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Josie Giles

@hjosephinegiles.bsky.social

Writer. www.harryjosephine.com

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Christyn Parkes@parkesland.bsky.social · last yr.

This hits very hard. I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.

Screen shot of text reading: I strongly suspect that a major reason so many trans people remain wedded to ineffective tactics is that they – we – are trying to hold on to privilege we’ve lost. I’m speaking to people like me, white and from a middle-class background, who grew up expecting the state the guarantee a certain amount of safety and security. Now that the state has made it very clear that we’re disposable, we experience a certain outrage, or moral affront. “You mean you’re going to treat me like you treat all the people who were already disposable?” Faced with that, we try very hard, against all the evidence that it’s not going to work, to recover our position within the state. James Baldwin on white gay people also applies to white trans people. Instead, we have to recognise with whom our practical solidarity must lie, and act accordingly. The rewards are greater than anything the state can give.
Josie Giles@hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · last yr.

"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued. "You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Nicolete Burbach@nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · last yr.

"We cannot show segregation as the moral abhorrence, practical disaster and mechanism of terrifying social control that it is with open letters, symbolic protests and lobbying campaigns. We show segregation for what it is by collectively making segregation impossible to enforce"

Josie Giles@hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · last yr.

"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued. "You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Josie Giles@hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · last yr.

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