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Thea O’Neill's avatar

Am trans. Don’t plan on taking any of their shit but definitely terrified. I can confirm that even having somewhere with some numbers or emails if needed would be game changing for so many of us.

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Deanna Brook's avatar

Thank you for this detailed and informative article.

Taking notes as a Canadian ally determined to fight against the alt-right goons trying to spread the same hate up here. It helps so much to have some positive actions to focus on.

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Jamie Calderon's avatar

Incredibly important just to stay strong, stay vocal, and stay together. The intent is to demean and demotivate. Don't do their work for them or follow the bad faith baiting arguments. Keep it simple.

No one is "less than" because of who they are.

Call. Write. Show up. We only truly lose our rights when we stop fighting for them.

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Kelly's avatar

Do you have any suggestions on connecting with people who need a place to stay or finding out if there's a local safe housing network where I live that I could plug in to? My partner and I live in an area that's fairly supportive of LGBTQ people, and have a guest bed. I could see us in the future potentially being able to offer a short-term place for someone to stay, but am not sure how to connect with people who may need that.

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Mamabear's avatar

Same!

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Ed Luwish's avatar

I’m an ally in a state that has constitutional protections for trans people. Trans women are free to use my bathroom (except impostors). I’m reaching out to organizations that care for (and care about) trans people.

I think the thug in the White House is acting at the behest of President Musk, who misgenders and deadnames his own daughter. Without this personal connection, I’m sure they don’t give a shit about the trans community. They’d rather return to the people they REALLY hate — Black and Jewish people, and women.

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Noelle's avatar

Just curious, what do you mean by impostors?

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Ed Luwish's avatar

Someone pretending to be trans who just wants to use my bathroom. Sorry for the confusion.

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Peter Wills's avatar

Very thoughtful well informed post.

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Simone Ona- musha's avatar

Teach how to shoot 😉and the 2nd amendment.

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KingRayVet's avatar

Things like this certainly are rather barren and void of transmen who also face discrimination the same & different. We can get sexually abused, too, in different settings. I'm amazed at the divisions I see even in our own community.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Ari it’s been time to start a revolution and take back our country

As an older trans woman , I support your work to do the same

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/how-to-succeed-at-starting-a-revolution

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KiKi_215's avatar

Thank you and shared.

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Elaine Lanighan's avatar

You can help by staying out of women’s spaces, and sports, and leaving kids alone , to just be kids…

You can help by keeping your fetish or delusional attention seeking lifestyle to yourself, it’s nothing new or rebellious- it’s all been done before, and no, we don’t have to collude with you in that Emperor’s New Clothes fantasy world…

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La Mere's avatar

What a hateful comment! Based on your other Substack posts it’s clear that you and your attitude are exactly why we need to stand up and do more to protect transgender people.

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Elaine Lanighan's avatar

Ps I fail to see the ‘hate’, that’s too is a projection from yourself…

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KingRayVet's avatar

You're full of shit. Are you eyes brown too? Disinformation, misinformation, and lies of this kind is hatred and endangering us. We're not thinking about your dumb ass. Why are you thinking about us? Because of hatred.

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Elaine Lanighan's avatar

Thank you!

Of course, protector then, by all means - but it’s clear from your comments that you don’t give a tiny rat’s ask or care at all about much more vulnerable natal women who in the mean time are being raped, assaulted and more in what should be safe spaces - often by those who pretend to be their version of what they simply imagine is a ‘woman’, usually based on stereotypical @often fetishised versions…

Meanwhile, Women in jails and hospital wards are being raped and sexually assaulted, and paedophiles and voyeurs are gaining access to changing toons that put our children at risk…

All because you don’t think that tiny percentage of men should have hurty feelings…

Well it’s all just dripping in misogynistic male-entitled patriarchal BS

Well done you though 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️’All hail the men’,aye’?🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Será's avatar

You’re delusional. It is cisgender men that are doing the raping. Not trans women. Find me one real police report - just one. Meanwhile the rapey white men rule supreme.

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Elaine Lanighan's avatar

I think if you imagine that men with penises et al are anything other then men, you are demonstrably completely delusional - there’s a mass of evidence, including governmental, of trans identifying men (ie biologically males) committing rapes and sexual assaults - they are, after all, men…

Btw there’s no such thing as a ‘cis’ man, that’s just made up words that a tiny demographic invented and the mass 99% of the public have no idea what this utterly silly child-like made up language means at all…

Nor are we interest…

It’s all irrelevant🤷‍♀️

🙄

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KingRayVet's avatar

Transwomen don't all have penises, dummy. See, you have no clue what you're talking about. You are a lost soul, and need to educate yourself before you believe your own lies. Seek help. Therapy might work, but probably not, you narcissistic, ignorant, TERF bitch. People like you make us sick.

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KingRayVet's avatar

Shut up, Elaine. You're full of the same shit your brainwashed brethren recite like robots who can't think for themselves. Can you tell any more lies? Fuck you! You're muted, so don't bother responding. I won't see it.

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Pamela Irene (she/her)'s avatar

I’m going to see how I can do some

Of these things in Spokane WA. Thank you for this great article.

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La Mere's avatar

Perhaps instead of being so hateful towards an entire group of people you could spout off about why there aren’t enough single-occupancy gender-neutral changing spaces around. Yeah, I checked out your other Substack posts. Make up your mind - are you pissed off about changing spaces around or is it that you have an exaggerated and irrational dislike of an entire group of people because you don’t “like” them or their “lifestyle.” There’s a word for that, homophobia. Oh, wait, I meant transphobia.

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