Damn. That’s sad that it’s come to this. We tried to tell everyone that Trump was gonna pull dumb shit, but everyone wanted to latch on the economy as a excuse.
But yeah, as a US citizen, I wouldn’t wanna be here either.
Even cis Germans probably should not go, given recent events.
Ummm, anyone going to the US these days would have to be crazy. It’s seriously volatile and even more unsafe than usual.
Just not being white and travelling to the US is now more of a risk too. Risk of getting harassed and detained by ICE. Or being harassed by people pretending to be ICE. Tourism is going to take a hit.
Something Something passing privilege.
But seriously don’t come here, TSA is filled with bootlickers and bystanders. And harassing and detaining foreigners is going to give them good boy points.
They are already detaining Germans without them being transgender whatsoever:
Just don’t travel to the US at all
US citizen here, I agree with this. We should be punished economically for this.
I don’t think it will influence the jackasses who felt that what’s going on right now was a good idea. But maybe some of the people who decided not to vote will no longer abstain when a living underwear streak wants to be king.
Yeah, as much as I’d love to see some of the national parks, I’ll never travel there unless their entry procedures and government change fundamentally. Plenty of other countries to visit.
Start accepting American LGBT refugees then.
You do not want to be a refugee here trust me
Boy never in my life I would have thought about political refugees coming from the US to Germany.
Yesterday someone said to me that we’re living in a South Park episode that became reality… I think he’s right…
Even South Park isn’t this wacky. They had to scrap and remake an episode after the 2016 election because it was completely baffling to them that Trump won.
Based Germany
Boy, I would read that as a warning for other people as well. Who the hell wants to travel to a place where people are at risk just for being people? Tourism dies with autocracies. Let America become the dull homogeneous wasteland it wants without throwing them any tourism dollars.
Hi I’m trans and living in the US right now, in Seattle one of the best places to be trans in the US. Don’t come here if you’re trans. Don’t travel to anywhere in the US, not Seattle, not anywhere. If for no other reason than to stop giving tourism money to us but if you’re trans then yeah it’s getting spicy.
All my trans friends who have had to travel are reporting increased pat downs, getting questioned by TSA, and bags being opened regardless of their documents. If you get clocked you may be delayed or searched.
For any trans people looking to get out of the country be careful. So fary best idea is to get to a state with enhanced IDs, use that to hop the border to Canada by land without having to physically hand your passport to a US agent, then fly out from there.
Stay safe everyone
For any trans people looking to get out of the country be careful. So far my best idea is to get to a state with enhanced IDs, use that to hop the border to Canada by land without having to physically hand your passport to a US agent, then fly out from there.
Or stay in Canada if you can swing it, and if we don’t elect our own Trump-wannabe in our upcoming election
I really really hope the Cons keep shooting themselves in the foot, for the sake of everyone
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LYRICS:
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Haha, thanks for this!
Most of us are cool with ya’ll, but yeah, too many who aren’t, so please stay the fuck out until its safe.
Also to add, there is an unfortunate number of Liberals who are quickly walking back any support for trans folk.
We call those shitty people where I come from.
wait, are you telling me the liberals weren’t steadfast absolute allies? that they didn’t really believe in helping us, or anything else, ever?
Not only do these people fail as allies and as compassionate human beings, but they’re also very stupid if they don’t see that defending trans rights is the front line of the fight against fascism right now, and we all need to be there fighting it. They’re not going to stop at taking rights away from trans people. It’ll be you next.
I feel like (official) racial equality needs to be in there, I just don’t know where.
They can’t see that attacks on trans rights are also attacks on cis rights. I think that’s part of the reason why Rep. Zoey Zephyr and Rep. SJ Howell were so effective at stopping a couple pieces of anti-trans legislation in Montana yesterday. They talked about the fact that the legislation would potentially effect cis people as well as the fact that it’d take “parental rights” away from parents. They also did it in a way that created a narrative which both cis and trans people can identify with, creating a common ground to further convince people that the legislation was wrong. And it was successful. They got a number of Republican lawmakers to switch sides, despite the fact that the GOP prides itself on being in lockstep. They even had a Republican lawmaker make a stand too, saying that the people introducing this legislation were basically just wasting everyone’s time.
People say, “trans rights are human rights” and they’re serious. We embody the extreme of gender non-conformity that cis people occasionally dabble in, and when you start taking away our rights, you start taking away cis rights too.
Can you give some links what these “pieces of anti-trans legislation” were going to do? Not familiar with that yet.
Here’s an article on the two bills that got voted out in Montana: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-speeches-from-trans-dems
Most of the anti-trans legislation is as bad or worse; Texas has a couple nutjobs trying to make being trans illegal as a whole.
defending trans rights is the front line of the fight against fascism right now
Yeah, it’s this kind of delusion why people aren’t loyal to you.
Loyalty is a very Nazi value.
Nobody wants your fucking loyalty. They want you to wake the fuck up and get it through your skull that we’re all in this shithole together, and you need to start lending a hand instead of stomping on other’s backs to get yours. Because one day, you might need the rest of us to come save you too.
After BLM and Roe v Wade y’all expect people to all of sudden grow a spine for a ridiculously lower number of people?
I see everywhere that trans rights are the first to fall to fascism but that’s complete BS. They’re the last.
US progressives love to believe those lies, it gives them purpose. I’m sure the turnout next election (if there’s one) will be much higher if we keep talking about HRT instead of slavery happening in private prisons, or women dying while giving birth to their rape babies.
That’s not true. You people expect me to agree with you on everything or else I’m a nazi.
If I dared to suggest we prioritize reducing the disparity in wealth over fighting a culture war, you people immediately assume I’m an enemy.
You don’t just want loyalty, you crave it. You’re dependent on it. You get mad whenever you don’t get it and throw tantrums until you do or get rid of the person.
Defending your fellow man isn’t culture war. You bought the propaganda.
Trans rights is simply human rights for trans people. It’s not a culture war issue; it’s a human rights issue.
If I dared to suggest we prioritize reducing the disparity in wealth over fighting a culture war, you people immediately assume I’m an enemy.
No, because doing one means doing the other. Who do you think is waging the culture war in the first place?
Personally, as a trans person, I don’t want your loyalty. I don’t care about your loyalty. We don’t know one another at all so I don’t even know if you’re someone I’d actually want to hang around; and I’m not gonna ask for loyalty from a total stranger.
What I want is for you to act like a decent human being and understand that the culture war is part of a much larger war about wealth inequality; and that you’re going to struggle if you allow your allies to slowly get picked off by the ones waging the war in the first place. If that occurred then the best you could hope for would be a pyrrhic victory that leaves you asking, “we won, but at what cost?”
There you go doing it again. You’re conflating your agenda with another one to make it seem like people should, say, call you a woman if they want to reduce the disparity in wealth.
That’s a load of malarkey and proves my point even further. It’s sad how the ruling class is robbing us blind because people like you are trying to piggyback your agenda on problems that face the working class.
Also, you personally may not want loyalty but hopefully you can recognize that you are the outlier in that regard.
If I dared to suggest we prioritize reducing the disparity in wealth over fighting a culture war
Are you incapable of breathing and chewing bubble gum at the same time? Why not both?
prioritize
Because they like to use “we have bigger problems to worry about” as a way of shutting down people calling attention to problems.
Of course they’re stupid; they’re Americans.
