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Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw.bsky.social |
I think the historical context on this is really important to understand and promote because the reality is that there's no inherent aversion to trans people in our culture, it's one that's been cultivated by explicit right wing propaganda as another way to divide the working class against itself
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UncannyKyle
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It’s kinda funny that in the far-flung era of the fifties, someone at the Daily News heard a man became a woman and apparently asked if they’re hot.
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With a K
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within the last two years or so! Earlier in Britain.
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Lawson Soward
@lawsonwest.bsky.social
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City Atlas
@cityatlas.bsky.social
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Hey, tax cuts don't write themselves.
www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/m...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The "bash gays" play started not working and backfiring in the early 00s and conservatives had to look around for their next target to other and demonize and settled on trans people as a group that was still vulnerable enough to run effective attacks on.
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Paintaily
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Ex-GI more like Ex-guy
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DodgerFanLA
@dodgerfanla.bsky.social
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Yeah in a even more pornographic angle there’s a very large “straight people looking at trans porn” contingent too. It’s been a part of our culture since forever. Trans people are normal! People like them!
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Shortblondeguy
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Maintain fear = Maintain power Very simple strategy.
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@technicalsquirrel.bsky.social
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The big difference is that Jorgensen coded as "passing", i.e. "a blonde beauty". It was a novelty story, most people didn't "accept" it as much as shrugging and saying "wow that's something new." Had it started a trend, spilling into everyday experience, it would've played out then like it has now.
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@puzzlemathstar.bsky.social
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it's obvious that right wing politicians and pundits are attempting to use transphobia as a cynical political tool but I don't think we can conclude from the fact that the buzzwords, framing, and talking points weren't formed generations ago that there was no aversion to trans people before them
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Alice
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I think for just your regular, apolitical normie it's a "who gives a fuck" attitude. Unless you're totally Fox News/terf brained, you're not worried about what other people are doing with their lives. Life's too complicated to imbed yourself with everyone else's business
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JoanMcAlis
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I straight up remember a Christian speaker on sex stating that he had advised someone that being a straight trans person was better for avoiding "sin" than a gay cis one. This was 10-15 years ago.
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ₚᴀɴᴺᴼᴺɪᴄₐ
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And as usual they start out with a disingenuous "think of the children" wedge.
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Carpinche
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It reminds me of my cousin who researched reconstruction talking about how wild it was to read newspaper articles about lawsuits in that era. How oddly modern they felt, knowing what was coming in the decades hence.
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de Pesando
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I'm a huge fan of Roberta Cowell who the press framed as quite heroic at the time.
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it's I 🏳️🌈 ✡
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Part of the positive echo at that time was caused by the awe inspiring medical achievement (which was not new). The negative side is that from then on the gender of a person was defined by sexual organs.
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Sabermane
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American culture (at least) is trapped in the shadows of the "perfect" "Leave it to Beaver" reality, and we're just starting to push back. I'm sure better people have noted and said/written papers about it better than I.
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@misgivings.bsky.social
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Very true.
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Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום
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I mean yes but I think it’s also important to remember that a handful of trans people who could be talked about as novelties and aberrations is different from millions of trans people asking the world to reconsider the gender binary. That critical mass is the big threat that sparked backlash, IMO.
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MaryBeth Hastings, she/her
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These forces also seek to reinforce a patriarchy that is increasingly under threat.
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Atrios
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It is perhaps a bit weird but while incredibly homophobic generally until recently, trans coverage was long more like "wow that is interesting"
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Andrew Parker
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It’s honestly kind of impressive that the right-wing managed to talk a bunch of straight dudes into being completely against more hot women existing.
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Super Saiga
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i think the default is it's interesting! it causes you to think about the nature of Self in a way that white cishet neurotypical people aren't normally forced to. Like, what parts of Self are fundamental to who I am and what is trimmings?
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KB
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It’s been cultivated by explicit right wing propaganda because they hate trans people (and all LGBTQ people) and want to drive them out of public life. They’re revving up the hate now *because* society generally had started to become more accepting and because they see an opportunity.
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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A lot of modern transphobia can probably be traced all the way back to the case of Ewan Forbes. The British started getting nervous at the idea that someone could change their gender and inherit a bunch of stuff they'd otherwise never receive.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Ewa...
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wednesday
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you go back a little further past the southern strategy and it's the same thing with abortion only trick they got is manufacturing wedge issues to divide is
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Ben Coccio
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I don’t know about this - according to this article from 2010, she suffered a lot of prejudice and the procedure she sought was illegal everywhere but Sweden.
www.wired.com/2010/12/1201...
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@valerielovet4t.bsky.social
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You really need to fact check yourself if like you say "the historical context is important to understand" because you have no clue what you are taking about.
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Rowan
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The reporter also seems to understand that medical transition requires multiple procedures, not just “the operation.”
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Girld!ck Mills
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idk I heard of plenty of cases of transphobia decades before the current trans panic
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Hector the Crow
@mrhectorthecrow.bsky.social
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much like abortion
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Steph Noell (they/them)
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From the December 2, 1952 article on Jorgensen:
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𝕁, the dearly gparted
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they didn't even misgender her!
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Efteya
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The only reason people hate trans people is because they're told to hate trans people. When I was a kid and found out trans people my first thought was acceptance. Hate is taught.
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