Trans women in particular are easy to identify. Broad shoulders and boobs make you pretty identifiable even through a mask.
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Under nominal circumstances, most trans people have difficulty accessing appropriate medical care. Thousands of trans crowdfunding requests just sit there, never getting filled.
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I see a trans crowdfund request *EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.* What am I supposed to tell a trans activist to do if they're injured by a Nazi and can't work as a result, when there's money they need sitting right there and no one else is stepping up for them?
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We can’t control what the state with information they are given. Even benign details can be used to connect dots we don’t know they are trying to connect. If we agree the State is ultimately a white supremacist structure...
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Yes, you are explaining very basic 101 level stuff to me
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Then I suppose I don’t understand exactly what you’re getting at. The logic doesn’t follow that just because you have to give more info about you personally, why this then means you should put yourself and others at even more risk by engaging with a state investigation?
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That's not the conclusion I'm drawing. I'm saying that being trans by itself *already* puts you at that risk level, regardless. That it's part of the value calculus.
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I can see how it puts you at *more* risk, but not how it’s the same as cooperating with an investigation clearly meant to drum up info on anti-fascists. If they wanted to dismantle the Right, they would have. Their opsec is god awful
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Yeah I'm not talking about any specific investigation with this thread. I'm talking generally.
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My Aug 11 references were just to draw an example of the kind of targeting that often happens.
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You’re right about the issues of access with trans folks compared to other people of course. But anarchism doesn’t advocate no engagement with the state. Even cis anarchists get drivers licenses and have social security numbers etc.
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Yes, but you are evidently missing the point that trans folks have to give *substantially* more privileged info to the state than cis people.
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I had to give the State of Virginia my therapist's name just to get my ID. The state can use that to find my therapist and subpoena them. Client privilege isn't a catch-all.
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Why would we expect them not to use ANY info they get against the Right against the people that want to dismantle white supremacy as well? Perfect example being the mask law originally crafted to police the KKK that is now used against anti-racists
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But there are long lists of trans anarchists and anarchists of color who have refused to cooperate with the state in investigations related to political activity, because they know how this can be used against the movements they are a part of
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