This week, a panel in the Arizona House of Representatives approved a bill that would protect business owners who refuse to let transgender customers use the correct bathrooms. After a seven-hour-long hearing filled with trans and allied individuals demanding the bill be stopped, lawmakers voted 7-4 to pass it.
This is after lawmakers already altered the bill, sponsored by State Rep. John Kavanagh, from its original form. This version shields businesses from repercussions if they don’t allow trans people to use the bathroom of their choice, whereas an earlier version of the bill actually criminalized the use of a bathroom that didn’t match one’s sex assigned at birth. From ThinkProgress:
Kavanagh’s bill specifically targets the city of Phoenix, which passed sweeping nondiscrimination protections, ensuring all LGBT people have access to employment, housing, and public accommodations without fear of discrimination. If this were to pass into law, those protections would be voided and anybody who wishes to reject service to a transgender person would be free to do so in the state of Arizona. Kavanagh’s effort is nothing less than a proposed license to discriminate.
Cannot believe this is happening. Arizona, let’s see some rallying up in here.
Keirah Rose is a friend of mine personally. She recently came out and told all of us that a few years back she was at an anime convention and got herself into a situation where she needed medical help.
Once they found out she was a…
THIS MOVIE ONLY GETS WORSE.
YOU ARE NOT CHALLENGING TRANSPHOBIA WHEN YOU ARE A RACIST SHITBAG.
(omg. and she totally uses the word ‘lynch’ to describe her experiences. She is fucking terrible. This is the literal definition of white supremacy. Fuck her forever)
Please. Please please please read this and reblog!
If you support LGBTQ Rights you need to stop scrolling and read this. This is not a fucking joke.
If you cant read this, here it is:
If you don’t remember Sophie M Herold, she is a German girl, who is extremely homophobic and transphobic. She has found out LGBTQ persons names, addresses, personal info etc. And set up her own database.
Her intentions with this are harmful.
She is sending out this information, your information, your best friends information, someone you love and care about. She’s sending it to hate groups, malicious people, people with bad intentions.
And if you think I’m blowing this out of proportion, people have been kicked out of homes, disowned by families and even MURDERED. Yes, murdered. Innocent people who have done nothing but love.
She has had numerous blogs and each have been removed. Tumblr staff are aware of her, and as far as I’m aware she currently doesn’t have a blog, but this does not mean she isn’t still on peoples tumblrs, asking via anon where you live, what your name is.
An email I received today. She’s sending out information of same sex couples with children so the children can be kidnapped. She entitled it “Time to strike back”. If that doesn’t suggest harmful intentions I don’t know what does.
Please be extremely careful what you post on tumblr, on twitter, facebook, anywhere. Do NOT give out your full name or your address, or even the town in which you live. Look out for one another, and don’t answer any suspicious anons. Especially if they use your name in quotation marks.
Sophie M Herold is still out there, she always will be, so please spead this message and warn people. She’s attacking in silence. We don’t need more people dying because of her actions.========This disgusting excuse of a human being of needs to stop, but the only way it can be stopped is if you spread this! Please, be aware of any suspicious people or anons asking for personal information. It can get you or your loved ones in SERIOUS DANGER. Thank you.SIGNAL BOOST!
SIGNAL BOOST THE FISH OUT OF THIS!
SIGNAL BOOST.
Oh FUCK she’s back. D: Guys, this isn’t a joke. Signal boost the shit out of this.
Son of a bitch—
If you don’t remember Sophie M Herold, she is a German girl, who is extremely homophobic and transphobic. She has found out LGBTQ persons names, addresses, personal info etc. And set up her own database.
Her…
[tw for rape, transphobia]
hey guys
I just made out this blog to spread the news on how the system of my country is, and also to make sure that we’re not alone on this situation. Hopefully this will get enough notes so that we can show up other citizens to start getting aware that…
I am raging so fucking hard this morning. I can’t even.
From the New York Times:
Even in the ultrapolarized atmosphere of Capitol Hill, it should be possible to secure broad bipartisan agreement on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, the 1994 law at the…
On November 9th, Dan Savage was the recipient of a “glitter bomb” stunt for the second time this month so far. He was continuing his MTV tour at University of California Irvine.
One of the students involved in the stunt was grabbed by the police and arrested.
According to my source at the event, Savage was in the middle of answering a question from a student who was wondering if her boyfriend was a freak because he watched porn featuring trans women. Savage suggested that her boyfriend was a freak, while freely using the terms “shemale” and “freaky tranny porn.” That is when two individuals ran up and threw glitter on him yelling “Transphobe!” Someone from the MTV tech crew muttered “Oh, not again!” Savage laughed it off and said that being gay he loves glitter.
Later, when another student was asking him about the incident, Savage answered, “I’m used to it.”
Savage’s use of the terms “tranny” and “shemale” are a minor part of the complaints being lodged against him, however, the use of those slurs is the most visible and most discussed part of them. Savage has claimed that he was transphobic 15 years ago but isn’t anymore, however, if that is true than why would Dan choose to use those same derogatory slurs knowing how much anger it draws from the trans community and so soon on the heels of the first glitter stunt?
Was he being antagonistic or just oblivious?
Considering that he is being called transphobic so frequently that he now says he is “used to it,” it’s hard to understand how he can continue to see himself as a spokesperson for the LGBT community rather than solely a gay spokesperson. Especially when he apparently has begun bringing police to his events to protect him from the community he claims to represent.
Hey fellas. Usually when I post here I’m in a relatively good mood, but today was rough.
It was the 2nd day of a new job, I informed management in beginning of Day 1 of my preferred name and pronouns and that I’m trans. It went really well and my supervisor…
So I know pop music is largely full of crap, Katy Perry has clueless homophobic lyrics & transphobic tweets, and Lady Gaga’s GLBT support has been problematic to say the least. But neither prepared me for Ke$ha singing Grow a Pear which I heard in a cafe today. I mean WHAT IN THE…
Listened to the song. When I’m irritated or angry, I imagine myself chucking books. I’m having a fabulous book-chucking moment.
