we've always been here

[stickygirl]

I think this is a tactic pulled from many autocratic playbooks. The need to de-humanize a group of folk, it is much easier to hate when others are less than human.
Obviously this happens all over the world,I cite examples here in the US cause it is so front an center to me.
"They're eating the cats and dogs!"
"They're murderers, rapist, gang members!"
"Perverts, groomers, men pretending to be women, they are coming for your children!"
Back when this all kicked in, I never imagined it would work so well, I thought people would see right through these hateful tirades.
But here we are.......

From what I've read it's a straight copy from the anti-gay hysteria of the 1960s. Before that it was McCarthy and communists who ate cats and dogs.
To quote Men in Black "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

 

[Zrosey]

This is a touching story of a person taken from the book 'Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History' by Eli Erlick.
Sallie-Tom, an individual that lived around 1869 as a transwoman, apparently even recognized by the local government as her chosen gender.
Looks to be an interesting book.

https://www.advocate.com/history/sally-tom-black-trans-woman

 

[muycurioso]

This is a touching story of a person taken from the book 'Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History' by Eli Erlick.
Sallie-Tom, an individual that lived around 1869 as a transwoman, apparently even recognized by the local government as her chosen gender.
Looks to be an interesting book.

https://www.advocate.com/history/sally-tom-black-trans-woman

of course you exist, trans deserve equal rights and they have that. For the most part, it is just honest and fair questions that some thin skinned folks are crying is hate. Trans people are not above being questioned (like EVERYONE ELSE is questioned in the USA). Where I live, if someone kills me it just be a watered down murder charge in a liberal courtroom (even if there is SOLID PROOF of racial hatred). If a person kills a trans woman it will be a hate crime charge plus FIRST degree murder. Here is one article about WHO IS KILLING TRANS WOMEN --- https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2020/10/who-is-committing-violence-against-trans-women Anyone who murders anyone deserves to be punished and shamed.



ANOTHER article of facts --- https://translash.org/articles/conf...-women-may-be-the-only-way-to-save-our-lives/

Tell the truth to save trans women. We need to know who to talk to the most, black men!!! Is this even happening? https://translash.org/articles/conf...-women-may-be-the-only-way-to-save-our-lives/

 

[stickygirl]

Here's some flowers

 

[coati]

The cacti are blooming where I live, despite being in the middle of an extended drought.

Resilience is a wonderful thing to behold in these tough times.

 

[stickygirl]

I was just learning about Lynn Ann Conway, who died last year. She was a computer scientist who worked first for IBM, inventing Dynamic Instructional Scheduling that radically improved processor speed in the 1980s. When she informed her superiors of her intention to transition, she was fired.
With a new ID she got a job with Xerox, and co-invented the very large scale integration VLSI that revolutionised server efficiency. Recognition for her work was airbrushed away. She was a professor of electrical engineering at Michigan university. In 2014 she advocated for herself, publishing proof of her work and receiving an honorary doctorate from Illinois IoT. in 2020 she finally got an apology from IBM and a lifetime achievement award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

 

[Zrosey]

I was just learning about Lynn Ann Conway, who died last year. She was a computer scientist who worked first for IBM, inventing Dynamic Instructional Scheduling that radically improved processor speed in the 1980s. When she informed her superiors of her intention to transition, she was fired.
With a new ID she got a job with Xerox, and co-invented the very large scale integration VLSI that revolutionised server efficiency. Recognition for her work was airbrushed away. She was a professor of electrical engineering at Michigan university. In 2014 she advocated for herself, publishing proof of her work and receiving an honorary doctorate from Illinois IoT. in 2020 she finally got an apology from IBM and a lifetime achievement award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

Reading the wiki about her and her life, she attempted to first transition way back in 1957! There were people that transitioned even much earlier than this, but I'm pretty sure the 50's were a socially repressive point in America.
Adding to that, access to information. With the internet at least I had some idea what moves others made when I was alone and questioning, she wouldn't have had any sources like this.
It is all to say, I guess, how much I recognize the struggles she must have gone through.

 

[Zrosey]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonBinary/comments/1mywi2i/edward_carpenter_the_queer_socialist_who_was_one

I've never read their book 'The Intermediate Sex', so can't comment on how it is.

 

[BillyWalrus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonBinary/comments/1mywi2i/edward_carpenter_the_queer_socialist_who_was_one

I've never read their book 'The Intermediate Sex', so can't comment on how it is.

That is a very interesting quote from the book too.

 

[coati]

Especially in this digitally-coded virtual world of ones and zeros, many people cling to the belief that gender is also strictly binary.

That's not how nature works.

 

[Zrosey]

Here is a listing of early 20th century gender diverse folk. I enjoyed reading of Michael Dillon especially because it seems I find less written of transmen in a historical perspective.

https://historicengland.org.uk/rese...ender-nonconforming-histories/trans-pioneers/

 

[Zrosey]

Ruth Ellis 1899-2000 She was a LGBTQ activist in the USA.
As many of these folks that lived upfront, out, and proud lives she is an inspiration.
https://aaregistry.org/story/ruth-ellis-lesbian-printer-and-activist-born/

 

[coati]

Ruth Ellis 1899-2000 She was a LGBTQ activist in the USA.
As many of these folks that lived upfront, out, and proud lives she is an inspiration.
https://aaregistry.org/story/ruth-ellis-lesbian-printer-and-activist-born/

Wow. She lived a rich life of integrity and empathy for a full century, day by day.

 

[Zrosey]

Here is an interesting video on William Dorsey Swann, an early (think 1870's early) drag queen and LGBTQ+ activist.