Pride month is here!

Hello all! June is pride month and I am here to celebrate all month long. Personally I celebrate pride and being who you choose to be authentically. Pride for me is also about activism and fighting against the hatred. This year has seen yet another massive increase in transphobia and enbyphobia. Notice how as I typed "enbyphobia" the page tried to tell me I had spelt a word wrong. That says it all... Is hatred and phobia against non-binary even widely acknowledged?

Anyway, this year I have come to the realisation that even LGBTQIA+ people I know do not necessarily everyone in the community. I already knew that some lesbians for examples, try to exclude transgender women as being "not women". This is just a fallacy which is harmful to all women. How can people look at someone and immediately know someone's gender? I have read stories where cisgender women are mistaken as transgender women. They get pulled out of toilets by cisgender male security guards or excluded from women's spaces.

This is gatekeeping. People in society are deciding on whether someone is a woman based on how they look. Women are based on whether they conform to this traditional AKA Patriarchal AKA misogynistic view of what a woman should look like. It is a bowing to the Patriarchy and it is horrible. It's just as bad as that Reform MP trying to get the burqa ban. This same MP had a mug with Kier Starmer in a Hijab. It is not protecting women. It is dividing women and it is racism.

Anyway quite possibly the biggest threat to women is abuse committed by cisgender men. Not trans women. Last year it was revealed that over 1,100 UK Police Officers were under investigation for sexual or domestic abuse. First of all that is a terrifying number. Second of all this not trans or non-binary people. Now considering that trans women can be strip searched by male police officers, what is to stop a male police officer claiming he thought a woman was trans to abuse her?

The LGBTQIA+ community have been used as scapegoats for this countries problems in the same way immigrants have been. The big thing (for me personally) is how the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. The solution? Well...

Three of the big five political parties would impose welfare cuts that target the elderly, the disabled and the poor. The other two want to help us all out and tax the super rich. For those who say the super rich will leave the country, that is rubbish. Switzerland, Spain and France have wealth taxes. Super rich people have flocked to Switzerland too. Also a group of millionaires in this country asked to be taxed go figure...

We are not scapegoats. We deserve to live equally, we deserve to be be treated the same as others without discrimination. Have a happy pride month everyone!


Until next time,


Thomas.

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