If you are 18+ and LGBT, GET OUT AND VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6TH. TRANSGENDER RIGHTS ARE IN DANGER.
The Trump Administration is planning to change the legal definition of sex to- “male or female, unchangeable, Unless by genetic testing.” Aka, trans people would be completely erased. They would have no rights towards discrimination, changing their gender, or even presenting as trans in general. If you aren’t planning to vote or you’re on the fence, PLEASE, for the love of god, get out and vote. We have to protect our community.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html#click=https://t.co/a8lnfNH07k
Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence
guys?? please. seriously, please vote. if you aren’t 18 or in the US, please signal boost this or other posts with resources on how to register.
if you’re not already registered, check and see if your state allows same-day voter registration. don’t have same-day voter registration in your state? check the in-person registration deadline for your state. some of them are much closer to election day than the electronic or mail-in deadlines.
IT IS NOT TOO LATE.
and if you don’t care about trans people (like so many anons have been super willing to inform me) please at least take intersex people into account. about 1 in every 100 people are born with bodies that differ from the accepted standard for male or female. this is their literal, actual biology, so no matter how you feel about someone identifying with a sex other than their “birth” sex, we have to accept the fact that there is more going on, BIOLOGICALLY, than just “male” and “female.”
I don’t usually reblog politics-related stuff, but I think this is a very important topic (and not only because I major in Gender Studies). Gender is NOT fixed at birth. There are always variables in everything. It’s the way evolution works. We humans like to categorize everything to fit into binary standards that we think suit our narrow mindsets, but this will always exclude someone or something. No matter how limited our categories/way of thinking are, nobody is going to stop evolution (and I mean that in the broadest term, not just biological) from happening and people need to accept that and move on and live their lives and let others live theirs the way they want!
And if you don’t know about a topic, please do not simply dismiss it/ have a negative opinion on it, but educate yourself, read about it, until you truly understand the thing you are thinking to be against before claiming to be.
Schlagwort: politics
Germans. The only ones that would comment on a post regarding the potential abolishment of the clock changes regarding daylight-saving time with “Why is no one reporting that most of the interviewees want the daylight-saving time to become the new standard time? Do they want to go behind our backs and make “winter time” the new standard! Typical move from the European parliament!!!111!!!”
We really are a nation of complainers.
(Meanwhile, half of Saxony has to deal with an angry nazi mob and a surprising lot of people are like “Nah, they are not Nazis.” Yeah sure. Shouting “Adolf Hitler is our idol” and doing the Hitler salute- definitely not Nazis.)
If you’d told me three years ago that I would one day write a term paper about the diplomatic relations of the President of the United States Donald Trump, I would have laughed you in the face.
Yet here I am.
How am I supposed to write about Trump’s policy on Russia when the president himself doesn’t seem to know what his policy is?
If you’d told me three years ago that I would one day write a term paper about the diplomatic relations of the President of the United States Donald Trump, I would have laughed you in the face.
Yet here I am.
Why my country is f*cked
twofingerswhiskey said: ??
The German general election was today and our very own right-wing extremist/protest party got over 13% (Very recently, they told the public that they would “hunt down” chancellor Merkel (she’s been re-elected. We have the tendency to keep our chancellors for a very long time.) and the established parties, and chanted “Germany back to the Germans”.
Also, the preach water but drink wine (they are against homosexuals or at least giving homosexuals certain rights (they are very focused on the nuclear family, going as far as demonising single parents), immigrants, and refugees, but one of their chairwomen is a lesbian in a relationship with an Asian woman, who has adopted a child and has recently come under fire for illegally hiring a refugee woman as a cleaning lady… yeah.).
I mean, that would be bad enough if it happened in every other country, but f*cking Germany?! You’d think people would read a history book, but nooo…
And don’t even get me started on the fact that we now have 6 parties in our parliament, which unfortunately also means that we’ll have a three-party government and therefore, an unstable government. We specifically have a law that tries to prevent this (”5% barrier”) because back in the old days, we had a myriad of parties and no working government, which kind of led to Hitler.
On the positive side, 87% of all voters didn’t vote for the second coming of Hitler. (Yeah, I have a very strong opinion on that. Sorry.)
Aaaand we’re f*cked.
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sim-boo said: Not german but i hope things turn out well 🙂
Eh, our very own extremely right-wing party (and we’re no longer talking ‘just’ about them proposing to shoot refugees and refugee children trying to enter the country, nope, we’re now at “We should be proud of our WWII achievements/ Hitler wasn’t thaaat bad, guys”. Seriously. But okay, we’re a democracy, and as long as they don’t cross the legal line, they are free to say that…) is expected to get more than 10%. But no one’s going to actually form a coalition with them, so we’re good (the rest depends on your personal preference, but we won’t suddenly be without healthcare or sth like that. I guess that’s the positive thing when all your parties are extremely similar to each other?) Thank you!
didilysims said: It’s the same with adoption, isn’t it? No confirmation so if you misclick, whoops!
I’m pretty sure they eventually added an “Are you sure?” pop up. At least I have it in my game. But then again, I have several adoption hacks, so I’m not too sure about that.
I’ll be so happy when the Bundestagswahl (German general election) is over. For the last few days, I’ve been flooded with advertisements online. Youtube, Tumblr (that right-wing one), even fricking Modthesims! But yay, the German parties have finally figured out how the internet works? *Cue to Merkel’s famous “Neuland” speech (”The internet is uncharted territory for all of us”- Merkel 2013, got many people laughing. 2013!!!)*
Also, to all my German followers (do I have any?). Go vote. You can make a difference.
Angela Merkel on Weekend Update
Weirdest news of the day…
Meanwhile in Germany, our very own dangerous nuthead party (AfD) decided that they are against sex toys because apparently women don’t want children then… They also want every woman to have two children so that “the German race doesn’t die out”. If they weren’t so dangerous, they would be such laughing stocks… It’s pretty pathetic.
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