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JUST IN: Iran Ends Direct Talks With US After Trump Threatens to Destroy ‘Whole Civilization’ (www.mediaite.com)

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[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Look, I agree with every one of your other points, but to say that "the US has been openly genociding trans people" is ludicrously stupid. Yes, some of the states are making anti-bathroom laws, and some of the states are making laws about not allowing medical/therapeutic support to minors for transitioning, and the federal government is making anti-trans executive orders about colleges... but genocide? Seriously?

Don't water down the use of the word genocide. It's a very serious thing that is currently happening and supported by the US, but that is not what is happening with trans people. Yet. It might happen with the way things are going, but not yet.

Most people on here gave Jewish pundits shit for calling 700 Jewish deaths in the October attack another "holocaust" and "genocide." We give those same people shit for not calling 70,000 Palestinian deaths a genocide. Don't be like those people.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trans people being effectively legislated out of existence and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued three red flag alerts, but go on about how it's not a genocide

the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally

I urge anyone skimming by to the article I linked, if you have 5 minutes. It's actually a pretty good read. I'll also note that this is why I fled the US when I had the chance

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

There's literally one window with a large X in the top right. NPR and Wikipedia do the same thing. But here, I copied the first three paragraphs for you so you don't have an excuse.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is releasing this third Red Flag Alert for the USA related to the Trump Administration’s anti-trans initiatives, which have continued to expand nationwide since our last Red Flag Alert (RFA) on this subject. Over the eight months since the second RFA’s publication, the Republican Party’s anti-trans agenda has radicalized and continued to intensify. 2025 was the sixth consecutive record-breaking year for the number of anti-trans bills considered across the country. There was a 45 percent increase in bills between 2024 and 2025. Between 2021 and 2025, the number of bills in consideration has increased by 668 percent.

The Administration has moved from identifying transgender people as a threat to the family and to the nation’s military prowess to claiming that transgender people constitute a cosmic threat to the spiritual health of the nation and the greatest direct threat to U.S. national security in the world. Given these ideological developments, especially coupled with the increasingly hostile and draconian legislation against trans identities, the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally.

Genocide against trans people takes on patterns that set it apart from the mass murder genocides that people commonly associate with the crime, such as the Holocaust. Currently, the genocide against trans people follows a pattern – denial of identity (pattern #9 in the Lemkin Institute’s Ten Patterns of Genocide) – that makes it more familiar to the colonial genocides against indigenous populations, including the residential/boarding school systems in North America and Australia, where indigenous children were “allowed” to go on living if they gave up their identities, including their languages. Denial of identity involves two main steps: preventing people from openly expressing an identity and destroying institutions that reproduce the identity. Given that the denial of identity is the consequence of a well-defined hostility, even hatred, for the identity, the pattern is often characterized by incitement against the group. Alongside suppression and incitement, perpetrators of this pattern of genocide will simultaneously criminalize the identity, so that expressions of it or institutions that reproduce it become characterized as threatening and corrosive to the body politic and warranting state violence and coercion. People who assert or support the denied identity then become criminal elements that must be eliminated. In the case of the boarding schools, children who used their mother tongue or otherwise showed signs of their independent identity were severely punished.

[-] vantablack 1 points 1 month ago

to say that “the US has been openly genociding trans people” is ludicrously stupid.

no, talking out of your ass about shit you don't actually know anything about is the ludicrously stupid thing. stay in your lane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_genocide

[-] vantablack 1 points 1 month ago

or, to put it another way, what are we supposed to do when we can't go out in public because we don't wanna get arrested for using the bathroom? what are we supposed to do when we are stripped of necessary healthcare that we NEED to survive? when our passports and driver's licenses are revoked? when bit-by-bit we are erased from being able to exist in public life entirely?

they WANT us to die

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