Hi Gagz, On 21 December 2019 16:41:03 GMT-03:00, gagz <g...@immerda.ch> wrote:
>I am myself a transwomen, and reading tina's post made me angry and sad >at the debian community. It also revived my never ending hopeless wish >to see things change. Tina you have my full (but sadly pretty much >useless) support. Thanks! It matters to know that there are more trans folk around, and to support each other. >I have seen many messages stating that one should always respect the >CoC >when answering hate messages such as the ones from norbert and gerardo. >I want to say that this is *bullshit*. This is bullshit because the >violence *has been there already*, when people have refused to respect >genders and names other people use. Exactly. > And I can assure you, I would >prefer >to be told 1000 times that i'm a hasshole than 10 times misgendered or >deadnamed. There is just no way to compare a violence where people feel >hurt because of an insult with a violence where people feel like they >don't have the f*ckin right to exist and have a word to say about >*their >own identity*. Plus that violence is a systemic violence. It doens't >only come from individuals, it comes from the media, the police, the >state, at school, at work, at home, in the music, in the movies, in >front of big groups or with our best friends. +1000 >So, please stop calling such nice answers "violent". If I wanted to be >violent against transphobic people I'd just go find them and break >their >knees with a baseball bat. That would be kind of violent I reckon. My feelings exactly. This graffito sums it up well https://tiny.cc/transphobes >My solidarity goes to women, transgenders, non-binary folks, faggots, >dykes, people of color, lesbians, gays, people with different >abilities, >the fat, the youngests, the oldests, the weirdoes, the freaks, the ones >that have died for their survivance, the ones who are still alive and >fighting. Thanks for speaking up! <3 Tina.
