Notices by 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans: (ladydragonfly@universeodon.com)

Mastodon, I need your help. I'm looking to relocate to a new instance to start off the new year but there's so many to choose from. What's a good fit for me? I'm a #scottish expat, currently living in #Seattle. I toot about #politics, #music, #poetry, running a #smallbusiness, and the occasional #meme. I am a member of the #lgbtq community, and a proud #trans woman. I have two #cats and a #husband who I love dearly and in very different ways. I tend to post with a heavy dose of #wit &/or #snark.

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I'm a leftist. You can quote me on the following:
- If Joe Biden did crimes, put his ass in jail.
- If Hilary Clinton did crimes, put her ass in jail.
- If Barack Obama did crimes, put his ass in jail.
- If Bernie Sanders did crimes, put his ass in jail.
- If AOC did crimes, put her ass in jail.

See how easy that is, MAGA, when you're not in a cult? Admit it, not a single one of you can, or will say the same about Donald "Espionage" Trump.

BANK: To qualify for a mortgage, you need to build credit, to show that you won't miss your house payments.

ME: I have never missed a rent payment in 23 years.

BANK: That doesn't count for completely different reasons.

I woke up this morning to Nazi death threats in my inbox - for the second time this month. For no other reason than because I have been posting a short biography of one trans historical figure every day since the start of #Pride.

For fascists, even mentioning the existence of trans people is unacceptable and worthy of extermination.

@josh the Nazis literally came for trans people first you walnut.

Follow for more unwritten #TransHistory every single day during #PrideMonth

On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".

The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.

What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.

Remember, they came for trans people first.

@josh Josh you claimed that trans people were not targeted by Nazis in 1933.

On a sourced article about how trans people were targeted by Nazis in 1933.

Trans people were the canary in the coal mine. They literally came for us first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft#CITEREFWolff1986

I present to you the 90s Band Alignment Chart.

Calling bigotry an "opinion" is like calling arsenic a "flavor".

- Jack Cameron

Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.

- So, if biological sex can't be changed,
- And if life starts at conception,
- Then all men are trans.

Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.

Me: How does "trickle down" work again?

Republican: First, the 1% gets all the money.

Me: Ok... and then what?

Republican: What?

Me: What?

The patriarchy is the reason you know the names Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, but you've never even once heard the name Evelyn Berezin.