Trans/disabled solidarity warms my heart
Apr. 25th, 2025 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistTime for a million more "a trans person peed here and nothing bad happened" stickers, I think.
I think even cis allies should be leaving them in all the public toilets they use at this point because it'll be true even if they're not the ones making it true.
I've seen some good disability solidarity regarding bathrooms: people saying "yeah get yourselves a RADAR key, I don't mind waiting to pee if this is what it takes to keep yourself safe" and things like that.
I've seen the Reasonable Access advice about asserting yourself during disability discrimination shared as also being relevant to gender discrimination.
And the Disability Rights UK statement on the Supreme Court ruling made me want to stand up and cheer...not least because they got it out almost immediately afterwards; a lot of people were feeling raw and vulnerable and it really helped to have this already out there. I've always thought that the social model applies to trans people in a similar way to how it applies to disability -- the suffering isn't essential, the barriers are put there by society -- and it's great to see those parallels highlighted.
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Date: 2025-04-25 10:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-04-25 10:31 pm (UTC)We compiled it after comparing various experiences of challenging discrim and I basically tried to distill it into something with structure and coherent and then think "how much is race/class/gender/impairment related privilege/disadvantage" cos I'm acutely aware disabled people of colour have very different experiences I can't speak to.
We figure if more people start challenging shit up the different options, the people dumping shit on us might stop doing it, or do it a bit less cos we suddenly make it hard and not worth their while. There's CONSEQUENCES!
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Date: 2025-04-25 11:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-04-28 04:58 pm (UTC)My former colleague who is trans used to have a "Some people are trans get over it" poster in her office in her last job. When she transitioned IN that job, she decided not to announce it, but would explain if people were confused or asked outright as she'd been given the choice by decent managers (some who were queer). Students never remember our names properly anyway, so it's less of a deal and it's not relevant. And of course queer students clocked it right away and would ask and know they were 'with safe people'. The poster was just an extra as often students didn't even notice my colleague was trans despite her being 6'3" which I attribute to her excellent ladycolleagues who helped her get really lovely clothes (former colleague is blind, so needed support with that). We used to laugh about how I was not the clothes-advising type of woman, but I was pleased she had shopping and clothes people around her when she needed it.
By living, we get to be activists, and that's useful!