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shinobicyrus · 2 years ago

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In a craven, pathetic, cynical, and transparently desperate ploy to energize his torpid 2024 campaign and match his rival Desantis, Twice-Impeached Ex-President Trump has shuffled out of his Florida tanning tank to join the gibbering chorus of Far-Right trans-panic by releasing a video on Truth Social. The full statement amounts to a hate-ridden, incendiary rant that proposes nationwide federal action that would threaten the health and well-being of trans people, in particular trans children, and will use the law to enforce a rigid, hetero-normative, cisgender social order.

You can watch the full video here on Forbes if you choose to. I advise against it, personally. The years since his removal from public office and most social media seems to have had atrophied my tolerance. It’s probably why I was somehow shocked at how a video less than four minutes long can cram so much ignorance, falsehoods, hateful invective, and unhinged demagoguery in such a short period of time.

Pages of ink could be spilled breaking down every ranting tangent, from threats to prosecute doctors and hospitals providing gender affirming care, the distasteful novelty of calling trans children mutants, inventing a conspiracy of pharmaceutical companies selling unsafe hormones and puberty blockers to children, and proposes using the federal government to “promote” aka enforce “positive education of the nuclear family” and the “role of mothers and fathers,” sprinkled with some good old fashioned sex-based bio-essentialism.

The crescendo, the real red meat dripping with bloody doctrine, is at the end:

“I will ask congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States Government are male and female and they are assigned at birth.”

“The Bill will also make clear that Title 9 prohibits men from participating in womens’ sports and we will protect the rights of parents from being forced to allow their minor child to assume a gender which is new and an identity without the parents’ consent. The identity will not be new and it will not be without parental consent.”

“No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender, a concept that was never heard of in all of human history - nobody’s ever heard of this, what’s happening today - it was all when the radical left invented it just a few years ago.”

He ends it all with a chilling conclusion. “Under my leadership, this madness will end.”

I’ve done my best since his departure from office to avoid talking about this sad orange failure puttering around his private golf course while lawsuits and legal investigations pile around him. But I’ve heard little mainstream discussion of this announcement; how Far-Right transphobic rhetoric is being elevated to the level of presidential politics.

While Trump was never friendly to the LGBTQ community, he was also prone to mocking the likes of Pence for his desire of wanting to “hang the gays.” Did his Administration do harm to the queer community? Yes, undeniably so. But to me it felt obligatory, with little energy or drive behind it, as Trump ultimately didn’t care. The callous apathy of an incurious narcissist.

Now, whether he believes the nonsense he’s spewing or not, Trump sees that the Republican base has been driven to a mad fervor over the existence of trans folks. So, like the cynical, amoral opportunist he is, he will regurgitate the vile hateful garbage his speechwriters feed him for political and financial gain.

Whether he gets the nomination or not, this announcement will set the tone for the entire Republican presidential primary of 2024.

#Transphobia #Trans Panic #Donald Trump #Fascism #Queerphobia #LGBTQ Rights #I remember during the 2016 campaign #Trump had said to a room of Republicans #''To protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful *foreign* ideology.''#to thunderous applause #because of course it was all an excuse to spread Islamaphobia #a way to assuage themselves into believing they weren't bigots #''Well we're not stoning and shooting them! we're nice *reasonable* people! Not like those foreign *Monsters*.''#Trump even has to say 'LGBTQ' with such halting awkwardness because it's just a thing he doesn't know or care about #you can even hear it in the video announcement #the little awkward asides he makes that breaks the flow of the speech:#''Very Simple!''#''Can you believe this?''#''Ridiculous!''#and of course the ''Nobody’s ever heard of this what’s happening today.''#this is his tell #*He's* never heard of it #all of this is a subject he knows nothing about #so all the info he has is what his handlers feed him #and is just parroting the pre-existing rhetoric #I'm not saying he isn't a bigot - what I'm saying is he's the worst kind of enabler #a know-nothing buffoon who is just catering to the worst common denominator for his own personal gain #with zero regard for the harm it will cause #and honestly? it doesn't matter what he does or doesn't believe #all that matters is that he's spreading it and trying to profit from it

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hosannan · 2 years ago

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To Thunderous Applause { Lachesis & Nanna

"Mother! Oh, you're here!" Her heart was already in her throat, body unfairly skipping three steps to a thought she had scarcely suppressed. Her mother being here meant she was subjected to the same fate as the rest, vines crested over her shoulders and curving over her neck. The duplicity of this event was not lost upon her, artful as it was, with sunflowers and brightly refined petals relegating themselves a part of her mother's mane. The way she hummed, the way her fingers bent by the knuckles... the way Lachesis beared to even look at her—at what cost was Nanna being spoiled, so?

Glancing once upon the sigil on her mother's hand, then back towards the clear auburn of her eyes, Nanna hesitated. "...It won't hurt you, will it?" Nanna knew fairly well what lightning in a bottle could do. She had felt it, deeply, with such clarity that it was as though the gods themselves could not help but crown her anger in gold. Now, with living proof of someone beyond the divine—her mother, who was mortal, as clear as day—Nanna feared that Lachesis would be smited by the very discharge Nanna meant to cull.

Perhaps she feared that her mother would know.

That she would touch Nanna and know. (Of something Nanna had swiftly swallowed upon seeing her again.)

Laughing under her breath, she disguised her shakiness with a defiant bend of the brow. If they could defy fate, would she recline to such base feelings? Never. Taking her hand, Nanna grinned against the odds. Both their symbols danced in their palms, imbuing warmth through their fingers. And without pause, Nanna drew back her arms, poised to dance. For a moment, as she rounded her heel elegantly in a half-moon turn, Nanna forgot who was the teacher and who was the student. Being away from her mother for so long meant her body had since been taught to move without her. Gasping quietly, Nanna smoothly returned back to a rest, so her mother could fill that space that time had pervaded.

"...Dance with me, mother." She recovered flawlessly. Though it was impossible to miss that Nanna had become quite the competent dancer, herself. "I want to see the ballroom as you do."

@lionheartedsunflower

#to thunderous applause #lionheartedsunflower #{ to her chagrin Nanna wishes she could return to a time where Lach could fill that space for her #{ but it's been a really long time since then and she's learned how to dance a mother's dance by herself :')#{ time to deal with that LOL (weeping)

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duchess-of-mandalore · 8 days ago

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