Elon Musk intends to let all banned TERFs, trolls, religious fanatics, Nazis and banned bigots back into twitter. If you are trans and/or queer and rely on twitter for information and support, you need to find an alternative now!
“What Musk is doing is existentially dangerous for various marginalized communities. It’s like opening the gates of hell in terms of the havoc it will cause.“
"People who engaged in direct targeted harassment can come back and engage in doxing, targeted harassment, vicious bullying, calls for violence, celebration of violence. I can’t even begin to state how dangerous this will be,” Alejandra Caraballo adds.
Do not delete your twitter account yet. Even if you stop using twitter, you need to keep others from taking over your handle. Keep in mind that twitter may go bankrupt and get new owners. You do not want to have lost all your followers if there is a new dawn for twitter.
So far the alternative that is most like twitter is Mastodon. The number of Mastodon users have increased dramatically. Trust me, you can handle the sign-up process. Choose one of the larger "General” server/instances. Here’s my account: https://masto.ai/@transworld
Don’t by into the “Musk is just a clever business genius” hype! He has clearly no respect for human rights. No understanding of human suffering. No compassion. No heart. Don’t let him and his extremist friends hurt you!
Nevada is set to become the first US state to to include protections for historically marginalized people, including trans people, in its constitution.
The measure, Question 1, was supported by 57.5 percent of Nevada voters, while 42.5 percent opposed it at the time of publication, with 83 percent of the vote counted.
A wide-ranging amendment to the Nevada state constitution that would include antidiscrimination protections covering gender identity and sexual orientation was on the ballot on Tuesday. Voters could adopt or reject the most comprehensive state version of the Equal Rights Amendment.
When this post is written 90 percent of the ballots have been counted, and the numbers are roughly the same.
No other state has explicitly prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, says Nnedi Stephens, the campaign manager for Nevadans for Equal Rights to Nevada Current.
The cities voted yes, the rural areas no. Urban areas are more diverse, which means that people are exposed to real LGBTQA people as opposed to the feverish scaremongering images produced by those who have never met one.
In general the US midterm elections represents a big setback for extremist anti-LGBTQA MAGA Republicans. There is still hope for America.
To many fans who had long presumed as much and treated her as a lesbian icon, it was not a shocking revelation. But her appearance in “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!,” which was released on Tuesday on several digital services, was the first time the long-running franchise openly acknowledged her sexuality, thrillingsomefans who were disappointed that it took so long.
The groundbreaking scene features Peppa and her friends Suzy Sheep, Danny Dog, and Penny Polar Bear drawing pictures of their family. Penny draws two female polar bears (we know they’re female because they have eyelashes and are wearing dresses, of course) and says, “I’m Penny Polar Bear. I live with my mummy and my other mummy. One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti. I love spaghetti.” A lesbian polar bear power couple — what’s not to love?
In 2019, campaigners launched a petition calling on the writers of “Peppa Pig” to include a same-sex parent family, to make it more inclusive for all children, CNN reports.
This kind of presentation is extremely important for al kids, as they serve to normalize and humanize queer lives. They are also important for queer kids, who may become aware of their orientation or gender identity long before puberty.
Up to a third of Laysan albatross nests are female-female. (Enrique Aguirre Aves/Getty Images/Photodisc)
For a long time preachers argued that gay and bisexual sex was unnatural, because it was not found in nature. The scientists confirmed these prejudices by arguing that sex that did not lead to procreation was en evolutionary advantage, so it could not exist. But it does. And there is a lot of it.
Eliot Schrefer presents the story of same sex denial and cover up in an interesting article called Queer Animals Are Everywhere. Science Is Finally Catching On in the Washington Post. The article is behind a paywall, but I will share some of the points here.
First: When people talk about “gay animals” they refer to same-sex sex that has been observed in the relevant species. Terms like “gay” and “lesbian” and “homosexual” are terms made by human behavior to describe human behavior and experiences, so they do not necessarily fit the lives of animals. For example: Among the animals observed it is often seen that they have sex with both males and females.
Scientists did observe same-sex sex, but kept it secret
The evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden has argued that many scientists did not see “gay animals” because they could not and should not exists. So when two animals had sex, one of them had to be male and the other female. Given that some birds and fishes have “feminine morphs” of males (and vice versa), they might not have understood what they saw.
Schrefer writes:
A prominent mammalogist, Valerius Geist, couldn’t help but notice frequent homosexual sex at his bighorn sheep field site in the 1960s, but Geist avoided publishing those findings because it made him “cringe … to conceive of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers.’
Well, there’s a good example of how bigotry leads to bad science for you.
Male bighorn sheep. Mammalogist Valerius Geist noticed frequent homosexual sex at his bighorn sheep field site in the 1960s but avoided publishing those findings for years. (Joe McDonald/Getty Images/The Image Bank RF)
Survival of friendly ones
Christine Webb, a primatologist at Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, explains to Schrefer that the dominant model of evolution “emphasizes selfish competition and the survival of the fittest.” But the chimpanzees Webb studies use sex for a variety of purposes, such as managing stress and tension:
Males engage in sexual activity to reconcile after fights. A year later, a study of a separate group of chimps in Uganda found that “sociosexual behaviour” is common — and that the majority of it is between males.
Some scientists now talk about a “bisexual advantage”: the idea that fluid sexuality has increased reproduction chances over the history of life, making bisexuality “an evolutionary optimum.”
The earliest animals (and many today) do not have sexes, so it is unlikely that an aversion to same-sex sex would appear by itself. But the opportunity cost of same-sex sex is relatively low, so animal bisexuality remains.
A study by primatologists Zanna Clay and Frans de Waal found that female-female sex is the most frequent sexual activity [among bonobos] — which is especially noteworthy, as bonobos also happen to be in a rough tie with chimpanzees as our closest animal relatives. Governed by a matriarchy of sexually connected mothers, they have far lower levels of aggression than chimps, giving them what Christine Webb described to me as “a reputation as the sexy hippie apes.”
So scientists see same-sex sex as an evolutionary advantage now, as a tool for social bonding, which again strengthens the species’ ability to survive.
Other scientists have come to the mind-boggling conclusion that many animals have this kind of sex because it “feels good”. Imagine that!
Anyway, if another bigoted homophobe starts talking about “science”, “evolution” and “natural”, tell them about the bononbos, where the females rule and everyone has sex with everyone.
Oslo Shows the Anti-LGBTQA Terrorist the Force of Rainbow Power!
As I reported the Oslo Police asked the Pride committee to cancel the Pride Parade on Saturday, as they could not guarantee the safety of the participants after the night to Saturday attack on the London Pub.
I am pretty sure this advice was based on standard policing procedures. What they did not understand, though, was the following:
1. Allowing a terrorist to succeed in cancelling the Pride Parade gave people the impression that the terrorist had succeeded.
2. Cancelling the parade gave LGBTQA-people no place to share their grief, fear and frustrations.
3. By turning this into a security issue, the real problem here – the homophobia and transphobia that led up to the attack – did not get the attention it deserved.
So, on Saturday, thousands of queer people and their friends, marched through Oslo anyway.
Yesterday the Pride organization and the municipality of Oslo arranged a gathering in downtown Oslo, and thousands of people showed up. There was sun. There was rain. And in the end there was even a real rainbow in the sky.
It was a place for healing and a show of strength.
The police recommended that people stay away from this event as well. The people ignored them.
“More of it I’d say. Rainbows everywhere, rainbows until people stop bothering. Until people aren’t shot for being in a gay bar, rainbows until ppl feel safe holding hands, rainbows until we don’t have to feel grateful for a basic minimum that many of us don’t even have anyway.”
Raya was immediately smitten with Kate but her feelings confused her.
“I was attracted to women and women’s bodies. I had never really known any trans women before and I wondered if I was still a lesbian if I was romantically attracted to someone who had been assigned male at birth. I worried I could hurt her.”
She decided to follow her heart and keep an open mind. The following week, she went to another roller derby event to get to know Kate a little better. “I had no idea she liked me,” laughs Kate. “But I did wonder why she seemed so nervous.”
After they chatted, Raya sent Kate a Facebook friend request, followed by a message asking her out. “I’m shy, so I was nervous too, but I think we both felt we’d regret it if we didn’t give it a chance,” says Kate.
They waited until 2018 to move in together.
“Our children are all supportive of our relationship,” says Raya. “We bought a really big house so there’s room for everyone.”
“We joke between us that Kate only agreed to get married so she can wear the white dress. But in all seriousness, it would be amazing for Kate to be able to do those things that she couldn’t do when she got married the first time,” says Raya to Outings.
The lesbian feminist and LGBTQA-activist Brita Møystad Engseth feels no fear of going up against transphobic “gender critical” feminists.
In an interview published in the print edition of the magazine Blikk she is presented as “the TERFminator”, because of her relentless campaigning against Trans-exclusionary Radical Feminists.
“My rage came as much from their open transphobia as the fact that they are using cancel culture as a shield. The transphobes say that we must defend the freedom of speech, but they have no freedom of speech problem. What they are really trying to do is to stop others from telling their story.”
In the Dagbladet article Brita described TERFs as “mørkekvinner” (dark women), referring to the previous generations of bigoted “dark men”. In Norway the term was often used to describe sexist and homophobic priests.
“I cannot remain silent when I see that we are starting all over again, 30 years after we fought against the dark men,” Brita says.
Do not be a “drittsekk”
“These lesbian TERFs are now using the same moral arrogance against trans and non-binary people and others who belong to the big queer family.
"It is good that you are fighting for the rights of women, but do you really need to hit someone else in the head at the same time? Can’t you just not be a ‘drittsekk’ [Norwegian slang for ‘a bag of sh*it’].”
She points out that for a long time the anti-gay rhetoric was about morals and values. If gay men and women were allowed to marry, the argument went, the traditional family would disappear. This time the argument is that the family must be protected against trans persons, nonbinary people and “the extreme gay”.
This is the exact same argument, but this time it is used by lesbian TERFs who should know enough about queer history to understand the evil nature of such tactics.
![Dolly Parton loves you as you areA warm thank you to Dolly Parton, the great LGBTQA supporter!
[Image: Tweet from Dolly Parton with a photo of a young Dolly Parton and the text “I love you as you are.”]
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