Sumio Mondo Hates Children

Via @suomasaminuorat

In 2023, two elections will be held in Finland. The Finnish Parliamentary elections, as well as the elections for the Saami parliament in Finland. One of these elections will be free. The other will not.

The Saami parliament is the autonomous representative body for the indigenous Saami people. Its functions and purpose along with its elections are determined by the Saami Parliament Act.

For a decade, the Saami have been working to revise the Saami Parliament Act, which directly violates our rights to self-representation and self-determination.

We do not get a say in how our elections are held and who gets to vote in them. The state of Finland denies us the right to develop our own democracy on our own terms.

Thanks to the Finnish chokehold on our elections, the Saami have seen a rise in anti-indigenous sentiments and anti-Saami policies, with non-Saami candidates running in our elections with a clear intention to destabilize and delegitimize our parliament.

In February of 2023, in spite of the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Committee, the Finnish parliament decided not to revise the Saami Parliament Act.The Saami in Finland will now be forced to endure elections that are out of our own grasp. We risk losing our own parliament.

By wilfully attempting to influence an autonomous indigenous parliament, Finland is actively violating our human rights.

Examples:

Trans woman who is told she can't change her gender marker on her ID, takes off her shirt in a parking lot to change and is arrested for public indecency for her female-presenting nipple exposure, and is currently housed in a men's prison. What gender is she? The gender that hurts her the most at the time. Both and yet neither. Because fuck you that's why.

Trans man who requests to compete in boys' wrestling, forced to compete with the girls instead. Punished for "flashing" his bottom growth while taking a shower in the locker room. School's parents want him kicked out of sports because he keeps winning by a *lot* when he wrestles the girls, saying it's not fair to make the girls compete in strength with his testosterone. During yet another meeting where he requests to wrestle the boys, he's yet again denied *despite this* because he's a girl. Eventually beaten up by the boys at school mad that he's thrashing their girlfriends. Boys justify it by saying it's okay to hit him because he's not "really" a girl. What gender is he? Whatever gender he can be punished with at the time. Both and yet neither. Because fuck you that's why.

At the same time, myself, my editor, and my fellow writers deserve to be paid regularly and well. I wish I could spend all my time just sharing queer history, and bits of information with the online world, one day, I hope that I can do just that. 

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡