BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
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Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
  • lembas@lemm.eeEnglish
    276·
    1 month ago

    I’m so fucking scared. They’ve inhibited our movement by fucking with passports, they’ve defined us as dishonest and dishonorable in the EO kick us out of the military, they’ve codified the notion that our gender identity constitutes sexual deviance and poses a threat to children, they’ve attacked proven life-saving care, with a focus on children and an impact on adults.

    and now they’re trying to book-burn us out of existence.

    this is systematic dehumanization, the track record of which is grim.

    There’s just straight up not enough of us to do this on our own.

    If people don’t start standing up for us, we’re fucked.

        • fadingembersEnglish
          20·
          1 month ago

          They confiscated it, wouldn’t give it back and were threatening to arrest her. There are also reports of trans people that were renewing their passports by mail and told they wouldn’t be getting them back.

          • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            1 month ago

            Ugh.

            You just know if it was someone sadly following the new requirements, it would have been a very apologetic taking of it and that would be the end, even if traumatic.

            When they threaten to arrest them, they’re in on it.

      • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        1 month ago

        They are stealing the documents of trans people who go to get new documents including passports, leaving them without identifying paperwork (and identified by the authorities by the paperwork they lost) in a time where that is very convenient for the people in power, and threatening them with arrest if they ask for them back. In addition to what has been said already

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        1 month ago

        They’re refusing to issue passports to people who have had their gender marker legally changed, and some bigoted employees have been illegally confiscating documents (like birth certificates and social security cards) from those who try anyways.

        So if your drivers license gender marker doesn’t match your birth certificate, they’ll refuse to issue the passport, and there’s a non-zero chance that the person behind the desk will steal both when you try to apply. So now you don’t have a passport and you need to go through the arduous process of getting all new ID paperwork just to prove who you are.

      • triptrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        1 month ago

        From my sister about my 17y.o. trans niece: “Unfortunately, [niece] had a children’s passport (expired now), so she’s in the group who would not be able to get a passport anymore because her birth certificate and social security don’t currently match each other and don’t match her passport records.”

          • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            1 month ago

            There have been multiple people in local groups that have reported this happening to them this week. Going to get documentation updated, sent home without anything - not even documentation with natal sex. Local queer org put out an advisory - reached out to all shrinks that work with queer people.

          • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            1 month ago

            Maybe it’s just the three trans people I know that are trying to leave the country right now, my brother’s family, and a bunch of family friends that come from a family of pilots and flight attendants.

            I’m sure they are the only people having trouble in the whole country. Must be an isolated incident. … …

            They are all located out west and in the Midwest, so maybe it’s just the Chicago office and the website. I don’t know if anybody has tried doing it through mail correspondence yet but that takes a little bit more time anyway.

            • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              1 month ago

              That’s completely different than, “The entire passport office is shut right now.”. You were either being unnecessarily hyperbolic, or intentionally spreading misinformation. Neither helps in situations like this.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      All people need is a focus for resistance, a group or a leader to join. Most people are disgusted by this, and despite the election result I still believe most people would rather see trans people happy than suffering. And as the visibility of trans people increases, more and more cis people have been discovering that they know and care about trans people in their own lives. That’s why the hateful fringe feels it’s so urgent to shut trans rights down. They know they have to push people back into fear and silence before transphobia becomes uncommon. And they know they have to silence people talking about these matters to make organized resistance possible. But the quiet is largely people not knowing how to connect and resist, not a lack of desire to resist. It’s time for organized resistance and the first movement that gets going will find many supporters.

      We also need some organization around getting LGBTQ+ refugees out of the USA and into other countries. The restrictions on passports are very ominous.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
    88·
    1 month ago

    The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people.

    • Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      30 days ago

      The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people

      Impressive that it is actually true, I thought it is an exaggeration. From Wikipedia:

      On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, came to power

      On 6 May 1933, a group of students … the students proceeded to shout “Brenne Hirschfeld!” (“Burn Hirschfeld!”) while ransacking and vandalizing the Institute, tearing pictures from the walls, pouring inkwells onto carpets, and destroying exhibitions while the band played outside.

      src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
        25·
        30 days ago

        Yeah, when they teach about book burnings they never mention that fact. It also serves as a reminder that trans people are not just a modern phenomenon. The Nazis’ reasons for targeting trans people then are the same as right-wingers today, they look for a small, marginalized group and seize on existing prejudice to sow division and divide and conquer. The Nazis claimed trans people were a Jewish plot to weaken and destroy the Ayran race, and you can still see echos of that in some right-wing rhetoric today.

  • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    80·
    1 month ago

    Oh look…

    The US is embedding a totalitarian theonomic government. A new, (soon to be) militarized, hierarchy regime of religious fanaticism and newly created social classes, in which DEI is being brutally subjugated.

    I swear I’ve seen this show before…

  • TinEnglish
    76·
    1 month ago

    “forbidden terms”

    …must be that “free speech” I keep hearing about. This is obviously a first amendment issue, right?

    Right?

  • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    1 month ago

    Don’t they know just because you’ve banned a word, doesn’t mean that the item or thing automatically poofs out of existence?

    This is that easy. There’s a few words I’d love to ban. How about Elmo? And Turd

    • proleEnglish
      29·
      1 month ago

      Unfortunately, this kind of control of language does work in the long term.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      Wiping trans people from existence is easier for them to do when nobody is allowed to talk about them.

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 month ago

      It’s just the first step. You don’t acknowledge they exist on paper or in speech. That makes it much easier to turn against them physically. It’s still up in the air whether or not they take the final steps of making their existence illegal. I think they will.

  • MeaanBeaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    30 days ago

    Since when does the CDC have the authority to do this in the first place? If the CDC can’t effectively police actions during a global pandemic they sure as shit shouldn’t have to authority to control the terminology used in medical research.