Crazy how polticized science is.
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Well now how will I explain that a pregnant dominant species member is not a Martian
The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people.
The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people
Impressive that it is actually true, I thought it is an exaggeration. From Wikipedia:
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, came to power
On 6 May 1933, a group of students … the students proceeded to shout “Brenne Hirschfeld!” (“Burn Hirschfeld!”) while ransacking and vandalizing the Institute, tearing pictures from the walls, pouring inkwells onto carpets, and destroying exhibitions while the band played outside.
src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany
Yeah, when they teach about book burnings they never mention that fact. It also serves as a reminder that trans people are not just a modern phenomenon. The Nazis’ reasons for targeting trans people then are the same as right-wingers today, they look for a small, marginalized group and seize on existing prejudice to sow division and divide and conquer. The Nazis claimed trans people were a Jewish plot to weaken and destroy the Ayran race, and you can still see echos of that in some right-wing rhetoric today.
They then executed everyone with a brain. Drs, teachers, engineers, scientists, researchers, etc
I’m so fucking scared. They’ve inhibited our movement by fucking with passports, they’ve defined us as dishonest and dishonorable in the EO kick us out of the military, they’ve codified the notion that our gender identity constitutes sexual deviance and poses a threat to children, they’ve attacked proven life-saving care, with a focus on children and an impact on adults.
and now they’re trying to book-burn us out of existence.
this is systematic dehumanization, the track record of which is grim.
There’s just straight up not enough of us to do this on our own.
If people don’t start standing up for us, we’re fucked.
Wait, how did they mess with passports?
They are stealing the documents of trans people who go to get new documents including passports, leaving them without identifying paperwork (and identified by the authorities by the paperwork they lost) in a time where that is very convenient for the people in power, and threatening them with arrest if they ask for them back. In addition to what has been said already
From my sister about my 17y.o. trans niece: “Unfortunately, [niece] had a children’s passport (expired now), so she’s in the group who would not be able to get a passport anymore because her birth certificate and social security don’t currently match each other and don’t match her passport records.”
non-binary people had been getting “X“ instead of M or F on their passport. The Trump administration will no longer allow those passports to be issued
The entire passport office is shut down right now .
They are not issuing new passports.
For anyone trans or NB, starting with applications received from 1/16. Others are not impacted yet AFAIK.
Wait, for real? For everyone?
For anyone with an x or that is trans. Renewals for them is awaiting on a policy update.
All people need is a focus for resistance, a group or a leader to join. Most people are disgusted by this, and despite the election result I still believe most people would rather see trans people happy than suffering. And as the visibility of trans people increases, more and more cis people have been discovering that they know and care about trans people in their own lives. That’s why the hateful fringe feels it’s so urgent to shut trans rights down. They know they have to push people back into fear and silence before transphobia becomes uncommon. And they know they have to silence people talking about these matters to make organized resistance possible. But the quiet is largely people not knowing how to connect and resist, not a lack of desire to resist. It’s time for organized resistance and the first movement that gets going will find many supporters.
We also need some organization around getting LGBTQ+ refugees out of the USA and into other countries. The restrictions on passports are very ominous.
I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine where your head is at right now.
“forbidden terms”
…must be that “free speech” I keep hearing about. This is obviously a first amendment issue, right?
Right?
Literally speedrunning the Nazi handbook.
1984
More like 1930s Germany.
In case anyone is unfamiliar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era
What the actual fuck.
Modern day book burning?
Science burning.
No I’ve been assured this is free speech.
Oh, it’s not the onion.
What’s the opposite of eating the onion? That happened to me just now too
Drinking the swamp
Hopeful thinking
This is… This is bad! Wow.
Back up everything. Don’t let it be memory-holed! Holy crap.
And just like that sci-hub will be even more useful
There is also annas-archive.
What the actual fuck?! It’s like living in a fever-driven nightmare. We can only hope there are backups of the un-purged documents.
The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals
The scope is thankfully limited only to CDC scientists.
Not that this makes it good news by any stretch.
This is going to push research money squarely under the thumb of corporate control, which is of course the aim here. Privatize everything.
I do know scientists hate having their work paywalled or censored so I’d expect sci-hub to get a lot more popular real quick, but many will definitely self censor their official publications to keep their jobs til orange hitler shoots himself in a bunker somewhere.
I don’t even know about corporate control here but we’re only going to get “research” that “aligns with policy”, rather than quantifying facts
I hope no one resubmits anything.
They would be rejected
Publish it somewhere else. Don’t let the fascists control data and reality.
If only publishing wasn’t such a painful process. Maybe other journals can fastrack retracted cdc papers
Theoretically, this could be the impetus that Sparks Open journals, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem very likely.
