#lgbti flag

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Intersex Masc Pride Flag

Intersex (IS): umbrella term for innate variations that don't fit the typical binary notions of male or female sex traits.

Masculine (masc): qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men or boys; or a presentation associated with masculinity.

I made flags for nonbinary masc, and intersex neumasc, and realized there could be a flag for masc intersex people as well. It's not as specific as intermasculine/intermasc (a form of inter-expressive), ultermasculine/ultermasc or ipsomasculine/ipsomasc.

This includes any masculine intersex folk, regardless of one's gender identity or AGAB/ASAB.

#masculine #intersex #pride flags #masc #mogai #lgbti+ #presentation #mod ap #lgbtqia+ #mascs #masx #inter

[munchkinworks]

Grandma won't let you go to the Pride parade with a wrinkly flag.

#affinity designer #vector art #noai #happy pride 🌈 #lgbtqia #LGBTI+ #you can iron flags I double checked at least most of them #I don't have anything else witty to say be safe everyone

[laurierthefox]

J'ai fait trois nouveaux badges à l'occasion de la table ronde / dédicace que j'ai fait au 122 à Angers le 04 Mars dernier accompagné de La bulle de Milho et de Holly Rectum

Mes Patrons ont pu les voir en avant-premières le 16/02/23 !

Si vous êtes intéressé'es pour soutenir mon travail et/ou découvrir pleins de projets inédits jamais postés sur les internet : https://www.patreon.com/LaurierTheFox

Dans l'ordre les drapeaux sont :

- Le drapeau Bear qui est une communauté du parapluie Gay.

- Le drapeau LGBTIA+"progrès" avec le drapeau intersexe, le drapeau trans et les bandes marron et noire des personnes queer racisé'es.

- Le drapeau DemiGirl

J'en ai aussi profité pour refaire le drapeau Polyamoureux (une version modifiée des deux drapeaux Poly que je trouvais les plus beaux) et le "Gay as F*x" avec le drapeau Gay.

N'hésitez pas à me dire ce que vous en pensez !

Les badges sont disponibles sur ma boutique Utip si ça vous intéresse ^^ : https://utip.io/laurierthefox/shop

Prenez soin de vous si vous pouvez !

#LGBTI #gay #lgbtiqa #lgbtflag #lgbtfamily #queerflag #flag #transartist #lgbtia #lgbtiaq #lgbtpride #lgbtqiaplus #bear #gayartist #demigirl #polya #polyamorous #queerartist #queerart #queerpride #progressflag

[varsex-pride]

Amalgagender flags

First flag by plurgai | Second one by itz henka gacha | Last one by interarchival

#repost #amalgagender #amalga-gender #intersex #intersex genders #gender #intersexgender #mogai #imoga #mogii #mogmi #nhincq+ #lgbti+ #lgbtqia+ #pride flags #pride flag #varsex #parsexgender #parsex #sex nonconforming

[surelookbutnothingtoseehere]

#mine #my picture #my pictures #amateur photography #photography #Groningen #Martinitoren #church #kerk #kirche #rainbow #rainbow flag #lgbti #lgbti rights

[henryjdoe]

[YCH] Show your Pride

🏳️‍🌈Show your PRIDE! 🏳️‍🌈 Any pride flag / any gender / any species Multiple slots available 🏳️‍🌈 Feel free to PM me over Telegram/Twitter or Furaffinity 🏳️‍🌈  ─────────────────────────── If you like my work you can support me! 🍊Patreon or Ko-Fi 🍊 Follow me on my: 🍊Social Media 🍊 🍊 Commission INFO 🍊

#pride #lgbt #lgbti #lgbtq #lesbian #gay #trans #transgender #nonbinary #queer #bisexual #chibi #ych #your #character #here #any #gender #species #flag #pridemonth #lingerie #stockings #bikini

[alertachiapas]

“Y la queso”; uno de cada 20 pertenece a la comunidad LGBTI+

En México, la población LGBTI+ asciende a cinco millones de personas, la mayoría solteros; en Chiapas más de 200 mil habitantes se identifican con la comunidad: INEGI.

En México, la población LGBTI+ asciende a cinco millones de personas, la mayoría solteros; en Chiapas más de 200 mil habitantes se identifican con la comunidad: INEGI. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas.- En México, la población LGBTI+ asciende a cinco millones de personas (5.1 % de la población de 15 años y más), lo que significa que una de cada 20 personas se identifica con la comunidad y de los cuales…

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#lgbt flag #lgbt+ ally #lgbti+ betekenis #lgbti+ community #lgbti+ définition #lgbti+ health australia #lgbti+ meaning #lgbti+ nedir #lgbti+1 ne demek #lgbtiq #pride

[useless-catalanfacts]

Pls pls pls share any info you have about marches and solidarity in Catalunya/Barcelona for our brothers in Palestine. I don’t see anything. A genocide is happening as we speak, that has been going on for 70 years of struggle for freedom. They are civilians, with the majority under 18, not Hamas. They have no water, no electricity, no hospitals. They’re told to run for their lives like animals but the borders are closed!!!! Isreal bombed Lebanon and Egypt to stop them from even opening their doors. This isn’t a war. They are being buried alive, families are staying home in the hope of dying together. Imagine going to the funeral of a friend and coming back home to your kids under rubble, the faces and garden burned by white phosphorus. The media relying countless debunked lies. Nothing said of the illegal settlement, kidnapping, sexual abuse, UN crimes against humanity, nothing is done. The US and Europe are rolling out laws to stop even showing the Palestinian flag, can’t write on insta or twitter. Few jewish ppl are speaking up against the violences but are immediately shut down. Anyone expressing support is automatically a terrorist. Sounds familiar? Sounds fascist? Have we forgotten that the colonizer’s gov has always been religious far-right since it’s creation. They desperately want to us to believe they are defending themselves in a 2 sided war. It’s not 2 sided when one side is being obliterated with and the other side can take a commercial light to their second house in New York. It’s not 2 sided when one side is waiting for death and the other side can go around the corner to a McDonald to cry about how horrible it is that the other McDonald is closed. Nothing makes sense. I feel sick. My heart cries, their struggle is our struggle, of all the oppressed minorities fighting for their right to freedom, their right to speak their language and live on their lands

Hi. Hm I think if you haven't seen anything, you haven't been looking much, nor watching the news. There have already been rallies to show support to Palestine in Barcelona.

Last Monday in Plaça Sant Jaume, Barcelona:

Photos shared by Crida LGBTI.

On Wednesday, hundreds protested in front of the EU delegation in Barcelona:

Photo from Europa Press.

Today (Saturday) again, more than 700 hundred people have marched in the center of Barcelona:

Photo from ACN.

The movement in solidarity with Palestine has been very strong in the Catalan Countries for decades. You can keep up by following the Palestinian and solidarity organisations in our country, I'll copy-paste the links from a post I made some months ago:

Organitzacions de solidaritat dels Països Catalans amb Palestina:

Prou complicitat amb Israel: web, Instagram, Twitter.

BDS Catalunya: web, Twitter.

BDS País Valencià: Instagram, Twitter.

Comunitat Palestina a Catalunya: web, Twitter, Instagram.

I a nivell internacional:

Jewish Voices for Peace: web, Instagram.

BDS National Committee: web, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook.

(That being said, of course Israel is the only one who can stop the violence because they're the ones who are occupying Palestine and enacting violence on Palestinians every single day since the creation of the state of Israel, but there are parts of your ask that don't seem very tactful where right now there is also Israeli people dying. That doesn't change the fact that this was fabricated by their state, but I don't think it does anyone any favour to pretend like they're not having a bad time as well. It just seems like an odd way of phrasing this.)

#ask #palestina

[mariacallous]

In 2019, on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, a group of “rainbow hunters” embarked on a mission at a prestigious Shanghai university. They were school employees, mostly campus workers and student counselors, tasked with finding anyone with attire or accessories associated with the LGBTQ community. Those found with the rainbow flag, a prominent symbol of the gay rights movement, or other related items were given warnings and told their “parents would be ashamed” of them.

That afternoon of May 17, the university removed all visible rainbow flags and followed up by shutting down an unofficial student-run club advocating for the rights and welfare of LGBTQ students.

“I knew the crackdown was coming sooner or later, but I didn’t expect it to come so quickly,” said Bonnie, a co-founder of the university’s LGBTQ club, who has since graduated and relocated outside mainland China.

In recent years, gender and sexual minorities in China have been increasingly targeted by the authorities and social media platforms, limiting their advocacy and outreach. Most recently, in May, the Beijing LGBT Center was unexpectedly closed, and in 2021, WeChat abruptly shut down several accounts belonging to LGBTQ groups from different universities without any reason.

But nine former and current students from five Chinese universities, some of whom wished not to be quoted, told Foreign Policy that student-led LGBTQ groups have been under immense pressure for years. They’re seen as a “cult” and labeled as “radical” and “illegal” organizations and have been dying a slow death even before the recent crackdowns. Foreign Policy isn’t naming the schools and clubs or disclosing the students’ real names to protect their identities and from possible repercussions against them or their families.

“The media reports have been fixated on the 2021 crackdown,” Bonnie said. “But we were silenced much earlier than that. I wonder if our existence will disappear from memory, as the large focus is on the WeChat crackdown. I envy those organizations [blocked by WeChat] because they can unite under the same flag. But how do we tell our story?”

Bonnie met Jerlin and CMM during her freshman year in the fall of 2017 in Shanghai. Jerlin had already proposed an LGBTQ association as a freshman in 2015, but the university had yet to approve his request. Student-led organizations usually need to apply to relevant university departments, detailing their purpose and benefits to the student community and are required to find a teacher who would supervise them. Regardless of the approval, the trio, however, printed hundreds of flyers inked with the slogan “unofficial, unorthodox,” calling like-minded students interested in gender and sexuality issues to join the club. The three distributed them in dormitories and slid them underneath doors, which Jerlin said was “just like doing the job of a door-to-door salesperson.”

“We are determined to eliminate ignorance through knowledge, combat ignorance with reason, replace apathy with empathy, and treat discrimination with equality,” Jerlin said of the motivation behind starting an LGBTQ club at the university.

In its first year, the club organized movie screenings and book readings on gender and invited experts to speak about safer sex and body anxiety issues. Members also started a campaign to raise awareness and empathy toward LGBTQ students, where they went around campus with a placard asking a simple question: “I’m gay. Are you willing to hug me?” Students said many of their classmates, even those who claimed to be open-minded, often made fun of LGBTQ individuals and even called them derogatory names.

A national survey conducted in 2015 by the U.N. Development Program among some 28,000 LGBTI individuals revealed that only 5 percent of them chose to disclose their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression at school or in the workplace, fearing discrimination. A 2019 survey by the Chinese Journal of School Health involving 751 LGBT students showed that 41 percent of them had been called names and 35 percent verbally abused.

By October 2018, Jerlin said their club was already on the university’s radar. Club events were being “supervised” by school administrators, and a planned interaction on HIV/AIDS was abruptly canceled. Then the university introduced new rules prohibiting outsiders from entering the school library and study rooms, where the group hosted events. Students were then also required to reserve study rooms unlike before.

“This is when I realized the school was engaging in a witch hunt against us,” Bonnie said. “The intense scrutiny of the club made many students believe we were nothing but trouble and an illegal organization. So many of them, even those who claimed to be gay, started hating us.”

Gu Li, an assistant professor of psychology at New York University Shanghai who studies the development and mental health of LGBTQ individuals, said many university-level students could be struggling with their sexuality and self-acceptance issues. He said student groups and their organized activities may serve as an opportunity to learn about sexual orientation and gender identity while connecting with others.

“How those groups are organized and what activities they conduct are more impactful than the mere presence of the groups,” he said.

China decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and declassified it as a mental disorder in 2001. The country’s LGBTQ community has since made significant strides—they’re more vocal in addressing their rights, and their visibility has grown dramatically. The community has been emboldened by small yet significant victories: In a 2014 landmark case, a gay rights activist sued the local government department in central Hunan province for defamation; in 2016, a same-sex couple sued a civil affairs bureau, also in Hunan, for rejecting their marriage registration, even though China doesn’t recognize marriage equality; and in 2020, viewers welcomed a video advertisement featuring a man bringing his male partner for the Lunar New Year dinner. In bigger cities, gay and lesbian bars attract large crowds, while drag shows and voguing provide a vibrant entertainment space and exposure for the queer community and allies.

The positive signals indicated a seemingly tolerant attitude toward the LGBTQ community, both from the public and the authorities. But those small wins have mostly been short-lived, as the rhetoric against LGBTQ individuals in certain quarters has turned sharply negative in the past few years. Many nationalists view their identity as a “Western ideology” similar to feminism. There are arguments against Western-style gay pride parades and rainbow capitalism in China, saying for many LGBTQ Chinese, “their familial role and national identity take precedence” over sexuality.

Meanwhile, both the central and local governments have been aggressively promoting incentives for young people to marry and have children amid China’s record-low marriage and childbirth rates. A made-up “masculinity crisis” and malicious targeting of effeminate men have also led to a shift in attitude toward LGBTQ acceptance. In recent years, television channels have blurred rainbow flags, and social media platforms have banned “sissy” men during livestreams, a term that the official state-run Xinhua News Agency described as a “sick culture.”

Then, in 2020, Shanghai Pride, a series of events rather than a parade, abruptly ended, and this year, the Beijing LGBT Center, which had been a crucial support system for the community, shut down due to “force majeure”—a common euphemism for pressure from the authorities—after almost 15 years, raising concerns over the shrinking space for the LGBTQ community in China.

Lik Sam Chan, an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and co-chair of the International Communication Association LGBTQ Studies Interest Group, said the suppression of LGBTQ activities in China could have stemmed from the ruling Communist Party’s fears of potential Western influence through such events. He said those opposing the LGBTQ community were developing a group identity by negating others and defining “what is not us.”

“What has happened in the last one or two years is an obvious, targeted suppression of LGBTQ-themed activities,” Chan said. “The LGBTQ movement and the #MeToo movement are an unfortunate target, set up by the nationalists, to solidify their sense of Chineseness.”

Targeted suppression and intolerance are creeping in at universities sooner than many in the LGBTQ community expected. In June, graffiti featuring a rainbow flag with accompanying text saying “Love is love” on a campus wall at a Dalian university in northeastern Liaoning province was vandalized. Such displays of anti-gay sentiments at schools were, however, not uncommon and frequently made rounds on social media previously.

Amy, who briefly led a university-approved club that also advocated LGBTQ issues at another university in Shanghai, said she joined the group after having a “vague idea” about her sexuality. When she came across the club in 2018 during her freshman year, Amy said she was fascinated by the rainbow flags and the diverse events the group organized, mostly focusing on gender and sexuality.

“It made me feel at home,” she said.

But the situation took an unexpected turn in the spring of 2019. Amy said a school administrator advised the club to pursue more feminist issues and “avoid LGBTQ topics.” She said a teacher repeatedly questioned her sexuality and asked if she was attracted to women. The teacher cautioned her multiple times to “not cross the red lines,” specifically referring to LGBTQ issues and the rainbow flag. Amy said the same teacher told her not to wear a rainbow flag pin after she was spotted wearing one during an event.

“‘You don’t want a stain on your resume, do you?’” Amy said, recalling what the teacher once told her. “Is it because we are inappropriate to be seen in public? It was isolating, and I felt I was being treated as an outcast.”

Amy’s experience is not an isolated case. In 2022, two female students at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University were given disciplinary warnings after leaving 10 rainbow flags at a campus supermarket counter. The students, who belonged to the school’s LGBTQ club, Purple, attempted to sue the Education Ministry over the incident, but a court in Beijing, where the university is located, didn’t accept their lawsuit.

“Symbols are powerful,” Chan said, referring to the rainbow flags and other memorabilia. “They are infused with meanings and emotions. When the LGBTQ community is constantly suppressed and their rights are not recognized, it is even more critical to maintain the visibility of these symbols so that we don’t forget our goal.”

In many other countries around the world, including the United States, there have been worrying threats against the LGBTQ community. In China, former and current university students with whom Foreign Policy spoke said their most pressing goal was to just be able to exist, though they felt there was a perceived attempt to slowly erase their identity. Taking away online and offline platforms, where they mostly shared their experiences, from coming out to combating sexual harassment to education on safe sex, is causing further harm.

When WeChat deleted dozens of accounts related to LGBTQ student groups at universities—including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University—the messaging platform didn’t just disband online groups but severed a network that connected hundreds of thousands of people. The move came abruptly in July 2021, with many still trying to understand the reason behind it. The accounts were said to have “violated regulations”—a standard censorship catchphrase used when posts deemed sensitive by the authorities are taken down. And while some groups are still operating covertly, often under disguise, many others have shut down altogether.

A day after WeChat closed the LGBTQ accounts, Chinese firebrand nationalist commentator Hu Xijin wrote in his WeChat blog that public opinion toward the LGBTQ community was “generally inclusive” and that the government’s policies were “progressive.” But he then added that the LGBTQ community “should not seek to become a high-profile ideology in China at this time.”

But for LGBTQ individuals, their identity is not an ideology. And they say the ongoing suppression is proving detrimental to their mental health.

A study published this year surveying nearly 90,000 LGBT and gender-nonconforming students at 63 universities in the northeastern province of Jilin indicated a “higher prevalence of depression, anxiety, traumatic stress, nonsuicidal self-injury, and suicide risk” than their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. The report concluded that there is an “imperative need to improve mental health and prevent suicide” among these individuals.

A yet-to-be-published survey by Li from NYU Shanghai in partnership with the gay dating app Blued also pointed to a similar trend. The partial result, shared with Foreign Policy, showed that of the 4,310 men surveyed on Blued, 57 percent of them reported various degrees of depression, from mild to moderate and severe.

Li said various factors are contributing to the deteriorating mental health among LGBTQ people, including internalized homophobia, prejudice, and discrimination.

“We will need more care for LGBTQ people in China, such as providing more LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapies,” he said. “Having LGBTQ-supportive communities and schools and having mental health resources available will make people feel less depressed. They will have a positive impact.”

But for now, those involved in the student LGBTQ groups said they were facing tough mental health issues.

Amy said she struggled throughout the summer of 2019: She felt frustrated, unaware of how to operate the club, and was “unsure about my identity as a lesbian and the club’s leader.” She said she forced herself to work until 2 a.m. and often questioned her efforts to keep the club afloat. Finally, in August 2020, with no support from the university, the club ceased its operation. She said she sought counseling at a facility run by the Beijing LGBT Center, where she was diagnosed with depression.

“Memories associated with this period have been filtered to only feelings, which were full of tears, fear, and disgrace, along with other members of the club,” she said. “We want the threats and shame forced on us to be documented.”

Bonnie, too, said she often questioned her conviction toward the cause and spiraled into depression for an entire year in 2019 after her university group ceased to exist. She said she was even reluctant to post anything on social media and felt she was “always being watched by people.”

In 2021, Bonnie left China. These days, she mostly dedicates her time to feminist causes and sometimes interacts with those still advocating for LGBTQ issues in China. She sees a part of her in them, trying to keep the spark alight even despite the darkness. And every time she remembers their collective struggles, Bonnie said she finds solace listening to “Hey You,” one of her favorite tracks by the English rock band Pink Floyd.

The lyrics remind her to be optimistic: “Hey you, don’t tell me there’s no hope at all / Together we stand, divided we fall.”

[gardengnosticator]

imperial core pinkwashing does not help queer people in any way. all it does is justify anti-lgbti politics in countries historically abused, maligned and pillaged by the west. look to how russia scapegoats gay people as agents of NATO, solely because of countries like america (which only pays lip service to queer people) love to plaster rainbow flags on all their shit

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Ulter Woman Pride Flag

Ulter woman (ulterwoman) or ulterfemale (ulter female): a term for ultersex/ultergender women/female folks; a term for intersex women who do not identify with their sex/gender assigned at birth, but don’t feel like they fit under “transness” (transexness and/or transgenderness).

#ulter woman #ulterfemale #ultergender #ultersex #ulterness #ulteritude #pride flags #pride-flag #mogai #lgbti+ #lgbtqi+ #intersex #intersexness #transsexness #transsex #transgender #trans #gender modality #mod ap.

[hxfinnic]

I'm going to be so emotionally destroyed by Halloween. First good omens s2 and now our flag means death s2....its a good time for the lgbties.

I'm shall become so unbearable. It 's not even funny.

#good omens #our flag means death #help me #i'll never be the same #the girls are fighting #no one does yearning like the gays

[hellomynameisbisexual]

What a weekend: both Pride in London and UK Black Pride saw their highest ever turnouts. I was lucky enough to be present for both. The energy was incredible. The city was washed in rainbow and everyone was there to say love is love and who you are is valid.

I was honored to be asked to speak on the Trafalgar_Square stage and address the crowd. Speaking in front of thousands of people is not exactly my dream but I felt it was important to have people like me represented. I did it for the young bisexuals out there searching for representation and rarely finding it. It was an amazing experience: seeing people raise those bisexual flags high and cheer at me for saying positive things about bisexuality truly gave me hope for the future.

What I decided not to share with the crowd was that two gay men made biphobic comments to me that day for wearing a shirt with a huge bisexual emblem.

Biphobia is happening at Pride, of all places

The next day at UK Black Pride a gay guy pointed at my shirt and remarked, ‘really? I don’t believe you.’

These were three gay men making biphobic comments during Pride weekend. That number doesn’t even include the nonverbal eyerolling from passers-by.

If there is one thing that truly pushes my buttons it’s hypocrisy. Of all the places and people to make negative remarks about my sexuality, it was gay men at Pride. People at a protest, calling on people to not discriminate against them, were happy to dish it out to others.

The truth is I’m more angry with myself. I was on such a good vibe at both Pride events. I also didn’t do what I normally do – put the fear of god into them.

The truth is this isn’t about me. I’m a big boy and I can take it. But the young bisexual guys, girls and non-binary people out there just emerging in to their sexuality will take these comments to heart. It is on the shoulders of people like me to call out biphobia and make these people feel so small that they never dare do it again.

What is important is that I am by no means criticizing the organizers. Both the Pride in London team and the UK Black Pride do a fantastic job and, of course, stand against biphobia. They have bisexual people working on their teams that know the issues. However, they can’t control the millions of people that attend these events.

Biphobia within the LGBTI community is a big problem

These problems exist in our community long after the Pride flags comes down every year.

It’s important to understand this isn’t just one bisexual man’s anecdotal experience, it is widespread throughout our community.

One report found that bisexual people face just as much discrimination within the LGBTI community as they do from straight people.

The Equality Network found 66% of bisexuals do not feel part of the LGBTI community. Figures that seem to have a knock-on effect. Bisexual adults are also much less likely to join an LGBTII organization or attend an LGBTQ Pride event.

Biphobia coming from within the LGBT community is actually so well-documented there is actually a term for it. Researchers came up with the term ‘androcentric desire hypothesis’ to describe the phenomenon that gay and lesbian people perceive bisexuals as being more attracted to men, which is why they treat us with disrespect.

That’s why we need a better way to stamp out biphobia within our community than our current efforts. Going forward I would like to see more of an effort made to specifically tackle attitudes towards bisexuals. It starts with LGBT groups spending more than 1% of their budgets on bisexual issues and bringing bisexual leaders in to the fold to help advise them.

This year the UK will hold its first ever Bisexual Pride on 7 September. I hope all queer people will join the celebration and help leave biphobia in the past.

#bisexuality #bisexual community #lgbtq community #lgbtq #bi #support bisexuality #lgbtq pride #bisexuality is valid #pride #bi tumblr #bisexual #bi pride #bisexual nation #bisexual pride #bisexual education #bisexual youth #support bisexual people #bisexual men #respect bisexual people #bisexual rights #bisexual people

[ukrfeminism]

Women who oppose the idea that people should be allowed to choose their gender identity have been branded “farts” during a Scottish government training session.

Staff at a workplace “trans 101” course were told the term was an acronym for “feminism appropriating ridiculous transphobe” and that women who opposed inclusivity measures were part of a “trans hate group”.

Workers who attended the training session, run by the government’s LGBTI+ internal staff network, were urged to study claims that biological sex is a “falsehood” invented by the medical profession to “reinforce white supremacy and gender oppression”.

Civil servants were directed to claims that “gender-critical” women or “terfs” [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] “hate all trans people” and have “an unhealthy fascination with trans kids”.

An email, including a link to a glossary called a “trans language primer”, was sent to staff by an official from the Scottish Digital Academy, a Scottish government body which delivers training across the public sector.

Susan Smith, of For Women Scotland, a campaign group which opposes proposals for gender self-identification, said it was “shocking” to see a member of the organisation “promoting highly political and discriminatory material”.

“How are women to believe that civil servants [have] any care for our rights when they are being trained to call us offensive names and told we are hate groups?,” she told The Daily Telegraph.

The Scottish government said it was an “informal awareness-raising event” which colleagues could choose to attend and was not an official Scottish government training event.

This week protesters were escorted out of Holyrood for wearing T-shirts claiming Nicola Sturgeon was a “destroyer of women’s rights”. A group of women disrupted the final committee evidence session on gender recognition reform featuring Shona Robison, the social justice minister. Guards refused access to women who were displaying the T-shirt. Those who gained access flashed the T-shirts behind Robison as she concluded her opening statement.

Joe FitzPatrick, convener of the equalities committee, suspended the session as the women were ejected.

The Scottish parliament code of behaviour says visitors must “not display banners, flags or political slogans”.

Julie Scott, from Glasgow, said: “When you have a first minister who tells you your concerns are not valid they have left us no choice. We knew we would get removed but it was peaceful.”

Robison dismissed claims that gender reform endangered women, citing evidence from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission that said allowing people to self-declare their gender would not grant them any greater access to women’s spaces than they already had.

[surelookbutnothingtoseehere]

The world seems to get more Conservative and less tolerant. For one, I will always stand up for inclusion, tolerance and acceptance of difference. Everyone has to be able to be him/her/their self.

#mine #my pictures #my picture #photography #nederland #netherlands #Dutch flag #Rainbow flag #rainbow #lgbti #inclusion #tolerance

[henryjdoe]

[YCH] Pride Flags YCH

🏳️‍🌈Pride YCH Flag commissions 🏳️‍🌈 Any pride flag / any gender / any species Multiple slots available 🏳️‍🌈 Feel free to PM me 🏳️‍🌈  -LGBT PRIDE FLAGS ONLY!!! - ─────────────────────────── If you like my work you can support me! 🍊Patreon or Ko-Fi 🍊 Follow me on my: 🍊Social Media 🍊 🍊 Commission INFO 🍊

#pride #lgbt #lgbti #lgbtq #lesbian #gay #trans #transgender #nonbinary #queer #bisexual #ych #your #character #here #any #gender #species #flag #pridemonth #custom #poly #polyamorous