DoomsdaysCW<p>Hmmmm... Why am I having <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DejaVu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DejaVu</span></a>? </p><p>From 2022: "Vladimir <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a> has mentioned 'gender freedoms' more than once to justify <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a>’s war against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> and simultaneously crack down on its own citizens.</p><p>"Most directly, he alleged that Russian citizens who seek '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFreedoms</span></a>' (alongside foie gras and oysters) are part of the anti-Russian 'fifth column.'</p><p>"Gender and sexuality freedoms — or rights, as they are more typically called — are about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BodilyAutonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BodilyAutonomy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>diversity</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/inclusivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>inclusivity</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Feminist</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+ activists assert that every human being deserves respect, recognition and equal rights regardless of their gender or sexuality.</p><p>"What’s the connection between Putin’s animosity toward Ukraine and toward <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gender</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sexuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sexuality</span></a> rights in Russia and around the world?<br /> <br />Gender and Putin’s regime</p><p>"Putin’s regime has increasingly relied on very conventional gender and sexual norms.</p><p>"When he first ascended to the presidency, image-makers used Putin’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KGB</span></a> background and penchant for physical fitness to frame him as a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/macho" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>macho</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strongman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>strongman</span></a> who could reverse Russia’s waning power and 'remasculinize' the country after a decade of supposed geopolitical flaccidity in the wake of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Soviet</span></a> collapse. </p><p>"In other words, an inflexible and clearly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/patriarchal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>patriarchal</span></a> notion of masculinity has been central to the Putin regime’s legitimacy.</p><p>"Russia’s foreign policy has relied on rigid gender norms as well. When Ukraine underwent its first pro-democracy revolution in 2004, Russian media questioned its leaders’ masculinity.</p><p>"Putin likewise used homophobic terms to dismiss <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Georgia</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoseRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RoseRevolution</span></a> in 2003, responding to a reporter’s question by saying: 'A rose revolution — next they’ll come up with a light blue one.' In Russian, 'light blue' or goluboi is slang for “gay male.”<br /> <br />Gender and appealing to constituencies</p><p>"Putin has often been represented as the unquestioned leader of the pack ruling Russia — a masculinity-driven image.</p><p>"However, even as the leader of a personalist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> — a regime in which there are few institutional limits on the leader’s power — Putin must balance competing interests among significant elites and maintain at least the appearance of public support in order to be considered a legitimate ruler.</p><p>"Until 2020, Putin was using gendered language in his speeches to signal his alignment with a variety of elites and public constituencies that supported him. He was sending mixed signals to both relatively progressive Russians who value women’s roles in the workplace and to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>conservatives</span></a> wishing for a return to '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalFamilyValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TraditionalFamilyValues</span></a>,' in order to keep everyone in his camp.</p><p>"But after July 2021, when he published an essay contending Ukrainians and Russians are a single people, Putin no longer shied away from making sexist and LGBTQ+-phobic comments in prominent settings.</p><p>"At an October 2021 meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club — a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum that Putin is closely associated with — he said teaching children about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluidity</span></a> was 'truly monstrous' and 'verging on a crime against humanity.'" </p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://theconversation.com/vladimir-putin-the-czar-of-macho-politics-is-threatened-by-gender-and-sexuality-rights-180473" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/vladimir-p</span><span class="invisible">utin-the-czar-of-macho-politics-is-threatened-by-gender-and-sexuality-rights-180473</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpIsPutinsPuppet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrumpIsPutinsPuppet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GBLTQRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GBLTQRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicMasculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ToxicMasculinity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>Seems <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GOP</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianRight</span></a> only care about women when they want to discriminate against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a>! HYPOCRITES!</p><p>GOOD! Bill to ban <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trans</span></a> athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams fails to advance in Senate</p><p>By STEPHEN GROVES<br />Updated 7:27 PM EST, March 3, 2025</p><p>WASHINGTON (AP) — "Legislation that aimed to bar transgender women and girls nationwide from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes failed to advance Monday night in a divided Senate as Democrats stood united against an issue that Republicans leveraged in last year’s elections.</p><p>"A test vote on the bill failed to gain the 60 votes needed to advance in the chamber as senators stuck to party lines in a 51-45 vote tally.</p><p>"The bill sought to determine <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TitleIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TitleIX</span></a> protections 'based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.' The vote came as Republicans have homed in repeatedly on the social cause, casting it as an issue of ensuring athletic fairness for women and girls. </p><p>"President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> signed an executive order last month giving federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the administration’s view, which interprets 'sex' as the gender someone was assigned at birth.</p><p>"Still, Republicans in Congress have set their sights on enshrining that policy into law by amending the 1972 Title IX law, which protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-athletes-congress-dfd81b15ebc09409f1bf6c8642f130f3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/transgender</span><span class="invisible">-athletes-congress-dfd81b15ebc09409f1bf6c8642f130f3</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderSpectrum</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GBLTQRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GBLTQRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>When I complained about my "female troubles" the friggin' male gynecologist prescribed BIRTH CONTROL PILLS! Which made me even more DYSPHORIC! Yeah. We know what we need to be happy in our skin!<br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckGenderFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FuckGenderFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BornThisWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BornThisWay</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, why didn't I transition into a dude? I did try taking Testosterone. Too much of a good thing for me. I was happy with the amount I had naturally. But the Estrogen...? Damn! If I knew about Estrogen Blockers, I might have taken them before Menopause. Less E made me a happy camper -- like before I hit puberty. Just saying. One size does NOT fit all! And we don't need <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> telling us what WE NEED! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckGenderFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FuckGenderFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BornThisWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BornThisWay</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So yeah. Not looking good in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Maine</span></a> (despite our defiant <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GovernorJanetMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GovernorJanetMills</span></a> ). How twisted!!!<br /> <br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USDA</span></a> Launches Compliance Review of University of Maine for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TitleIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TitleIX</span></a> Violations </p><p>Washington, D.C., Feb. 22, 2025— "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has initiated a compliance review of the University of Maine following the State of Maine’s blatant disregard for President Trump’s Executive Order <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EO14201" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EO14201</span></a></p><p>Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports</p><p>“President Trump has made it abundantly clear: taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars will not support institutions that discriminate against women,” said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. “USDA is committed to upholding the President’s executive order, meaning any institution that chooses to disregard it can count on losing future funding.”</p><p>"As a federally funded land-grant institution, the University of Maine receives over $100 million in USDA funding. Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities that receive federal funding. Compliance with federal law is mandatory for institutions to continue receiving taxpayer funded support, including USDA grants."<br /><a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/02/22/usda-launches-compliance-review-university-maine-title-ix-violations" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usda.gov/about-usda/news/press</span><span class="invisible">-releases/2025/02/22/usda-launches-compliance-review-university-maine-title-ix-violations</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>My supervisor pointed out that my choice of pronouns (they/them) *might* make me a target. I replied, "Someone needs to stand up against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a>. I'm not changing a thing!"</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Me in kindergarten: "Oh hi! I'm playing 'house' with my friends Eddie and Tanya. I'm the husband, and Eddie and Tanya are my wives."<br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrueStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrueStory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckGenderFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FuckGenderFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BornThisWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BornThisWay</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Pssttt... More Women Than Expected Are Genetically Men</p><p>"Sex chromosomes usually determine whether you are female or male. Women are XX. Men are XY. However, genetically, a few women are actually men. They grow up as women with a woman’s body, and most only discover well into puberty that they are different. Danish researchers map for the first time how many women are genetically men. The proportion was higher than expected."</p><p><a href="https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/more-women-than-expected-are-genetically-men/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/m</span><span class="invisible">ore-women-than-expected-are-genetically-men/</span></a><br /> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoneOfYourBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoneOfYourBusiness</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>"Swyer syndrome is a condition that affects sex development. Sex development usually follows a particular path based on an individual's chromosomes; however, in Swyer syndrome, sex development is not typical for the affected individual's chromosomal pattern.</p><p>"Chromosomes contain the genetic instructions for how the body develops and functions. People usually have 46 chromosomes in each cell. Two of the 46 chromosomes, known as X and Y, are called sex chromosomes because they help determine whether a person will develop male or female reproductive structures. Girls and women typically have two X chromosomes (46,XX karyotype), while boys and men typically have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome (46,XY karyotype). In Swyer syndrome, individuals have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome in each cell, which is the pattern typically found in boys and men; however, they have female reproductive structures."</p><p><a href="https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/swyer-syndrome/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medlineplus.gov/genetics/condi</span><span class="invisible">tion/swyer-syndrome/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SwyerSyndrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SwyerSyndrome</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoneOfYourBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoneOfYourBusiness</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Herming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Herming</span></a>: How female plants turn male</p><p>"Cannabis plants are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dioecious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dioecious</span></a>, meaning they can be either male or female. Female plants are particularly prized since they form buds rich in psychoactive cannabinoids. For most growers, maintaining a crop free of male plants is critical to ensure that those female buds are not pollinated. </p><p>"Like all plants, however, cannabis has an inherent drive to procreate by propagating seeds. One way it achieves this is by herming — when female plants become hermaphroditic to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SelfPollinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SelfPollinate</span></a>. Learn how to tell female and male cannabis plants apart, how you can prevent herming, and what to look out for if you're new to growing cannabis. </p><p>What is herming and why does it happen?</p><p>"A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hermaphroditic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hermaphroditic</span></a> plant contains both female and male sex organs, and the tendency for cannabis plants to herm means that growers must take extra care to minimize any stressors that may cause the plant to perceive a threat and change its sex. According to Bruce Perlowin, CEO of Hemp, Inc., 'Stress is the fundamental cause of hermaphroditic plants, or 'hermies.' Some examples of stressors are not enough water, too much water, not enough nutrients, or too much heat. It can happen at any time in the life cycle of a plant from a new plant to a very mature one.'"</p><p><a href="https://weedmaps.com/learn/the-plant/herming-female-plants-turn-male" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">weedmaps.com/learn/the-plant/h</span><span class="invisible">erming-female-plants-turn-male</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeExist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluidPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluidPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Even plants change gender! Again, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MotherNature</span></a> ! I've seen marijuana plants change gender right before my eyes!</p><p>This Amazing Plant Changes Gender from Year to Year</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Amorphophallus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Amorphophallus</span></a> remains a unique occupant in the world of plants, and visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden recently experienced the fascinating bloom cycle with the titan arum Sprout. However, there is an additional denizen of the Araceae (a.k.a. Aroid, a.k.a. Arum) family with rare and exceptional attributes, which also bloomed at the Garden.</p><p>"Japanese cobra lily (Arisaema ringens) has an uncanny, serpent-shaped, flower and possesses a remarkable ability to do something that few other plants can do: change its gender from year to year.</p><p>"Arisaema species (jacks), are paradioecious, which means that the blooms of an individual plant can be male one year and female the next. Young plants produce male flowers with pollen until they are mature enough to produce fruit. When they have accumulated enough energy to fruit, they produce a female flower that will hopefully become pollinated.</p><p>"However, after an exhausting round of fruit set, the plant may take a break and produce male flowers the next year. Producing pollen, rather than fruit, saves energy. Unhealthy conditions or damage to a female flowering plant can also cause it to produce male flowers the next time around.</p><p>"Basically, Japanese cobra lilies change sex for a period of time to save energy and allow themselves time to recover. "</p><p><a href="https://www.chicagobotanic.org/blog/plant_science_conservation/amazing_plant_changes_gender_year_year" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chicagobotanic.org/blog/plant_</span><span class="invisible">science_conservation/amazing_plant_changes_gender_year_year</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeExist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluidPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluidPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MotherNature</span></a> trumps <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a>!</p><p>11 Animals That Can Change Sex</p><p>For many wild creatures, the line between male and female is decidedly blurry.<br /> <br />By Sidney Stevens<br />Updated July 03, 2024</p><p>"For Mother Nature, biological sex isn’t always an either-or proposition. Some species come with simultaneously functioning female and male organs. Others change from female to male or vice versa, depending on need or surrounding conditions."</p><p><a href="https://www.treehugger.com/animals-can-change-their-sex-4869361" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">treehugger.com/animals-can-cha</span><span class="invisible">nge-their-sex-4869361</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeExist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwoSpirit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genderfluidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genderfluidity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HunterSchafer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HunterSchafer</span></a> speaks out about being issued a male passport</p><p>By Krysta Fauria, February 23, 2025</p><p>SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — "Hunter Schafer says 'it’s important to just keep track of where things are in our country,' a day after the 'Euphoria' star posted a video in which she revealed her new passport had been issued with a male gender marker.</p><p>"Speaking to The Associated Press on the red carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, the 26-year-old actor, who is trans, said she felt 'it was a good, necessary point' to share. Schafer, also a presenter at the award show, was nominated for best lead performance for 'Cuckoo.'</p><p>"President Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> signed an executive order on his first day in office instituting a new and narrow federal government definition of the sexes. As part of the order, the federal government defines sex as only male or female and says that must be reflected on official documents, like passports. The State Department, responsible for passports, is no longer issuing passports with the <br />'X' marker that’s been available since 2021 and is not honoring requests to change gender markers between 'M' and <br />'F.'</p><p>"In an 8 ½-minute video posted to TikTok on Friday, Schafer, who transitioned as a young teen, said the passport that was meant to carry her well into her 30s was stolen while she was filming in Spain. After receiving an emergency passport, she later had to apply for a new, permanent one in Los Angeles. Having had female gender markers on her license and passport since she was a teenager, Schafer marked 'female' on her application — but received a passport that identified her as male, she said. In the video, she said she had not had her birth certificate amended.</p><p>"Schafer acknowledged the executive order in her TikTok video: 'Because our president, you know, is a lot of talk, I was like, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’ And, today, I saw it,' Schafer said, holding up her new passport page with the 'M' marker. She said she was making the video not to 'fearmonger or like create drama or receive consolation,' but to note the reality of the situation.</p><p>"'I wasn’t even really looking for support, but I have an amazing community around me and it’s one of the greatest blessings of my life and so I felt very supported throughout, before and then now,' she told the AP on Saturday.</p><p>"The State Department said in response to a request for comment that it was implementing Trump’s executive order but declined to comment on specific cases, citing privacy laws and restrictions.</p><p>"'It doesn’t really change anything about me or my <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transness</span></a>. However, it does make my life a little harder,' Schafer said in the video, saying she has to travel for the first time with the new passport next week.</p><p>"'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a> are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never going to stop being trans. A letter and a passport can’t change that,' she concluded."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/hunter-schafer-passport-marker-e92fe6ccce7388d3237104971a89cead" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/hunter-scha</span><span class="invisible">fer-passport-marker-e92fe6ccce7388d3237104971a89cead</span></a> <br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Between Two Worlds: Gender Non-Conforming Deities</p><p>March 27, 2019 by Brianne Raven Wolf</p><p>"As a transwoman, I have often wondered if there were others like me in Ancient Mythology. Were there ancient deities who were trans, non-binary, or gender non-conforming? Turns out there were. Ancient Greece had a prominent culture of gender fluidity, as did many other ancient societies.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aphroditus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aphroditus</span></a> was sometimes referred to as the male form of Aphrodite. Statues of him showed him with a female figure, breasts, narrow waist, long hair, women’s clothing, but also with a penis and testes. He is said to have originated on the island of Cyprus, and arrived in Athens in the 4th century BCE. He was sometimes celebrated there in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transvestite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transvestite</span></a> rites. It is said the festivals allowed 'women to act the part of men, and men to put on woman’s clothing and play the part of women' (from Wikipedia). He was definitely gender <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonConforming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonConforming</span></a>.</p><p>"Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes, messenger of the gods, and Aphrodite, Goddess of love. His name is a combination of both of his parents. From Wikipedia: 'According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably handsome boy with whom the water nymph Salmacis fell in love with and prayed to be united forever. The gods granted the request, so that he and the nymph became united in such a manner that the two could not be called a man or a woman, but were both' (Metamorphoses IV, pp. 274-388 , 8 AD). Hermaphroditus is the god of hermaphrodites and effeminates. I believe in today’s society, Hermaphroditus would be a modern day pre-operative transwoman.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Loki" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Loki</span></a>, a Norse god, also called the trickster god, would many times disguise himself as a woman. Some myths said that Loki was bisexual. Loki was an accomplished shape-shifter and according to legend has also appeared as a salmon, a mare, a fly, and of course a woman.</p><p>"Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Met. 9, pp. 666-797) mentions <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iphis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Iphis</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ianthe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ianthe</span></a>. Iphis was born a girl, but her mother passed her off as a boy so that she wouldn’t be killed. The name was fitting for a boy and a girl, so that wasn’t too much of a problem. According to the myth, Iphis as a 15 year old boy, fell in love with another girl, Ianthe. Iphis’s mother appealed to the Goddess Isis for help. Isis transformed Iphis into a male before Iphis and Ianthe got married. I believe this may have been the first sex change. At least they ended up happily ever after according to the myth.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ikapati" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ikapati</span></a> was a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatMother" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreatMother</span></a> Goddess of the Tagalog society in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Philippines</span></a>. She was a protector of crops, animals that were domesticated and, according to myth, gave mankind agriculture. It was said that she appeared many times dressed in male clothes. This would have made sense as she was frequently seen in the fields. In many indigenous cultures, including in the Americas, it was accepted that more than two genders were socially and spiritually accepted. These gender non-conforming individuals were seen as people who were very spiritual, and many became leaders and healers in their societies. In Native American culture, many who were called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwoSpirit</span></a> became shamans.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ometeotl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ometeotl</span></a> was an Aztec God of duality. He was considered both male and female, using the names Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl. He had an equivalent god in Mayan mythology, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Itzamna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Itzamna</span></a>, who identified with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HunabKu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HunabKu</span></a>, an invisible god. Both gods could be considered self-created gods according to myth. Ometeotl was to the Aztecs the idea that their Universe consisted of dark and light, night and day, order and war, and things like that.</p><p>"I’m of the opinion that if more people would understand that there are more than binary people in this world, it would be a better and safer place for all. I think the ancients got it right in their beliefs. People were just human beings, and not judged only on their biological sex. A good book to consider reading is this excellent book by Gerald N. Callahan, PhD., Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes. From the book: 'On October 10, 1970, the day she was born, she was named Dorothy Maree Alaniz–a baby girl. Curiously, though, no one filled out a birth certificate that day. When the certificate was finally filed on November 5, the name on it was Rudolph Andrew Alaniz. Within less than one month after her birth, this girl became a boy.' The book is available from Amazon and other book sources."</p><p><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2019/03/between-two-worlds-gender-non-conforming-deities/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">patheos.com/blogs/agora/2019/0</span><span class="invisible">3/between-two-worlds-gender-non-conforming-deities/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorldHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeExist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwoSpirit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>LGBTQ+ in the Ancient World</p><p>by Joshua J. Mark<br />published on 25 June 2021 </p><p>"What is today referred to as '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonBinary</span></a>' gender was recognized over three thousand years ago as a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThirdGender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThirdGender</span></a> created by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DivineWill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DivineWill</span></a>." </p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1790/lgbtq-in-the-ancient-world/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldhistory.org/article/1790/</span><span class="invisible">lgbtq-in-the-ancient-world/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorldHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeExist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwoSpirit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Histories</p><p>There are rich histories of people crossing gender throughout English history that resonate for trans and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genderqueer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genderqueer</span></a> identities today. Gender-crossing people appear in court records, popular broadsheet ballads and newspapers. In most cases they were tried and punished for crimes such as theft and fraud, rather than for cross-dressing. Men arrested for passing as women were often assumed to be prostitutes."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/lgbtq-heritage-project/trans-and-gender-nonconforming-histories/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">historicengland.org.uk/researc</span><span class="invisible">h/inclusive-heritage/lgbtq-heritage-project/trans-and-gender-nonconforming-histories/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeExist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwoSpirit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>"Non-binary people in history have always been around. They are people who identify as neither male nor female. In this article, we explore the various cases of historical figures who may have been non-binary.</p><p>"They may have been somewhere in the middle of the gender spectrum, have had a fluid identity, or not have had a gender at all. In fact, non-binary doesn’t describe a single gender identity. The term describes a vast range of identities that don’t fit into a binary gender structure of male or female."</p><p><a href="https://www.gendergp.com/non-binary-people-in-history/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gendergp.com/non-binary-people</span><span class="invisible">-in-history/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeExist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwoSpirit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NonBinary</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] Just because <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumptyDumpty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrumptyDumpty</span></a> says we don't exist doesn't mean we don't exist!</p><p>A Brief History of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nonbinary</span></a> Gender: From Ancient Times to the Early Modern Period</p><p>By Ahmed Kamran <br />July 8, 2021</p><p>"Despite some claiming the contrary, the concepts of a tertiary gender identity or an identity outside of the gender binary is not new. While it is certain that people on average have become much more aware of the existence of these identities, they have been recorded for millennia. In fact, they are mentioned in some of the earliest written records of human civilization. To understand gender as we know it today, it is important to see how it was viewed yesterday and beyond, as it shows that a variance in identities is a part of humanity.</p><p>"Mesopotamian myths, which contain religious beliefs of the earliest human civilization, featured many references to individuals that were neither male nor female or were not what we would know today to be cisgender. One of the most powerful deities was known as Inanna (and later on as Ishtar) and had a particularly strong relationship with gender. Inanna was the goddess of sex, war, and justice as well as the queen of heaven. It was believed that she had the power to change a person’s gender, something noted by a follower as early as the 23rd century BCE. Thus, individuals with nonbinary identities were often involved in religious practices surrounding her, with 'her cult members and priests were known for their androgyny and blurring or destroying the gender binary' (Academus).</p><p>"One such group referred to its members as pilipili, or individuals who played roles in celebratory festivals honoring Inanna. The pilipili were originally raised in society as women (ki-sikil) but were then blessed by Inanna, who handed them a spear 'as if she were a man' and renamed them (Academus). It is debated whether the handing of a spear is literal, with the pilipili becoming warriors and as a result defying traditional binary roles or if the spear refers to a physical transformation of the individual.</p><p>"Another segment of Inanna’s followers was the gala or her priests. Priests were recorded to have been cisgender women, married or unwed, or women with children, but there were gala that were biologically male as well. In these cases, these individuals adopted women’s names and became women 'for all intents and purposes' (Academus). They even sang in a Sumerian dialect known as eme-sal, a pattern of speech solely reserved for women to deliver the words of goddesses.</p><p>"Other relics have been found showing the existence of individuals who were outside the gender binary, suggesting that it is possible that ancient Sumer recognized these identities in ordinary society and not in just religious spheres. Of course, this is speculative because the Sumerian language did not use gendered pronouns, but it is a common interpretation of these ancient texts and remaining art.</p><p>"Another gender variant recorded all of the way back to before the common era (BCE) was that of hijras in the Indian subcontinent. These individuals were noted in the Kama Sutra and other ancient Hindu texts, and the term included eunuchs, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/intersex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intersex</span></a> people, and transgender people. Despite attempts to wipe out this identity by the British following their passing of the Criminal Tribes Act in India in 1871, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hijras" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hijras</span></a> are still present today and are legally recognized as a part of a third gender category by the state. Sadly, the efforts of the British during <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonization</span></a> have had an impact on society’s view of hijras, being the beginning 'of a mainstream discomfort… [with] transgender people and hijras' (New York Times).</p><p>"Around the same time of the Kama Sutra, approximately 385-380 BCE, Aristophanes detailed a creation myth revolving three sexes or genders. Males were believed to be 'born of the sun', while females were 'born of the earth' (Diogenes). A tertiary category, androgynos (now translated to androgynous), was believed to have been born from the moon and androgynos individuals had combined male and female traits. Aristophanes claimed that androgynos no longer existed. Today, it is often suggested that Aristophanes was solely referring to intersex individuals, explaining the different physical and biological traits of males and females existing in one person, but it is interesting to speculate on the potential for the features to represent the individual’s understanding of the gender expression as well.</p><p>"Finally, it is necessary to highlight the history of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TwoSpirit</span></a> identity in different Native cultures. More than 150 Native American tribes recognized third genders in their communities prior to colonization, with many of these identities having unique names and cultural significance. Most tribes considered two-spirit individuals a third gender, being neither men nor women, and the same terminology was used in reference to them. Other tribes, however, had a distinct word for two-spirit females, making them a fourth gender variant. What is apparent, however, is that the concept of gender had much more fluidity in Native American society than its European counterpart.</p><p>"Two-spirit people in some tribes held special roles in their communities, sometimes as healers or religious leaders. Unfortunately, many traditions in Native communities have been lost due to colonization, and 'two-spirit roles, in particular, were singled out for condemnation, interference, and many times violence' (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Much of what is known has survived by being passed down orally through generations.</p><p>"All of these examples scratch the surface of what is known in regard to gender expression prior to the early modern period. It is difficult to truly measure the scale because the further back one goes, the harder it is to find a wide array of text and relics from the period. What can be said for certain, however, is that individuals who identified outside of the gender binary have been a part of civilization since its infancy and have played valuable roles in a wide array of societies. This knowledge should help bring understanding that overall, human gender is quite fluid, and being aware and accepting this is part of long-practiced human traditions." </p><p><a href="https://clouddancers.org/a-brief-history-of-nonbinary-gender-from-ancient-times-to-the-early-modern-period/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">clouddancers.org/a-brief-histo</span><span class="invisible">ry-of-nonbinary-gender-from-ancient-times-to-the-early-modern-period/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFluid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Androgyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Androgyny</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeExist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeExist</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ItsGoingDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ItsGoingDown</span></a> - This Week in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> #139: Communities Hit Back Against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NeoNazis</span></a> As <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> Comes to Power; Thousands Protest Against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> & in Solidarity with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPeople</span></a></p><p>February 13, 2025<br /> <br />"The second Trump administration has officially begun and less than a month in, we are already in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConstitutionalCrisis</span></a>. As the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trumpian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trumpian</span></a> state embraces the threat of ignoring court orders, it also risks pushing the US into an all out <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechnoDictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechnoDictatorship</span></a>. But as the line between the State and the far-Right becomes increasingly blurred – the question must be asked, what does the antifascist struggle mean when an oligarch like Trump is in power? We don’t have any easy answers, but antifascists have a lot of skills that we can bring to the table: both in terms of analysis, understanding the players in the unfolding terrain, and skills that we can share with people.</p><p>"More importantly, we have movement memory of battles fought and lessons learned: from the working-class kids who formed the backbone of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiRacistAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AntiRacistAction</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ARA</span></a>) and took on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KKK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KKK</span></a> and neo-Nazi skinheads, to the fight against the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AltRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AltRight</span></a> during Trump’s first term, which saw tens of thousands of people hitting the streets against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteSupremacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteSupremacists</span></a>. These past struggles can inspire and inform what is happening today.</p><p>"And there’s a lot to do. With the pardoning of the January 6th rioters, Trump has signaled that far-Right loyalists will receive a pass from the State to engage in violence against enemies of the regime. This is a reality that only amplifies what we saw during the first Trump administration, when Chad Wolf’s DHS pushed for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antifascists</span></a> to be targeted by law enforcement and for the state to downplay the threat from the far-Right. This move lead to federal forces descending on Portland, OR during the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeFloydUprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GeorgeFloydUprising</span></a>, and the outright assassination of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MichealReinoehl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MichealReinoehl</span></a>. The more we can build public opposition to this new reality and encourage widespread <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>resistance</span></a> to Trump’s policies, the safer we all will be."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-139/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-</span><span class="invisible">fascism-139/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderFascists</span></a></p>
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