I have a visual reminder for everyone, particularly the relatively small number but nonetheless extremely annoying and ignorant LGB people in my community.
Remember when these notions were openly expressed about gays:
There has been a small shift:
This not to say that lies about LGB people have gone away. But there have been some "incorporations." They have gone from this:
To this:
Some folks have expressed the stupid belief that this new wave coming against us is the fault of the trans community. The people and groups who spew the vile tropes which I've just featured seek to eliminate equality, as well as the right to self-determination, and safety from all of us. Not just the trans community.
Think of homophobia and transphobia as two heads on the same beast. And this beast has always hit at us from a perceived weak angle. Once it was those of us who wanted to marry. Today it's the trans community. Who knows which part of our community will be the next victim of its undeserved attention.
We should have sense enough as a community to not open our doors and invite the beast in. And we definitely should have sense to know that allowing the beast to feed on a portion of our community won't satisfy it.
It wants all of us.
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