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You know, when gay marriage was legalized and the next few years after, I really thought we were moving forward. LGBTQ people were becoming more accepted, many people stopped using slurs, pride month was visible every year, people were less afraid of coming out. And then Republicans just couldn’t let them have a moment of peace. I’m a straight white guy, but that shit makes me sad. To see progress yanked away from a group of people who have been fighting for years just to be left alone.

2000 when Bush was made president was the tipping point. Republicans have taken off the gloves since. Not only did Democrats not understand how bad what happened was, but they full on supported Bush's illegal and evil Iraq war. The even punished people who didn't vote for it. Honestly, there was barely any good news in the last 23 years and pretty sure the good news was only because of protests and constant badgering. I can't think of a single thing positive to happen without a massive political fight for it. Look how hard Jon Stewart had to fight for the 9/11 responders, but fucking hell did everyone jizz in their pants voting for everything Bush proposed. Third Way Democrats were a knife in the political back of this country.

We got a few wins over the past few decades, now they’re trying to take all those wins and then some in just this year alone. They don’t just want to eliminate gay marriage, but also *interracial* marriage. It’s fucking terrifying how much common sense FREEDOM they are trying to destroy.

First they came for Roe

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They haven't made me love my queer people any less. Hell, they've made me love them bigger.

My insatiable desire for titty in my hands RIGHT NOW only grows.

Harder and harder to ignore the clear slide into fascism that this country is undergoing.

The people who are still pretending that this isn't happening are either fascists gaslighting us or their privilege allows them to be ignorant and their lack of empathy makes them willfully stay ignorant. I guess a third option could be delusional republicans that due to a mix of sunk cost fallacy and a ridiculously fragile ego aren't able to cope with reality. They would rather burn everything down than admit that they have been wrong. Either way they are all part of the problem.

Most of them just have no idea what fascism is. It’s why there are so many of them out there claiming the left are really the fascists, they literally have no idea what it is or what they’re taking about.

Well their go to preachers for "information" such as Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson etc. has been spreading a lot of misinformation and hate. But that doesn't mean that they are without any responsibility as they are keeping themselves willfully ignorant. How many viewers does Fox still have even after haven been found guilty of purposefully misleading their viewers. How many of them still call Trans people groomers while their party leaders literally are sexual predators. This can be said about every topic that they care about. They could easily get the information but they simply don't care. It's almost as if they remind me of someone... hmm... There were this crowd of Italien people who had a saying "me ne frego" which means "I don't give a fuck". Who was their leader again... Oh yeah Mussolini.

I'm wondering when they're going to start passing anti-Jewish laws. Republicans are already starting to openly display their hatred of Jews. Boebert voiced opposition to Biden's new plan to fight hatred of Jews. [Lauren Boebert Suggests Effort To Fight Antisemitism Is An Attack On Conservatives](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-boebert-biden-antisemitism_n_646fd6cde4b045ce24820e00) Republicans look more and more like nazis every day.

I mean it tracks, historically speaking. Before the Nazi party targeted the Jews, they targeted the LGBTQ community in Germany. That infamous image of the Nazi book burn? It took place at the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (literally the "Institute for sexual research"), a place often being credited as the first modern gender clinic in the world. [Some more info about it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft)

The Evangelicals want all Jews dead, even the ones who bark about supporting Israel; those maniacs want to repatriate Jews to the Holy Land because they think that they’ll be exterminated in a (possibly worldwide) war which will the prompt God to begin the apocalypse and take them all to Heaven in the rapture. The people calling Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic are the same people to want to blood sacrifice an entire ethnic creed to an ancient Levantine monster god so they can watch him torture their enemies at his side.

Holy shit. That sounds crazy. But the most insane part of that these conservatives think that their god will judge them as worthy to enter heaven. Talk about having no self-awareness.

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The poster was pointing out the evangelical’s utter an depraved insanity not endorsing it. I actually don’t care what people believe in. Whatever gets the through the night is all right with me. I don’t even care if they indoctrinate their kids with their stories. Whatever. It’s just when they try to use their stories to control others that I get my dander up.

You know there is some hard right lobbying group behind this bs.

Yes. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/anti-trans-transgender-health-care-ban-legislation-bill-minors-children-lgbtq/

Sadly this doesn’t surprise me in the least.

Please make this stop.

Wont happen, real change would take an entire reset of our political system. It will never happen. Too much money and corruption in politics.

Unfortunately I think it’s going to take one of these states, probably Florida, making being LGBTQIA a capital crime for people to actually wake the hell up to what the end goal of the right is.

Florida is getting dangerously close: Certain types of sexual abuse of minors have been added to the list of crimes with the death penalty as an option. ^1 Sexually affirming surgeries for minors (which are extremely rare, btw) now count as child abuse. ^2 Drag performances with children in attendance now can risk the business licenses of the places they are held. ^3 At the moment, the death penalty is only for very specific cases which do not include drag. However, in an environment where many states are eliminating the death penalty completely, Florida sees a need to expand it. It's not hard to draw a very short logical path to death penalties for LGBTQ+ people. --- Note: USA today and some others claim that this line of reasoning is completely unfounded, but I'm not really satisfied by their justification for that claim. ^4 I do agree that the current law doesn't seem to have that pathway in place (not a lawyer tho ofc), but the article has its own inconsistencies too: > The only crime that's eligible for the death penalty under the state's existing law is first-degree murder May be true but the article ignores this fact that is listed further down: > The bill would allow the death penalty for certain child sex offenses involving capital sexual battery ^1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/01/desantis-death-penalty-child-rapists/ ^2 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-signs-florida-ban-gender-affirming-treatment-transgender-minors-2023-05-17/ ^3 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article274484766.html ^4 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/04/27/fact-check-florida-bills-drag-shows-death-penalty-misrepresented/11743251002/

Well, removing the access to few and most effective treatments of gender dysphoria is in many cases a death sentence. Gender dysphoria is one of the psychiatric conditions with the highest rate of suicide.

Its gonna take more than that.....once something really bad happens we MIGHT wake up to what going on. it has to be Kent State level to affect the apathy out of the average person.

even then the dnc will waggle their fingers and tell everyone to vote 😬

Vote anyways. Don’t be passive and defeatist.

I'm gonna vote, I mean half the country wants to kill me. I'm just not going to delude myself about it

Things are getting increasingly dicey in a lot of places. For trans folks, especially trans kids, it's escalated to downright unlivable in a lot of red states. Fuck these fascists.

And I wish that one day we could ultimately get these horrible fascist laws completely erased from every single state legislature and permanently kick out all of the fascist Republicans who put them into place. Alongside permanently banning them from being involved in politics and stripping them of their own rights and freedoms as a consequence of their f***ed actions.

They just want equality like the rest of us. Just let them be.

What's your stance on trans in sports? It's the only one I disagree with. A male who transitions has still had the advantage of growing with extra testosterone.

Who gives a fuck? Trans folks are being disappeared by force. Talking about sports is like asking how much Twitter should charge for their blue checkmark when there’s so much other shit going on.

I'm fully for trans rights and equality but sports is the one issue I opposed to. I wasn't trying to get a rise out of you..

Its just such a non-issue when compared to literally being murdered. Maybe it can wait until our children aren't dying?

Do you mean suicide in the trans community?

And murder of LGBTQ+ in both actual murder and neglect and child abuse.

Sports shouldn’t be divided by gender, sports should be divided by hormones. That’s my stance on trans people in sports. As a male with low testosterone, many cis women could beat me in any sport.

When boys reach the age of 13-14, things start to change physically and we see increased muscle mass, bone density; changes the shape of the skeleton, changes the heart and the lung, haemoglobin levels, and all of those things are significant contributors to performance. Lowering the testosterone has some effect on those systems, but it's not complete, and so for the most part, whatever the biological differences are that were created by testosterone persist even in the presence of testosterone reduction - or, if I put that differently, even after testosterone levels are lowered. It leaves behind a significant portion of what gives males sporting performance advantages over females.

Sure, I see your point. I should’ve specified that hormones aren’t the only thing I think should decide what “class” or “group” you participate in. But I think that dividing by only gender is dumb. Some people are born more fit than others. Same way some people are born male or female. There should be more that decides who you compete against than gender. If I competed with other males my age I would be destroyed, that doesn’t sound fair just because I was born smaller.

So? It's sports. Also, the "men are transitioning to win at women's sporting events" is a weird claim.

"So? It's sports" ... sorry for wanting fair competition in sports. I am 100% behind trans rights but pushing the issue in to sports doesn't make sense. There's a reason why you don't see men's and women's sports in one competition. Why not have an open competition category?

Except that there is no evidence that people are transitioning to win at sports

Irrelevant. Why are there men's and women's sports to begin with?

Because women were actively excluded from sports for generations.... It's the same reason why there are women's colleges and such

🤔 sure.. that's why we have male and female sports category..

Yes, if you look back at the history of it. Like why they formed women's baseball leagues.

Definitely not because men dominate women in physical capabilities. Can you imagine Mike Tyson fighting a female.

Last year's Pride Month was an exercise in utter cruelty for the right. I'm really worried that this year's is going to be even worse.

On the cesspools of the internet (especially one space owned by a certain apartheid trust fund baby), there are increasing calls for overt violence. Check out this motherfucker: [https://twitter.com/Esqueer\_/status/1661276865393197056/video/2](https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1661276865393197056/video/2) A few of those guys armed believing there's some specific evil at a pride parade could end catastrophically. Hoping like hell it doesn't happen... there are clearly a lot of people trying to make it happen.

They arrest and imprison kids for chanting Trans Lives Matter at school board meetings. What about these homophobic white nationalists? Can they just destroy things at target and make death threats with no consequences? Don’t bother to answer. I know. Here are the kids and their prison sentences: [TheStudentProtestersWereArrested.TheManWhoGotViolentintheParkingLotWasn’t.](https://www.propublica.org/article/conway-arkansas-school-board-high-school-arrests)

> They arrest and imprison kids for chanting Trans Lives Matter at school board meetings. They were disrupting a school board meeting, and refused to leave when officers told them they needed to leave or they would be arrested. >Here are the kids and their prison sentences: *Prison sentences?!?* Fucking lol. >Barnett received the stiffest sentence. The judge gave him 10 days in jail. Ten days in JAIL when it could have been a simple fine if he had taken the plea deal like everyone else.

DHS issued a [warning](https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/ntas/alerts/23_0524_S1_NTAS-Bulletin-508.pdf) about it recently.

I'm not going to the GR pride this year for this reason. The dumbasses took away any ability to bag or people check, completely open on the street, and made it so police aren't allowed near it. Who tf do they think the police will side with if they aren't in the fray? If they're at least there doing their job, they have more chance to be like "oh shit, can't have plausible deniability, gotta protect these people". We should be out and proud, not fucking stupid... I'll stick with the ones that protect our own, thanks.

They are doing this so liberals stop moving to states like Florida or Texas, so that those states don’t flip blue for the 2024 election.

the politicians passing those laws aren't much better than Putin and his cronies

We are going to die. The right is going to hunt us down and kill us . I don’t even know what to do anymore.

We have guns and know how to use them too. It’s not just a conservative thing. They like a victim that dosent hit back. They fold pretty fast when they see we aren’t scared and can handle a gun.

Guns are part of their core identity so I would guess there's far more of them with guns.

Having a lot of guns doesn’t make you a warrior. It doesn’t make you a champion. Incompetence is still incompetence.

Duh. That’s why you go to classes and get educated. Spend time at the range and become familiar with a firearm. A gun is a tool and all tools require experience to use competently. Most people think buying a gun automatically makes you some sort of action movie badass and that’s where the accidents and tragedies happen.

You're assuming they never shoot. I highly doubt only left wing gun owners practice.

Live as loudly as you can if you know it'd be a waste not to. Die as you or die in fear: which would you choose? I know I'll be as gay and trans as possible wherever I can safely do so. And not hide in places it isn't necessarily safe. It's something I'm comfy with, and I don't want these losers to win. Ik not everyone is able to, so I gotta for them too. And garner strength from our communities <3

It’s wild how conservatives invented this latest battle of the culture wars from whole cloth. It started with Qanon and Pizzagate, then the stuff about gays being groomers and then finally to the anti trans, anti drag queen stuff which supposedly sexuality’s children. They use this stuff to stay in power despite driving the economy into a ditch, making a disaster out of the response to COVID and January 6.

100% passed by the “limited government” “small government” “freedom party” of America, the GQP.

So, the western world and its top minds will work together against this, right? Dawkins, professional user of English, will lead a righteous charge against this behaviour, right? You will go to war to democratize these places, right? Oh, I just did the anakin/amydala meme.

and all of them by the GOP

I'm wondering if they'll try and bring back sodomy laws and such. It should seem impossible but under a republican and some fuckery could they effect gay marriage.

They are not just anti 2SLGBTQIA+, they are genocide laws.

Are they allowed to breath or did they take that away too?

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according to the Bible it’s God’s place to judge, not yours. “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” and all that. I guess you only like following your religion when it aligns with your biases huh?

Cristian are the most bigoted hateful people on the planet.

Thanks Biden.

I'm far from a fan of Biden... But I don't see what control he has over state legislatures

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The issue is denying people healthcare, criminalizing using the bathroom, criminalizing the way they dress or act, banning books that mention them, forbidding them from speaking about certain topics in certain places, requiring they be outed, among other things Republicans are doing to trans people. If you think this is just about trans people in sports you're not paying much attention.

Not men. Women who are trans are not men.

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You’re still trying to make this about something it is not. I get that it’s a subject many don’t want to understand or can understand, but women who are trans are not men “pretending to be women”, they are not infiltrating women’s sports to steal awards and trophies. They play for the love of the game and the challenge. Just like every other woman who plays. You are not being unique or witty with your position of transphobia. You echo a bad narrative and poor understanding.

And what are the qualities that define a biological male lol?

And no, it isn't XY because *women can be XY*!

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Fascism has taken over the Republican Party.

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Except we don’t need a “vibe”. We can see their fascist actions. Also when they complain about “socialism” they are complaining about social services. We need more social services and less fascism.

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Words have definitions. In this case the word fits the behaviour.

That’s great that your friend can lie. That has no bearing on reality though.

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Everyone can lie. You “friend” is lying now. You can believe and spread his lies if that’s your thing.

That isn’t even remotely true

My god, you really don't get any biological concepts huh?

Yes, that’s a good example of something a bigot would say.

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“Actual bathroom.” Tell us you refuse to learn without telling us you refuse to learn.

Do you want [this person](https://i.imgur.com/Qd2rH1g.jpg) in the ladies room? Or [this person](https://i.imgur.com/zfUs0rR.jpg) in the men’s room?

So disturbing.