Post #2548635
2026-03-31 23:57 UTC
Authoritarians hate trans people because trans people demonstrate to the world that it's possible to question and reject anything about life, even the things that feel inevitable and nigh-impossible to resist. They hate it when trans people can sit around being visible evidence that a different life is possible in every possible way, including the ways that challenge the underpinnings of their claims to authority. There are fundamental reasons as to why it is so politicized, all of which are the fault of the oppressors.
If you're cis, perhaps you can give the trans folks out there a hand by visibly resisting whichever forces of hegemony are suppressing fundamental pieces of you.
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@lifning@snoot.tube 2026-04-01 07:57
(Also, lemme tell ya, I went hard on getting Windows XP to act like Linux in the aughts. I spent any particularly boring college lectures with my laptop out getting gnome-panel and xfdesktop and so on to compile and run in Xming, and installing uxtheme.dll themes that looked like contemporary Clearlooks GTK. Then, in my first full-time job where we were issued Apple laptops, I went similarly hard getting everything I could from MacPorts and pkgsrc to cobble together a familiar environment under XQuartz. But sure, "there weren't any signs")