would want to characterize what they’re doing as a genocide so directly.
I don’t understand your response, why is acknowledging the political aspect to contemporary Western queer identity upsetting to you? I’m just trying to explain why queer conservatives might not identify as “queer” or “LGBT+” - because of the political associations. It’s similar to how conservatives might remain in the closet about their sexuality.