• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      time is just selective about targets. back in the 2000s, being gay publicly was being blasted on.Nowadays being gay is less of a problem publicly, however the hate is now towards being trans. their hate is very seasonal.

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        6 months ago

        I would have been hatecrimed all the time for being trans if i already would have come out in the 2000s, i honestly don’t think i would have survived being trans in public 20 years ago. Not to mention that i would probably have been gatekept permanently from transitioning for being lesbian, or that it was impossible in my country back then to get a name change without either bottom surgery or forced sterilization (using cryoconservated sperm to sire a child also meant that your name change was retroactively voided and you were declared a man again back in those days. Oh, and we had forced divorces for married trans people, too). In the US, trans panic defenses were still a thing in these days. You could get away with murdering us when you stated that finding out about our transness after sex freaked you out. But yeah i guess time is being selective for targets and my opression just started happening 5 years ago and nobody bothered us before then. jfc.

    • RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      The difference is that Blade declared open season on all suckheads which made it good. You can’t do that anymore. because of woke