What the government is doing to immigrants today - with raids, roundups, disappearances, denial of due process and other rights, and hundreds being sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador in direct violation of court orders. Will be done to the trans population and others tomorrow. Stick together and support one another. Together we are stronger.
I remember the days of ACT-UP very well as I was living in San Francisco at the time (I still have one of my ACT-UP teeshirts). This time around it seems like we are having more trouble getting our resistance going. I don't know if that is because we are out of practice as it were, or because we are "obeying in advance" as Planned Parenthood and several others did. Perhaps we have become comfortable with complacency. As a Transgender woman 34-years post GCS/SRS I have tried explaining to others exactly what David Forbes writes here . . . to no avail. It seems we are repeating much of what Pastor Niemöller said in his poem that began with, "First they came for…”
What the government is doing to immigrants today - with raids, roundups, disappearances, denial of due process and other rights, and hundreds being sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador in direct violation of court orders. Will be done to the trans population and others tomorrow. Stick together and support one another. Together we are stronger.
I remember the days of ACT-UP very well as I was living in San Francisco at the time (I still have one of my ACT-UP teeshirts). This time around it seems like we are having more trouble getting our resistance going. I don't know if that is because we are out of practice as it were, or because we are "obeying in advance" as Planned Parenthood and several others did. Perhaps we have become comfortable with complacency. As a Transgender woman 34-years post GCS/SRS I have tried explaining to others exactly what David Forbes writes here . . . to no avail. It seems we are repeating much of what Pastor Niemöller said in his poem that began with, "First they came for…”
I AM NOT BACKING DOWN even if it means my death!