• @[email protected]
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    384 hours ago

    Don’t they know just because you’ve banned a word, doesn’t mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence?

    This is that easy. There’s a few words I’d love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd

  • @[email protected]
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    114 hours ago

    This is pretty dumb even by trump standards. You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.

    Most of the research caught up is probably going to be using the terms incidentally (for instance, a drug study that happens to mention participants were AMAB) and this will cause a bunch of paperwork and probably just end up being changed to something like “gametically” or “chromosomally”.

    • @[email protected]
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      452 minutes ago

      You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.

      The right thinks that if they clamp down hard enough that it will just go away, much like LGBTQ people were forced to mask and hide themselves like they had to back in the day, otherwise they ended up like Matthew Shepard. I don’t know that they even consider the euphemism treadmill aspect of things, they just don’t want these people to feel like they can be themselves and feel safe.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 minutes ago

      Think even more general than that. Ignore identity/gender/sexuality issues for a moment. How do you write a research article about the negative effects of a drug on pregnancy without using the word pregnant? About complications during a “normal pregnancy”(I’m using their word, not mine - please don’t take offense - I hope you see where I’m going)? If you can’t mention gender or pregnancy, even when it’s about cis people, you suddenly can’t do a whole hell of a lot of research.

  • db0
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    917 hours ago

    Literally speedrunning the Nazi handbook.

  • @[email protected]
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    1488 hours ago

    An attack on science is an attack on us all. They are trying to erase science they dont agree with. This is Christian fascism - welcome to giliad.

    Anyone in the US please organise - join an anti religious influence group, protest, disobey. You must fight back.

  • @[email protected]
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    1809 hours ago

    I’m so fucking scared. They’ve inhibited our movement by fucking with passports, they’ve defined us as dishonest and dishonorable in the EO kick us out of the military, they’ve codified the notion that our gender identity constitutes sexual deviance and poses a threat to children, they’ve attacked proven life-saving care, with a focus on children and an impact on adults.

    and now they’re trying to book-burn us out of existence.

    this is systematic dehumanization, the track record of which is grim.

    There’s just straight up not enough of us to do this on our own.

    If people don’t start standing up for us, we’re fucked.

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        41 hour ago

        From my sister about my 17y.o. trans niece: “Unfortunately, [niece] had a children’s passport (expired now), so she’s in the group who would not be able to get a passport anymore because her birth certificate and social security don’t currently match each other and don’t match her passport records.”

      • @[email protected]
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        245 hours ago

        They are stealing the documents of trans people who go to get new documents including passports, leaving them without identifying paperwork (and identified by the authorities by the paperwork they lost) in a time where that is very convenient for the people in power, and threatening them with arrest if they ask for them back. In addition to what has been said already

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        non-binary people had been getting “X“ instead of M or F on their passport. The Trump administration will no longer allow those passports to be issued

        • @[email protected]
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          42 hours ago

          Seems to be more than that, one person was outright refused any passport, even male, and were threatened with arrest if they asked any more questions. All paperwork (birth certificate etc) was kept by the office in LA.

      • @[email protected]
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        478 hours ago

        There was a story about how they wouldn’t renew some transgender persons passport the other day.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 hours ago

          For anyone trans or NB, starting with applications received from 1/16. Others are not impacted yet AFAIK.

        • Null User Object
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          Unless you mean because it’s 3 am on a Sunday, this is blatent misinformation.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 hours ago

            Maybe it’s just the three trans people I know that are trying to leave the country right now, my brother’s family, and a bunch of family friends that come from a family of pilots and flight attendants.

            I’m sure they are the only people having trouble in the whole country. Must be an isolated incident. … …

            They are all located out west and in the Midwest, so maybe it’s just the Chicago office and the website. I don’t know if anybody has tried doing it through mail correspondence yet but that takes a little bit more time anyway.

          • @[email protected]
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            43 hours ago

            There have been multiple people in local groups that have reported this happening to them this week. Going to get documentation updated, sent home without anything - not even documentation with natal sex. Local queer org put out an advisory - reached out to all shrinks that work with queer people.

  • @[email protected]
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    629 hours ago

    Oh look…

    The US is embedding a totalitarian theonomic government. A new, (soon to be) militarized, hierarchy regime of religious fanaticism and newly created social classes, in which DEI is being brutally subjugated.

    I swear I’ve seen this show before…

  • Arghblarg
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    859 hours ago

    Back up everything. Don’t let it be memory-holed! Holy crap.

    • @[email protected]
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      198 hours ago

      This needs more upvotes. Granted, the time to back up everything was when project 2025 hit the internet last year.