As a trans person who lives in the state where this happened, I am absolutely terrified about what the blowback will be to our community. Shit like this awful lib take is not helping
I bet he’s not even LGBT
Of course the patriarchal, white supremacist media feels the need to remind the masses multiple times that the shooter is trans.
It will be used as a tool to bludgeon people to start a trans genocide. Probably wouldn’t be surprised if the shooting was a CIA op.
To borrow a phrase from Bordiga, capitalism can allow those that it ejects from the productive process to die on their own. On the other hand, if the mass of transgender humans forced into the lumpenproletariat reaches the point where it becomes unmanageable (which I think is reasonably possible), the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie shall feel that the methods of individual instances of state violence and extrastate, unauthorized violence can no longer suffice, and shall resort to a very conscious and deliberate policy of populicide.
if the mass of transgender humans
Seriously asking since i don’t know, approximately how many % of population is trans?
happy bread day. 1.6M/226M trans people over 13yo estimated in the USA.
0.707%
0.7% seems low, but 1.6m is still very significant. Thanks for the stats.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/how-many-people-lgbt/ - apparently, same source I used for 1.6M trans over 13 said in this link that of people over 18 some 3.5% are LGB and 0.3% as T.
I expected around 5% LGBT (more among young people) so around there. Its definitely a minority, and trans are a minority among the minority.
Which shows just how patently absurd all of the hysteria and fearmongering of the conservative right over trans people is. But i guess that’s the point, they are picking a group to victimize that is too small to be able to mount an organized resistance now that they found that going after gay people was too hard. Due to this numerical inferiority it is clear that allies are needed, and this is where we should expect the next attack of the reactionaries to come. They will try to drive wedges between trans people and the larger queer community and its supporters. TERF-like ideologies will be developed to create this split while at the same time the right continues to escalate its propaganda campaign in order to justify more and more violent action by painting trans people as a grave threat to family and society.
Thanks.
It’s already being used to further attack and dehumanize trans people. We are now firmly in an equivalent to the satanic panic of the 1980s.
Where are all the human rights organizations that love to bash non-Western countries now that entire states are becoming physically unsafe for trans people? Not to mention the regular occurrence of mass shootings that everyone for some reason has gotten used to as the new normal? If this was happening in Russia or China we would never hear the end of it.
American society has become psychopathic. The Marxist concept of alienation isn’t just academic/theoretical, it does real world harm!
