The Screws Are Tightening.

All around the world anti-LGBTQ+ people are under attack and the latest blow came from Russia.

Russian court dissolves country’s main LGBTQ rights organization
The government claimed the St. Petersburg-based Russian LGBT Network illegally “carried out political activities” under the guise of a charity.
NBC Out
By Tat Bellamy-Walker
April 26, 2022


A Russian court has effectively shut down the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization after a failed attempt by the government to liquidate the Russian LGBT Network and its parent organization, the Charitable Sphere Foundation, in February. 

A court in St. Petersburg issued the decision Thursday in support of Russia’s Justice Ministry. A representative of the ministry had claimed the Charitable Sphere Foundation illegally “carried out political activities using foreign property” under the guise of a charity and said its activities are aimed at changing legislation, including the Russian Constitution. In its lawsuit, the Russian government also accused the group of spreading “LGBT views” and engaging in activities that go against “traditional values.”

The foundation’s founder, Igor Kochetkov, a former director of the Russian LGBT Network, slammed the court’s decision and the government’s claim that the charity did not comply with “basic traditional family values established in the Constitution.”

”It should be clear that the ministry and the court made this decision not on legal, but on ideological basis,” he wrote on social media, according to an automated Facebook translation. “No Russian law prohibits the activity of organizations that ‘do not correspond’ to any values. There is simply no such basis in the law for the liquidation of NGOs. In this sense, the decision of the court is iconic — mandatory state ideology has returned. It is now official.”

Sound familiar?

Gee, the Russia court sounds a lot like the Republican party.

Take a look at the bill Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert wants to pass!

Lauren Boebert pushes bill to stop airport security from implementing transgender-friendly screening procedures
Business Insider
By Madison Hall
April 26, 2022


Republican legislators introduced a bill in recent weeks attempting to stymie the Department of Homeland Security's attempt to make air travel easier for transgender travelers.

The bill, which was introduced by Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, is titled the "Securing Americans from Transportation Insanity Act." The bill was first introduced on April 21, about three weeks after the Department of Homeland Security announced its plans on "Transgender Day of Visibility" to revamp airport security screenings.

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But the measures were a step too far for Boebert and some of her Republican colleagues. She accused the Biden Administration of "inviting terrorists" to take advantage of US airport security.

"If you doubt the Biden regime is on a woke crusade to remake America in its own image, then look no further than the TSA's new trans screening policies," Boebert said in a statement to Insider. "Decreasing pat-downs and identity validation measures for people identifying as transgender might validate delusional leftists, but it does nothing for passenger safety. In fact, they are practically inviting terrorists to take advantage of our weak and woke security systems. The TSA literally has one job—and this isn't it."

Why?

Why are they doing this to us? 

Why do they hate us so much?

We just want to live.

Anti-Trans Laws Aren’t Symbolic. They Seek to Erase Us From Public Life
Even if we beat every anti-trans bill in the nation tomorrow, too many trans young people would still be fighting to survive.
Them
By Jules Gill-Peterson
April 18, 2022


These attacks will have a measurable and devastating impact on trans people’s quality of life from childhood. One recent study found that more than a third of trans youth in the U.S. are at risk of losing access to transition-related medical care if current bills become law. That access itself is already a practical impossibility for many trans children, who lack the parental support and financial resources this care requires. 

In the face of such dire circumstances, it’s stunning that some of the most visible criticisms of these laws have reduced them to the realm of the purely symbolic.

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While many queer and trans kids, or kids with LGBTQ+ parents, will find themselves targets of censorship, one of the bill’s more Machiavellian functions is to force school districts to live in fear of endless litigation and the financial costs that come with it. Just “saying gay” in response to this threat is an empty and virtually meaningless gesture.

What we need are allies, we need people to stand up to the Republicans and say “Enough!”

Allyship doesn’t rely on evaluating trans people as morally deserving, but rather on recognizing everyone’s right to the resources and public goods that raise our quality of life. Being an ally is about the common struggle for better living conditions. The trans politics of Black and brown women have been about mutual aid and abolition since the 1970s for a reason. They have proven to be the only people unafraid to consistently care for and love trans kids without using them as moral props.

If you vote Republican you are an enabler and give approval to their hate.

We need to get people to say enough to all the hate crimes, we need people to stand up against all the verbal attacks, and we need people tell the Republicans stop the hate.