The Official LGBTQIA+ Thread

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Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe − history shows how identity transcends medicine and law

Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe − history shows how identity transcends medicine and law

Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take transitioning into their own hands.

theconversation.com

 

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How Trans People Can Survive, and Thrive: A Playbook to Meet Trump’s ‘Shock and Awe’ — Assigned

Veronica Esposito offers her perspective as a therapist on how to stay safe and healthy during this time of crisis.

www.assignedmedia.org

 

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How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural barn

The neighbours had no idea. The medical equipment came from eBay. But in a dark time for transgender people, these anarchist medics treated patients that no one else would touch, reports Io Dodds

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Why is the anti-trans movement so obsessed with trans women? | Xtra Magazine

Our bodies are constantly the subject of what would be called sexual harassment if it were done to anyone else

xtramagazine.com

 

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“We Owe Them Recognition.” On Recovering and Preserving Mexico’s Trans History

I was still in grade school, so I had my uniform on, but I was already wearing lipstick, nail polish, and clogs with wooden heels; I was a hyperfeminine little boy, so when I walked past this group…

lithub.com

 

[temporarywool]

The progressive betrayal of trans Americans

How well-intentioned laws created new cultural conflicts—and eroded personal liberty.

reason.com

 

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The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all

The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all

By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Darnaude.

www.out.com

 

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Scaling walls and dropping crickets: how a group of U.K. trans kids is fighting back | Xtra Magazine

The voices of young trans people have long been absent in policy-making decisions. Trans Kids Deserve Better wants to change that—whether the adults like it or not.

xtramagazine.com

 

[temporarywool]

My Afternoon With the 'Normal Gay Guys' Who Voted for Trump

Gay MAGA is hypermasculine and anti-woke—and it wants a break from the LGBTQ+ movement.

www.gq.com

I Put “No Republicans” in My Grindr Profile. Men Started to Lose Their Minds.

I thought being gay meant being socially progressive, open, and empathetic. My two-word vetting tool taught me the truth.

slate.com

Why do so many gay men support the AfD?

‘There are many neighbourhoods we can no longer go to because we are in danger of being injured, attacked or murdered,’ Ali Utlu tells me. As a gay German man of Turkish extraction and an ex-Muslim, he’ll be voting for the hard-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in the German...

www.spectator.co.uk

Those among the marginalised who seek proximity to power are nothing but traitors who will be exterminated by the oppressor all the same. Just slightly later than the people whose backs they plunged their knives into.

 

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/biphobia-among-gay-men-is-causing-us-to-close-ourselves-off-to-love/

 

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My Dad Was Gay — But Married To My Mom For 64 Years. As She Died, I Overheard Something I Can't Forget.

"Had I been wrong about my dad — this man I knew to be so wonderful and caring and loving, not only to my mom and my siblings and me, but seemingly to everyone he knew?"

www.huffpost.com

 

[temporarywool]

You're not a supporter of trans people if your not willing to listen and adjust your opinions based on what trans people are saying.

 

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all transphobia is misogyny.

 

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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/15/1243861703/sexuality-birth-order-gay-siblings

 

[Polaris_Tae]

I know that people often dislike being called gender-specific pronouns. Well here I am hating gender-specific nouns instead

lady? nope. Woman? fuck off, madam/maam? kys
The only nouns I will accept are non-gender-specific ones. Anything else makes me cringe inside

 

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@Polaris_Tae

I thought everyone was ignoring this page! Thank you for showing up!

 

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[temporarywool]

@Polaris_Tae how do u identify? What r ur pronouns?

 

[Polaris_Tae]

@Polaris_Tae how do u identify? What r ur pronouns?

Pan & she/her/they/them