The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.

Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence

One immediate step you can take if you're tech literate is try to personally back up as much DIY information from the internet as possible. We need to confront the fact that the internet is American dominated and primarily American-owned and in a larger sense owned and operated by capital primarily. For the informational resources of the internet to benefit human beings we have to deliberately make choices to structure it that way, and in the age of Palantir that largely means thinking about parallel informational infrastructure, setting up another internet or at least other communication systems.

If we want to preserve life saving information, information that aligns with reality over fascism information that is useful, beautiful and true to human beings and ugly and inconvenient to capital, first we have to make backups

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I initially left your comment because I thought it was fine, then people started showing up to argue and I thought it was better to remove the thread so people can be focused on the matter at hand. But since you've said this, do you think trans women are more "popular"???

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@sophie-frm-mars Perhaps I phrased that badly but you can hardly argue there isnt a gender bias Obviously they all need support, but trans mascs in particular need mentioning because they're incredibly frequently just flat out excluded in these conversations, with people actually getting upset when they're mentioned

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@salvagethevixin When people focus on trans women they are redressing an imbalance. Trans women are the most targeted and most vulnerable, especially black trans women, trans women of colour, transfem sex workers and homeless trans women. If people need nudging towards supporting groups of trans people it should be the most vulnerable, and actually those groups are commonly overlooked despite their extreme vulnerability. I don't disagree with your original comment, I just decided to remove it because I didn't want the comments section here to be a discourse space that would waste everyone's time when what everyone needs to be doing is organising together to make structures that help everyone but prioritise the most at risk.

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I'll say it again, yall NEED to include trans mascs in your activism

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classic men, seeing a minority and thinking "when do *i* get to be the center of attention??". classic men, continuing to speak after being told to shut up (your comment got deleted once, why are you repeating it again??. classic men, destroying attempts at activism with their fedposting and whataboutism.

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@that-one-gal9 (see salvage's other comments for additional context)

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Nobody even specified trans femmes or said it didn't apply to trans mascs???? Like, anywhere at all. Are you literally just trying to stir up hate against trans women?

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hrtcafe hasn't been updated in a long time, there are other regularly maintained sources that it led people to.

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any recs to archive? I'm cis but I want to help as best as I can

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@y2krow i don't know if you saw this, but https://hrt.pages.gay/ has a lot of stuff worth saving!

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there's a mirror of a site with links to several diy hrt resources on pages.gay, lemme see if I can find the link again

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https://hrt.pages.gay/

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Trans men and women and nonbinary trans people are all equally as affected by these bills and all of our voices are equally as important and all need to be heard and included.

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This is why you make both your own offline copies as well as archive the sources/webpages in multiple places that aren't entirely American/US based. They may take down one bit from one source but it's harder when there's multiple copies dotting the globe.

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