I could find you stuff from 100+ years ago that sounds pretty much modern if I had time.
Plus ca change.
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alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns] - 2w
"We can't let those gender nonconforming dykes use the ladies' toilets. They're a threat to young girls." Said with a straight face to the mother of one of those girls who's demanding to know where in the school her twelve year old daughter is allowed to pee.
Ten years later. "We can't let trans women use the ladies' toilets. They're a threat to young girls." Said on the news, and often to mothers of little girls in school offices just like the one I was standing in a decade earlier. And my hand hits my face. Can't you see? It's all the same? But what can I expect, from people who lived through the Cold War but still buy Red Scare rhetoric as it surges yet again...
As a small child, it was impossible for anyone to be certain about my gender. Hair long for a boy and short for a girl, obnoxious light up shoes in any colour I could get that wasn't freaking pink, whatever second or third hand clothes I got from older children of Mum's friends, both boys and girls. I didn't mind it. Until I had to use a public ladies' room. I got old enough to start being more clockable as a girl, but the nonconformity didn't go away and it brought new assumptions. When that finally started to die in even the church conservatives' minds and institutions and I was out of a godawful Catholic school, immediately after the trans panic and any gender nonconforming woman being tossed out of toilets kicked off. I remember news stories when I was 10/11 of adult women who dressed like I did being called gay slurs and violently removed from women's toilets. I watched the exact same thing happening to the exact same kinds of women a decade later. I have never ever had the simple luxury of feeling safe in a public toilet. I'm AFAB so I can't use the men's, but I'm not usually femme presenting enough to safely use the women's, either.
Don't fall for recycled fearmongering. Modern transphobia is the same goddamn shit that queerphobia has Always. Bloody. Been.
Umechan in main
Queer culture is going to museums and finding 40 year old pieces of art that could have been created this week
It was part of Queer Britain's exhibition on Clause 28 (obligatory fuck Thatcher because the whole thing was her idea).
“we must protect the children” -a politician who fucks kids 100%
It seems like it's almost always projection with them. Thatcher was best buds with Jimmy Saville.
Vs
Founded by Anita Bryant 1977: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_Our_Children
I could find you stuff from 100+ years ago that sounds pretty much modern if I had time.
Plus ca change.
"We can't let those gender nonconforming dykes use the ladies' toilets. They're a threat to young girls." Said with a straight face to the mother of one of those girls who's demanding to know where in the school her twelve year old daughter is allowed to pee.
Ten years later. "We can't let trans women use the ladies' toilets. They're a threat to young girls." Said on the news, and often to mothers of little girls in school offices just like the one I was standing in a decade earlier. And my hand hits my face. Can't you see? It's all the same? But what can I expect, from people who lived through the Cold War but still buy Red Scare rhetoric as it surges yet again...
As a small child, it was impossible for anyone to be certain about my gender. Hair long for a boy and short for a girl, obnoxious light up shoes in any colour I could get that wasn't freaking pink, whatever second or third hand clothes I got from older children of Mum's friends, both boys and girls. I didn't mind it. Until I had to use a public ladies' room. I got old enough to start being more clockable as a girl, but the nonconformity didn't go away and it brought new assumptions. When that finally started to die in even the church conservatives' minds and institutions and I was out of a godawful Catholic school, immediately after the trans panic and any gender nonconforming woman being tossed out of toilets kicked off. I remember news stories when I was 10/11 of adult women who dressed like I did being called gay slurs and violently removed from women's toilets. I watched the exact same thing happening to the exact same kinds of women a decade later. I have never ever had the simple luxury of feeling safe in a public toilet. I'm AFAB so I can't use the men's, but I'm not usually femme presenting enough to safely use the women's, either.
Don't fall for recycled fearmongering. Modern transphobia is the same goddamn shit that queerphobia has Always. Bloody. Been.