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I say trans revolution!
3 years ago
Some time ago i told my conservative brother there was one thing that i did find really good about America today. And that is, thanks to Americas core value of individual freedom, our modest tolerance of transgender people. It was not anyones business to tell someone how to present themselves and in some areas it was all but accepted. We were much better than say France or "terf island' UK.
That has all changed though this year. Apparently the freedom loving, balanced and open debate, all oppinions matter obsessed Republicans have now taken to laws banning changing your gender to non-binary, banning books with ideas they find offensive, suing and firing teachers and university professors who say things that run afoul to their values, even now so far as to charge parents of trans kids as child abusers and threaten them with felonies and 10 years in prison for trans care to their children. With Texas even offerign the idea of sending parents to jail for child abuse and taking their trans kids away to be placed with caregivers that we can be totally sure of will try and 'reverse' the child's transition. Its amazing how quickly they got started a fiery moral panic about satanic ritual sexual abusers in government and all child care institutions gooming you kids, mutilating their bodies, and turning them into sex objects for the LGBTQ movement.
I REALLY wonder where the libertarians have gone now?
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Going to a personal level, this reminds me of my experience as a gay youth in the southern states, with parents that did not accept me as i was. I remember back in the ealy 2000s hearing all those proclimations by people in my community and culture about how essential God was to America and how divine judement was coming, how gay people caused 9/11 for their debauchery, how homosexuals if allowed to thrive will be the death of america. That sensation of being told you have no place in American values, or are its malaise for being queer. That experience informs my own positions everytime I am presented with the story of a minority community facing bigorty, I remember what that was like for me, to be told you never will belong, that yorue the enemy.
So... unlike SOME older gay men, I want to try and be totally open for trans people and listen to them and learn about them. And watching all these new laws come to pass and this new moral panic over transgender queer 'gooming' and all the conspiracies around it, really has caused me to feel a great deal of distress over what is happening to trans and enbee people in America right now. Hell the fury over this trans moral panic is so severe its also got us gay guys and lesbians to in the crosshairs as politicians seek to keep kids from knowing gay men and women exist too.
Ive been taliokg soem political action, putting up signs, writting letters to news and political figures, makign donations, and msot importantly trying to make my voice heard in local elections and events. Which if youre not doing.... you ABSOLUTELY should do. But overall i feel maybe that the best for me is to help out behind the scenes in the dark shadows as i do. Right wing psychopaths would use the idea of a furry fetisher, porn artist, and deviant, promoting trans rights issues to great moral outrage im sure. But the leas ti wanna do is help out directly with any trans people i know just as a moral support. and maybe through art too as im trying to figure out how i can include trans chars in my art in a way that is genuinely sexy and daring but also respectful.... no dickgirls or cutboys cliches (i tend to hate those anyways). Its a struggle though, with the worry if im doing it right but we shall see.
I knwo when i endured my experience with oppressive bigoty and exclusion from my community as a whole, having so many people view you as an enemy to good society for your sexuality, or a threat to Christian values, it became just in a way empowering to do the Nick Wilde thing. If they only see a fetish demon, then just be the best fetish demon you can. Thats the trouble witht them makign something out to be so dangerous dark and scary and threatening... it becomes alluring and attractive and powerful. That this one thing could made them so panicked and angry. Particularly when those outrages are illogical and tied into a very rigid and conforming worldview. So now we have emerged with a new right wing crusade where were even having parents and politicans saying that words like 'damn' and 'shit' ... or 'fart' and 'butt' (let alone gay or transgender) are too inappropriate for kids to be exposed to and it has to be regulated through school policy or government legislation. That is just RIPE for creatively gleeful attacks from the youth rebel counterculture.
The best thing i can try and advise for trans people facing this cultural malestorm of intolerance and prudishness, is somethign i learned from the classic gay culture of the old decades when they were absolutley at the mercy of a society that didnt accept them and a hostile government. I noted, that community built themselves up by being creatively rebellious. They had that old slogan "out of the bedroon and into the streets!" They amde lots of art and film and drag shows and cultural creation that strenghtened their community bonds, and put up an indignant resistance to normalization or being silenced. They were loud about who they were and most of all they saw societys attemopt to take away their value as being unable to harm them when among their peers and their tightknit community. they wrre as they say "fabulous". Maybe that will help for trans people. Recognize that when society or people try and misgender you or take that away, YOU can at least take it back in YOUR world. By stating that these people doptn have control over you and that the true reality is not their society but the community of LGBTQ and allies that YOU are a part of. The art you guys dom, the content you create, the words you speak THAT is the trea reality and understadn that all those other people agaisnt it are simply hysterical prudes, intolerant of science, sexually neurotic, and deeply, deeply UNCOOL. Youre a real person, they are not. You have the courage to be yourself, theyre to afraid to do that and need to have some godhead tell them theyre important and safe. Be fabulosly demonic. Be big and scary trans. And finally, show love, love among your kin, be that wonderful soft and fun space that is at the core of queer and especially furriness. im sure you know what i mean :)
That has all changed though this year. Apparently the freedom loving, balanced and open debate, all oppinions matter obsessed Republicans have now taken to laws banning changing your gender to non-binary, banning books with ideas they find offensive, suing and firing teachers and university professors who say things that run afoul to their values, even now so far as to charge parents of trans kids as child abusers and threaten them with felonies and 10 years in prison for trans care to their children. With Texas even offerign the idea of sending parents to jail for child abuse and taking their trans kids away to be placed with caregivers that we can be totally sure of will try and 'reverse' the child's transition. Its amazing how quickly they got started a fiery moral panic about satanic ritual sexual abusers in government and all child care institutions gooming you kids, mutilating their bodies, and turning them into sex objects for the LGBTQ movement.
I REALLY wonder where the libertarians have gone now?
---
Going to a personal level, this reminds me of my experience as a gay youth in the southern states, with parents that did not accept me as i was. I remember back in the ealy 2000s hearing all those proclimations by people in my community and culture about how essential God was to America and how divine judement was coming, how gay people caused 9/11 for their debauchery, how homosexuals if allowed to thrive will be the death of america. That sensation of being told you have no place in American values, or are its malaise for being queer. That experience informs my own positions everytime I am presented with the story of a minority community facing bigorty, I remember what that was like for me, to be told you never will belong, that yorue the enemy.
So... unlike SOME older gay men, I want to try and be totally open for trans people and listen to them and learn about them. And watching all these new laws come to pass and this new moral panic over transgender queer 'gooming' and all the conspiracies around it, really has caused me to feel a great deal of distress over what is happening to trans and enbee people in America right now. Hell the fury over this trans moral panic is so severe its also got us gay guys and lesbians to in the crosshairs as politicians seek to keep kids from knowing gay men and women exist too.
Ive been taliokg soem political action, putting up signs, writting letters to news and political figures, makign donations, and msot importantly trying to make my voice heard in local elections and events. Which if youre not doing.... you ABSOLUTELY should do. But overall i feel maybe that the best for me is to help out behind the scenes in the dark shadows as i do. Right wing psychopaths would use the idea of a furry fetisher, porn artist, and deviant, promoting trans rights issues to great moral outrage im sure. But the leas ti wanna do is help out directly with any trans people i know just as a moral support. and maybe through art too as im trying to figure out how i can include trans chars in my art in a way that is genuinely sexy and daring but also respectful.... no dickgirls or cutboys cliches (i tend to hate those anyways). Its a struggle though, with the worry if im doing it right but we shall see.
I knwo when i endured my experience with oppressive bigoty and exclusion from my community as a whole, having so many people view you as an enemy to good society for your sexuality, or a threat to Christian values, it became just in a way empowering to do the Nick Wilde thing. If they only see a fetish demon, then just be the best fetish demon you can. Thats the trouble witht them makign something out to be so dangerous dark and scary and threatening... it becomes alluring and attractive and powerful. That this one thing could made them so panicked and angry. Particularly when those outrages are illogical and tied into a very rigid and conforming worldview. So now we have emerged with a new right wing crusade where were even having parents and politicans saying that words like 'damn' and 'shit' ... or 'fart' and 'butt' (let alone gay or transgender) are too inappropriate for kids to be exposed to and it has to be regulated through school policy or government legislation. That is just RIPE for creatively gleeful attacks from the youth rebel counterculture.
The best thing i can try and advise for trans people facing this cultural malestorm of intolerance and prudishness, is somethign i learned from the classic gay culture of the old decades when they were absolutley at the mercy of a society that didnt accept them and a hostile government. I noted, that community built themselves up by being creatively rebellious. They had that old slogan "out of the bedroon and into the streets!" They amde lots of art and film and drag shows and cultural creation that strenghtened their community bonds, and put up an indignant resistance to normalization or being silenced. They were loud about who they were and most of all they saw societys attemopt to take away their value as being unable to harm them when among their peers and their tightknit community. they wrre as they say "fabulous". Maybe that will help for trans people. Recognize that when society or people try and misgender you or take that away, YOU can at least take it back in YOUR world. By stating that these people doptn have control over you and that the true reality is not their society but the community of LGBTQ and allies that YOU are a part of. The art you guys dom, the content you create, the words you speak THAT is the trea reality and understadn that all those other people agaisnt it are simply hysterical prudes, intolerant of science, sexually neurotic, and deeply, deeply UNCOOL. Youre a real person, they are not. You have the courage to be yourself, theyre to afraid to do that and need to have some godhead tell them theyre important and safe. Be fabulosly demonic. Be big and scary trans. And finally, show love, love among your kin, be that wonderful soft and fun space that is at the core of queer and especially furriness. im sure you know what i mean :)
JexterDaCrazyFox01
~jessefurry1999
I mean I'm bisexual and i too hate how people especially trans are being treated like garbage and being censored i mean kids are going to grow up learning stuff like this anyway, as a kid I didn't know what sexuality was i was ignorant about it immaturely laughing about it at first but eventually I learned about it even though I'm still kinda confused on the whole trans thing i wish someone could explain it to me since I'm ignorant on that, although I have met trans people in real life, i usually tend to keep my sexuality a secret since i don't really want my own people to know I'm attracted to both genders as they probably wouldn't accept me or appreciate me for who i am and yes I've met trans folks even in my state of Texas that you mentioned with this whole crazy stupid law that i didn't know was even happening i feel bad for those people who have to go thru that shit i feel like society just gets stupider and more unacceptable for little petty things like that i mean come on they're just words! It's not like those words are gonna hurt people even if kids find it hilarious, kids don't know any better they don't have the understanding of an adult yet. Everybody is too soft and easily offended, Pepe Le Pew being offensive is a stupid thing that already came out of cancel culture and shit. Sorry i go off-topic, but i get ya I appreciate you for who you are coming from a homophobic southern state myself like Texas lol, i love all kinds of people and appreciate them whether they're gay, lesbian, trans, asexual, non-binary, (bisexual like me), pansexual, etc.
If you go do research on all of this you will find that all those points the right wing is pushing are GROSS exaggerations. Who are you anyways? Never met u before you never faved any of my art. Im beginning to sense that people search journal entries on FA for this very subject just to find someone and pick a fight on it or so.
