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So an organization that is dedicated to an impartial stance on protecting basic human rights for all is actively taking bribes on how to protect specific rights.
Another reminder that I do not matter. Another reminder that I'm not a real person. Another reminder that we are never listened to.
This organization is classified as a non-profit but it clearly cannot do its job impartially. Strip it of its status. However that will never happen. Why? Because people don't care about us queer folk unless it actively helps them. No one gave a shit about us until it became trendy to market rainbows everywhere. Even those companies backed down from backlash and stopped promoting pride stuff proving they never gave a flying fuck about supporting the community but by looking out for themselves and making money.
Once again we are being used and discarded to further the heteronormative horseshit of this hellish planet.
And if I have to hear one more fucking asshole say "Oh but its so easy for you gays to hook up" I'm going to beat them to death. It's only easy for us to hook up because we had to dispense with all dating and norms because if we did, y'all would have killed us 50 years ago. Hell, 20 years ago. Hell, today.
I am so tired man...
I am so sorry, Stamets. I am an ally with a queer daughter. Every day I worry about the world she's growing up in. She's been very bullied in school, but most kids don't know other kids' sexual orientation at 13, so they didn't bully her for that (although, of course, middle schoolers still love to call each other anti-LGBT slurs), but I'm much more worried about what adults will do to her. At her age, she's not truly aware of how bad it can be, but I do my best to educate her. Her best friend is a trans boy. His rights have already been taken away here in Indiana. He can't get gender-affirming care and the school legally has to deadname him even though his parents are supportive. He's already doing things like cutting himself and vaping, so he's obviously already pretty messed up. I really worry that he won't make it to adulthood. What hope do either of them have when human rights organizations won't even talk about how they're being oppressed and even victims of genocide?
I do not say the following lightly: in order to make a home where I feel truly comfortable I moved to a different country which is societally more accepting than where I was born.
I hope that your daughter and her friend will have the freedom to find their community and build happy lives. Sometimes that means leaving forever.