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Love, Honor & Protect Trans Women - Poster of the Week



Love, Honor & Protect Trans Women

Mokhtar Paki, San Francisco Poster Syndicate

Silkscreen, 2023

San Francisco, CA

101838


This week, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that the “concept of sex is binary,” thereby making the legal definition of a woman to be someone born biologically female. Sex and gender as binary is demonstrably and scientifically false. Humans, like countless other species, can be born with a diversity of gender and sex characteristics. The determination that sex and gender are both equivalent and binary invariably strips trans people of fundamental human rights to autonomy and freedom of expression, it undermines the existence of intersex people, and it ends up harming even cisgender people.

 

Human brains do not have either “male” or “female” functionings and patterns connected to the sex we are assigned at birth. We are all a mosaic. Within the intersex community alone, there are at least 40 known variations of chromosomal arrangements that affect genitalia, gonads, and hormone production. Moreover, the existence of a gender binary traps even cisgender men and women into gender essentialism and inequality. Conservative movements like MAGA seek to bring gender dynamics back to the 1950s. We are already seeing a rise in women romanticizing the stay-at-home "tradwife" lifestyle with complete economic dependence on their boyfriends or husbands.

 

In the U.S., the Trump administration has spent its first few months stripping away rights for trans people, including an executive order persecuting trans athletes and declaring gender binary. The administration is currently battling the state of Maine, whose governor, Janet Mills, has refused to comply with his anti-trans executive order. The reversal of recognizing trans people and embracing gender diversity will result in thousands of people missing out on equal pay and sex discrimination rights. It will also increase public hostility towards trans and gender nonconforming people.

 

This ruling is not just about legal semantics, it is about power, control, and oppression of trans rights and people. We must now, more than ever, fight against transphobic and sexist policies and continue to fight alongside the trans community. Trans rights are human rights. 


 

Take Action to Support Trans and GNC People:




UK Organizations


Support TransActual - focused on health care and trans people's legal protections


Support FiveForFive - donates weekly to five transfem groups or individuals working within the UK


Support Gendered Intelligence - offers group services for trans, non-binary, and gender questioning people and their families, in addition to providing services for professional organizations seeking to improve their trans-inclusive practices


Support Mermaids - support trans, non-binary and gender questioning children and young people


Support akt - supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness


Support Loving Me - supports trans and non-binary victims of domestic abuse or sexual violence


Support Not a Phase - focused on improving the lives of trans+ adults



US Organizations


Support Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) - works at all levels of government to ensure trans voices are heard and represented, in addition to providing legal support


Support Trans Lifeline - provides peer-to-peer support for trans people


Support the National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition - works to address the systemic inequities faced by Black transgender people


Support the Sylvia Rivera Law Project - provides legal help and support for trans people experiencing lack of critical services, undergoing the immigration process, and/or needing assistance in New York jails and prisons


Support The Trevor Project - provides crisis services, public education, and advocacy work for LGBTQ+ youth


Support Lambda Legal - works to achieve full recognition of civil rights of LGBTQ+ people through litigation, education, and public policy


 

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More about the science and experiential reality of sex and gender diverse people:







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