A queer teenager in Cambridge was invited to speak about her experiences at the city’s Pride flag raising ceremony. When she began to detail the harm caused by homophobia and transphobia on city council, the mayor took her mic away and said she wouldn’t stand for such disrespect
A 17-year-old valedictorian, Leen Hijaz, used her graduation speech to speak for the voiceless: "Millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan. Families torn apart by ICE."
The school administrator cut her mic. Told her: "If you don't stop, you're not graduating." They withheld her diploma for four days.
Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.
Pregnant girls as young as 13 are being held in a remote Texas immigration facility while a member of Congress (Rep. Maxine Dexter) says she was blocked from speaking to them. Some of these pregnancies are the result of rape.
This is one of the most horrifying immigration stories right now in the USA.
How many pregnant children are there? Where are these girls coming from? Where are they being sent? Are they getting real prenatal care? Do they have access to proper legal representation? Are newborn babies being ripped out of their mother's arms? Why are members of Congress being blocked from speaking with them?
No agency should be able to hide where vulnerable kids are being sent. We need to free these children and give them healthcare, lawyers, family reunification, and safety.
"umm should bisexual girl's straight boyfriends be allowed at pride????" is boring discourse. how about "should gay men's straight boyfriends be allowed at pride"
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Trans girl: I want HRT because I don't want to go through testosterone puberty.
Transphobes: No, it's probably just a phase and you will grow out of it.
Trans girl as an adult: It wasn't a phase, and I want to be an athlete.
Transphobes: No, you had testosterone puberty.
Trans girl as an adult: Estrogen reverses the advantage and actually gives me a disadvantage because-
Transphobes: No, idc.