If you want to read what #jkrowling got pulled off Amnesty's website, see below. From the report:
"Eroding existing frameworks Anti-rights groups seek to weaken existing human rights protections and prevent further progress. They do this through litigation, campaigning, advocacy and political influence. Many promote social and legal frameworks based on traditional and restrictive ideas about gender, sexuality and family life." transgendermap.com/issues/grou…
"You actively support a transphobic, anti-feminist JK Rowling by happily selling her merch. Thus contributing to the human rights violations against transgender, non-binary and intersex people. I am also severing all ties with this company and will never shop here again. You should be ashamed of yourselves!"
In those days, before the internet, before endocrinology, before the words transgender and gender identity had entered the languages of homo sapiens (actually, before homo sapiens had language proper), there were those who knew themselves to be other than what the world had named them.
And they were many.
In the beginning, there were the gender-diverse people of ancient civilizations: priests, warriors, healers, lovers, servants, rulers and rebels. Some were revered. Some were feared. Some were merely allowed to exist.
And the centuries passed.
Kingdoms rose and fell. Empires were built and burned. Religions declared what people were permitted to be. Physicians invented new words for old experiences. Governments invented new laws for policing them.
Still, the people remained.
Then came the twentieth century, and with it new knowledge. Physicians learned that bodies could be altered. Hormones could be administered. Names could be changed. Lives could be lived.
And for a brief moment, it seemed that perhaps the ancient question might finally have an answer:
“What if we simply let people become who they know themselves to be?”
But the enemies of freedom did not sleep.
They gathered in laboratories, churches, parliaments, newspapers and television studios. They forged accusations. They declared that trans people were a modern invention, despite the inconvenient existence of thousands of years of history.
And so began the Great Erasure.
They took the ancient records and said, “Those weren't trans people.”
They took the gender-diverse people of other cultures and said, “Those don't count.”
They took the pioneers of the twentieth century and said, “Those were merely confused.”
They took Stonewall and said, “They weren't there.”
They took the people standing beside them and said, “You have never existed.”
Yet the trans people endured.
They endured the laws. They endured the ridicule. They endured the doctors. They endured the police. They endured the newspapers. They endured the people insisting that their existence was somehow historically impossible.
And still they stood.
For history is a stubborn thing.
You may burn a book. You may alter a photograph. You may rename a person. You may pretend an entire generation never existed.
But you cannot make the people disappear simply by refusing to remember them.
And so the story continues.
Not because trans people suddenly appeared.
But because, after thousands of years of being told they were impossible, they finally became impossible to ignore.
When conservatives say “save the children”, there is very often a rather important asterisk hiding behind it:
Save the “real”™ children.
The moment a child is trans, queer, gender-nonconforming, neurodivergent, different, "difficult", inconvenient, or simply fails to fit neatly into their little picture of what a child should be, suddenly the concern for children and their rights can disappear remarkably quickly.
And worse: the very people screaming loudest about “protecting children” can become some of the biggest threats to those children’s safety, dignity, autonomy and wellbeing.
Because apparently the child is precious right up until the child becomes a person.
(Remember there are still people who think children are basically property!)
Children need to be protected from people who want to harm them, shame them, hurt them, indoctrinate them, or force them into becoming someone they are not.
Children aren't projects to be fixed or moulded to fit somebody else's ideology. They deserve to grow up safe, loved, and free to discover who they are, knowing that they are already good, already wonderful, and worthy of being exactly who they are.
There is a reason I take the endless stream of anti-queer slurs, lies and accusations seriously.
Stochastic terrorism is when people in positions of influence repeatedly spread hateful or dehumanising rhetoric about a group, creating an environment in which violence against members of that group becomes more likely - even if they never explicitly tell anyone to attack.
And yes, this can and does include state actors.
Calling queer people “groomers”, “predators”, “degenerates”, “child abusers”, or some other invented monstrosity is not merely “words”. When those accusations are repeated often enough, they manufacture a target. They tell the public who supposedly deserves suspicion, hatred and punishment.
Words become permission. Permission becomes action.
That is why “it was just a slur” is such a grotesquely inadequate defence. A lie repeated often enough can become a weapon. And when powerful people keep handing that weapon to an angry crowd, pretending not to know what might happen next is simply dishonest.
We should take the words seriously, because history has shown us what can follow when we don't.
A basketball coach with a roster, a front office, and a job to protect walked into the loudest night of the WNBA's season wearing four words: Trans Kids Belong.
Then she stood in a hallway and told reporters flat that the innuendo about trans women being predators is simply not what is happening. She named the framing itself as the problem.
"There were so few of us out because there was still so little information available, and so little in the way of community support for those who did try to come out or transition. Most trans people were spending years, decades, lifetimes stuck in the closet. But this was beginning to change ... "
"Trans communities in the UK were benefiting from a virtuous cycle of coming out. The internet helped a great deal with this, as new resources and information spread online. But the real change came with trans people simply being a visible part of public life ... You see a trans person getting on with their life, and realise that sex change is possible for you, too ... "
"The strange irony of #trans life in the 2020s is that there are still more of us than ever. Even as external conditions become more and more hostile, the virtuous cycle continues"
It was the largest trans protest in British history. We travelled from across the country to central London. We were joined by allies, especially cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people who re…
A basketball coach with a roster, a front office, and a job to protect walked into the loudest night of the WNBA's season wearing four words: Trans Kids Belong.
Then she stood in a hallway and told reporters flat that the innuendo about trans women being predators is simply not what is happening. She named the framing itself as the problem.
Good morning #Fediverse! My name is #Adam #Coward. I believe #Windows is best! #Linux sucks! I like to accuse anyone I don't like of being a #scammer, while concealing my #racism and #Islamophobia and secretly plotting a #scam myself, spinning up accounts pretending to be from #GazaVerified in hopes that I can get some of that sweet fake #MutualAid money for myself 🤤 While harassing people who genuinely need that money! BTW #TransRights!
One of the things that annoy me the most of being trans in Latin America is that most people expect you to like and date men (or women if you're transmasc). And if you one day do so they go like "I knew it" and tell other people as well. Since biphobia is a big thing here, that can affect your social/sexual life.
Inside the Secretive Boards Deciding #Trans Troops’ Fate
The #Pentagon is relying on closed-door hearings to kick out #transgender #service members. An Army Reserve lawyer is one of the few who have seen how they really work.
I wonder if UK folk realise it's now almost completely surrounded by neighbouring European or EU States (in red) 🇪🇺 that all allow gender self-determination?
Reading the papers there feels so weird and insular.
To understand the rise of an anti-rights movement targeting the rights of women and LGBT+ people in the UK, it is important to situate it within the broader...
"So the key findings of Amnesty's report was that these anti-rights groups have massive funding, that it comes largely from far-right christian groups in the US, and that they're abusing UK charity law to misrepresent themselves as pro-rights organisations."
Important thread on the #amnesty report that #jkrowling censored. I don't blame Amnesty at all - the unlimited number of lawsuits JKR offered to fund would have ended them. This is another example of her using the political power that her money gives her to destroy other people's rights, in this case Amnesty's right to freedom of speech.
Terf’s are really, really afraid we might see and read this major report. It documents UK based anti-trans critical organizations and their funding.
They were able to force the worlds biggest human rights organizations to pull their report down within hours from it’s release, that’s how much they don’t want the world to know.
Here it is. (Share it! Download it! Share it again!)
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours,...
