This is a powerful, grounded account of community resistance in the face of still-ongoing brutality. We'd encourage folks to read it for a reality check about what's going on in Minneapolis.

Article edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social

This is a powerful, grounded account of community resistance in the face of still-ongoing brutality. We'd encourage folks to read it for a reality check about what's going on in Minneapolis.

Article edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social

Trans people are an overwhelmingly working class demographic. Our communities, organizing and resistance poses a threat to the hierarchies the gentry (even the "progressive" ones, even the handful of gatekeeping trans gentry) rely on.

The oppression of trans people is also a front in the class war.

This includes, in different ways, everyone from the gop gentry failson attacking a pride party to the "radical" trustfund clique that ensconces itself in the local non-profit complex and periodically tries to ruin the life of any trans woman who points out how abusive and transmisogynist they are.

Also worth remembering that the gentry extends well beyond the ultra-gentry with national/worldwide influence.

The gentry is functionally the upper-middle class and above. Lo and behold, many of those driving the worst otg attacks on trans folks in local spots come from their ranks too.

The current trans genocide push is planned, coordinated and carried out by megachurch pastors, nepobaby media barons, billionaire bigots, influential academics, tech magnates, literal aristocrats. That's been clear for awhile, but we're seeing more proof every day.

The salt of the earth this ain't.

3. st peter is over an hour's drive from minneapolis. it isnt even an exurb. its just a random small town. its very close to mankato, which itself is a very small city and hardly can be called related to the tc.

keep these in mind. dont fall for soothing narratives when reading stories like this.

we can start full celebrations if we enter a world where no one's imprisoned and no one has the power to weaponize a state to kill other people. until then, we keep going.

like, i am not trying to raise fear here, it's just a fact that they're going to deploy more agents across the country. they're already doing this in maine, in LA, in springfield oh, etc.

listen to minnesotans and organize. don't get cocky, and don't quit after tiny victories. *keep going.*

Fascism is a hateful, suicidal ideology. Trans existence is an indomitable, inconsolable fact of the universe. We survived the AIDS genocides, the Holocaust, and erasure of Indigenous gender identities. And we will survive this genocide too.

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