From a new organizer with Refuse Fascism
If you think Chechnya is far away, Trump and Pence just brought it a little bit closer.
If you think that the atrocities enacted by the Third Reich were in the past, Trump and Pence have pulled them further towards the present.
April 25, 1933
- Fewer non-Aryan children are admitted to German schools and universities.
March 7, 1936
- Jews no longer have the right to participate in parliamentary elections.
July 6, 1938
- Jews may no longer follow certain occupations such as broker, matchmaker, tourist guide, and real estate agent.
July 25, 1938
- As of September 30, 1938, Jewish doctors can be regarded only as “medical attendants”.
November 11, 1938
- Jews may no longer own or bear arms.
The ban on Transgender, Genderfluid, and Gender Non-conforming people serving in the military is only a drop in the bucket. Travel bans, bans on occupations, cuts to healthcare. The Trump and Pence regime’s actions are clear. They send the world a concise and unambiguous message to the people of the world and to the citizens of this country.
That a human being’s personhood can be debated, voted on, and be limited by legislation. We refuse to accept this, and in fact we outright reject this assertion and all it implies.
Trump has declared trans people a “burden” and a “disruption” to be excluded from military service. The real “burden’ and “disruption” is this fascist regime’s ongoing wars for empire, and their white supremacist crusade for “western civilization” being inflicted upon the rest of the world!
Every human being deserves the rights and potential to explore any and every occupation their desires pull them towards. Every trans, non-binary, gender fluid and gender non-conforming person should have the right to serve in the military of the country in which they live in.
This ban cannot be sustained. This ban must be fought.
The Trump and Pence regime is a fascist and authoritarian regime, hell bent on stripping every last right of every last person who doesn’t fit into the very straight, very white, very cis-gender idea of humanity. And this type of legislation is not unprecedented, we have seen it before, and we’ve all forgotten how it starts but we must see the signs sooner if we want to learn from our mistakes. We must stand behind our fellow humans as they have their rights attacked, and we must say with our voices and our actions:
NO! WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THIS CRUEL AND BRUTAL FUTURE. AND WE RESOLVE TO DRIVE OUT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME!