If you’re able to make it to the State Library on the 31st, please come and show your support. There are a lot of awful things happening to trans people and it’s time we demand protection, the right to gender affirming care and an end to pink washing.
The 31st is the trans day of visibility, but we are now very visible and without protection that visibility is violence. We are done asking to be seen, we now demand to be safe.
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Intersectional justice is the answer. Often companies that sponsor pride also are responsible for detention centers. 20yrs ago I remember loads of my friends getting beaten up by cops. So it’s complicated but the idea of all oppressed people being interlinked by similar forms of oppression isn’t. Hope that’s somewhat helpful.
Thanks for the informative reply! I was worried how my questions came off. I didn’t realise pink washing spanned to detention centres as well. Almost laughable if it wasn’t depressing.
I appreciate the question, honestly.
It is mostly about pink washing, we’ve certainly seen plenty of that sort of thing coming from Israel as they try to sanitise the genocide.
I think there’s an important point to be made on cops though. While in some communities, the police have only ever been a good presence that make people feel safe, there are many others where police represent only violence. To the indigenous and immigrant communities, police are a force who rip families apart, physically assault and even kill people in custody. Trans people face similar discrimination and violence, and there’s essentially no incentive for the police to change.