For me there is comfort in knowing for sure that people flying the progress flag support trans rights to some degree, but I do like the rainbow flag too! They fly it all around town in all of June and it really does make me happy to see.
I'm not super out or involved in the community beyond here really.
IRL I have both het, bi, and gay friends and they are all very supportive and sweet! So I'm rather happy with that. The progress flag hasn't caught on much here, but I don't know that that means much. Some find it kinda messy visually and prefer just the rainbow.
I've noticed online that there are quite a few "allies" who are only allies to a point; other queer people who don't take us seriously when we talk about the issues we care about and face on the regular and excuse their apathy or transphobia by explaining that they are gay and an ally. I don't know if they are just a vocal minority or a more significant portion of the LGBT than I hope they are. Mostly it seems the LGBT movement is open to including us, at least in theory, so until I am proven otherwise I'm gonna hope that this is actually true, and that we won't be thrown under the bus in the name of respectability politics as we have been in the past. Quite a few stonewall inspired organizations ironically didn't support trans people or those doing drag.
Mostly I am hopeful, even if there is increasing violence and discrimination against us. People are more vocally supporting us now than ever it feels like.
I've had the same thing happen in Norway :(
Didn't feel great, and I bet it feels worse over there given you know... all the stuff. I wish all the queers in the US the best 🫂
Well these sorts of posts tend to invite lots of men to "not all men" a lot.
Edit: Oh this is not 196, ignore. But everyone please keep in mind this community does not allow participation by men.
Also, I will still ban misogyny.
Tell us rather than insult us? There's nothing useful on the first page of results if I search for "prestige based moderating system" in duckduckgo.
Yeah no, this would not work well. Minorities often experience being downvoted in great number and out-ratioed by those that have no understanding of what they go through (your regular lemmy user). It would just result in the ultimate echo chamber where largely only liberal white cishets have anything to say. At least as things are now queers can have a queer instance and feel safe there, even if things are not ideal.
A finger off? 😳
Best of luck and all my love to everyone here in the US. As Arkhive says in the post she linked: stay safe and angry
That looks amazing!
Since we are sharing cool outfits may I share this enby wedding attire concept?
Critiquing authoritarians doesn't mean someone is automatically another brand of auth. They could be a non leninist socialist or an anarchist f.ex
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All the power to the younger generations on reclaiming slurs, but as someone who is trans I'm not gonna be running around dropping the T word anytime soon. It's still a rather hurtful term for many per my understanding. Perhaps when I'm old and gray and the young adults have no clue it used to be one I will join in on using it.