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May I ask that you Boost this post so people can find us at https://mstdn.games ? :1up: :boost_ok:
We’re an all-inclusive #gaming community and our Local feed is amazing — absolutely the go-to place for all things #Games. Our Mods are top tier.
Twitter is dying, but my advocacy work helping trans people raise money via fundraisers depends on my five years of work I've spent writing on Twitter, so I need help.
If you're a trans person who needs help raising money for any reason, reply to this toot with your fundraiser. I'll reach out.
If you're a cis person and you can, please boost this post so your trans followers can see it.
David Tennant: “I remember gay rights being weaponised politically. That always felt ugly & nasty… 30 years later & those people are clearly on the wrong side of history. Now there is a similar weaponisation of these topics… to create friction & conflict & division where it needn’t be. It’s just about people being themselves. You don’t need to be bothered about it. F**k off & let people be”
Hi Fedi Family,
In 2008 Californians voted for Prop8 that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the California constitution. While this was defeated in courts this draconian Prop8 language is still in the California constitution. Justice tHomas and the right wing SCOTUS is openly hinting at destroying precedent and trampling rights. If they overturned Obergefell - the Prop8 language in the California Constitution will act as a “trigger law”, raining havoc on queer families like mine across California.
Please spread the word to vote “YES” to repeal Prop8 (2008) from the California constitution in Nov 2024. Talk to your friends, family and colleagues about it.
Bon, c'est tranché : première sortie de route en 19 ans d'inscription, première sanction : le blocage indéfini.
Fini dès lors pour moi de contribuer en quoi que ce soit à #WikipediaFR.
Le contributeur connu sous le pseudo de "Chouette bougonne" qui a multiplié en discussion les messages irrespectueux et dénigrants sur moi, la communauté #trans/#LGBT et les contributeurices en général, s'en sortira probablement avec un administrateur qui lui fera les gros yeux avant de l'inviter à aller boire une pinte, et ce en dépit des multiples remarques et du blocage temporaire qu'il a déjà subis ces deux dernières années, soit à peu près l'âge de son compte.
Il n'était pas le seul, mais c'était clairement le plus acharné du lot.
#Wikipedia n'est pas une encyclopédie libre et collaborative.
C'est une encyclopédie privée, largement financée hors des contributions du public, qui a bénéficié de collaborations ouvertes de la part de personnes qui se sont cooptées pour garder leur petit pouvoir pendant plus de 20 ans, et dont un des administrateurs m'a dit pas plus tard que la semaine dernière qu'il ne s'agissait pas non plus d'une "démocratie", et qu'après tout ce temps, ils "tâtonnent" toujours au niveau de la gouvernance de leur bastringue.
Ne perdez pas votre temps et votre énergie. Ces gens ne changeront jamais à moins d'être débarqués de l'extérieur.
Navrée pour vous si vous croyez encore en un monde meilleur : il ne passera pas par eux.
Dear #trans people, #LGBT#Queer#LGBTQIA and allies from the Fediverse, if you have a #Wikipedia account with at least 50 edits before January 29, you may help the French Wikipedia to become a better place to read quality articles involving trans people.
Under the pressure of trans and allied contributors, the French Wikipedia moderators have opened a survey on "how to handle #deadname mentions in our articles".
The survey proposes 6 questions and multiple possibilities, including harmful and insensitive ones.
At the moment, the answer ratio is not in favour of trans people. Most of the time, people insist on mentioning the deadnames like it's a data like any other, including when unnecessary.
This must change, and here's why I'm making a call to you.
French trans people with no account matching the rules will need yours to give their voice. Please manifest yourself here and propose them to reply to the survey for them.
Action and reskeets may save young trans people from shitty behaviours from careless cis people.
Thank you by advance 🙏🏼
Pour les européens : pensez au décalage horaire avec les États-Unis, n'oubliez pas d'attendre quelques heures avant de repoueter 😉
While many reputable companies have pulled out of Russia long ago, American language learning company Duolingo has continued its business in Russia, reveals TASS.
In April, the company was told to censor its app, so Russians can no longer see ANY reference to the existence of #LGBT persons, and instead of ending its business in Russia, the company chose to help the dystopian regime and comply, writes Latvian-based newsmedia Meduza.
In the 19th century there was a panic about masturbation and its effect on the nation on both sides of the Atlantic.
At the beginning of the 20th century there was a panic about women's liberation, in sex and politics, destroying society.
By the mid 20th century there was a panic about sexual liberation and free love.
Later, in the 70s and 80s, there was a gay panic and gays were presented as predators and deviants.
Now, in the early 21st century, there is a trans panic and its trans and non-binary people who are seen as the social threat.
These are five separate panics across over 150 years, But, actually, they're not separate at all: they are the same panic generated by the same people that comes again and again and again in waves. Its a panic generated by the sexually puritan and socially authoritarian whose politics is that of coercion and control.
This tendency is the ultimate enemy of all lovers of social and personal freedom.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Are you or someone you know 50 years or older and a member of the LGBTQI+ community and living in California? If so, consider completing the first statewide survey of LGBTQ+ older adults.
I hear so many older people saying things like "If I were younger, I would be nonbinary", and listen: you can be nonbinary now! It sounds like you already are! #nonbinary#LGBT#LGBTQ#LGBTQIA#transgender#trans
So transness exists in many animals and not just humans. It's been observed but I'm going to give you a personal story from my personal life. My exwife was a wildlife rehabilitator. She went to school for it with a specialization in Raptors. That's birds of prey. Not Jurrassic Park.
They rehabilitate most birds but some just can't be released. If they can get along with people they become educational ambassadors. IE birds they take out to the public to educate on wildlife conservation and eliminate misconceptions etc etc.
Well they have a mated for life Golden Eagle duo. The boy is a little big but not so large that he's in lady eagle territory. In Raptors sexual dimorphism is reversed. It's important for later.
He has a wife. Golden Eagles mate for life. They do all the parnter things. Guard eggs. Have s3x. Normal stuff. but zero viable young. No young at all. They think maybe it's just a biproduct of the lady having West Nile virus. Organs move around and change in birds with west nile. It wouldn't be strange if she were infertile.
Because these birds are generally traumatized, and sexing of birds is prone to error they just don't do it. He acts like a guy. He is a guy. His lady love loves him very much. Well he dies of old age. It happens. It's sad.
So they do an autopsy. Also routine. Also for science. What is it they find in autopsy? Ovaries. No testes. No intersex condition. This eagle is a big masculine boy with ovaries. They had a married heterosexual couple with a trans guy and a cis gal ... if birds could be referred to by such terms.
Being trans isn't new. It's not a fad or a woke mind virus. It's not the Democrats or the Greens or the Hippies. It is observed in most animals capable of actually making advanced neural pathways. Some of the smartest creatures on earth are actually birds of prey. So guess where much transness is found? That's right Eagles, Hawks and owls. It's not weird. It's not unnatural. It's part of the normal distribution of thinking species. #Trans#lgbt#raptors#science#wildlife
There are people who are still alive who were alive when it was illegal to be gay.
Actually, if you're reading this you're one of them because its STILL illegal to be gay in about 70 countries and in the USA in only the past few days culturally controlling figures like Matt Walsh have supported "conversion therapy" for gay and queer people.
Do not take sexual diversity for granted. Because its violently coercive enemies don't. 🏳️🌈
On March 11th in Wadsworth, Ohio a drag storytime event for kids was targeted by anti-LGBT extremists, including Neo-Nazis, Christian Nationalists, and Proud Boys. Leif was one of many people who answered an open call for community volunteers to protect the event, after threats were made leading up to the event and event organizers feared for the safety of the attendees.
While Leif was helping escort families with children out of the event, a group of anti-LGBT demonstrators rushed forward at them, striking Leif in the head with a heavy object and continuing to push into the escort group. Fearing for his life and the lives of the people behind him, Leif used mace to end the attack. Even though he was struck first and he only acted in defense of himself and others, he has been charged with multiple counts of assault.
200,000 people showed up for Orlando Pride in defiant middle finger to Ron DeSantis (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Over 200,000 people showed up for Orlando Pride over the weekend, as an 11-year-old transgender girl led the parade as Grand Marshal....