TDT 4: What the $#@! is a "womxn", anyways?

[Grenartia]

Doesn’t GRS sterilize the person anyway?

Yes, but it costs a lot of money, requires recovery time, and cannot be obtained until 18, and trans people should not have to overcome those obstacles merely for basic gender recognition from the government. And not every trans person even wants SRS, so.

Also, even for those who do get SRS, sperm and egg preservation are things that are done.

Oh right, The military ban got blocked in the House.

Great!

I'm not a show news kind of person, but this seems like a potentially good thing; it looks like Janet Mock will be creating some trans content for Netflix.

Mock, who has produced, written and directed for acclaimed LGBT-themed FX series Pose, confirmed she had signed up to an exclusive deal to develop new shows for the streaming giant. (...) She added: "This is the first kind of deal of its kind for a trans person, no less a trans woman of colour. (...) 84 percent of Americans say they don’t know or work with a trans person, so there’s potential now with Netflix’s worldwide audience to introduce hundreds of millions of viewers to trans people, showing people who may not understand us that we can tell our own stories."

If only I had netflix...

Oh right, The military ban got blocked in the House.

So much for him being the "most LGBT president of all time"

What the fuck is the point of this, by the way?

Also, Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, his Twitter feed is pure cancer.

Of course it is. Its Donald Trump. All the carcinogens from whatever he uses to color himself orange have leached into his brain.

[Galloism]

Strongly Worded Letters change nothing.

What would you suggest instead?

We could send them some Freedom.

[Auzkhia]

Oh right, The military ban got blocked in the House.

So much for him being the "most LGBT president of all time"

What the fuck is the point of this, by the way?

Also, Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, his Twitter feed is pure cancer.

To go after a group his party and base hates, but at least democrats have a foothold to challenge the president, though the senate is one challenge too.

[Kowani]

Strongly Worded Letters change nothing.

What would you suggest instead?

In this case, economic sanctions. Ideologically speaking, culturally integrating Japan with the west, exercising the harmful parts of their culture and adapting the positive. But that’s impractical. So for now, exporting soft power and western values.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I'm not a show news kind of person, but this seems like a potentially good thing; it looks like Janet Mock will be creating some trans content for Netflix.

Mock, who has produced, written and directed for acclaimed LGBT-themed FX series Pose, confirmed she had signed up to an exclusive deal to develop new shows for the streaming giant. (...) She added: "This is the first kind of deal of its kind for a trans person, no less a trans woman of colour. (...) 84 percent of Americans say they don’t know or work with a trans person, so there’s potential now with Netflix’s worldwide audience to introduce hundreds of millions of viewers to trans people, showing people who may not understand us that we can tell our own stories."

That’s awesome if it happens. One doesn’t really see much programming targeted for trans people. I’d really love several informative projects on trans people, their history, their struggles and achievements. Life pieces, in which one can listen to trans people’s experiences.

[Hanafuridake]

What would you suggest instead?

In this case, economic sanctions. Ideologically speaking, culturally integrating Japan with the west, exercising the harmful parts of their culture and adapting the positive. But that’s impractical. So for now, exporting soft power and western values.

Economic sanctions would be negative from a geopolitical perspective, serve to sow resentment toward the LGBTQ+ community, and on a more personal level, as someone who's trans and has family & friends who live in Japan, I just can't stress how awful the idea is.

The rest is just cultural imperialism which arrogantly presupposes that the Western world doesn't have its own problems of transphobia in the government and culture.

[Novus America]

What would you suggest instead?

In this case, economic sanctions. Ideologically speaking, culturally integrating Japan with the west, exercising the harmful parts of their culture and adapting the positive. But that’s impractical. So for now, exporting soft power and western values.

Given the geopolitical situation, the nature of Japan, and the fact that there are many countries doing much worse, quiet behind the scenes talks are best for this.

[Iciaros]

In this case, economic sanctions. Ideologically speaking, culturally integrating Japan with the west, exercising the harmful parts of their culture and adapting the positive. But that’s impractical. So for now, exporting soft power and western values.

Given the geopolitical situation, the nature of Japan, and the fact that there are many countries doing much worse, quiet behind the scenes talks are best for this.

Agreed. Better to keep things quiet before blowing it up and making others hostile; it makes for easier concessions.

[Hediacrana]

In this case, economic sanctions. Ideologically speaking, culturally integrating Japan with the west, exercising the harmful parts of their culture and adapting the positive. But that’s impractical. So for now, exporting soft power and western values.

Economic sanctions would be negative from a geopolitical perspective, serve to sow resentment toward the LGBTQ+ community, and on a more personal level, as someone who's trans and has family & friends who live in Japan, I just can't stress how awful the idea is.

The rest is just cultural imperialism which arrogantly presupposes that the Western world doesn't have its own problems of transphobia in the government and culture.

Absolutely this.

And additionally, those who'd like to frame the promotion of trans rights as 'exporting western values' better bear in mind that (as Ifreann pointed out) Japan's policies are rooted in European theories on eugenics.

[Kowani]

In this case, economic sanctions. Ideologically speaking, culturally integrating Japan with the west, exercising the harmful parts of their culture and adapting the positive. But that’s impractical. So for now, exporting soft power and western values.

Economic sanctions would be negative from a geopolitical perspective, serve to sow resentment toward the LGBTQ+ community,

Yes. That’s why I said that it wasn’t practical.

The rest is just cultural imperialism

The fastest way towards building a worldstate without blood is removing the cultural and economic barriers between nations as much as possible.

which arrogantly presupposes that the Western world doesn't have its own problems of transphobia in the government and culture.

I didn’t say that. But the problems of the West are not as bad as the Japanese ones.

In this case, economic sanctions. Ideologically speaking, culturally integrating Japan with the west, exercising the harmful parts of their culture and adapting the positive. But that’s impractical. So for now, exporting soft power and western values.

Given the geopolitical situation, the nature of Japan, and the fact that there are many countries doing much worse, quiet behind the scenes talks are best for this.

There is a difference between some random Middle Eastern dictatorship, where this is par for the course in a menagerie of horrors, and a first world country.

[Novus America]

Economic sanctions would be negative from a geopolitical perspective, serve to sow resentment toward the LGBTQ+ community,

Yes. That’s why I said that it wasn’t practical.

The rest is just cultural imperialism

The fastest way towards building a worldstate without blood is removing the cultural and economic barriers between nations as much as possible.

which arrogantly presupposes that the Western world doesn't have its own problems of transphobia in the government and culture.

I didn’t say that. But the problems of the West are not as bad as the Japanese ones.

Given the geopolitical situation, the nature of Japan, and the fact that there are many countries doing much worse, quiet behind the scenes talks are best for this.

There is a difference between some random Middle Eastern dictatorship, where this is par for the course in a menagerie of horrors, and a first world country.

Well if you admit it is not practical, what do you suggest we actually do?

And I would rather antagonize some crappy dictatorship than Japan anyways.

[Kowani]

Yes. That’s why I said that it wasn’t practical.
The fastest way towards building a worldstate without blood is removing the cultural and economic barriers between nations as much as possible.

I didn’t say that. But the problems of the West are not as bad as the Japanese ones.


There is a difference between some random Middle Eastern dictatorship, where this is par for the course in a menagerie of horrors, and a first world country.

Well if you admit it is not practical, what do you suggest we actually do?

But that’s impractical. So for now, exporting soft power and western values.

And I would rather antagonize some crappy dictatorship than Japan anyways.

Yeah, that’s feasible. No advantages to local or global stability than to think about here!

[The New California Republic]

Some local news from near where I live that I thought you folks might find interesting:

A series of green traffic signals along the Pride parade route in Edinburgh have been replaced with a range of diversity images.

Four designs have been created to represent lesbian, gay, trans and straight relationships, using recognised gender symbols on 35 lights.

Edinburgh Pride will march through the streets on Saturday.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-48709633

[Auzkhia]

Some local news from near where I live that I thought you folks might find interesting:

A series of green traffic signals along the Pride parade route in Edinburgh have been replaced with a range of diversity images.

Four designs have been created to represent lesbian, gay, trans and straight relationships, using recognised gender symbols on 35 lights.

Edinburgh Pride will march through the streets on Saturday.

(Image)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-48709633

That's good but there's bad news in Edinburgh too

[The New California Republic]

Some local news from near where I live that I thought you folks might find interesting:

A series of green traffic signals along the Pride parade route in Edinburgh have been replaced with a range of diversity images.

Four designs have been created to represent lesbian, gay, trans and straight relationships, using recognised gender symbols on 35 lights.

Edinburgh Pride will march through the streets on Saturday.

(Image)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-48709633

That's good but there's bad news in Edinburgh too

BBC News link to that here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-48702946

[Hediacrana]

The rest is just cultural imperialism

The fastest way towards building a worldstate without blood is removing the cultural and economic barriers between nations as much as possible.

Just to reiterate:

And additionally, those who'd like to frame the promotion of trans rights as 'exporting western values' better bear in mind that (as Ifreann pointed out) Japan's policies are rooted in European theories on eugenics.

Not unlike the homophobic law repealed in Botswana last week, which was a remnant of British colonial times.

This just to say that in a lot of places around the world, these kind of cisheterosexist policies are not indigenous, but remnants of that very western cultural imperialism that you are hailing as a solution.

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Some local news from near where I live that I thought you folks might find interesting:

A series of green traffic signals along the Pride parade route in Edinburgh have been replaced with a range of diversity images.

Four designs have been created to represent lesbian, gay, trans and straight relationships, using recognised gender symbols on 35 lights.

Edinburgh Pride will march through the streets on Saturday.

(Image)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-48709633

I love it, and I want those in my town.

[The New California Republic]

(Image)

I love it, and I want those in my town.

I am a bit mystified though at the choice of a "no benders" hate symbol next to it:



Just kidding.

[Hediacrana]

I love it, and I want those in my town.

I am a bit mystified though at the choice of a "no benders" hate symbol next to it:



Just kidding.

Sometimes it feels to me like in British English, every other word is also a slang term with sexual connotations.

On a side note, I always assumed you lived in CA.

[The New California Republic]

I am a bit mystified though at the choice of a "no benders" hate symbol next to it:

(Image)

Just kidding.

Sometimes it feels to me like in British English, every other word is also a slang term with sexual connotations.

Yeah there are a lot of British English words that don't really make sense when used in American English, and vice versa.

On a side note, I always assumed you lived in CA.

Nah, I have lived in Scotland for about...25 years now.

[Auzkhia]

Sometimes it feels to me like in British English, every other word is also a slang term with sexual connotations.

Yeah there are a lot of British English words that don't really make sense when used in American English, and vice versa.

On a side note, I always assumed you lived in CA.

Nah, I have lived in Scotland for about...25 years now.

People think I'm German because I had a German themed IC nation.

That's good but there's bad news in Edinburgh too

BBC News link to that here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-48702946

Yeah, it's basically TERFs pressing the devolved government to stop, UK has a lot of transphobic powerful people in it sadly.

[Hediacrana]

Yeah there are a lot of British English words that don't really make sense when used in American English, and vice versa.


Nah, I have lived in Scotland for about...25 years now.

People think I'm German because I had a German themed IC nation.

I've had people assume I have Egyptian or Iranian roots because of that sphinx in my flag, so I should have known better I guess.

BBC News link to that here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-48702946

Yeah, it's basically TERFs pressing the devolved government to stop, UK has a lot of transphobic powerful people in it sadly.

I knew England has its problems, politically speaking, but (possibly because i have a couple of good friends who originally are from Scotland) I guess I've been idealizing Scotland too much.

[Ifreann]

Some local news from near where I live that I thought you folks might find interesting:

A series of green traffic signals along the Pride parade route in Edinburgh have been replaced with a range of diversity images.

Four designs have been created to represent lesbian, gay, trans and straight relationships, using recognised gender symbols on 35 lights.

Edinburgh Pride will march through the streets on Saturday.

(Image)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-48709633

[Grenartia]

Some local news from near where I live that I thought you folks might find interesting:

A series of green traffic signals along the Pride parade route in Edinburgh have been replaced with a range of diversity images.

Four designs have been created to represent lesbian, gay, trans and straight relationships, using recognised gender symbols on 35 lights.

Edinburgh Pride will march through the streets on Saturday.

(Image)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-48709633

I love it, and I want those in my town.

Trans-inclusionary traffic lights to dunk on the TERFs. What will they think of next?

[The New California Republic]

Some local news from near where I live that I thought you folks might find interesting:

A series of green traffic signals along the Pride parade route in Edinburgh have been replaced with a range of diversity images.

Four designs have been created to represent lesbian, gay, trans and straight relationships, using recognised gender symbols on 35 lights.

Edinburgh Pride will march through the streets on Saturday.

(Image)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-48709633

Pmsl.

[Hediacrana]

Really liked reading these lovely portraits of trans/non-binary folks who found family and/or community.