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By the way legislators aren’t making laws specifically targeting the LGBTQ community because of pansexuals or trans people without dysphoria or aces and aros. They’re doing it because they hate queer people, and want to make us existing openly illegal.
No amount of “but but but the new labels are making us look bad and people won’t take us seriously” will ever change the fact that you are putting yourself on the side of people that want us dead. So stand by your community, or put a damn sock in it.
This is your community. There is no circumstance that you should say “well, the oppressor is right on this one” but that’s what SO many of you are doing!
When politicians mock parts of our community that they know you won’t bother to defend, they’re using it as a foot in the door. They are using it as a way to make their next action seem less extreme, and they will continue until they have achieved what’s happening in Texas and Idaho. And you are allowing them to.
Other queer people are not your enemy. And once again if you still can’t see that, you’re on the side of the oppressors.
my babies, this is how they always do it. they go after the “freaks” first. they go after the strange ones, the fringe ones, the ones who aren’t palatable, who don’t have anyone to defend them, who can’t find anyone to defend them because they’re “freaks”. and once they get a foot in the door, they move on to the next group. this is what they do. because their goal, their actual goal, is to eliminate us.
I absolutely guarantee you these assholes do not know or care about the finer points of queer identity. you cannot be the right kind of queer for them; there is no such thing. respectability politics will not save you. it never has and it never will.
do you honestly think these anti-queer laws are going to stop once they’ve sufficiently beaten down the trans people? do you legitimately think the people who hate us are going to be satisfied with just that? no! they’re going to do what they always do and ride that victory into a fresh wave of persecution. and little by little they’ll try to eat away at our rights, push us back in the closet, back into the airless dark.
they don’t have to win, but it takes all of us pushing back. stop this ridiculous infighting and stand together.
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