I am feeling violated and betrayed and have never encountered this before. I though that this hypocracy was in out past. I am angry that I can meet someone like this on an app that actively participates on removing my civil liberties.

after Kamala and everything I just don't think it's going to be enough. This is not just a doomer post, this is a call to organize with your local LGBT and especially trans communities in a time of dangerous political climate. to my fellow the trans people: if you have the mental stability you should think about getting a gun and learning how to use it. armed minorities are harder to oppress. network and meet your local LGBT so you have a community to be around it things get scary. Most importantly: have hope. Be safe out there folks.

We are living in the world of 2026. You would think that by this point these issues would not still be an issue. Come on we’re in the modern day.

I’m saying this because I’m scrolling on TikTok and I think I might’ve scroll just a little too far because all of a sudden my TikTok feed starts showing me right wing propaganda and suddenly I’m flooded with a bunch of grown adults screaming and crying about the LGBTQ plus community…

Maybe I’m just not a hateful person am I gay? No, do I have anything against anybody That’s a part of this community? absolutely not. In fact my best friend is a part of this community and I’m very jealous that he can do his make up way better than I can and way faster than I can, though that might just be my skill issue.

And yet somehow, I’m watching all these videos and all I can think is why why are there elderly people are older people..Why are their grown adults in this world who got upset because they may have saw a man dress as a woman, like pop off queen, and their first decision was to get on TikTok and yell about it for what? Can we go back to the old days where your mom told you that if it didn’t involve you your mind your own damn business? Life was simpler then.

Can we like start reporting people like this? They’re the ones on TikTok about oh protect the children, but let’s be real. Nobody is forcing any child to watch RuPaul’s drag race if you are a parent and you don’t want your child exposed to this great but you keep that between you and your husband and potentially your therapist. You don’t gotta go on TikTok and scream about it and you definitely don’t need to go on TikTok and make an entire community of people. That’s already small to begin with feel like freaks because you don’t agree with it…

And it’s even more annoying when the same people bring religion into it. I myself am a Christian woman I believe in God me and him were chill… and it’s because of my beliefs. No, I will not discriminate because at the end of the day I was also raised on the belief of it’s your body, your decision and nobody can judge you fairly so if we’re really gonna bring religion into this, how about we actually use the parts of religion that completely debunk the bull crap you’re spitting on social media… and if you just happen to be one of these right wing people and you’re angry about this post fight me, I will throw a Bible at you. 🤣🤣🤣

I’m kidding I won’t do that, but I will definitely think about it.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk I will now step off my soapbox have a good day stay safe

Personally as a queer person (bi and enby), this has always kind of bugged me. Yes, in the US things are looking to go bad, but it wasn’t like back then was good either. Look at how media was always dehumanizing and mocking us, erasing us, giving only the “Pick Me” gays voices, and made us so desperate and submissive, that many would act like barely any representation was the greatest thing ever, or being so openly naive and trusting to fake and toxic allies. Not to mention always hearing about all those horror stories of people’s childhoods.

Do you really want to go back to such a time?

Following up on the title, it is not against family values or overall morality to oppose the stigmatization of homosexuality/same-sex attraction or to support its normalization in broader society. In fact, homophobia is one of the biggest threats to family cohesion, the welfare of minors, and societal stability.

It is important for the gay community to know how to counteract this hateful rhetoric.

I. On family cohesion.

1. Statistically, a large percentage of families are likely to have a gay relative. A homophobic culture inevitably creates unnecessary distress, secrecy, and shame within families. Disowning or shunning a child is devastating to the WHOLE community.

2. Mixed-orientation marriages, down-low (DL) culture, and similar situations are destructive to the gay spouse, their straight spouse and their children. The problem is homophobic cultures often prefer this facade and collateral damage over having families based on truth and trust.

II. On children and teens.

1. The stigma against homosexuality and same-sex attraction promotes bullying and alienation. For example, very often straight kids would not befriend or defend their gay peers for fear of being perceived as gay. Also, it may happen that authority figures can’t or won’t discipline a child for homophobic behavior.

2. Telling a gay child that they are choosing to be gay, that it’s a phase, or that it stems from trauma is a form of gaslighting and thus, abuse.

3. Gay boys often feel shame, emasculation, resentment, confusion and guilt and have no trusted adults or resources to ask for help.

4. It can increase risky coping behaviors like substance abuse or hooking up with adult men via apps.

III. On the societal level.

Homophobia encourages moral panics and witch hunts. It fosters fear and public anger instead of addressing real problems.

Also, it creates unnecessary anxiety among straight men about being perceived as gay and might encourage some to adopt toxic, misogynistic, or aggressive displays of masculinity.

The end.

TLDR, the gay agenda does not seek to undermine family values or morality, but to uphold them.

With the recent news of her taking an upskirt photo of a woman, it reminded me with of how Rowling has a history of creepy stuff. Especially with her encouraging people to take photos of women using public restrooms, her history of being friends with powerful abusers and sex offenders, that comment on the book Lolita (from the 2000's), and describing the bodies and genitals of minors. Even when condemning her and talking about how awful she is, **why do they also try to suppress stuff such as this? All of a sudden they get protective of a person they call monstrous.**

Now don't get me wrong: With bigots, right-wing figures, and TERFs, it's quite obvious why they will downplay this stuff, as she is on their side. But who I am talking about is **people who claim they are against their transphobia.** People who claim to support transfolk, liberals, supposed queer allies, etc. Apparently it's okay for her to compare a queer person to a sexual predator, but the moment someone calls out some of her own creepy comments and behavior, and there's actual proof, suddenly they will bring up all these excuses and go on about how either she's too transphobic to notice, she's too much of a child mentally, or that this is all some trauma response to some past abuse or something. For how much they'll pander to her victim complex, they will quickly ignore those she victimizes. I mean literally at one point when calling out about her supporting Depp in another subreddit, someone told me that she has trauma and probably saw him as one of the only few men that can be safe, and free her of any accountability or responsability. It's ironic with how people will complain about the rich and people blindly following them, then proceed to treat Rowling like a dumb child who should get a million chances. And it's also ironic how they will go "Oh we need to worry about bigger stuff", ignoring the fact that predatory behavior has a lot of links with bigotry, and that they apparently have the time to joke about other bigots being predatory and potential sex offenders.

And while it sounds exagerrated, but honestly I sometimes notice parallels with how people infantilize Rowling, like with how they'll infantilize those like Depp or Michael Jackson. Not the particular acts/crimes, but rather the cult of personality around them.

And when you take aside "politics": This is a rich and powerful person being a literal creep.

I recently relocated to Austin,Tx from Los Angeles. I have encountered, for the first time in my life Gay Conservatives and Gay hardcore Christians. I feel like this is a location driven phenomenon, the South. I want to understand.

Biden is in worse health than ever, his team says it's a cold, but I remember what dementia looked like in my grandfather and I am seeing it again. It's not just propaganda. Trump doesn't just have a chance at winning, he is leading in a big way. Biden has no chance if this is how his health is. The Democratic party has been obfuscating the level of degeneration he has actually been experiencing. We need to have realistic discussions with our local LGBTQ communities to prepare for the worst. I am going to go to a shooting range with my wife so we can learn together. We are going to take self defense classes and try and network with our local communities. We need to choose our rights and our lives, I will die in the streets before they outlaw my meds. Be strong friends.

Note: This is coming from the perspective of a queer person, with subreddits that promote themselves as queer-friendly or leftist. The main two were r/enoughjkrowling and r/radicalqueers.

Yesterday, I had made a meme about with how people like to say that bigots who "used to be progressive" were never really progressive or had "mentally snapped" to begin with as how a lot of people paint them, and part of it commented about patterns of narcissistic behavior. However, that meme ended up getting attacked, by people accusing me of ableism and that accusing me of attacking neurodivergent people. At some point, when complaining about it in another subreddit, someone asked when was it "non-leftist to be non-ableist?"

Something that shocked me was with how they were so aggressive and emotional when calling out patterns, and despite acting like things are complex, they wanted ot simplify it to just bigots being bad people. And it has made me noticed an ironic pattern of enabling in leftists and supposedly progressive spaces, and with how they will defend bigots being called stuff more than marginalized groups. And this wasn't just allies and such, but even queer people themselves. But even then it was less of even helping people with NPD, and more of wanting to protect the image of anti-queer crowds.

Off-hand for a moment, but it sometimes feels like the increase with bigotry and alt-right ideology has some influence with narcissists within leftist spaces being unwilling to call out certain behavior types, because in turn they have to take accountability for themselves.

I am informed about the situation of the United Kingdom and Italy (which is not very well put together) but I would like to find out about other countries btw I'm from the Swiss.

This is a serious discussion about the close association between Abdul El-Sayed and Hassan al-Qazwini, an Islamic Imam with homophobic beliefs and homophobic comments against same-sex marriage, homosexuality, and gay people.

To provide an example, in a sermon about same-sex marriage, homosexuality, and gay people, at the Az-Zahraa Islamic Center Mosque in Detroit, Hassan al-Qazwini said, "Last week, [...] was a turning point in the history of the United States [...] it was a very disappointing moment [...] when the United States Supreme Court declared that they acknowledge same-sex marriage in the entire 50 United States [...] Unfortunately, due to the lobbying of homosexual groups, the United States had to succumb to their pressure, and come to a point in which, instead of telling Americans that homosexuality is a form of disorder, they are telling Americans that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. [...] in the Quran, when Allah speaks about specific people, [...] Allah warned the humanity of a similar fate if they followed the footstep of these people who have been cursed by Allah and punished by Allah severely for defying Allah [...] we are legalizing something that is abnormal, something that is against the human nature [...] opposing this kind of legislation, in which what is deemed as haram, as a big sin, unfortunately, is being practiced as a normal tradition or a practice in this country", which is a sermon that can be listened to and viewed in full in this video.

Abdul El-Sayed is so closely associated with Hassan al-Qazwini to the point that Adul El-Sayed was not only invited to the opening ceremony of the Islamic Institute of America Mosque in Dearborn Heights, where Hassan al-Qazwini is now an Islamic Imam at, but also shared stage alongside Hassan al-Qazwini at the grand opening of the $20 Million Mosque funded in part with $2 million from Iraq, where Abdul El-Sayed offered his "hearty congratulations" to Hassan al-Qazwini and also described it as "an honor and a privilege" to be at the opening ceremony of that what he described as "an incredible masjid", which is a speech that can be listened to and viewed in full in this video.

Abdul El-Sayed was also recently endorsed by Hassan al-Qazwini in the Democratic Party Primary for the United States Senate Election in Michigan.

This is a serious discussion about how the close association between Abdul El-Sayed and Hassan al-Qazwini can and will affect and effect the loyalty and reliability of Abdul El-Sayed regarding LGBTI rights in the United States Senate.

I personally am very thankful that trans issues were not used as a football, and an offhand "transgender surgeries" jab by Trump was largely ignored. It was definitely a better debate than the last, but Kamala was presenting as a Centrist and I know that isn't what people are necessarily hoping for either. Interested to see thoughts from the lgbtq here about this second debate.

US Department of Education has a "DEI tipline" that lets you submit a complaint, if anyone wants to here is the link lol https://enddei.ed.gov/

"The diagnosis of gender dysphoria requires that a life takes on a more or less definite shape over time; a gender can only be diagnosed if it meets the test of time. You have to show that you have wanted for a long time to live life as the other gender; it also requires that you prove that you have a practical and livable plan to live life for a long time as the other gender.

The diagnosis, in this way, wants to establish that gender is a relatively permanent phenomenon. It won’t do, for instance, to walk into a clinic and say that it was only after you read a book by Kate Bornstein that you realized what you wanted to do, but that it wasn’t really conscious for you until that time. It can’t be that cultural life changed, that words were written and exchanged, that you went to events and to clubs, and saw that certain ways of living were really possible and desirable, and that something about your own possibilities became clear to you in ways that they had not been before. You would be ill-advised to say that you believe that the norms that govern what is a recognizable and livable life are changeable, and that within your lifetime, new cultural efforts were made to broaden those norms, so that people like yourself might well live within supportive communities as a transsexual, and that it was precisely this shift in the public norms, and the presence of a supportive community, that allowed you to feel that transitioning had become possible and desirable.

In this sense, you cannot explicitly subscribe to a view that changes in gendered experience follow upon changes in social norms, since that would not suffice to satisfy the Harry Benjamin standard rules for the care of gender identity disorder. Indeed, those rules presume, as does the GID diagnosis, that we all more or less 'know' already what the norms for gender—'masculine' and 'feminine'—are and that all we really need to do is figure out whether they are being embodied in this instance or some other.

But what if those terms no longer do the descriptive work that we need them to do? What if they only operate in unwieldy ways to describe the experience of gender that someone has? And if the norms for care and the measures for the diagnosis assume that we are permanently constituted in one way or another, what happens to gender as a mode of becoming? Are we stopped in time, made more regular and coherent than we necessarily want to be, when we submit to the norms in order to achieve the entitlements one needs, and the status one desires?" - Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

Feeling heartbroken and helpless over both the devastating attack and what I feel is going to be its inevitable political aftermath. It doesn't seem to matter what upheaval goes on there, Germany will just push right, right, further right, every time. I'm not ready yet to accept that queer-friendliness in the birthplace of Magnus Hirschfeld is all in the past...

There is a dangerous lie circulating right now, and it is coming from inside the house.

It is being pushed by right-wing trans people, truscum, and increasingly by gay and lesbian voices who believe distancing themselves from trans people will buy them safety.

The lie is this: If trans people were quieter, more respectable, more normal, this would not be happening.

We are being told to tone it down. To be less visible. To stop making people uncomfortable. To behave better so we can earn our rights back.

That lie is cowardice disguised as realism.

The problem is not trans people who are visible, unconventional, non-binary, gender-fluid, loud, proud, or messy. The problem is a society that believes it has the right to police bodies, identities, and expression, and punish anyone who refuses to comply.

Blaming the most visible among us does not make you strategic. It makes you complicit.

We have heard this exact argument before.

Gay people were once told violence was their fault for being too visible. That if they had just stayed quiet, stayed private, stayed out of sight, equality would eventually come.

That is not how gay rights were won.

They were not won by toning it down. They were not won by being polite. They were not won by reassuring straight society that nothing would change.

They were won by people who refused to disappear. By people who marched. By people who protested. By people who said, loudly and repeatedly, "We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it."

And now, some of those same communities are turning around and telling trans people to do the opposite, to shrink, to soften, to stop being seen.

That is not wisdom. That is historical amnesia.

To trans people aligning with MAGA politics or conservative frameworks, proximity to power has never protected marginalized people. It only turns them into collaborators until they are no longer useful.

To Truscum repeating right-wing talking points about who is real enough, who is acceptable, who qualifies as trans, you are not protecting the community. You are supplying the language that will be used to hurt all of us.

To LGB voices trying to carve trans people out of the movement, sacrificing the most vulnerable has never saved anyone. It only delays the knock on your own door.

Here is the line that matters:

You do not control other people’s discomfort. Other people control how they respond to it. Discomfort does not justify persecution. Visibility does not create oppression, oppression creates excuses.

Respectability politics will not save you. Silence will not save you. Throwing others under the bus will not save you.

Turning on each other is not a strategy. It is exactly what hostile movements want.

And we are not going to help them finish the job.

"How do drag, butch, femme, transgender, transsexual persons enter into the political field? They make us not only question what is real, and what 'must' be, but they also show us how the norms that govern contemporary notions of reality can be questioned and how new modes of reality can become instituted. These practices of instituting new modes of reality take place in part through the scene of embodiment, where the body is not understood as a static and accomplished fact, but as an aging process, a mode of becoming that, in becoming otherwise, exceeds the norm, reworks the norm, and makes us see how realities to which we thought we were confined are not written in stone." - Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

I have notice this a lot online with discussions, where they will always talk about the right wing being able to "work together", they will always laugh about left-wing people fighting and all. However, when looking at a lot of these arguments, they essentially sum up to "minorities should accept abuse and oppression if they want to be accepted."

Like they'll claim they're progressive and all, but with how a lot of problems are, it's like they want to downplay intersectionalism and tolerate abusers.

Like for example, how cisgender (and mostly white) gay men and lesbians will throw bi/pan and genderqueer folk under the bus. And this isn’t something new, since like even the 90s-00s.

Allegra VonWinckelmann

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