#transhistory

Just two examples of what I am dealing with on that other “social” network I sadly need to be a member of. This is gay people trying to eradicate trans people from queer history — while apparently also appointing themselves the Supreme Court of what “normal-looking” gay men and lesbians are. 🙄 And yes, history has an ugly little lesson here. In the Weimar Republic, there were gay men who were deeply attracted to nationalist and later Nazi ideology, including people who were quite happy to distinguish themselves from the “wrong sort” of queer people. Respectability, conformity and throwing other queer people under the bus did not make them safe. It did not save them. So when I see queer people trying to scrub trans people out of Stonewall, Pride and the history of our liberation, I pay attention. Because this isn't merely about the past. They want to erase us from history because they want to erase us from reality. And finally, can we talk about the “kiddo”, “child”, “babe” routine? A grown man disagreeing with a grown person and immediately reaching for infantilising language to establish dominance is not exactly a revolutionary new contribution to human civilisation. Isn't that just typical fucking male behaviour? 🙃 #QueerHistory #TransHistory #Stonewall #TransRights #LGBTQIA #Pride #QueerLiberation #NoErasure #Fascism #NeverAgain

21 years later trans people in DC don't have to worry about being denied medical care, we have housing and work protections. Current council races have issues like providing housing credit to trans people because we are disproportionately unhoused. It's not perfect, but Tyra Hunter's death moved public opinion in favor of trans protection. #TransHistory #pride

Her family filed suit against the ambulance and hospital (dead naming and misgendering her in the court filings), and the people and institutions that killed her were found at fault and fined millions of dollars. But it didn't stop there. Trans advocates moved to make sure this never happened again, pressuring the DC city council to pass medical protections for trans people. #TransHistory #Pride

In 1995 Tyra Hunter was on her way to work as a hairdresser, when she was in a car accident. It was serious but not life threatening. When the EMTs arrived, they removed her from her car and begain treating her. They started to remove her clothes in order to access her wounds, and found she was trans. They stopped treating her, and instead started to verbally abuse her and calling her slurs. #TransHistory #Pride

Eventually they did load her into an ambulance and took her to a hospital. At the hospital the abuse continued when the surgeon in the ER refused to care for her as well. An hour after her car accident she was declared dead. An investigation into her death said that with proper medical care she had a 90% chance of survival. Tyra Hunter was murdered. #TransHistory #Pride