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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 15:02:26 JST Aral Balkan

   If you’re against trans rights, you’re against human rights. Because trans rights are human rights. You don’t get to pick and choose who qualifies as human.

   #transRights #humanRights

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 15:58:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Frank

     @fschaap I’m sorry, Frank, maybe it’s just too early in the day but I’m afraid I don’t follow :)

   • Frank (fschaap@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 15:58:07 JST Frank

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     @aral Why the effort is made to dehumanize, starting with classification of more and less based on whatever real or ascribed traits. Or rather, the more is never described, just implied by what is exhaustively made less.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 16:00:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Melissa BearTrix 🏳️‍⚧️

     @melissabeartrix Ah nothing as neat as what you do, I’m afraid. I make small tech (https://small-tech.org). Currently trying to kickstart the Small Web (https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/).

   • Melissa BearTrix 🏳️‍⚧️ (melissabeartrix@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 16:00:29 JST Melissa BearTrix 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @aral 100% right

     I just read your profile and you make small things ... What do you make ?

     I am a watch and clock maker

     Hugz & xXx

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 17:57:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Frank

     @fschaap Oh yes, indeed. Thanks for clarifying :)

   • Frank (fschaap@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 17:57:21 JST Frank

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     @aral Sorry, I was not writing as clearly as the thought presented itself to me. Too early for me too ;-) I was commenting on how denying people (human) rights, starts/goes with dehumanizing them. Traits are picked for which you are deemed less than others, for which you are less human. And the discourse's default 'full humanness' (like color, sexuality, gender, etc.) is not defined directly, but only implicitly by defining what deviates or detracts from your humanness. Insidious.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 20:13:21 JST Aral Balkan

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     • 𝗌𝗆𝗈𝗄𝗎

     @smokku As long as there are those who will deny people their rights if you use one of those terms, then yes, we do. So do we need the term trans rights? Yes, as long as people deny trans people their human rights. Dropping the terms – not speaking of them – plays straight into the hands of those who would have them forgotten as a prelude to erasing them from existence altogether.

   • 𝗌𝗆𝗈𝗄𝗎 (smokku@chrome.pl)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 20:13:22 JST 𝗌𝗆𝗈𝗄𝗎

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     @aral Do we need two terms for the same thing?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 20:33:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • 𝗌𝗆𝗈𝗄𝗎

     @smokku I do see your point and it is a valid concern. However, I feel we can do more good in explicitly stressing their equivalence in a climate where stating “Black Rights Matter” is met by some with “All Rights Matter” (ironically and yet also predictably enough, by those who don‘t feel that Black rights do matter).

   • 𝗌𝗆𝗈𝗄𝗎 (smokku@chrome.pl)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 20:33:12 JST 𝗌𝗆𝗈𝗄𝗎

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     @aral This allows the adversary to dictate framing of the discussion. Propping its divisive nature.

     When people hear A and B in the discussion, they assume B differs somehow from A - otherwise just one term would be enough.