As impressive as it is to post your way out of a starring role in Star Wars, it's pretty clear that transphobia isn't something they think tarnishes their image.
Transphobia is, and will be for a long time going forward, a lot more socially acceptable than any other kind of bigotry.
I've been learning about Turkey. The Country, not the meat. And I mean deep deep dive learning, starting from the beginning when the people who currently live there were nomadic raiders on the Asian steppe.
Anyway, Turkey currently has the highest murder rate of trans people in the entire world. It's also the only Islamic majority country where it is legal to be trans.
Hande Kader is still used as a symbol by the queer community.
So, is Turkey worse than all the other Muslim countries? Well, it seems like the answer to that would be yes, because again, highest murder rate. But it's also the only place in the Muslim world where you can go to a gay bar. It has a thriving nightlife of queer among the youth.
The point is, the more these issues come to light, the more pushback and hatred occurs. The murder rate of trans people is lower in the fucking desert because the trans people there stay deep, deep in the closet because they know if they ever take one step out of it they will be stoned and then burned alive and hung as people cheer and dance around their corpse.
The point I'm making is that as things get better, they will also get worse. Social progress always brings backlash, cruelty and murder.
This isn't anything any of you didn't already know. But it can help to hear someone else say it. The things that are happening are happening for a reason. Transphobia in the US is going to increase as we move forward, not decrease. I'm not saying that's a good thing. Of course it isn't. But it is an expected thing. Backlash against the blacks, backlash against the gays, backlash against the trans people. When we're done with trans people it'll move on to whatever is next.
Of course, hatred will never go away. People still are racist. People still are homophobic. Hatred never dies. But it does become less and less acceptable to the mainstream. After enough people have been brutally murdered for decades*, of course.
Anyway, fuck Gina Carano, and fuck Rosario Dawson. And fuck Disney.
* of course, trans people have been being brutally murdered for as long as they've existed. You know what I mean.
