A middle school in Achille, Oklahoma is closed following violent threats by parents on social media against Maddie, a 12-year-old transgender student who identifies as female and used the girls’ bathroom.
Maddie had been using the staff bathroom at her old school but used the girls’ bathroom at the new school because she wasn’t sure where the staff bathroom was. She was then accused of peeping under a bathroom stall. Her mother said it was probably because she “leans very far forward to use the bathroom.”
Then the threats began on a private parents’ Facebook group for the school. The parents called Maddie “it” and “thing”, suggested that her genitalia be mutilated to make her female (“a good sharp knife will do the job real quick”). One said it was “hunting season on them kind” and said there was “no bag limit.”
Maddie’s mother Brandy Rose said she fears for her life: “These are adults making threats– I don’t understand it. She’s an awesome kid. To see any fear in her, I can’t explain how bad that hurts me for them to hurt her.”
KXII reports: “The sheriff said the mother filed a protective order against one parent but no other arrests have been made, however several agencies including the FBI are stepping in to see if any comments constitute a hate crime.”
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Sorry to say this but if we have to think about whether or not threatening to cut a 12 year old child is a hate crime means there is no hope for us. What has this nation become when it’s citizens feel they have a right to threaten minorities with no fear of repercussion. The only ringing heard now is the death knell of freedom..
like, being visible as lgbt is rarely even a good or nice thing let alone a privilege. at best it’s uncomfortable and at worst it’s actively dangerous, bc, u know, homophobia and transphobia!
and yeah sometimes visibility can be a good thing!! like if i was going to a gay club and i wanted other women to know that i’m a lesbian then being read as such would be handy, but i don’t have that level of control over my visibility – if i want to be read as a lesbian to women in a gay club i can’t choose not to be read as a lesbian by the men there, the people outside, my taxi driver, etc. etc. my visibility can be very dangerous! it’s a constant mental maths of who is and isn’t safe to let know and even then they might read me as a lesbian anyway! and that’s only talking about personal aesthetic types of visibility let alone the visibility of lesbians as a whole in culture and media which i have no control over and often sucks!!!
this issue is v important for trans women especially bc being closeted and passing as a cis man or being out and passing as a cis woman can be so important for their safety and survival, be that in emotional, physical, or mental health.
so basically if you’re asexual or similar and you’re complaining about lgbt people being privileged or oppressing you bc they have more visibility actually think for a second about what you’re saying and the violence you’re idealising.
this goes for non-binary people as well!! i’ve met dozens of NB people who are under the impression that somehow trans women have it easier than them because people “know what we are” or “know that we exist” and honestly it’s the opposite of the truth; that’s what makes it that much harder for us.
i know it’s exhausting to not be recognised for who you are but you need to stop and think about what would happen to you, and what IS happening to people because bigots DO know
Transphobia is a lot more complicated than “terfy” and “not terfy.” Trans exclusionary radical feminism is only one facet of transphobia, and definitely doesn’t encompass all transphobia in the world like some people on this site treat it like it is. The reality is, that violent transphobic men are a lot bigger of a threat to trans people in our daily lives. This shouldn’t be ignored just to streamline all social transphobia onto terfs, which a lot of people do on this site. Terfs are awful, but by regarding terfs as the primary agent transphobia allows shitty people to ignore their own personal transphobia and never hold their selves accountable for it.
Please stop using the word TWERF when You mean TERF.
Please stop further erasing trans men and pretending like we don’t exist.
TERFS hate trans men equally if not more than they hate trans women.
Trans men exist. Stop erasing us from nearly every conversation.
in case y’all needed any reminder that trans men are really still out here talking over trans women and making transmisogynistic violence about themselves
these vile people go onto trans women’s posts and harass them and threaten them with violence and actively and repetitively misgender them and call them vagina fetishists and regard them as subhuman and you’re out here saying you might actually have it worse
grow up. not everything is about men and you’ve got some nerve to call that erasure when twerfs actively try to erase murder statistics and abuse statistics regarding trans women, particularly trans women of color. not to mention twerfs have stated time and time again that they just want to “protect” trans men and welcome detransitioned and closeted and other trans men who are otherwise experiencing internalized transphobia with open arms as long as they misgender theirselves and kiss twerfs asses
meanwhile they want trans women dead. not all transphobia is equal.
a woman just posted to an HRT group i’m in on facebook that she hadn’t come out yet because a single doctor told her that estrogen would, somehow, worsen her asthma. thirty-five years ago. i want to cry.
this, by the way, is why the gatekeeping questions are important and why baseless concern-trolling can’t be tolerated.
alder-knight 