I want to say that with trans folk now being at risk of the fucking death sentence in Florida….
The time for community is Now. The time to start planning and organizing how to get our rights back is NOW. bring it up at your local LGBT craft events or book club or support group or whatever. Tell your friends. Spread the word. And maybe see which ones will have the safety and resources you’ll need should a Lavender Hunt happen in your area.
And on the scarier end of reality….
This is fucking terrifying. Lots of people are at risk. Personally, I’m terrified this rhetoric will spread much like Trumpism did. I’m scared for my gf and I’m fucking scared for myself because we know historically that it isn’t just trans folk on HRT or drag performers that they go after.
And you have every right to do whatever you need to protect yourself.
I’m not going to shame folks who quit HRT, who take the rainbows out of their bio, the people who start saying partner instead of revealing a gender, or anyone else taking a few steps towards the safety that the closet provides. WE shouldn’t.
I fucking love you. And we’ll be okay as long as we’re together, okay?
We keep us safe
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For clarity:
the concern is that Desantis is challenging the supreme court law that mandated that it’s cruel and unusual punishment to be put to death for a crime that did not end in the victims death.
Depending how that goes, it could very much open the door for him to write up new death sentences for LGBT ppl in Florida. Along with yes, changing sexual battery to include HRT and drag. He’s already pushed through several bills making providing gender affirming care illegal for parents and doctors, and another that would allow the state to remove children being “subjected to” child abuse; trans healthcare
And if you’re in Florida please, please tell us what we can do and how we can support you. This has so many notes because we want to help. People in the replies want to know too. What can we do?
Seattle Public Library is doing this awesome program called Books Unbanned that allows teens and young adults (ages 13-26) access to their collection of e-books and e-audiobooks from anywhere in the USA. All you need to do is fill out a simple form and you get their Books Unbanned card. Please share this information far and wide. I know they’re not the only ones to have done this, but the more the merrier!
I just wanna say bc I KNOW you’re somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.
It’s been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you’d be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it’s on sight.
I’m not sure. Hey lovely people who have taken me over half way to a cool million! If you’d like to reblog again, I’d love that, if not, I still love you, and hope you’re having a great day. I’m gonna go do some stand up tonight.
god come on we’re so close. this is like the only meaningful thing that this website could ever achieve
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