LGBTQ+ rights are under attack across the world.
This a Community dedicated to the discussion of how to protect, advocate for, and restore LGBTQ rights!
With the rampant increase of Anti LGBTQ+ hate crimes, speech and laws internationally, the LGBTQ community globally no longer feels safe.
We refuse to stand by while injustice against our community reigns.
Here we will organize, and discuss ways to make our voices heard!
Link to QDL Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Queerdefensefront/s/s1JGAmJK9d
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Community Rules:
No Hate Speech allowed whatsoever. This is a O tolerance policy. This goes for any form of hate and/or bigotry regarding race, religion, or LGBTQ+ identities.
While we will have discussions on political issues dealing with hate and bigotry AGAINST the LGBTQ+ community, please keep your comments respectful of ail parties.
Be better than how your enemies treat you.
Respect the people who belong here. If you're confused what that means, here's a minor primer:
No asking to date trans people or otherwise meet up with them. No treating being transgender as a mental illness or as being lesser in any way. No arguing with trans people about their identity. No arguing with trans people about their vulnerabilities, including anything related to sports, laws, etc. This includes anything else that the mod team deems disrespectful.
Posts should be related to the defense, advocacy, and restoration of LGBTQ+ rights.
This Community is for news regarding, as well as the discussion of, anti LGBTQ+ laws, hate crimes, and propaganda.
This isn't a rule but it shows you're paying attention to the rules. good for you!
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We knew this would happen. Gender purity tests affect everyone.
Should be able to sue the police union. Absolute shitshow that these clowns can do what they do and are defended on the taxpayer dollar.
PAPERS PLEASE
sounds familiar...
Another reason to boycott Walmart and U.S. corporations.
The design of our restrooms is dumb, and the hate brigade makes it 10x worse.
Sweden does restrooms correctly. They are more private, more hygienic, and more efficient. That’s on top of eliminating the reason for the temptation for scumbags to be the genital police.
What I am used to at work in the US is a giant room for two toilets and a urinal plus two sinks. And it should go without saying that the privacy of the stalls is terrible. They are only ever metal panels that start a foot off the floor and end low enough for tall people to see over. The metal panels have huge gaps between them that you have to avoid looking at unless you like awkward eye contact. Of course there is also the door for the ladies’ room leading to a second giant room with I assume 3 toilets and 2 sinks.
Over in Sweden, in the same space you have a short hallway with 6-8 individual doors. Real wooden doors, that fully close and lock with vacant/occupied indicators on the outside. Behind each is a reasonably sized small room with a toilet and sink. You know, kind of like a restroom!
The setup is better for the individuals using the facilities as well as the group’s utilization. Any person can use any restroom at any time, and with a much better experience than we have now.
It just seems a bit too “respects other humans” to fly in the US. Plus I’m sure the upfront construction cost is slightly higher (gasps in American).
Men burst into the ladies' room with flashlights to harass a woman.
These anti trans bathroom laws are just an excuse for perverts and rapists to get into the ladies' room!
🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀 always has been
Oh, wow. I've always wondered about the crazy bathroom laws. I used to ask, "What're they gonna do? Raid the bathroom and start checking genitals?" Turns out, yeah, that's exactly what they're gonna do. I hope the malicious idiots that voted for this get a taste of their own medicine when they become collateral damage.
There wasn't even a bathroom law in Arizona. A bunch of men busted in there just to harass a lesbian.
There wasn't even a bathroom law in Arizona. A bunch of men busted in there just to harass a ~~lesbian~~ woman.
Her sexuality is irrelevant. There are plenty of "butch" straight women.
There's a clear hierarchy to their hate. Trans > gay > cishet.
Sure, but don't let them use their bigotry to control narrative.
There is no reason this person had to be an lesbian for this scenario. The bigots hear lesbian and think, no big deal, better safe than sorry, etc.
Who could’ve ever possibly imagined that this would happen?
Oh anyone who can put two and two together…
Sounds like a lucrative lawsuit to me
Nah, suing the cops is an uphill battle, even when you have a good case. And even if you win the cops will see 0 repercussions. Anything you win will be payed for by the tax payer while the cops get to stay on the force and brutalize more citizens.
Whoa, that's even crazier. Are police not beholden to law? If not, what exactly is law enforcement in the context of the executive branch of government?
Are police not beholden to law?
In the US? LOLOLOL
Sadly, in the US police officers aren't required to actually know the law - https://www.mintpressnews.com/court-rules-police-dont-need-know-laws-enforce/217236/
"What am I being arrested for?"
"Doing stuff we don't like without license."
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/heien-v-north-carolina/
Why rely on MintPress’ analysis of someone else’s take. Why not use their source?
To be honest I just pulled the first link.
They've always considered themselves above the law.
I am the law!
It's the Sith side of Penis Inspection Day.
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to genital inspection.
This is just one reason why TERFs are morons
trans exclusionary radical bathroom fetishists?
edit sadly that doesn't describe it enough. how many more modifiers do you want. hate is hate.
Someone on Lemmy, I wish I remembered and could credit them, called them FARTs- Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes. I've been telling all my friends to do that, it feels right.
it's just basic human decency that i need to know the details of your junk in a Tucson mega mart
"We can always tell"
you could not hire the most talented comedian on earth to parody this.
I had a bad feeling about Tuscan and Phoenix, not sure about the rest of Arizona
Ah yeah, just people learning about new/old genders the hard way. You just have to remember LGBTQ A+. There's a plus I assume now because there's a large number of yet to surface genders. There's a space between the A, I assume because A is for Asexual sort of de-gendered. Its a rainbow out there. Just accept it and move on. I don't even understand why the big deal. At home there's two bathrooms and anyone can go in them. I don't have to go check all my guests for dick or vagina. I assume that they gotta go at some point so I provide them the same two bathrooms my own family uses....unless they got Ebola. I assume other people would also draw the line at deadly airborne diseases. Possible at diarrhea, but hey, even then, you still gotta go somewhere!
The full acronym as far as we are aware is: LGBTQIANB2SP+
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic, Nonbinary, TwoSpirit, Pansexual (and maybe Polyamorous) plus
Dang! I want to be polyamorous but my wife said no.
Oh, sorry that you're in that situation.
Its OK I'll ask again tomorrow.
Doesn't sound like a good thing to be honest. If someone says no, you should respect that and either stop being in that relationship if being polyamorous is that important to you, or accept that you won't ever be in a polyamorous relationship.
Lol. No worries it was just a funny comment. I'm totally fine.
Oh, okay. As somemany who are polyamorous we saw the possible outcomes of trying to force such a situation. Glad you're okay and it's not serious.
I totally wonder how they can possibly make a trio or more work. But to each their own. Two of my sisters in law have all their kids from different dads. It seems to work for them and they are nice and decent people not trying to sexually molest me when we meet lol.
Well it depends what kind of polyamory you want. Personally we are relationship anarchists and mostly solo polyam which is more towards the egalitarian end.
There's the hierarchical polyamorous folks that we don't really like at all, but if it works for someone or somemany, then they have our support.
We've made a lot of mistakes in the past over it, but we have learned what to do and what not to do.
We highly recommend undertaking therapy, and learning to recognise that jealousy and envy are not good things to base relationships on nor to blame others for, those are our own problems, nothing to do with others if they aren't doing anything to be petty to us or to intentionally hurt us in other ways.
The same type of people complaining about Gender-Neutral bathrooms are the same type of people that would complain about desegregated water fountains. Bigots.
So if we create a bathroom for bigots will that solve the problem?
/S
Yes please, and paint the bathroom door red.
really bathrooms should default to being accessible, look to thatcher's grave for a great example.