Can't get any screenshots right now, but I left a comment on the recent Onion video about the white house trans alarm, just a funny little bit about how republicans can't decide what bathroom trans people should be using.

It stayed up for a while, then just suddenly vanished. I tested a combination of words to see what triggered it. Any comments that I used the word "cis" in were instantaneously shadow banned. Additionally, when trying to let people know about that, I discovered merely referring to a shadow ban also gets your comment shadow banned, presumably to keep people from talking about the practice.

Just to be safe, I control-F'd and searched the entire comment section for the word cis. It was a video about trans people. It's a straight up inevitability that it'd be used at least once. But nope, not a single reference to the word anywhere in the comments. That settles it in my mind.

I don't know why I expected YouTube to be better than that.

I thought my state was doing pretty damn good with regarding LGBT but the Seattle Tacoma area is gay af, and openly so.

Like, in my state, there are definitely LGBT but it mostly feels like the only time to be open about it is pride month.

Feels like pride all day every day out here in Washington

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28720438

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28720347

hi… i’m Cyara a trans refugee in South Sudan. i’ve been really sick suffering from Malaria,typhoid and ulcers. Also within the same time, I got a very painful big cut on my finger. I had to go to a clinic and thanks to a few kind strangers who donated, i was able to cover the bill. But it left us with nothing.

it’s just me and my 3 trans sisters. we’ve been through hell here and now the government is evicting us. one of my sisters has broken completely under the pressure. she’s not okay. none of us are.

we’ve only raised $121 out of $720 for emergency shelter. i know the world is exhausted. i see what’s happening in Texas, in New Mexico, everywhere and my heart breaks. but i still need help too. just one last chance to survive.

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It only works if you say the O wrong! Neither "woman" nor "women" are said like that.

Oh, and all the other stuff about implying any strong & healthy friendship must have some underlying homoeroticism bullshit.

Chess "is diverse and inclusive," the German Chess Federation said in rejecting calls for a ban on trans competitors.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Budapest in defiance of the Hungarian government’s ban on Pride, heeding a call by the city’s mayor to “come calmly and boldly to stand together for freedom, dignity and equal rights”.