elilla, quarantined on Nostr: not to do oppression olympics but, while being trans is what gets all publicity as a ...
not to do oppression olympics but, while being trans is what gets all publicity as a marginal, I would estimate that basically all the political and legal threat that me and my family live under in Germany isn't due to me being trans, but to being immigrants from the Global South.
like sure I had problems in academia due to being trans, but the laws and the institution both were firmly on my side. there's nothing about my transness that might get me out of a job and my entire family kicked over the ocean in (counts on her fingers) 5 months unless I do a periodic process of justifying our existence that last time took 18 months and this time they'll only take at 3 from the deadline. a name change may be slow but it's peanuts compared to the Ausländerbehörde. being a lesbian doesn't disqualify me from voting or working freelance or joining a coop, and my transness doesn't mean that any crime I might commit including punching a nazi, graffiting a kitty on a ruined wall, or joining a Palestine protest can incur immediate life-changing irreversible extrajudicial punishment (deportation).
also, almost all the harassment and violence I've gotten on the streets wasn't due to being trans either, but very specifically due to opposing Nazism. the most calculatedly risky thing you can wear in Germany isn't a rainbow pin, it's an antifa one.
and that's with me being a white migra. if I was BIPoC or looked "Arab" I am sure that my ethnicity would cause the majority of my discrimination. my nonwhite friends report a frequency of harassment that makes everything I experienced pale by comparison (pun not intended), including the stories I've heard from one Brazilian friend who would pass as "white" back home but is read as "Turk" by the Germans.
like sure I had problems in academia due to being trans, but the laws and the institution both were firmly on my side. there's nothing about my transness that might get me out of a job and my entire family kicked over the ocean in (counts on her fingers) 5 months unless I do a periodic process of justifying our existence that last time took 18 months and this time they'll only take at 3 from the deadline. a name change may be slow but it's peanuts compared to the Ausländerbehörde. being a lesbian doesn't disqualify me from voting or working freelance or joining a coop, and my transness doesn't mean that any crime I might commit including punching a nazi, graffiting a kitty on a ruined wall, or joining a Palestine protest can incur immediate life-changing irreversible extrajudicial punishment (deportation).
also, almost all the harassment and violence I've gotten on the streets wasn't due to being trans either, but very specifically due to opposing Nazism. the most calculatedly risky thing you can wear in Germany isn't a rainbow pin, it's an antifa one.
and that's with me being a white migra. if I was BIPoC or looked "Arab" I am sure that my ethnicity would cause the majority of my discrimination. my nonwhite friends report a frequency of harassment that makes everything I experienced pale by comparison (pun not intended), including the stories I've heard from one Brazilian friend who would pass as "white" back home but is read as "Turk" by the Germans.