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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

rising genocide of transfolk

Are you saying modern society is less accepting of trans people than a few decades ago? From my perspective, it seems to be the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Currently there are an awful lot of bills currently in process in federal or state legislation in the US that aim to restrict healthcare, education, legal recognition, access to gender-separated public spaces and so on. Furthermore, hate crimes against trans folk, and suicides by transgender persons are at elevated levels and have been since 2016.

It may be specific to the US, the UK, Australia and a handful of other countries, but right now a lot of bad shit is going on. Yes.

Do I know when it was last this bad? No.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For most of recent history, we were routinely beaten and raped by cops, and legally murdered by men who felt insecure in their masculinity. Things got better for about a decade, and now they want us to return to the way things were. If the GOP were trying to bring back sundown towns, forced labor for made up laws, Jim Crow laws, etc. we'd call that a genocide too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bringing back 1950s racial politics would be evil, but I’m pretty sure that even under the loosest definition, it’s not genocide. See, the idea was to oppress and use black people intergenerationally, not wipe them or even all their cultural practices from the face of the earth. Want to use the word “genocide” to make a political statement on the attempted democide of trans people? Go nuts. But check your definitions. There are lots of kinds of evil.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, people are saying that because it's true:

Human Rights Campaign https://reports.hrc.org/an-epidemic-of-violence-2022#introduction

ILGA-Europe Annual Review (under page 9, bias motivated violence) https://ilga-europe.org/report/annual-review-2023/

Anti-Defamation League https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/online-hate-and-harassment-reaches-record-highs-adl-survey-finds