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DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity (www.erininthemorning.com)
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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I’ve accepted that I am probably going to get picked up/disappeared at some point in the next few months. My therapists and I have discussed what to do should I not show up for an appointment - the ways that I’d like my art and books to be preserved.

It’s somewhat freeing. The barbarians are at the gates, and this is the time to prove that my human spirit is not less because of my transsexuality. If the Empire didn’t exist, then there would be no rebels to fight it.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel that their tactics will be more insidious than rounding up trans people. They will slowly boil the frog by making it increasingly difficult for trans people to reliably maintain a HRT regimen, access therapy, surgical services, etc. They’ll attempt to criminalize doctors helping. They are of the view that it’s a mental illness and they’ll do everything in their power to construct conditions that will make it impossible for trans people to function in society.

Your existence is itself a revolutionary act. Thanks for being true to yourself. As things are getting worse I refuse to eliminate the hope that it can get better. I’m sorry you’re one of those that have to bear the brunt of the inhumanity.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The way I think it’ll happen to me - involuntary institutionalization in a psychiatric hospital. You are right in that the mental health angle will be easiest to pursue, especially in coordination with defunding/purging SAMHSA under RFK Jr’s rule.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Categorizing inconvenient people as mentally ill so you can lock them up is a common trick for authoritarian regimes. This one seems worryingly plausible.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went (voluntarily) inpatient a few months ago. I was physically assaulted, forced into a women’s, and denied any communication with the outside world. There are supposed to be state regulations where you can speak to a patient advocate or call out - they refused to let me. They actually threatened to hold me longer if I kept asking (they said they could do up to five days, or longer across a weekend).

The system is already set up where I live.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like we need to add every one of those locations to a map. Be ready folks.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Idle thought -

Behavioral tech jobs are terrible, but easy to get. If your job desperate and physically built a bit more, you can be a first line of defense here. It’s such a shit job that working a week or two and being a whistle blower/getting fired isn’t the end of the world.

The place I was at let the tech have her phone at on the floor even. I don’t think HIPAA is being enforced actively, and the actual moral weight behind that law would need to guide one’s actions, but… there’s not a lot of ways to demonstrate the routine and inappropriate application of the “booty juice.”

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I hate that this is even a plausible future. Good luck out there, friend.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They'll find some way to make it illegal, shuffle all the trans people into for-profit prisons. This holocaust isn't going to be about executing a populace, not when a profit can be scraped from their bones.

[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The way I see it, their goal isn’t to directly kill you. It’s to make life so hard, you do it yourself. The best way to fight back is to keep going no matter what they try to do

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump has signalled to their goons they have free reign. With the pardons, and then with this:

"He who saves his country does not violate any law" ^1^

People who are still hoping this will blow over are just lying to themselves.

And with his comment on "wiping blue States off the map" just as musk fires the dhs cyber defense team ^2^ (CISA - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), and trump stands down against ALL Russian cyber threats ^3^, you can be sure the midterms will be rigged/hacked and/or something much, much ...much worse.

And the language, the rhetoric, is not just silly word games.

They're calling for transgender'ism' to be "eradicated"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cpac-speaker-transgender-people-eradicated-1234690924/

People are going to be killed.

And that's not even getting into the whole Christian dominionist lunatics out there who have also been emboldened .

^1^ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-if-it-saves-country-its-not-illegal-2025-02-16/

^2^ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/21/doge-trump-federal-cybersecurity-cuts

^3^ https://gizmodo.com/trumps-defense-secretary-hegseth-orders-cyber-command-to-stand-down-on-all-russia-operations-2000570343

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 7 points 1 month ago

Isn't it so that their followers feel justified to do it themselves? Like that case where a man was tortured for five weeks and then murdered in New York?

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

If you're in Oregon, you've got a safe space where I am. If necessary.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That still would be barred by Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020). If they do any on that basis they'd instantly get sued. 7/9 of the justices are the same since them. 4 members of the majority remain on the court and the two new appointments both should be predicted to uphold the precedent.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But those same judges have also showed in the last year or two that precedence means very little to them if it gets in the way of something they (or their patrons) want

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I would challenge you to listen to the other entirely if