195
DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
(www.erininthemorning.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
195 points (98.0% liked)
News
26331 readers
3399 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I’ve accepted that I am probably going to get picked up/disappeared at some point in the next few months. My therapists and I have discussed what to do should I not show up for an appointment - the ways that I’d like my art and books to be preserved.
It’s somewhat freeing. The barbarians are at the gates, and this is the time to prove that my human spirit is not less because of my transsexuality. If the Empire didn’t exist, then there would be no rebels to fight it.
I feel that their tactics will be more insidious than rounding up trans people. They will slowly boil the frog by making it increasingly difficult for trans people to reliably maintain a HRT regimen, access therapy, surgical services, etc. They’ll attempt to criminalize doctors helping. They are of the view that it’s a mental illness and they’ll do everything in their power to construct conditions that will make it impossible for trans people to function in society.
Your existence is itself a revolutionary act. Thanks for being true to yourself. As things are getting worse I refuse to eliminate the hope that it can get better. I’m sorry you’re one of those that have to bear the brunt of the inhumanity.
The way I think it’ll happen to me - involuntary institutionalization in a psychiatric hospital. You are right in that the mental health angle will be easiest to pursue, especially in coordination with defunding/purging SAMHSA under RFK Jr’s rule.
Categorizing inconvenient people as mentally ill so you can lock them up is a common trick for authoritarian regimes. This one seems worryingly plausible.
I went (voluntarily) inpatient a few months ago. I was physically assaulted, forced into a women’s, and denied any communication with the outside world. There are supposed to be state regulations where you can speak to a patient advocate or call out - they refused to let me. They actually threatened to hold me longer if I kept asking (they said they could do up to five days, or longer across a weekend).
The system is already set up where I live.
Sounds like we need to add every one of those locations to a map. Be ready folks.
Idle thought -
Behavioral tech jobs are terrible, but easy to get. If your job desperate and physically built a bit more, you can be a first line of defense here. It’s such a shit job that working a week or two and being a whistle blower/getting fired isn’t the end of the world.
The place I was at let the tech have her phone at on the floor even. I don’t think HIPAA is being enforced actively, and the actual moral weight behind that law would need to guide one’s actions, but… there’s not a lot of ways to demonstrate the routine and inappropriate application of the “booty juice.”
I hate that this is even a plausible future. Good luck out there, friend.
They'll find some way to make it illegal, shuffle all the trans people into for-profit prisons. This holocaust isn't going to be about executing a populace, not when a profit can be scraped from their bones.
They already are. Montana passed an indecency bill targeting trans folks.
Project 2025 plans to make trans ideology pornography. So me being in public would be exposing a child to pornography.
I expect they will pass that within the next two years federally.
The way I see it, their goal isn’t to directly kill you. It’s to make life so hard, you do it yourself. The best way to fight back is to keep going no matter what they try to do
Isn't it so that their followers feel justified to do it themselves? Like that case where a man was tortured for five weeks and then murdered in New York?
Trump has signalled to their goons they have free reign. With the pardons, and then with this:
"He who saves his country does not violate any law" ^1^
People who are still hoping this will blow over are just lying to themselves.
And with his comment on "wiping blue States off the map" just as musk fires the dhs cyber defense team ^2^ (CISA - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), and trump stands down against ALL Russian cyber threats ^3^, you can be sure the midterms will be rigged/hacked and/or something much, much ...much worse.
And the language, the rhetoric, is not just silly word games.
They're calling for transgender'ism' to be "eradicated"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cpac-speaker-transgender-people-eradicated-1234690924/
People are going to be killed.
And that's not even getting into the whole Christian dominionist lunatics out there who have also been emboldened .
^1^ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-if-it-saves-country-its-not-illegal-2025-02-16/
^2^ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/21/doge-trump-federal-cybersecurity-cuts
^3^ https://gizmodo.com/trumps-defense-secretary-hegseth-orders-cyber-command-to-stand-down-on-all-russia-operations-2000570343
If you're in Oregon, you've got a safe space where I am. If necessary.