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   Cum Vampire (divinekestrel@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 01:54:41 JST Cum Vampire

   Okay, Terra, don't be tragically jealous of the Trans girl who's going to celebrate her 20th birthday in a few months. It was a steel town in the fucking 80s and you would have been literally murdered.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 01:54:37 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Wren Archer:bc::trans_heart:🏹
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     • Caroline Kinlund

     @WrenArcher @griotspeak @caroline @DivineKestrel
     It seems like there are two very human responses to the experience of having been chronically bullied, marginalized, threatened, and/or harmed and then coming into relative power and safety. One is to say “I’m going to fight to make sure nobody else experiences what I experienced.” The other is “Now it’s my turn.”

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     Wren Archer:bc::trans_heart:🏹 (wrenarcher@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 01:54:39 JST Wren Archer:bc::trans_heart:🏹

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     • Caroline Kinlund

     @caroline
     "How quickly people have forgotten the intense anti-gay culture ..."

     What infuriates me about that is the gays and lebesians who are so vocal against trans folks being represented in the Alphabet Mafia. When I see a story about excluding trans people from the LGBT rights movement it stings... a lot. It's because of trans women of color that the modern gay rights movement started and they have the ability to marry who they love.

     @DivineKestrel

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     Caroline Kinlund (caroline@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 01:54:40 JST Caroline Kinlund

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     @DivineKestrel yep, 100%. How quickly people have forgotten the intense anti-gay culture across the US. In the late 90s through mid-2000s the F word (not fuck) was still in TONS of popular media. Hell, when my daughter was born *just 10 years ago* there was a lesbian couple in our birth class that were not allowed to legally marry, and the non-birth parent had to adopt the baby. In “liberal” California! I sometimes wish I was twenty and transitioning now, but rural northeast in the 90s? No way.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 02:37:13 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Wren Archer:bc::trans_heart:🏹
     • tj usiyan
     • Caroline Kinlund

     @DivineKestrel @WrenArcher @griotspeak @caroline
     I very much share this feeling. Apparently, though, it goes both ways — both these things are common human responses. Something we have to reckon with, even if it’s baffling.

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     Cum Vampire (divinekestrel@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 02:37:14 JST Cum Vampire

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     • Paul Cantrell
     • Wren Archer:bc::trans_heart:🏹
     • tj usiyan
     • Caroline Kinlund

     @inthehands How you can walk through the fires of torture and come out as anything but a beacon of compassion is fucking beyond me. @WrenArcher @griotspeak @caroline