General trans community.
Rules:
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All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
Don't post negative, depressing news articles about trans issues unless there is a call to action or a way to help.
Resources:
Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.
Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en
StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/
Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/
[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map
[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination
[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/
[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/
[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/
[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org
*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on
I see so many people talking about passports and moving. I'm on a fixed income, and barely got an apartment with my mom cosigning. I'm fucking stuck in a red state and I feel so fucking screwed.
Also lets stop acting like most of the voters were misled, lied to, bamboozled into voting for trump. They saw the racism, sexism, hate, and disrespect for the law and others and they LIKED IT. They want this. They aren't idiots they're fascists.
It's important to remember there are 340 million people in the US. Only 70 million, counted so far, voted for Trump. Of those 70 million people, many of them will also be targeted by the fascists, who make up a minority of that group. We outnumber the fascists. We do a disservice to ourselves and others by making it seem otherwise.
The number one polled issue for Republican voters was the economy. They got duped by Fox fucking News. Jokes on them when the Republicans inevitably tank the economy.
The real question is will the mass deportations or the tariffs do it first. Hopefully the tariffs. If we're going to be dysfunctional as a country, we might as well do it before making camps.
Conversely, at most 68 million people voted for Harris. That means roughly 270 million people either didn't vote or voted for fascists, which means they're either so disenfranchised they couldn't vote, are idiots, were scared for their livelihoods and lied to (meaning they're still idiots, but at least they're also cowardly), or are fascists themselves.
I don't know when we'll learn, but given our ever-deteriorating education system I don't think it'll be anytime soon.
There's no sense in lashing out at nonvoters. We need to organize in order to make a difference.
No sense, but I'd like to see the morons who kept bullshitting that there is any kind of sense in not voting. The dumbest fucking people anywhere
It's hard to understate how fucking awful the accelerationism was this last year.
Given the results of the election, it seems that the accelerationists might have had the right idea.
A burning building doesn't get put out by watching it burn. And the fire can in fact spread to the next building. Things can always get worse because there is no bottom. Things will only get better by making them better.
The accelerationists got what they wanted. And everyone, including them, are worse off for it. We've gone from not utilizing the limited time window, to avert the worst of climate change, to choosing to use that time to pollute as much as possible. We may in fact succeed in reaching 5°C before 2100.
Things will only get better by making them better.
And people are lazy and don't try, so things always get worse until things get bad enough that people get fed up with the things and do something about them.
For the last four years, people have been acting like they don't need to get off their asses and fundamentally change their way of life to address climate change because there was a Democrat in office. Now the Democrats aren't going to save them and they don't have a choice if they want a habitable planet for their grandkids.
Accelerationists suppressing the vote with their rhetoric is part of how we got here. They are the ones who intentionally went out of their way to fail and make other people fail as well. If laziness bothers you, then this should drive you up the wall.
It was not the Democrats who were going to save us. It was we the people who would save our democracy with our votes.
Accelerationists didn't depress the vote, the pro-fracking genocide apologist who tried to appeal to Republicans instead of her own base did.
The Democrats were never going to save us, only we can save us. The lazy people are those who thought voting alone would be sufficient and won't re-engage with politics until the next election.
We knew who the Democrats and Republicans are. The Democrats are neoliberals. The Republicans are fascists. We have a democracy as long as we can keep it. If we lose our democracy we have no one to blame but ourselves. We elected Biden last cycle. We could have elected Harris this cycle. We failed to do so.
The Democrats were never going to spontaneously become populist this cycle. Harris' campaign was at least progressive leaning before DNC consultants ran into the ground. Our job was to spread the word to vote for Harris and how it would be useful for advancing progressive and socialist causes over time.
Instead accelerations spread the propaganda that Harris and Trump were the same on Israel's genocide and that people needed to protest vote. Not enough people voted this election in part because of that. We failed to use our tool, the Democratic Party, to prevent fascism.
It's not lazy to think voting was sufficient. The only way to win was to get enough votes. That's how democracy works. People spread pro-democracy messages as best we could. We lost the election to fascism. Now we need to organize, because there isn't necessarily going to be a next election. Hopefully there will, but we may need mass protests if we even want a shot at another election.
Also, Trump threatened to arrest top Democrats. It seems like the Democratic Party could be dead by the next presidential election.
We have a democracy as long as we can keep it. If we lose our democracy we have no one to blame but ourselves.
The purpose of a system is what it does, and America has never done Democracy. Our government is designed to limit choice to only those candidates that the owners of this country find acceptable, and this system is not threatened by the electoral failure of the Democrats, or even the loss of an entire major party, so long as the capitalists own any new party that rises to replace it.
Electoralism is a trap. Voting won't save us. We have to save us, and we aren't all going to make it unless we can start working together outside of the existing political establishment.
The purpose of a system is what it does
The electoral college and our first-past-the-post system is a huge part of the problem. With ranked choice voting we would have more choices for candidates and progressives and socialists would have a better shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
and America has never done Democracy.
We have been a democracy since the founding of our country. Consider reading a US history book to learn more. Our democracy is flawed. Fascists leveraged the flaws in our democracy to take it away. That's why Republican voters had to actually vote to take our democracy away, but of course the capture of our democracy has been happening slowly before that. Hopefully fascist incompetence means this isn't the end for democracy, but we can't count on that.
Our government is designed to limit choice to only those candidates that the owners of this country find acceptable, and this system is not threatened by the electoral failure of the Democrats, or even the loss of an entire major party, so long as the capitalists own any new party that rises to replace it.
Since Citizens United v. FEC corporations have had an outsized influence in our elections with unrestricted independent expenditures. But even before that, since Regan we've collectively adopted neoliberalism as a country. We've prioritized markets being free over people being free and all but the rich are worse off because of it. Late-stage capitalism has led us straight to an oligarchy of billionaires pledging fealty to a dictator.
It didn't have to be this way. We could have chosen socialism, changed to worker ownership of corporations, and levied wealth taxes on the rich. The issue was that we failed to get neoliberalism out of the minds of the population. People say something along of the lines of 'socialism doesn't work' and maybe even 'the soviet union collapsed' reflexively when they hear the word socialism.
Part of what we need to do is teach people that neoliberalism is scam and that socialism is the answer to their problems. In the coming years we are going to have a lot evidence that we can show people. But there is no sense in waiting. We can start on that now.
Electoralism is a trap. Voting won’t save us. We have to save us, and we aren’t all going to make it unless we can start working together outside of the existing political establishment.
Democracy is the best system we have for inclusive political institutions. If you know a better one that is more inclusive please share it. We of course need to organize between elections, now more than ever. But if you never vote when you get the chance, and we will be lucky if we ever do, all that organization goes to waste.
Accelerationists have never been right, their argument is self-defeating.
The heart of the accelerationist argument is equating red and blue, claiming the blues' inability to completely undo the damage of the reds is intentional and makes them no better -- that the purpose of a system is what it does.
But by that logic, the purpose of accelerationism is to enable fascist ascent, and that makes them indistinguishable from fascists.
If the purpose of a thing is what it does, then accelerationism isn't for anything. Recognizing that things will inevitably get worse before they can get better accomplishes nothing.
It's likely because of them that this was the outcome. 81M votes for Biden in 2020 and 10K less this year when it really mattered?
If it really mattered to the Democrats, they wouldn't be phoning it in on every issue from climate change to abortion to genocide. The party only has itself to blame for its failure to appeal to voters.
I know. hug I know.
I'm super terrified myself. I'm scared. I don't know what I'll do.
Except for one thing: I'll survive. GodDAMN that motherfucker I'll survive. Even if I have to survive just to spite him, TRUMP WILL NOT CLAIM MY LIFE. >:(
Me too. Although I'm not out yet. I'm thinking I'll need to scramble, now, to put in my name/passport changes before I potentially lose the chance. Of course, I don't pass, don't have the wardrobe, makeup or body to pass. I wanted to wait a little longer before coming out, lose weight, fix my shit, you know. Don't have the money to do anything, change anything how I want.
Yeah umm, me and my spouse are now creating a plan to at least get us to the most blue state we can but... fuck
anybody outside the us want to adopt a cute trans girl? I'm partially housetrained already! and I only bite occasionally.
In the US and I would but I'm in the same situation unfortunately :(
Might be a good time to check your documents, make sure you have a U.S. passport, that it isn't expired, etc.
oh I keep on top of that
that's good ❤️
I feel ill. I wish I could go back to sleep, but I'm too wound up on fear and trepidation.
I feel sorrow for my brothers and sisters and enby pals who will have to endure these uncertain times.
thanks - maybe consider contributing to their mutual aid networks so they can afford DIY hormones, so they can be housed when fleeing red states, etc.
I hope not too many of us die or suffer a lot. But I feel powerless to help much.
And here I was thinking that my egg cracked too late to be a part of the civil rights movement.
I was planning on moving to Washington, but I really wanted another year or two to get things together first. Looks like that’s not an option anymore.
Speaking of, does anyone know of any good mutual aid groups that could use a hand in the Olympia region?
I don't know what I can do to help anyone, are there any organisations which directly protect, or perhaps help relocate at risk trans people that I can throw money at?
I had a look through the listed resources on the post election post but nothing jumped out to me, perhaps I missed something though.
Sorry guys. I'm not American but I'm sorry for what is probably going to happen. We can only hope not
Thank you 💙
I need to get my skills up to snuff and get a new job... the idea that I will technically be working for that failure of a human being is nauseating. I refuse to be complicit.
There's nowhere to even fucking go, half the rest of the planet is going the same direction or is otherwise semi reliant on the US
On the other hand, if all the good people give up the fight and leave it to project 2025 to find their replacement the public as a whole will be in even greater danger.
Obviously it’s not fair to expect you to put yourself in danger for everyone else, but it might just be worth considering of forms of resistance.
I'm in a hard red state, working for a branch of government that already leans fairly red (DoD). Not even being hard on myself, I am a dime a dozen IT technician that coasted into my current position. Frankly, I think I've wanted out for a while now, there's just nowhere else to work in the area.
That’s unfortunate but I understand, I just didn’t want the thought of working for him to be the only reason. Be safe.
I'm not a US person, but I would like to know what exactly is so bad about the trump man.
Besides looking funi and not being all that cool, did his win last time influence trans people that much?
Or is he just really pushing the anti-trans agenda harder this time?
Maybe I missed a twitter post or something, I'm just confused about why people are only now thinking of moving out.
Did you see the whole project 2025 thing?
Nope I did not see the whole project 2025 thing. Imma look at it now and probably edit this comment when I'm done
Its... Scary. I'm not even in the US and it terrifies me.
Ok WOAH this is scary! This reads like a dictatorship and strong influence of the people leading the country.
Also Eliminating woke propaganda at every level of government. sounds like such a shitpost, but they seem to mean it.
Removing critical race theory and gender ideology curricula in every public school in the country. Ok oof. They really mean it.
Using the word "woke" in official political messaging really has thrown me for a loop this election cycle.
And yeah. This shit is scary. Trump tries to downplay how linked he is to this, but its a facade and a bad one at that.
Key points include classifying "transgender ideology" as pornography, banning porn and making it a sex offense, introducing the death penalty for sex offenders. All those together....
Sooo they wanna ban porn (people totally gonna like that), making it classify as a sex offense and then point at transgender people and allys and say look, they're offending me!?
That's actually insane
hear it from his own mouth: President Trump’s Plan to Protect Children from "Left-Wing Gender Insanity"
Ok wow woah ok like WOW this IS BAD!!!!
I thought this was part of the project 2025 (which is still not exactly confirmed to be his plan, as far as I can tell), but NO! And the comments are even worse...
I really dislike this one comment of a person saying they are a "gay guy" but left the lgbt community ever since they "talked directly to children" whiiiiich is absoulte BS.