Anti TERF

from "Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in relation to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics" by the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions

For those who haven't heard of Shivy Bhat: he was 19 years old and already being abused by his family while living in California, when after asking his mother if he could cut his hair, she demanded he give her access to his phone and was outdated as trans. Under the pretense that they were taking a trip back to India to see his grandmother, Shivy's family kidnapped him, planning on forcing him to live in India in order to "fix" him by teaching him to be a "cultured Indian girl," and planning on forcing him into an arranged marriage. They had taken away all his identifying documents and his phone. He managed to escape with the help of a local queer feminist group, which then resulted in a legal battle as Shivy's family tried to accuse the group of kidnapping and sex trafficking to get access to him again.

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

The 60% claim comes from here, and it's based on incomplete data which examines only a fraction of trans prisoners, and the person above has actually only used the statistic for trans women. For reference, 19% of the overall prison population are incarcerated for sexual offences. This is because trans prisoners' existence is only recorded in the cases where a "local case board" was arranged to deliberate on how a trans person should be treated with regards to their gender. These local case boards often won't be held for lesser offenses and are most likely to be held (unsurprisingly) for sex crimes, and also are not held if the trans person decides not to disclose that they are trans (which we can do even if visibly medically transitioning).

This data was also collected before the recent legal guidelines changes which make trans people guilty of sexual offenses if we don't disclose we're trans before sex. This will of course skew the data even further, because these actually will be treated as sex offenses.

I'm admittedly especially frustrated that I found this level of misinformation shared by a blog supposedly dedicated to pointing out and challenging whorephobia. (@this-is-whorephobia)

Thank you for correcting the misinformation as well, providing the sources, and the emotional labor.

If everyone could reblog this version please. I will be removing the other version without the addition.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

I can't stop people from doing it but I can warn you, telling someone you have an "intersex disorder" doesn't automatically stop the invasive questions or discrimination. It may work occasionally in the same vein as people who are more trans accepting may not ask invasive questions but it isn't a "step up."

You're frankly benefiting from a group of people who are also seen as "failed cis people" but who also experience medical treatment done not for their comfort and desires but for the comfort and desires for cisgender perisex folk. Genital mutilation, hormone therapy, all of it, many intersex folk experience non consensual or downright coercive "correction" of their bodies.

Except in this situation you're benefiting from idea that intersex people just need treatment to be "fixed" without experiencing years of medical discrimination and treatment done against your will.

Intersex experiences and bodies are not people who have a "leg up" if they choose to transition (and it's not always hormone related, intersex bodies are diverse). I've had chest hair and a happy trail pre testosterone, it didn't suddenly expand and sprout super quickly on testosterone, and all it got me was bullying and poor treatment.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

They need is your name, DOB, email, and address to send the test. They will ask questions about your identity after but they are optional.

In the US trans women have a much higher likelihood to have HIV at 14.1%. Trans men who have sex with men also have higher rates than the general population at 0-4% and 0-8%. The HIV rate for the general population is 0.3%. Black and Hispanic trans people have higher rates than white trans people.

Personal information such as name and contact info can be shared to your state's health department but Not the CDC. The program is run through Emory University with funding from the federal government.

I was worried that the program was actually defunded due to a few news articles, but seeing as how I got my tests, it's still being funded.

Luckily the charges were dropped but she was charged without warning from the police officer that pulled her over. She just received a letter in the mail after the incident.

The news story was originally covered by an independent trans journalist Aleksandra Vaca/Transitics.

The US Government is currently trying to pass an incredibly dangerous national law for trans youth called HR 2616.

This bill would ban all Federally funded schools from teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation, prevent teachers from using the correct pronouns and names for trans students, remove books with any trans representation in them, and even go as far as to prevent teachers from acknowledging trans identity AT ALL.

Any school that does not follow this will lose all federal funding. This bill would also require teachers to forcibly out trans students to their families, which would be fatal to any trans student with a transphobic Family or just hateful family in general. Trans people are already a group that already has some of the highest rates of being victim to suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

This bill actively makes teachers put those innocent children at such a big risk. This bill has rapidly passed the house this week with support from all 209 republicans, as well as 8 democrats. But, it's still being voted on in the senate, which means there is still time to help stop this.

To help stop this, you can visit 5calls.org (look up 2616 in the search bar), one of the most top issues filed Oppose Attacks on LGBTQ+ Students. Once you put in your general location, it will pull-up contact information for your senator, and give you a script for calling them.

If you are a minor and/or do not feel comfortable doing this, PLEASE repost this on here, or any other platform you are on/can find! This needs to be heard and fought against.

Thank you for reading this, my lovely people!