#conservative lu

@alasse-earfalas​

first of all: 

I mean, gang. Seriously. I was not that subtle. 

So hi, a reintroduction for you all. Hi there, I'm Vex! I'm an anarchist aroace trans man who's taken part in multiple protests for trans rights around the UK. I've been on HRT coming up on two years.

I am living proof that what you spread is utter bullshit. I had been living as a man for 3 years before I was able to qualify for HRT with private healthcare. I got referred to the UK's *only* youth trans clinic in 2018, and I am yet to speak to anybody. Not a doctor, not a nurse, not an absolute soul. They are NOT handing out hormones to kids, and performing surgeries. They, at least in the UK, are actively taking those rights away, delaying the process for years upon years. If you get referred to the Tavistock NOW, in 2023, it is an estimated TWENTY FIVE years.

I had to bend over backwards to get my gender changed, sending them years of bank statements, alongside a doctors note, and any and all ID I had on me at the time - I was without this crucial ID for about 6 months. I frequently suffer HRT shortage delays as a result of stock issues, or sites not wanting to deal with transgender people. I had to try 4 different pharmacies before one would take my perscription.

Being trans is not fucking easy. There's no trans agenda - if there is, where the fuck is it other than your own pitiful, sad imaginations. This server is PATHETIC, by the way. I cannot imagine being so pissed about some gay teen's headcanons that I make an entire server about it. "Queering these characters into oblivion" my fucking arse, they don't HAVE any canon sexualities! Mr Nintendo has never come out and said "Link is a confirmed heterosexual". These headcanons genuinely do nothing to you, and they're not being forced down your throat - you're just homophobic.

And that's the crux of the issue here, isn't it. You talk a big game about welcoming queer people into your server, but you actively platform people like Flowers, or credit known homophobes like Matt Walsh and Jordan Peterson. That's not acceptance. There's no "civil" discussion either - there's only discussion you agree with, even when people are legitimately trying to engage with you in good faith arguments. Which, transparently, was what I was doing. I had hope, for a bit, that I might be able to change your minds. But I can't pretend like you were actually listening. 

Like this server wasn't just a hateful front for grown adults getting pissy about headcanons.

i do know of one person - im not sure if they follow me, but im going to vaguepost about them regardless, because i'm not really all that pleased with what they did - who stayed in there for like, over a year, legitimately befriending those people under false pretenses. that's shitty. like as much as i believe conservatism is tantamount to evil, that it flies in the face of our freedoms as people and as creatures and as artists, i think everyone, especially people who are self-admittedly vulnerable, and without much sway in the real world, deserves to be treated with an element of kindness. because that's how we change minds, right? be firm, be blunt, but be kind. and idk, i don't think that manipulation is kind. i do wonder if there was any minds to be changed, sometimes - was all that we accomplished reinforcing the idea that leftists are a hate mob? but i remember engaging in polite discussion while i was there and getting nowhere.

ive stalked a couple of the blogs, they're still on that christian transphobe shit, but maybe there's a timeline where they're not. idk. i feel a sense of regret for how we went about the whole thing.