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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>In a move that demonstrates mainstream Democrat politicians have learned absolutely nothing from helping to build a fascist police state panopticon, and the migrant carceral complex, before shitting themselves so hard they lost to a would-be dictator like Trump, Massachusetts Dems have quietly passed a trans student sports ban timebomb and are trying to sell it as a victory for protecting trans rights:</p><p><a href="https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/massachusetts-house-dems-pass-bill" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">erininthemorning.com/p/massach</span><span class="invisible">usetts-house-dems-pass-bill</span></a></p><p>Massachusetts House Dems Pass Bill That Could Ban Trans Students From Sports; Senate Next</p><p>"On Wednesday, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a $1.3 billion budget bill that included a transgender sports ban—the first such measure to pass any legislative chamber in a blue state. Rather than voting to strike down the provision, Democrats advanced an amendment allowing the ban to go into effect only after its impacts are studied. Party leaders framed the move as a win for transgender rights, claiming the study would never materialize and the ban was effectively dead. But critics argue the provision puts transgender people at risk if political winds shift or future administrations decide to act on the study. Discussions suggest Democrats chose the procedural maneuver to shield members in swing districts from casting a vote in support of transgender rights."</p><p>Are you fucking kidding me? Let me see if I understand this correctly. In the middle of a state-sanctioned, anti-trans pogrom being conducted by fascists who have already declared that trans people don't exist, and openly admitted they're trying to drive trans people from public life, (two things that historically have preceded the direct extermination of marginalized groups), a solidly blue state government full of supposed "liberals" just passed an anti-trans law they promise not to actually enforce, because - they don't want to go on record standing up for the human rights of trans people as doing so is unpopular? Did I get that right? So the reason you decided to literally provide ideological support for an anti-trans pogrom is that you're cowards, and that makes it okay somehow? Quick question; if launching Chuck Schumer into the sun polled well, would you folks be afraid to oppose that on record too, or are you only cowards when we're talking about the human rights of trans people?</p><p>Look, if American liberals don't want me to point out that the war on trans rights (which aids a real as fuck anti-trans pogrom being conducted by the fascist right) is a bipartisan initiative, they need to start telling the political leaders they insist I *have* to vote for to stand up for trans people being targeted by a nazi moral panic with eliminationist characteristics; it's gotta be you folks, because it's clear as fucking day that the Democratic Party as a whole isn't listening to trans people like me. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransPogrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTransPogrom</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransBills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTransBills</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>massachusetts</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/eliminationism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eliminationism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransSportsBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransSportsBan</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collaboration</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Recently I watched a Majority Report interview with trans actress Laverne Cox; I'll probably share that here too once MR gets around to clipping the segment. In that discussion she talks about how the road to America's anti-trans pogrom was built built by shifting the focus off (then) unpopular bathroom ban bills, and towards the subject of trans (mostly) women competing in sports, after monstrous fundie think tanks like the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) actually focus tested which trans-related issues were most effective in riling up anti-trans sentiment and triggering the slippery slide towards trans eliminationism. </p><p>At the time, I honestly didn't think much of the fascist right's tactical shift; after all, there aren't that many trans women athletes, trans women are not dominating women's sports even when they do participate, and I didn't think America would have much sympathy for the petulant fit Riley Gaines (a woman who finished tied for fifth place with a trans woman athlete in an NCAA swim meet literally nobody would care about otherwise) was throwing. I'm going to have to take the "L" on that one; apparently I forgot that tears from a semi-attractive white woman are often part of the arcane spell eliminationist reactionaries use to conjure up support for fascist ideology and oppression - silly me. </p><p>Unless you've been in a coma, you already know the rest of the story; Gaines would appear on Fox News a staggering 29 times in the year after her race, trans sports bans would lead to the very same unpopular bathroom bills now passing, and today we live in a country where the President has made the erasure of trans people in public life (both figuratively, and literally) an official US government policy. In studying the aftermath of this anti-trans propaganda campaign, researchers have noted that the attacks on trans women in sport were an effective permission gate for the anti-trans pogrom because they triggered a sense of "unfairness" in cis-het people who were already inclined to think of trans people, particularly trans women, as an "otherized" and alien group in our society. Which is of course surreal, because as this article by Jules Boykoff and Satoko Itani notes, scientific evidence has repeatedly demonstrated that trans women who've been undergoing hormone replacement therapy for at least a year, literally do not have an advantage over cis-women athletes at all.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trans-moral-panic-falsespor" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/opinion/trans</span><span class="invisible">-moral-panic-falsespor</span></a></p><p>The Spreaders of the Trans Athlete Moral Panic Live in a Fact-Free Fantasyland</p><p>"One in-depth review of existing scientific literature on transgender athlete participation in competitive sport published between 2011 and 2021 found that “trans women who have undergone testosterone suppression have no clear biological advantages over cis women in elite sport.”</p><p>Another study found that transgender women athletes could actually be disadvantaged: “Compared with cisgender women,” the study found, “transgender women have decreased lung function, increasing their work in breathing.” Douglas Oberlin, an exercise physiologist who reviewed the scientific evidence related to transgender athletes’ performance, notes that “the limited information available does not suggest that trans men and trans women have much, if any, athletic advantage post-transition.”</p><p>In other words, yes, Americans who don't know their ass from their elbow just empowered a real as fuck fascist regime that is now destroying their lives, at least in part because they're big mad about the presumed "unfairness" of trans women competing in sports they otherwise do not care about, despite the fact that said "unfairness" has been scientifically proven to not exist. And while that's a sort of tragic comedy moment on its face, the consequences for trans people and folks who don't like fascism, are no laughing matter.</p><p>"Let’s be absolutely clear: The stakes are sky-high. The endgame of this bipartisan, anti-trans witch hunt is twofold. On the practical side, it enables the bracing possibility of raving randos demanding genital checks from the sidelines of youth sports events for kids who don’t conform to their strict versions of gender. (In West Virginia, Republicans have already voted through legislation green-lighting healthcare providers’ ability to perform genital checks on children without parental consent). But more broadly, the endgame is trans banishment. As journalist Dave Zirin put it, “The ‘pro-trans in everything but sports’ position can metastasize into… a broader anti-trans stance, the forcible erasure of transgender people from society.”</p><p>The push to expel trans women from elite sport, aided and abetted by Democrats like Gavin Newsom, is stoked by what Judith Butler calls “fascist passions.” As M. Gessen recently wrote, “The message, consistent and unrelenting, is that trans people are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.”</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransBills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTransBills</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransSportsBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransSportsBan</span></a></p>
Rainbow (plural system) 🏳️‍⚧️Trans sports ban - urgent call to action, call your US reps
Dimitri Dhuyvetter<p>What a fucked up place Florida and the US are:<br>Her trans daughter made the volleyball team. Then an armed officer showed up.<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2024/trans-sports-girls-florida-bans/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/nation/inte</span><span class="invisible">ractive/2024/trans-sports-girls-florida-bans/</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransSportsBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransSportsBan</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Monarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HighSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HighSchool</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Students</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Walkout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Walkout</span></a> To <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Support</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Staffers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Staffers</span></a> Who <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Violated</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TransSportsBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransSportsBan</span></a>. </p><p>Don’t mess with teenagers. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extremism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Violence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThePartyOfHate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://gomag.com/article/florida-students-walkout-to-support-staffers-who-violated-trans-sports-ban/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gomag.com/article/florida-stud</span><span class="invisible">ents-walkout-to-support-staffers-who-violated-trans-sports-ban/</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>After <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Loss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Loss</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CentralBucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CentralBucks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SchoolBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SchoolBoard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Passes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TransSportsBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransSportsBan</span></a>, Gives <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Superintendent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Superintendent</span></a> $700K</p><p>“I am so happy that this <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/disgrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disgrace</span></a> will be left behind, and we can move forward <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/undoing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>undoing</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/damage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>damage</span></a> you had done.” </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extremism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Violence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Homophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThePartyOfHate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-election-loss-central-bucks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">erininthemorning.com/p/after-e</span><span class="invisible">lection-loss-central-bucks</span></a></p>
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