Now everyone understand why the I is in LGBTQIA+
Doesn't matter if we're the same, they treat us the same, so we stick together.
Just like gay folks and trans folks.
We all gotta stick together.
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even us cis people have to stand with the lgbtqia. If not for ethics and morals alone, at the very least cause they go after athletic women all the time. Or women with facial hair. Women who just don't dress up feminine.
This article proves the point even more. They don't care what the facts are.
Not that it's acceptable to target trans. But just a reminder to people, if they target trans , you can be targeted too. Don't think you are safe. Don't think this isn't your concern.
No one is safe when these discriminatory practices are allowed to exist.
even us cis people have to stand with the lgbtqia
It’s not just to be an ally either, it’s because these hateful laws will inevitably be twisted to target YOU too. Look at the story of the dad who took his two girls into the women’s bathroom and had the bathroom gender police call the real police on him. Cisgender people are not safe from these laws either. Once queer people are gone they’ll look for the next group and it’ll be amongst cisgender people and they’ll use the anti-LGBTQ laws to do so.
I see it as a battle for human rights. Some people have been pushed into the front lines of the battle, but the fascists have us all in their sights. Are the rest of us going to leave them there to fight alone, hoping they win and all our rights stay intact, or are we going to stand and fight with them? If the front line falls the fascists won't stop there. We really are all in this together.
I'm a straight man, but I've ALWAYS been pro-gay, because so many of my friends have been gay over the years. I can't choose my sexuality, and I never assumed they could either. Now I have VERY close family members who are gay, and they mean literally EVERYTHING to me. I would do anything to protect them. ANYTHING.
So never assume that a straight person isn't truly committed to the LGBTQIA+ cause. We have gay folks we truly love with our entire being, too, whom we would kill and die to protect.
I'm the fucking embodiment of a white cis male, dark voice, large beard, and I will fight for LGBTQIA+. I've lost childhood friends because they've become what I consider hateful people.
We all must stand together. Put a transgirl on your couch.
In case any readers are unaware, intersex is a physical condition that one can be born with due to a rare and interesting expression of genetic information.
It can be barely noticeable in some and in others it can result in the development of sexual organs from both sexes.
It is a completely natural phenomenon and not a choice of the individual (which is also the case for trans in my opinion, but even if somebody did choose it I wouldn't judge that).
Intersex is an umbrella term that refers to people who carry variations in their reproductive and sexual anatomy that differ from what is traditionally considered “male” or “female.” For example, an intersex person could have one set of genitalia internally and another externally, while also having differing sets of chromosomes. Some people can have ambiguous genitalia and might not know they are intersex at birth. While the medical diagnosis has been in use since the early 1900s, intersex advocates pushed in the 1970s to have the status be recognized as an identity and a community, rather than strictly a medical classification.
Jumping off you for more information.
Intersex people were historically called the scientific, biologically inaccurate, definitionly wrong term "Hermaphrodite". Which refers to creatures such as snails that can take either role in reproduction. Humans can not do that in any capicity, intersex individuals have sex characteristics belonging to both male and females, NOT the willing ability to change their genitals in to different configurations. No human anywhere is hermaphroditic. They are referred to as intersex because they are born with sex traits that do not neatly fit in to either sex category. The human body is complicated.
Which from an etymology stand point is similar to the term "transexual" as in someone who was categorized into one of those two options but have transitioned their physical sex characteristics via medication or surgery. As opposed to "transgender" which is clothing, hair style and social roles. Sex is what is in your pants, gender is what type of pants you wear.
But I want to make clear that I'm only explaining terminology, transexual and transgender are the same community facing the same struggles so the umbrella term "trans" applies to both. Some intersex people consider themselves trans, others do not and both answers are correct. Having said all that, the idea that any of these terms inherently makes someone dangerous to children or unemployable is just rank bigotry.
It is a completely natural phenomenon and not a choice of the individual (which is also the case for trans in my opinion
Not opinion. I know a LOT of trans people (married to one, my girlfriend is trans, my partner's boyfriend is trans, and we have a ton of friends who are) and the commonality of all of them is from an early age they knew something about them wasn't right. My enby partner knew very young they weren't a boy or a girl. My trans girlfriend knew very young she felt more like a girl.
Sometimes the realization will hit harder in adulthood (eggs) but every trans person I know knew at the very least they felt "different" at a young age.
God damn, that's a good tld
Nerd
But yes absolutely
It's so evil to want to get someone fired just because they're not the gender you want them to be. Absolutely fucked up.
Friendly reminder that SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in an opinion authored by none other than Neil Gorsuch that discrimination by sexual orientation and gender identity is inherently discrimination by sex. If that was actually the reason, that school is in for a rough time.
Religious institutions get a lot of special exceptions. Because umm Jesus or something.
Specifically, teachers fall under a "ministerial exemption" that allows them complete control to hire or fire sfor any reason, even otherwise protected ones, if the position involves religious instruction.
See https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/19-267
I mean, wut.
So if they were trans, so fucking what? Also, apparently they are not, so also....WUT.
If he was trans then it would still be illegal to fire him over it
It wouldn't be in most the US(No, Bostock likely doesn't exist anymore), or Florida specifically.
In recent years, if you haven't noticed, the US has backslid quite a bit. Which is impressive since it's already one of the most conservative countries on Earth.