...We still have damn far to go.
Here are more queer civil rights issues that we can't forget...
Here are more queer civil rights issues that we can't forget...
- 40% of homeless youth are queer or trans.
- Doctors are still mutilating intersex kids.
- Trans women of color are still being murdered.
- Corrective rape is still happening.
- Conversion therapy is still happening.
- The 'Gay Panic' defense is still legal in 49 out of 50 states.
- Bi women are still more likely to be physically abused than lesbian or straight women.
- Trans people are more likely to live in poverty.
- Bathrooms. Just bathrooms.
- We still need to fear the police, especially our undocumented people, trans people, poor people, sex workers, and people of color.
- Undocumented LGBTQ+ people, especially TPOC, still face violence and brutality while imprisoned. Jennicet Gutierrez, anyone?
- In most states, there's no statewide non-discrimination policy protecting trans people.
- In about half, there's also no statewide non-discrimination policy protecting cis queer people, either.
- There's still people trying to ban youth shelters.
- Trans teenagers are still committing suicide because of transphobic bullying and abuse.
I'm tired of rich, white, cis gay people forgetting that we do, in fact, still have really far to go.
2 comments:
About #6, this doesn't mean it will actually WORK. It's usually a pretty awful defense, in fact. But people can still use it in every state of the Union, besides California.
And the fact that it doesn't usually work doesn't stop us from being killed, especially the gender nonconforming ones. By the time straight cis people actually get around to the "My heterosexuality made me do it" BS, it's a little too late.
And, of course, white and class privilege always play a role. Even though Freyja and I are both gender variant, we're perceived as less threatening than we would have been if we'd been PoC, especially Black, Native, or Latin@. And I'm perceived as less threatening than they are, because I also have class privilege.
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