Trans people need to be terrified

There is a lot of conversation in the LGBTI community about how pride becomes “too commercial” but what about the radical grassroots, left-wing pride? Well, the idea of grassroots pride organized by the community is amazing, but unfortunately, making mistakes is very human.

While the pride of big LGBTIs, organized with the help of companies, attempts to be inclusive, grassroots pride can sometimes be too far from their attempts to create an “edgy” rebellious atmosphere. Some slogans used in “independent” pride have caused more problems than they can solve, making these events comprehensive and unacceptable to the majority of the LGBTI community.

I believe in intersectionality. I am one of the few activists in Russia and began writing and talking about the need for intersections in the LGBTI community. He spoke to us for neuroproducts, disabled, non-white, Muslim and Jewish LGBTI people. In the UK, it is part of a variety of groups supporting LGBTI refugees.

And this is why we see that some modern attempts to keep an eye on the various forms of oppression by Western LGBTI activists have actually removed people from pride and divided the LGBTI community. I’ve seen these trends in Europe, the US and the UK

Personally, I have never felt I was less proud than I did last weekend with my local UK pride. The crowd was forced to shout “Death to the IDF (Israel Defence Force)” and “From the river to the sea, to Palestine, Palestine, Yemen, Yemen, proud of us and turned another ship.”

The final slogan about Yemen didn’t even get on the crowd. Perhaps because most pride people didn’t know why they should be proud of Yemen. And the truth is, they shouldn’t. A slogan refers to Iran’s support Yemeni Hooty Rebelshijacked and fired missiles on dozens of commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea, perhaps to “protect” Palestinian rights.

Let me be clear: I have no problem with the “protecting the Palestinian people” part of the story. I believe there are many war criminals in the current Israeli regime, and bombing Gaza refugee camps is unacceptable no matter what.

But at the same time, according to Amnesty International, not only is he responsible for the deaths of dozens of LGBTI people, he is also extremely authoritarian and highly authoritarian, and why we were asked to support attacks on ships and show solidarity with the rebels of Houthi. It is prone to sectarian violence.

If we are talking from a cross-point, how must I have caused those slogans for many Sunni Muslims (and yes, most Muslims in Gaza are Sunni), and for LGBTI refugees from Yemen and Iran, for LGBTI refugees from Iran that Hausis and Iran might support them, and I would have had some strange Iranians in that pride.

The chants about Israeli Defense Forces were also very intrusive. Not only because there was a Jewish Queer in pride, but its relatives may oppose Israeli actions in Gaza and support a solution for the two states, but served the Israeli army for the conscription law. But the problem is that despite the fact that everyone survived genocide, I have never heard of the people of Ukrainians, or the Chechnya, or the Uyghurs, or the people who are proud to support Yazidis. Even when Russian missiles destroyed Ukrainian schools and shelters in Mariupol, bombed Aleppo, persecuted Crimean Tatars, and wiped out entire Chechnya villages, I have never heard of queer people who proudly cried out “death to Russian occupyers.”

China has built concentration camps for the Uyghur people, but no one has promoted the deaths of the Chinese government. Furthermore, China, Russia and Assad’s Syria are more homophobic than Israel. So, why are they screaming “death to the IDF”? Are they not seeking, for example, a collapse of the Russian government or the end of the Chinese Communist Party? There are only two logical explanations.

•It is either anti-Semitism or ignorance to other wars, except for the wars taking place in Gaza. Both reasons are pretty bad.

•It’s not cross-existence. It is countercompatible because it erases all other war survivors who are not Palestinians in the LGBTI community. They also alienated LGBTI Jews because they had “special” hatred of war crimes that atheists and Christians didn’t have.

It is also an attempt to transform the LGBTI movement into an ideological club, rather than a group fighting for the rights of certain marginalized communities.

Another trigger I saw with this pride was the glory of socialism. However, not all LGBTI people are socialists, and not all countries that call themselves “socialists” are LGBTI friendly.

I couldn’t even imagine that a strange person from North Korea, or a gay man imprisoned in the Soviet Union for being gay, must have felt when he heard the call for a socialist revolution with pride. It must have been catastrophic. Pride should feel like a free and anti-author space.

Pride also needs to focus on the real problems faced by LGBTI people. In the UK, the Supreme Court ruled that only CIS women can be considered real women. Thousands of trans children have lost access to hormone therapy. LGBTI books are censored in libraries. The government is reducing benefits for people with disabilities. People with LGBTI disabilities will become the first to be harmed, as they face more challenges, even if they can find dual stigma and employment.

However, none of these were major points of pride. For some reason, we were asked to repeat pro-Palestinian slogans more frequently than slogans advocating for trans and LGBTI people with disabilities.

The organizers were obsessed with Palestine and socialism, so if they were not yet involved in LGBTI activities, they might have thought that there were no real issues left in the LGBTI community.

But that would be a false impression.

LGBTI people are under attack in countries around the world. The ideology of far-right is on the rise from the US to Russia and even the West. Yes, it is important to understand the international context, but now it is equally important to oppose the global rise of fascism more than ever before and not divide the movement based on economic ideology or international political views.