Silverwaves

> Why you are wrong 

1.) You have a choice. You are choosing remain unvaccinated. you are making clear choice (which by the way endangers you and the people around you) , and there are consequences tied to the choice, like there a consequences tied to nearly all choices we all are making every day.  you know what jews did in Nazi Germany? Being born.

2.) You are not being categorized as inferior or less of a human because of who you are. None of these regulations are tied to who you are. they are accounting for the fact that vaccinated people are less likely to catch covid and, in case of an infection, are less likely to infect others and becoming seriously ill (x, x , x ). And if you get covid, you will still get treatment like everyone else. doctors will fight to save your life like the one of a vaccinated person. Jews in Nazi Germany, however, were not only robbed of their status as citizens, but in the end, were not even regarded as humans and no value was prescribed to their life. 

3.) You are facing an inconvenience. Jews were literally murdered. You can’t go to the restaurant you like. No one is forcing you out of your home, no one is stealing your belongings, no one is deporting to a concentration camp, no one is sending you to a gas chamber. these vaccines are the part of global effort to combat a pandemic (x). what you are comparing them to a genocide. I honestly do not know how to make this difference any clearer. 

> And why what you are doing is disgusting (in case it is not clear now) 

1.) You are diminishing the significance of the holocaust by comparing it to your  inconvenience and by that playing into holocaust denial which again also fuels antisemitism. 

2.) You are abusing the memory of the victims, disrespecting them and their  families just to fuel your rhetoric. Those are actual human people who suffered more than any of us can imagine. They deserve better than to be instrumentalized, whatever the cause. 

3.) You are freely spreading symbols that are clearly linked to Nazi-Germany and the holocaust. This not only does normalise them to a degree in the mainstream, it is also a punch in the face of those against who actual crimes were and are committed under these symptoms. 

the use of gendered language, whether in law or in company guidelines, has been used as an excuse to exclude trans people from various kinds of reproductive healthcare. there have been stories of abortion providers pointing to the use of “pregnant women” in all clinic literature to justify not giving trans men assistance. there are issues where “women’s health clinics” will refuse to accept referrals for anyone who doesn’t have “F” on their records, which of course includes many trans women. there are in turn stories of trans women being unable to access “male” prostrate cancer screening.

language in this sort of capacity needs to be as factual and neutral and carefully constructed to avoid loopholes as possible. at this stage in my life, as a non-woman capable of pregnancy, i don’t really CARE anymore if you talk casually about pregnancy as something that happens to women. but i DO care if the medical system writes out some guidelines that, in only acknowledging pregnant women as a possibility, open me up to the possibility of being denied care by transphobes who can claim they’re just following the rules.

it’s for reasons like this that some people don’t get their gender markers changed, but that in itself creates dangerous situations when their marker doesn’t match their presented gender - I’ve heard horror stories of people getting arrested after being pulled over by a cop who thought they were lying about their identity.