• Taalnazi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Real answer coming. The poster in the pic is ignorant; but at least they asked in good-ish faith, so I ain’t judging.

    Being queer (ie. anything other than straight and/or feeling the same gender as how you were born) is a crime in many countries.

    From things like…

    • not being able to donate blood if you’re gay
    • not being able to adopt only because the government wants to know if you don’t have the same genitals
    • being prohibited from pissing just because some idiots think toilets should be segregated ("separate but ‘equal’ " shit, much?).
    • child genital mutilation of intersex people (this also happens to cishet women and men!)

    to more…

    • being stigmatised and punished (fines, imprisonment or even death penalty) if you talk about (very much real) queer issues
    • bullying, harassment, physical and verbal attacks, mob attacks, misnaming and -referring
    • not being allowed to have sex together because the government is poking its ugly eye into what you do in your bedroom
    • no medication or surgery allowed which saves your life and health (vaginoplasty, a womb transplant, HRT, penile transplantation, etc…)
    • being forced to change who you are (eg conversion torture), often through cruelty and indoctrination.

    And even cishet people, with a certain “privilege”, still also suffer due to this artificial segregation, because of:

    • not being able to get medication as easily due to gatekeeping
    • abortion being limited or prohibited, and so your rights get eroded; the man controls your life. A rapist’s cells then have more rights than you!
    • men’s mental health issues not being talked about because some idiots find that “sissy” even though it’s very important for your health. This leads to increased suicides.
    • exclusion from competitions simply because of your genitals being somehow relevant (they aren’t and shouldn’t be!).
    • segregated general institutions (bathrooms, schools, etc)… I attended a school without any of these and I can tell you, it’s much better than anything, as people from ‘both’ sides learn to understand each other better.
    • cramped, hateful, ignorant responses to very real issues from police, media, and society – leading to the issues getting ignored, or worse.

    Frankly, we’d all be more relaxed with it all, if we just put a shovel up bigots’ arses, and called them pussies/hags/fools for not caring about everyone. Free speech especially means free speech for the repressed queers and allies!

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      7 months ago

      exclusion from competitions

      This affects any gender or orientation. When I was a boy I wanted to play netball because my big sister played that. But that’s a girls game. Had she wanted to play basketball she would have gotten similar rejection.

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          7 months ago

          Indeed, notably the newsworthy bad stuff coming from the US recently. Trans was hardly recognised when my story is set, and my real point was “it’s not just trans people, it’s not just one gender”