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17d 8h ago in anarchism@lemmy.ml from lemmy.zipI agree with other commenters. You may have some good notions going, but I don't like this mode of presentation. The community guidelines call for developing your ideas in long form. In that way they can be discussed. This presentation is bordering on spam. Still, I am still interested in what your point is. For the time being I will ask, if you feel like it, to expand your post with the ideas you present in this app, but in text form. Please resubmit. I will lock this in the meantime, because you have been downvoted by the community.
Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says Equality and Human Rights Commission
27d 3h ago in world from www.theguardian.comAccording to a commentator, TERFs lobbied UK Gov to stop companies from building gender neutral toilets
The full comment was this:
The TERFs successfully lobbied the previous government to make exclusively gender neutral toilets illegal under Part T of the building code. Because exclusively gender neutral toilets don't discriminate against anybody and would therefore be acceptable to trans people and if the TERFs went dishonest far-right cranks, it would have presumably been on with them too, and it would have ended the culture war. That's why they had them banned, because it wasn't about toilets, changing rooms or sports, it was about keeping the culture war going to make life impossible for trans people.
So this is not just a clerical ramification, but a genocidal move. See my other comment.
For all the talking heads still "asking questions" and demonstrating absolute ignorance, if not bad faith, after all these years, here are some very tangible takes as to why bathroom bans means genocide.
If people are to use exclusively the restrooms that match their assigned at birth sex, then all people must be the sex that they are perceived to be. Trans advocates were not paranoid enough to imagine that the right wants to wipe trans people out of public life to such a degree, that no ambiguity about a person’s sex can further be possible, except for those “extremely rare genetic accidents” Ben Shapiro keeps talking about. Public erasure, however, of transgender and gender-nonconforming people amounts to the enforcement of cisgenderism by a state that defines sex as a natural binary with no exceptions, and no behavioral, nor performative, nor psychological deviations from the norm. (From my previous essay on this.)
The rest of this post comes from the real experts on the topic, the Lemkin institute for genocide prevention.
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Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement’s Ideology and Practice
Genocidal ideologies are ideologies that deny or seek to erase the existence of a specific group because of the supposed threat it poses to the holders of the ideology.
Focusing primarily on the imagined threat posed by transgender women, gender critical ideologues believe that transgender women are in fact men who are seeking to dominate cisgender women (women whose sense of self corresponds with their birth sex) by impersonating them and thereby gaining access to women’s bathrooms, women’s locker rooms, women’s sports teams, and other women’s spaces.
Transgender women are represented as stealth border crossers who seek to defile the purity of cisgender women, much as Tutsi women were viewed in Hutu Power ideology and Jewish men in Nazi antisemitism.
Like the religious targets of genocidal violence, trans people are often described as somehow polluted, sinful, or against God.
A fundamentalist gender binary was a key feature of Nazi racial politics and genocide.
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Red Flag Alert on Anti-Trans and Intersex Rights in the UK
Since the ruling, “birth sex,” “biological sex,” and “natal sex” have all been used interchangeably, ignoring the multiple relevant components of biological sex and the existence of intersex people. Analysts immediately warned that the decision could be used to render single sex spaces off limits for trans people, including hospital wards, sports, and domestic violence shelters. For a group especially vulnerable to domestic violence, exclusion from specialised shelters is nothing short of cruel and could, in some cases, prove a death sentence. Transgender and intersex people may find themselves excluded not only from spaces of their current sex but also from spaces for their sex assigned at birth. Trans men would find themselves excluded from both male spaces on the basis of their assigned sex at birth, and female spaces if they are deemed to look too much like men.
The EHRC has, in the past few years, seemed to become a lobby group for erasing the rights of intersex and trans people on the basis of gender critical views. This has been explicitly confirmed by leader of the UK’s Official Opposition Kemi Badenoch. Following the UKSC Ruling, the EHRC erased decades of established practice protecting transgender and intersex people by taking a restrictive interpretation of the ruling in their interim guidance and refusing to consider the welfare of intersex or transgender people. The guidance dictates that anyone who is not binarily male or female is excluded from single sex spaces, ranging from public toilets to groups such as a single-gender choir. This interim guidance has been noted by the Good Law Project to be either wrong in law or a breach of human rights.
Those who have transitioned will be forced to choose between being someone who is either excluded from society or who lives a criminalised life shrouded in secrecy. If the law in the UK makes people living beyond sex and gender binaries second-class citizens, it will also lay the groundwork for increased genital mutilation of intersex infants and conversion therapy of transgender people.
All of the actions described above fit neatly into the 9th Pattern of Genocide: “Denial and/or Prevention of Identity.” As we have repeatedly stated over the years, genocide does not only manifest in the killing of an entire group. In the case of trans and intersex people, genocide is often perpetrated by making it impossible for individuals to exist as their true selves.
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Red Flag Alert for Genocide - USA
An apparently committed transphobe like Knowles may believe that transgender people are not real and are instead misled by something called “transgenderism,” so that by eradicating “transgenderism” he would not be eradicating a real identity. To that line of thought we can only note that the arrogance of determining which identities are real and not real, and therefore which identities can be slated for elimination, is already a giant step in the direction of genocide. Moreover, once an identity is determined to be illegitimate, criminal, and threatening, the killing of people with that identity is never far behind.
The Lemkin Institute reminds American voters and legislators that “the gender critical movement is a totalitarian and genocidal social force that targets not just transgender people, but also all the institutions of democracy that protect individual and collective human rights,”
Anti-trans legislation, anti-trans organizations, and the anti-trans movement must be fought forcefully in the name of saving lives as well as securing democratic institutions from the accelerating threat of fascism in the United States.
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Red Flag Alert 2 for the Anti-Trans Agenda of the Trump Administration in the United States
The anti-trans movement in the US has made it clear that it will not stop at banning gender affirming care for children. Emboldened by this Supreme Court decision, they will continue their attempts to restrict gender affirming care for adults as well. Furthermore, they will ramp up their attempts to erase trans identity through various non-medical policies, including bathroom bans, bans on conversations related to gender in schools, preventing schools and workplaces from using pronouns or names that don’t align with a person’s sex at birth, banning trans athletes from competition, and criminalizing dressing as a gender other than the one assigned at birth.
The Lemkin Institute reminds people that the genocidal process involves far more than just mass murder. Most genocidal processes involve complex policies aimed at actively and systematically obstructing an identity from manifesting itself within the social world through laws, decrees, speech acts, and practices enacted by groups in power. As a result of these acts, people within a threatened community cannot live publicly as who they are and community identity development becomes impossible.
Given that leaders in the anti-trans movement view trans people as internal enemies and U.S. President Donald Trump has identified them a national security threat, the recent Supreme Court decision can be seen as part of a much larger internal cleansing operation aimed at creating a white, heterosexual, cisgender ethnostate
Political shift in the other site's userbase?
27d 7h ago in asklemmyKurdish Refugees Protest for Dignified Living Conditions at Greece's Oinofyta Camp
27d 11h ago in anarchism@lemmy.ml from unicornriot.ninjaMotorola contains spyware - GrapheneOS censored it
27d 13h ago in degoogle@lemmy.ml from codeberg.orgCuriously enough, for years and years the main criticism of GrapheneOS is that it only runs on Google Pixel phones. Finally, they announce they will work with another provider, Motorola. Some people proceed to simply forecast enshitification, spyware, and ads. I don't think this is sane at all.
Anyone else?
1mon 8d ago in autism from piefed.cdn.blahaj.zoneWeekends are a scam. This is what absenteeism is for.
What is an Identity? The notion the far-right does not want to be questioned.
1mon 16d ago in transgender@lemmy.blahaj.zoneWhat is an Identity? The notion the far-right does not want to be questioned.
1mon 16d ago in progressivepoliticsWhat is an Identity? The notion the far-right does not want to be questioned.
1mon 16d ago in anarchism@lemmy.mlneighbor (They Can Talk)
1mon 20d ago in comicstrips from lemmy.mlI read this title 5 times before parsing it properly.
Trump Erupts in ‘60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’
1mon 21d ago in politics from www.thedailybeast.comIndeed, the rate of democratic backsliding is considered to be fast, compared to other countries. Below I include some links and quotes. What I really wanted to say is that the resistance is too mild, and too slow. Also, you know that book "On Tyranny"? Very relevant under the circumstances.
We are sliding towards an illiberal democracy. The phrase, first popularized in the 1990s, took on new urgency in the United States as major figures in Donald Trump’s orbit came to view Viktor Orbán as a leadership role model. As Bill Kristol posted, “ABC’s settlement with Trump feels like it could be an inflection point in the Orbanization of our politics.” To be clear, the United States is not yet an illiberal democracy, but the movement towards it has accelerated in the weeks since the election. What is most disturbing is that Trump has not yet even taken power. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-are-on-our-own/(2024-12-22)
The scary thing is that I've watched a Trump/Musk style takeover of the government in my home country of Hungary a long time ago and it went great for them. Turns out the general population accepted every institution being gutted and stripped in obviously corrupt ways. They were simply distracted by a constant stream of culture war shit which normal people cared more about than institutional change, and those who did look thought "the boys are fixing the system" or "it was corrupt anyway". https://mas.to/@Techaltar/113943270068786481(2025-02-04)
In the last few days alone, Trump has smashed past several new milestones. He's just called his predecessor's pardons void and vacated. He gave a bitterly partisan speech at the Department of Justice, demanding the prosecution of the media and certain adversaries. He threatened numerous universities with sanctions. He invoked a 227-year-old war measures law during peacetime — for the first time ever — to deport accused gang members without due process. And, most importantly, when that deportation plan wound up in court, he may have — although it's still in dispute — defied a court order, cracking the ultimate constitutional safeguard. It's not just the scope of what Trump's done that has Lindberg envisioning the once-unthinkable: removing the U.S. from the democratic list and shifting it to the second-lowest tier among five, to a so-called electoral autocracy. It's also the speed. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317(2025-03-18)
By the time we left in late 2004, Moscow had been transformed. People who had happily talked with us at the start were now afraid to return our calls. “Now I have this fear all the time,” one told us at the time. There is a similar chill now in Washington. Every day someone who used to feel free to speak publicly against Mr. Trump says they will no longer let journalists quote them by name for fear of repercussions, both Democrats and Republicans. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-putin-russia.html(2025-02-26)
Yet another report out Thursday from Freedom House, a Washington, D.C.-based democracy think-tank, said that among free countries, the U.S. joined Bulgaria and Italy in registering the largest declines in political rights and civil liberties last year. "The developments in the United States are moving towards dictatorship, what the founders wanted to avoid," said Staffan Lindberg, the V-Dem Institute's founding director, who spent seven years in the U.S. "It's the most rapid decline ever in the history of the United States and one of the most rapid in the world." V-Dem stands for Varieties of Democracy. More than 4,000 scholars contributed data to the report, which is the largest of its kind. https://www.npr.org/2026/03/20/nx-s1-5754021/trump-democracy-autocracy-dictatorship-reports
And this complementary piece, for no reason whatsoever.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days - He used the constitution to shatter the constitution. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/
He feels safe enough to utter that shit. If only the left had a fraction of the right-wing propaganda apparatus. There should be three times the January 6 crowd taking him straight to the scaffold. Yet here we are watching a fascist dystopia installing itself, in slow motion.
GIMP rebranding as WLBR?
1mon 22d ago in linux@lemmy.ml from gitlab.gnome.orgis simply the word for rooster (male chicken).
As is in English?
Knuth's book states plainly that the X sounds like the 'ch' in the Scottish word "Loch". (Or the 'h' in hawk-tua for more modern readers.)
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
1mon 26d ago in politics from www.propublica.orgSouthern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges
1mon 26d ago in news from www.npr.orgYou can rob someone with speech alone if you are persuasive enough. Some questions for free-speech absolutists.
1mon 29d ago in progressivepoliticsCountercomputing is a descendant of retrocomputing with a focus on radical privacy
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