This is agitprop intended to divide. Don't be a sucker. Cis people didn't start pride month, and have never been excluded from it. All the queer people who are out at your local pride parade don't care about your shallow cynicism, and are more than happy to embrace and celebrate their humanity with anyone and everyone. That's the fucking point.
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This is more of a commentary on how liberals etc. are happy to raise a pride flag on government buildings in June, but otherwise fail to be a real support.
I would argue that support is support. The most common failure of the revolutionary is to demand some ridiculous action threshold which does nothing but whittle down the base and isolate vulnerable individuals.
There are plenty of people in this world who have no support besides those who are not prepared to take radical action, or who simply do not know how to do anything besides symbolic activism. Don't remove their support. If you want to help them push their comfort zone then offer real constructive input instead of this cynical slop.
For anyone feeling targeted by this meme, here are some ways to help:
- Donate to trans focused charities, like Advocates for Trans Equality or the Transgender Law Center
- Support individual trans people. Surgery is expensive even with insurance due to time needed off work.
- Please god just listen when a trans person says you’ve done something transphobic. The vast, vast majority of trans people don’t speak up about every little thing because we are drowning in transphobia. Generally if someone has said something it’s because it genuinely bothered them, even if it wasn’t ’that bad’ it may be intimately linked for them to past trauma; roughly 40% of trans people meet the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis, compared to less than 5% of the general population.
I’m not gonna do that
I’m not gonna read anything else you say 🥳
For anyone who feels targeted by this meme, be more aware of agitprop. If you can't make donations or attend events, it's okay. Just making your allyship known has material benefit.