At Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service removed the transgender and Progress Pride flags, instructing that only the traditional rainbow flag would be displayed. This action has been met with resistance, with New Yorkers bringing their own transgender flags to the site and draping them on statues and other areas. The Park Service also removed references to transgender and queer people from the monument's website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hah_7lyOv88
Trump Took Stonewall’s Trans Flags. New Yorkers Brought Their Own
This comes after the Trump Administration sought to expel any reference to transgender people from all federal resources, as per his January executive orders. As Erin in the Morning previously reported, one glaring example included an informational blurb about Sylvia Rivera, a trans woman of color and street queen who was among the founding mothers of the movement.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-took-stonewalls-tra...
Transgender was a part of Stonewall Rebellion. Trump is trying to erase transgender from history, past and present. He'll never do it as new ones are born a part of human diversity.
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Barbie Jean
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They Can Try
And they may suppress, but the wheel will turn again and we will rise. Hitler could not kill all the Jews, gypsies, queers, homosexuals. Trump and his toadies will not be able to eliminate us, but the next few years will be difficult.
Post Drumpf
will also be difficult. Those who became members of the MAGA cult will want to vent their anger at (hopefully) the GQP/MAGA being defeated in 2026 and 2028 (provided 'Daddy' does not cancel the elections due to a phony war etc). The LGBT and especially the T part will become targets of their anger.
If extreme rightwingers can propose sending 43 million to places like Aligator Alcatraz, then what's a few hundred thousand from the LGBT world? There are 43 million people of hispanic origin in the USA.
Keep your heads down people.
Samantha
Poised
According to multiple sources, they're seeking to remove the mention of Bisexual.
Love, Andrea Lena
Trump is not a bug but a feature
Trump is not erasing transgender people from history. It is the Republican Party that is doing so. He is not a bug but a feature of what the party was and is. The party fought hard against civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, and trans rights.
People need to quit trying to blame this only on Trump and see it as the fruition of what Republicans and Conservatives have been running on for the last 50 years. People need to correct people when they do try to act like Trump’s policies are some sort of abnormality from what the Republican Party wanted and what the Republican voters voted for. The voters might not have wanted it but that is what the party have been running on so they should not be shocked when they implement the restrictions of rights.
The Enabler
Republicans used to be decent people. Eisenhower was someone to be admired. You/we may not have agreed with them but they were genuine conservatives. Even up to George Bush and George W. the Republicans did not try to eliminate non-straight or non-white minorities. They rode along with the status quo and abided by the Constitution.
Trump has made hatred mainstream and implementation of abhorrent policies acceptable. The Republican party has abandoned decency and kowtows to a would-be king, a megalomaniac sociopathic outlaw. They have abandoned democracy for the sake of power. That is the difference. Obliterating transgender is only the first step. Gays will come next. Immigrants are already under the gun (when they come from south of your border).
Not only when they come from south
Immigrants from everywhere, even legal ones, are already being deported when ICE can find anything on them. A parking ticket, a typo on their immigration applications...
Does the abbreviation NKVD ring a bell? That was the USSR political police. They, like ICE, had a daily quota to arrest and send to the gulags. When they couldn't find criminals to fill it in (and they didn't bother too much to seek criminals), they just grabbed whoever they met on the street, slapped on them some accusations and loaded them on the wagons to the gulags.
The daily quota to arrest and deport of ICE will be increased with the time. When the illegal immigrants are mostly deported, they will continue with the non-criminal legal ones (legal ones with even minor crimes are already being deported). If they deport all (but the trumpanzees) of the legal immigrants, they will continue with the citizens...
Moreover, much like the Soviet Union, a Trump dictatorship will try to create some great projects to boast with. And, much like the Soviet Union, it will soon discover the value of the slave labor for these. So, not only ICE - already as a political police - will be sending people to gulags, but also the gulags will be happily accepting them and asking for more...
Hope I am wrong. But I have friends from USSR, and their experience is this.
To be clear
To be clear, I am not talking about the average Republican voter. I am talking about the party leadership and the policies that the leadership enacts. Eisenhower would have been kicked out of the GOP since 1980s, with being pro-union, and against big business.
George H.W. Bush ran against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and vetoed a1990 Civil Rights Act. His son fought to keep same sex marriage illegal.
Trump is more brazen with breaking the law, that does not change the fact that his policies are the same as what the party has been running on for the last 60 years.
Revisionist history….
Has anyone besides me noticed the parallels between trump/maga and the Soviet Union use of revising history to support ideology?
BAK 0.25tspgirl
I am afraid...
... that these are much more than simply parallels.
Or modern Russia, it is the
Or modern Russia, it is the same.
It is happening
Wherever they can get away with it, in a recent newspaper article in the i, Ian Dunt referred to it as cultural genocide and named the man who first coined the phrase. His argument was very good and he made the point that this is happening wherever they can get away with it. Even in the UK and under a Labour government, they are doing it or not doing anything about the Supreme Court's ruling. I have no belief in our courts or government both have which let transgender people down.
Angharad
Getting Worse :(
Sadly it keeps getting worse. Its been escalating slowly in my area for years. Whereas Western NY is fairly liberal, my county is VERY conservative. The lesbian couple above me used to have a pride flag in their window before someone complained and they had to remove. Another person used to hang a pride flag on their house, I noticed it disappeared a few years ago. Hate is a disgusting thing :(.