What's needed right now isn't queer people calling lawyers. We need queer people in the streets.
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Rights aren't rights if they can't be practically enforced.
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Tyra Hunter fucking died. She died. And lawyer twitter is going "well actually you have the right to privately sue..." She fucking died.
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She died because she was denied care and no one went to jail. Her family got some money, ok. She's still actually dead.
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Where was her right to have EMTs provide care at the scene of a car accident. Where was her right to be served by our public servants?
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This is from a 2015 survey of trans people. A quarter of us are being refused care.pic.twitter.com/VRbeATiDUi
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1-in-4 of us are being denied medical care. Over half of us denied coverage. ACLU and Lambda Legal don't have the bandwidth for this.
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What a lot of people not in this also seem to forget is that, even with bandwidth, you might not have the time. It's DoS, denial of service.
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It counts on the fact that many small things will be too small to take action against in a meaningful timeframe, with a proportional cost.
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