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“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.” 

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

This homeless person is making me uncomfortable. Should I call [a man with a gun]?

My neighbor is having a loud party. Should I get [a man with a gun] involved?

There are some teenagers skateboarding. Do you think [a man with a gun] would get rid of them for me?

I'm sure the [LACK OF GUN] will ensure that the cops treat the mentally ill person with respect and dignity, and they won't do any violence to them at all! The key thing that makes cops a dangerous threat to marginalised people, after all, is [POSSESSION OF GUN]!

Which, no, that's obviously stupid.

The problem with calling the cops isn't "they carry guns"; that's just a condition which makes the problem worse. The problem with calling the cops is that they are trained to see every disruption of the status-quo as TERRIBLE CRIME, and trained to have no empathy for anyone they can frame as a criminal

And their response to "crime", whether they have a gun or not is threats, escalating to violence, and often ending in incarceration if the violence stops before it becomes murder.

I've seen Americans post before "lol how do the cops in Britain arrest people if they don't have guns I'd just leave" and it's reflective of an absolutely insane cultural blindspot.

Cops here are generally physically powerful people, trained to hurt you, carrying batons and pepper spray, and sometimes a taser. They don't need a gun to brutalise you.

I'm really glad our cops aren't generally better armed, because this does make them somewhat less likely to outright kill their victims, but I really would like y'all to remember that police violence is not a byproduct of giving them firearms, but of the mentality they are indoctrinated with.

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

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"The Source"

by Luo Li Rong

BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND