Why do people make this about a country as an entire block? There are trans people and trans allies in all countries. All countries have transphobes in them as well. We can discuss particular policies and say we are in solidarity with the local allies in those countries. However the way this is depicted is some sort of weird orientalist kenard to bash "orientals" for their backwardness rather than stand and help people in the more transphobic regions.
I'd like to know how we can create better environments for sexual and trans minorities without state department manipulations.
Seriously, has anyone heard of (for example) Alan Turing? That's a famous case of how the West treats queer people, and that's the snowflake on top of the tip of the iceberg.
I once saw a British architectural history program about a rich gay British man's house. He had built a scooby-do level contraption with false walls and a turntable so that he and his male partner could sleep next to each other, but if visitors came they could press a button and separate their rooms and beds.
Britain lobotomized gay people into the 1960s, and nearly every western politician was a virulent homophobe and transphobe well into the 1990s.
Fixed that for you 😉
But yeah, liberals (even so-called leftists) very much like to pretend that western countries weren't even worse about this
Why do people make this about a country as an entire block? There are trans people and trans allies in all countries. All countries have transphobes in them as well. We can discuss particular policies and say we are in solidarity with the local allies in those countries. However the way this is depicted is some sort of weird orientalist kenard to bash "orientals" for their backwardness rather than stand and help people in the more transphobic regions.
I'd like to know how we can create better environments for sexual and trans minorities without state department manipulations.
Literally just blaming the commies for actual shit we have on record of the Nazis coughandthealliescough doing.
Seriously, has anyone heard of (for example) Alan Turing? That's a famous case of how the West treats queer people, and that's the snowflake on top of the tip of the iceberg.
I once saw a British architectural history program about a rich gay British man's house. He had built a scooby-do level contraption with false walls and a turntable so that he and his male partner could sleep next to each other, but if visitors came they could press a button and separate their rooms and beds.
Anyway, definitely an LGBT friendly democracy.