Transpeople played no meaningful role in the gay liberation movement that emerged during the Stonewall riots.
They weren't there with us at any of the demonstrations before Stonewall; at the White House demos; the Annual Reminders at Independence Hall; the Whitehall Induction Center draft demo; the Sip-In at Julius's; or the creation and organization of the early Prides. Their crossdresser organizations prohibited gays from joining until after we'd proven ourselves at Stonewall.
Clearly, @MovieStrictly has never bothered to read an actual history of the period that he didn't live through. This guy's post is typical of the "rubbish" that's attached itself to Pride over the past 10 years, as is the totalitarian "no debate" crap he says is now owed to the crossdressers. He'd have us believe that some of the most narcissistic, selfish people in his "community" today sacrificed their own "rights" back then. Does that sound like any crossdresser you've ever met? Me neither.
This guy's Trans Uber Alles Pride engagement farming post is undeserving of a response other than Christopher Hitchens's below and the Community Note it's got coming to it. It's little wonder that no one I would follow, follows this 🤡's useless account.
I am truly perplexed that so many people are against mosques being built...
I think it should be the goal of every Western Society to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus mosques should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot."
Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs."
Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret ", with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.
Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge ", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side an off-licence called "Morehammered."
All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque issue would not be a problem for others.
So now we've finally opened the box of Muslim homophobia (a box that was made entirely of glass, by the way), can we move on to some of the other issues that people have spent years pretending not to notice?
Can we talk about Sharia courts?
Can we talk about forced marriage?
Can we talk about child marriage?
Can we talk about honour-based abuse and violence?
Can we talk about the treatment of apostates and people who leave the faith?
Can we talk about blasphemy laws and the push to bring them to the UK?
Can we talk about the stabbings, bombings, beheading and diversity bollards?
Can we talk about the persecution of religious minorities?
Can you talka about their history of Islam colonisation?
Can we acknowledge that many many countries were colonised by islam?
Can we talk about slavery within muslim countries, past and present?
Can we talk about censorship and restrictions on free speech?
Can we talk about segregation between the sexes?
Can we talk about cousin marriage and the social issues that can arise from generations of it?
Can we talk about the intimidation faced by some ex-Muslims who speak publicly about their experiences?
And if we have time, perhaps we can discuss the cousin-fucking as well.
What amazes me is not that these conversations never happen. What amazes me is that so many people acted shocked when they finally do.
None of this was hidden.
The box wasn't locked.
It wasn't buried underground.
It wasn't even opaque.
The bloody thing was made of glass.
The information has been publicly available for decades.
The teachings, the laws, the polling data, the court cases, the news reports, the testimonies from ex-Muslims, women, and gay people from Muslim communities—none of it was secret.
Yet for years, anyone who pointed to these issues was told they were imagining things, or being Islamophobic.
Now that people are finally willing to acknowledge the homophobia, perhaps we can have a few more honest conversations.
I'll be here when you're ready.
I don't want to hear how much Islam is a feminist religion from a Muslim woman when she lives in America or in west Europe
Say it from Afghanistan، please
1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look.
2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look.
3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.
Not sure I could love Germaine Greer any more than I do. Everytime I watch this clip 💜💜 her a little more. For all the sex denialists this is the original critique of “gender”. Take note: Women are a sex class.
Due to the Australian sex discrimination commissioners interpretation of the law women are having to:
• Go to the high court to reestablish that we are still included in the legislation that was created specifically for us
• Lesbians have to go to a tribunal for a second time to reestablish that heterosexual men are not lesbians
• A woman is being dragged through a state tribunal for saying that men who claim to be women cannot breastfeed
• Women are losing both employment & volunteer positions for asserting the *fact* that men are not women
• A woman is appealing a $95,000 fine for using publicly available information to inform people that there are men in women’s sport
• Women are being threatened with punishment if they don’t compete with the men in sport
• School aged girls are not drinking water at school - or not attending at all for the week of their period - so they don’t have to use unisex bathrooms
• Women currently & formally in prison are revealing the sexual assaults they have experienced due to men who claim to be women locked in cells with them
The current *interpretation* of Australia’s sex discrimination act - accepted by the full federal court for reasons known only to them - is not creating less discrimination. In fact, it’s creating much more. Interestingly, it’s simultaneously proving that everyone knows exactly who the women & girls actually are, because we’re the ones being punished.
Gender ideology has failed and is being rejected in almost every other country it attempted to thrive within. It has brought down the careers of many politicians who didn’t have the metaphorical balls to acknowledge reality and fix the problem. To think that Australian is any different is as ignorant as it is insane.
This is not a “culture war”, @AlboMP. It’s a war on women & girls.
Dear @Telegraph
About your headline:
“Lloyds Bank bans trans women from using female lavatories”
Headlines like these suggest that some women are being excluded from women’s facilities. That is ridiculous and untrue. The point is that they are not women, but men. Stop confusing your readers.
How about:
“Lloyds Bank clarifies that female lavatories are female-only”