lgbt is the full acronym

being a lesbian can and does cause us heartbreak and hardships whether we’re in relationships or not. in fact, being single can be even more painful than experiencing homophobia while in a relationship

your family hopes you’ll finally fall back into your good old heterosexual ways and your friends offer casually to hook you up with men if you’d be down and any trauma or abuse you’ve endured from other women you can’t even breathe a word about around straight people because they’ll just blame your gay identity, so you bottle it all up and then suddenly your family can’t understand why you’re not dating anyone (“are you hesitant to start dating men again?”) when really you’re a traumatized shell of a person with so little resources for the kind of suffering you endure

They aren’t tho. They are the TARGETS of more violent crimes than anyone else, especially black women. But black people are also stereotyped as more aggressive, so what, now you’re gonna tell me black trans women are in fact committing the crimes?

Congrats, anon is off. But of course, now you’re leaving because god forbid your url get associated with the things you say and so strongly believe and which are obviously so true and unbiased.

It’s almost as if trans people are stigmatized and marginalized, and more vulnerable to being targeted by police and society. After all, robbery and sex work and harassment were considered “violent crimes”. When trans folks, especially trans women, were far more likely to be impoverished (therefore more likely to engage in low-value robbery for subsistence), increasingly likely to take part in sex work for survival and to afford healthcare, and were more likely to be arrested for harassment for simply existing in public and being perceived in a threatening manner for not being cisnormative…and less likely to be able to get out of convictions…yeah, trans folks are going to be convicted more often.

Not to mention that the latter half sample, the trans folks studied between 89 and 03? Showed no significant difference from other such members of their gender. Meaning anon’s claim of trans women being as violent or prone to crime as cis men? That’s a fabrication, and referencing data from nearly 30 years ago, from a society nearly 30 years less progressive, given Sweden has made considerable advances in trans-inclusivity since then (not perfect, of course, but they’re much, much better than they were, and their social supports are much better)

The actual author of the study clarified all that since then, saying:

The study as a whole covers the period between 1973 and 2003. If one divides the cohort into two groups, 1973 to 1988 and 1989 to 2003, one observes that for the latter group (1989 – 2003), differences in mortality, suicide attempts and crime disappear. This means that for the 1989 to 2003 group, we did not find a male pattern of criminality.

As to the criminality metric itself, we were measuring and comparing the total number of convictions, not conviction type. We were not saying that cisgender males are convicted of crimes associated with marginalization and poverty. We didn’t control for that and we were certainly not saying that we found that trans women were a rape risk. What we were saying was that for the 1973 to 1988 cohort group and the cisgender male group, both experienced similar rates of convictions. As I said, this pattern is not observed in the 1989 to 2003 cohort group.

The difference we observed between the 1989 to 2003 cohort and the control group is that the trans cohort group accessed more mental health care, which is appropriate given the level of ongoing discrimination the group faces. What the data tells us is that things are getting measurably better and the issues we found affecting the 1973 to 1988 cohort group likely reflects a time when trans health and psychological care was less effective and social stigma was far worse.

And she’s constantly, again and again, refuted TERFs on numerous websites, in numerous interviews. So yeah, this is just a TERF ploy to try and trick people into believing trans women are the same as cis men, which trans women aren’t, and the data explicitly makes that clear

TWERFs lie.

you’ve seen this url before. have you seen this url before? you need to take a nap. all the chevrons are blurring together. 

in your dreams, you are awakened repeatedly by several people with purple hair. “op is an aphobe,” they say. “yikes :/“ 

your last five reblogs are just homophobic posts followed by a chain of keysmashes. you think the discourse may have once involved discussion, but you’re not sure. 

someone reblogs your post and attaches a gif of a white boy rolling his eyes. you do not try to respond. you have tried that too many times. you are always blocked. 

your friend calls. it is her birthday. she offers you a slice of cake. you scream and curl up in a ball. 

you have blacklisted “queer.” you try to hateread an inclusionist’s blog, but tumblr savior has hidden every single post. that can’t be right. you frown and hit “show anyway.” you regret it. 

your mother wants to show you a funny comic from the sunday paper. you shudder and excuse yourself. comics as a medium have been ruined for you. 

you spend 30 seconds making a text post about something that vaguely irritates you. at least three different people respond telling you to stop vagueing them. you write out long, apologetic explanations but then discover you cannot send them. you have been blocked. you eat a whole sleeve of crackers instead.

an irl friend says “lgbtqia.” you get blackout drunk. 

to all aces and those on the ace spectrum, please understand that you are NOT in any danger for your ace identity. while some people may question what your orientation is, i want you to understand that you’re not going to be attacked for it.

you are safe. you and your identity are safe. you have no reason to be afraid. i know tumblr may make it out to be that there are dangerous acephobes afoot, ready to make you live your life in fear and misery or some bullshit like that, but trust me when i say that there aren’t. nobody is going to attack you for being you and your identity.

please please understand that you shouldn’t have to be afraid of the world just because of who you are. nobody is going around attacking aces for being aces. the world isn’t pitted against you. nobody is out to get you, i promise.

just take a deep breath and remember that this is the internet. people tend to blow things completely out of proportion, and that’s harmful. situations need to be evaluated. there is no acephobia rampant in the streets, there aren’t ace people being beaten up/killed just for being ace. most of what happens is just because the society we live in tends to make it where relationships require sex, and people being denied it has ALWAYS been an issue, and not just an ace issue. your being ace isn’t going to single you out for violence of any sort.

then along came tumblr. now, tumblr has an ace community! i was hyped! like, awe yeah, other people like me!! heck yeah!!

but i was soon exposed to the rather.. toxic nature of the community. never before had i thought my being ace was an issue. so i didn’t experience sexual attraction, big deal, but all of a sudden i was seeing shit about hate crimes against ace people, and that was sort of scary. i was young, and my brain didn’t even question this. i was immediately “oh shit, wtf, i can get attacked for being ace??”

i was /scared/, and unreasonably so. i was conviced that my being ace would lead to some ultimate demise of some sort. it was an unhealthy obsession i began where it was ace pride because “"we’re killed too”“ and shit. i was legit terrified, okay.

well, years pass. i see the world as i distance myself a bit from the ace community and realize just how wrong this idea is. people aren’t actively seeking out ace people to kill/assault them. people really tend to not give a flying fuck about whether or not your ace. they just… don’t care. i realized that my being ace was no reason to cause legit fear of my life and safety. nobody is going to see i’m ace online or hear me say that i am and then think “i hate asexuals!! disgusting human beings!!” and go after me.

the fear yall spread to young people is awful. they spend so much time on here and in the community that they may NOT take a step back and evaluate things. they may continue on year after year letting this fear that they’ll be attacked just because they’re ace fester in their mind. it’s not good for them.

trans people were added in later in the LGBT movement

straight trans people can call themselves gay

trans men can call themselves lesbians

cis lgbp should quit using the word cis in cishet and cis aroace, even though by doing so, you’d implicitly be kicking out trans/nb people

aces have a greater right to LGBT spaces than trans people do, because asexuality is a sexuality and trans isn’t

straight trans people can call themselves gay, or how they can’t be straight

trans men can call themselves lesbians

us cis lgbp should quit using the word cis in cishet and cis aroace, implicitly kicking out trans/nb people, and also ignoring that straight trans people don’t oppress us cis lgbp

aces have a greater right to lgbt spaces than trans people do, because asexuality is a sexuality and trans isn’t

defending TERFs from meanies who want them run over by a bus

(context for above screenshot, so you can see for yourself that slimecourse was telling off a TERF)

exclusionists pointing out how SAM can be used in transphobic way (but if someone can actually find someone using the SAM in a transphobic way, go ahead and add on)

pitting lg vs. bt, erasing trans/nb gay and lesbian people

uninucleus call out (who I’ve heard still kept kept their popularity after it came to light they were a TERF)

Chapter 1: Prologue: Why LGBTQ Historic Sites Matter by Mark Meinke

Chapter 2: Introduction to the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 3: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History in the United States by Leisa Meyer and Helis Sikk

Chapter 4: The History of Queer History: One Hundred Years of the Search for Shared Heritage by Gerard Koskovich

Chapter 5: The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage by Gail Dubrow

Chapter 6: LGBTQ Archeological Context by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 7: A Note about Intersectionality by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 8: Making Bisexuals Visible by Loraine Hutchins

Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe

Chapter 10: Transgender History in the US and the Places that Matter by Susan Stryker

Chapter 11: Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi

Chapter 12: Latina/o Gender and Sexuality by Deena J. González and Ellie D. Hernandez

Chapter 13: “Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter by Jeffrey A. Harris

Chapter 14: LGBTQ Spaces and Places by Jen Jack Gieseking

Chapter 15: Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation by Christina B. Hanhardt

Chapter 16: LGBTQ Business and Commerce by David K. Johnson

Chapter 17: Sex, Love, and Relationships by Tracy Baim

Chapter 18: LGBTQ Civil Rights in America by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 19: Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law by Marc Stein

Chapter 20: LGBTQ Military Service by Steve Estes

Chapter 21: Struggles in Body and Spirit: Religion and LGBTQ People in US History by Drew Bourn

Chapter 22: LGBTQ and Health by Katie Batza

Chapter 23: LGBTQ Art and Artists by Tara Burk

Chapter 24: LGBTQ Sport and Leisure by Katherine Schweighofer

Chapter 25: San Francisco: Placing LGBTQ Histories in the City by the Bay by Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson

Chapter 26: Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective by Jay Shockley

Chapter 27: Locating Miami’s Queer History by Julio Capó, Jr.

Chapter 28: Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno by John Jeffrey Auer IV

Chapter 29: Chicago: Queer Histories at the Crossroads of America by Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

Chapter 30: Nominating LGBTQ Places to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks: An Introduction by Megan E. Springate and Caridad de la Vega

Chapter 31: Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos