An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
  • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Seeing

    Ada's comment

    in the website itself, and

    a good response to it,

    but also a large amount of “Thank God it’s not us living there!” in the responses, that I did not like, I’d like to pull a bit of that conversation out, back here, for the same reason Ada commented:

    Seeing these news alone (especially if you read only the title), while very very important information, leaves behind a powerlessness that is literally part of the fascist propaganda’s purpose.

    I should note for whoever doesn’t want to spend the excruciating read’s 5 minutes of sadism, that despite unfounded police and legal threats, the women stated they will go through with the legal fight.

    statement in the article, including gofundme link, already at 90%

    Now, community groups are mobilizing both to support Rush and Sanders and to challenge Ordinance No. 22. “Things have gotten bad,” said Peyton Michelle Rose, executive director for the statewide advocacy group Louisiana Trans Advocates. “But we’ve already had it bad. We’re used to standing up for ourselves.”

    While the post is old (2 days lol), for whoever further reads it, I would like it if people here with experience on these matters, shared what they know about what actions can be taken in these situations, in theory or practice. This is, I believe, an important part of the narrative.

    My experience on the matter:

    Being able to speak for Greece, there is a de facto informal mutual aid network of most queer and or anarchic collectives, which are as I’ve come to see, well connected (though of course not tight knit, different political struggles and all)

    There have been cases in the last few months, of people needing money for legal battles (small time legal bullying, related to legal names being changed and such, or bigger time legal bullying of being outed on national television by conversion-therapy “Christian Orthodox priests”), as well as just the housing and/or transitions of people with bad living conditions).

    They have been shared, by word of mouth, between these organizations, and promoted, and as a result often gotten funded rapidly, with excess being offered.

    Nameless people you don’t know out there, care, and have the will to help, especially when there is a path for them to do so.