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General trans community.
Rules:
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Follow all blahaj.zone rules
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All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
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Don't post negative, depressing news articles about trans issues unless there is a call to action or a way to help.
Resources:
Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.
Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en
StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/
Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/
[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map
[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination
[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/
[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/
[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/
[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org
*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on
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That's great for you.
But for people that want to continue enjoying it, that's not a viable route.
And, like I said to a different comment, that's pretty much reiterating the post that I was responding to. And that's fine for what it is, but it's such a pointless thing to make as a response to a suggestion of piracy that works fun a base assumption that there are people that won't just throw away their existing books and movies, and jump on a boycott.
Like, your opinion is valid and all, it just wasn't useful as a response to my suggestion
why would you continue to enjoy it though?
Why not?
Look, there's always going to be a debate about art vs artist. It's inevitable.
Any work by a flawed person can, and likely will, be conflicted in anyone that shares an objection to the creator. Some will resolve that conflict by rejecting all of it, some will only reject the creator, and some will reject neither, but feel bad about it.
There's no single answer. There is no answer that is the only right answer, no matter what any individual thinks is the right answer there's just people making their way through life the best they can.
I don't think you're actually asking me to explain the reasons why someone can and will continue enjoying the works of a shitty person. If you are, I can try to explain it, but the way you asked is very rarely an actual question, it's usually just an invitation to an argument, and I don't do that on blahaj. But, if that's not the case, I can write out any of the dozens of reasons I've seen and heard people express, maybe even the common thread between them in the hopes that it will help you as a fellow human being find understating with other human beings.
My take? I don't care. I have no emotional connection to Potter stuff. I enjoy them, but it isn't like it matters. It's just shit to pass the hours until death eventually takes us all. But I know that some people do have an emotional connection, and I'm perfectly fine with suggesting a way for them to keep their joy from being stolen from them by a harridan with a small mind and even less of a heart.
Life is too fucking ugly already. If someone finds joy in Potter stuff, IDGAF, we need all the joy we can get. Since there are absolutely ways to steal that joy back from the author without lining her pockets, not only will I not judge anyone doing so, I'll gladly point them to the software needed to do it. Well, not here, because I ain't fucking with blahaj like that, but in general.
That's my take on the matter. Anyone that wants to boycott can and should do so. Those that need the joy of the works, they can and should do so in a way that doesn't make the jerk any richer
because it profits a horrible person! how is that a hard concept to comprehend?
your -their - whomever's - "innocent fandom" PROFITS THE PERSON WANTING TO HURT TRANSFOLK AND YOU DON'T CARE ENOUGH TO SIMPLY CONSUME SOMETHING ELSE.
That's just dumb, and feckless.