On today's episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we speak with Leif, a trans activist in Northern Ohio who is currently facing assault charges after defending children and their parents from violent neo-Nazis and Proud Boys in Wadsworth, Ohio in March of this year. From Leif's support campaign: In March of 2023 a family-friendly...
Complicit and antagonistic law enforcement.
It’s a solid default assumption. Remember the trans guy who went out of his way to try to make the 'phobes happy and asked the owner of a gas station which bathroom to use, went to the women’s as directed, got the shit kicked out of him by a bunch of ignorant people, and then got arrested?
No amount of capitulation to the 'phobes is ever going to protect us. Appeasement never works. Trans people have to be militant in pursuit of trans rights; the world will not deliver them by default.
Yes, see also Alex Stokes, Epona Rose, and Michael Reinoehl.