queeranarchism:otabek-kz:Screenshotted this thread because you all need to see it.(Cis LGB, I’m expe

queeranarchism:otabek-kz:Screenshotted this thread because you all need to see it.(Cis LGB, I’m expecting you to reblog this.)Little Light:Let us assume thatour opponents are competent and have been studying our defenses forsome time, looking for vulnerabilities to exploit. They put outlittle feints and test attacks, seeing who will defend who, who canbe divided off from the group, and so on. We’ve seen this. All ofthese questions they need answers to: will Jews defend Muslims? WillAsians support Black struggle? Where can the wedges be put in? TheAlt-Right 4Chan types are always talking about observing andinfiltrating online anti-oppression communities for intel and laughs.All these little tests. What if they make up a pretend pedophiliaorientation? Will people defend it? Will they tight and divide overit? One vulnerabilitythey’ve consistently turned up is transmisogyny. Lots of groups canbe induced to vilify or wish away trans women. Useful! Remember alittle while ago when Milo put out that petition? “Remove the Tfrom LGBT”? They watched who signed and promoted that thing. Itwas couched in anti-oppression boilerplate. And look! Cis gay menpromoted it. Some feminists and womanists promoted it. Useful intel.They learned helpful info there: many cis LGB people were raring toturn on trans people. They’d even say it was for their ownprotection. They counted up who signed on, who elaborated on it, whowas excited about it. I’m looking at you, TERFs and enablers, inparticular.  (They even discovered that some fanatical anti-transfeminists would happily join forces with homophobic Christians, tohurt trans women.)  Nobody thought that T-out-of-LGBT petition wasgoing to DO anything. There’s nobody who DECIDES that. It was asolidarity test balloon. So these laughing nihilists wentlooking—along many lines–for cracks in solidarity, joints in thearmor, people who could be attacked 1st.Why do I point thisout now? Because this week the rumor mill floated a generalanti-LGBTQ EO or bill was coming, & they gauged opposition.Supposedly they decided that opposition to this anti-LGBTQlegislation would be too much for now, and put it in the not-yetcolumn. And yet: Now the word is they’re paring down to aspecifically anti-trans EO. One focused on legal documents, probablyframed as for nat'l security. (After all, mismatched documents arefraud, right? Terrorists could be using fake ID. And there’s all thatvoter fraud to address. Right?)Previous Inteloperations (& polls) have told them that the majority of thecountry has turned to support LGB rights—but NOT trans rights. Theyknow from watching our intra-movement arguments online that there’s along history of cis LGB folks throwing trans folks under the bus.They have tested to see if cis LGB people will readily abandon transpeople to save themselves. (Yes.) If they’ll outright attack us.(Yes.) They’ve tested if there are blocs w/in the cis LGB communityso dedicated to hurting trans people that they’ll ally wtthe rightwing. (Yes.) They’ve watched some of these anti-trans fanatics STILLobsessing over eradicating us, prioritizing that, even while thecountry is on fire. Lo and behold: the regime floats anti-LGBTQlegislation, withdraws it for now. Now they’re floating anti-translegislation. Right on time.Their researchindicates that the general public will happily let trans people burnfirst as expendable. That cis LGB people will, too. The plan? Toremove our ability to get legal ID documents. There goes voting,travel, med. care, having an answer to “your papers, please.”That and support for keeping us out of public bathrooms, away fromschools, away from gendered spaces, out of jobs and housing. Publiclife.I’m saying thisbecause they have good reason to believe they’re right that they cancome for us and no one will stop them. Their little intel operationsindicate that not only will no one stop them hurting trans people,many will even help. Even cis LGB people. I’m saying this especiallyfor everyone who gave them reason to believe this. Who looked theother way when trans lives were on the line.When they come forus. (They will come for us. They are about to come for us.) Provethem wrong. Prove them wrong. Prove them wrong. Please.Remember that thespecter of trans women was already a useful wedge issue &get-out-the-vote driver in the 2016 campaign. There’s precedent. Wewill be used as a weapon and a vulnerability against the rest of youfor as long as our opponents know we won’t be protected by the Left.One of our lessons from fighting the anti-Muslim E0s in the last weekis this: we have to deny them every victory. Each one counts.Whatever we teach them about who we will leave behind will be used tohurt all of us. We have to show them we will abandon no one. not everNow is a time when it is clear & stark: solidarity saves us.Together, we outnumber them. Together, we can win. Let us not bebroken apart. All of you responding with pledges to have our backs:thank you. Bring your friends on board. As Octavia Butler said: So beit. See to it. -- source link

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