Trans heroes through history
The sack of Rome – the Black Death – crossing the Atlantic – the Hindenburg – trans people were front and center on all occasions.
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The sack of Rome – the Black Death – crossing the Atlantic – the Hindenburg – trans people were front and center on all occasions.
I wonder what role Brave Sir Robin played?
Seriously, though, I do recall the news about Czechoslovakia’s budding hopes for freedom being crushed. I was 7 so I didn’t understand it, but the story followed the daily Vietnam Casualty Count on NBC’s evening news.
To compare his life in the U.K. now with that of Navratilova’s in Czechoslovakia back in 1968 is mighty white of him. But then the TRAs equate every horrible thing that has happened in history, like genocide, with themselves. That Navratilova has been outspoken about males participating in women’s sport is not equivalent to the USSR invading Czechoslovakia.
Is it just me, or is it the trans side that show a lack of empathy? They claim to feel like women, but do not understand how women feel about being erased and intruded on.
He’s close though. Males invading women’s sport is a bit like the USSR invading Czechoslovakia.
Curiously, all these transgendered heroes only seem to appear after victory is won.
Where were they in Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Cuba, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, etc when those nations were invaded by US forces?
Some hilarious memes and comments there–
I’m guessing Robin’s “most minor role” was limited to verbal support of the overthrow. Heroic!
Although there is no doubt that Kissinger and Nixon were delighted at Augusto Pinochet’s successful coup on the 11th September 1973 (an earlier 9/11, also on a bright sunny Tuesday morning at 9 AM), it’s far from clear that they organized it. On the contrary, I have been assured in Chile that the incompetent and unsuccessful coup attempt at the end of June was the one the CIA organized, and that of September was home-grown without military help. Pinochet thought that he was more likely to succeed without help from USA. I don’t know of any proof of this, but it seems believable to me.
The article entitled “Tanquetazo” at Wikipedia describes the June fiasco. It doesn’t mention the CIA, but that may mean little. My source in Chile told me a detail of the Tanquetazo that is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but, if true (as I don’t guarantee), it illustrates the amateurish incompetence of the June attempt. One of the tanks coming into Santiago ran out of fuel (a circumstance they apparently hadn’t foreseen and didn’t have any plans for dealing with), and stopped at an ordinary service station. They ordered the pump attendant to fill the tank. How are you going to pay? he asked. We aren’t going to pay, they said. No pay, no fill up, he replied, and the tank was stranded.
Anyway, where were the trans heroes in all this? Nowhere, as far as I can discover. I know plenty of people who opposed the coup in mild ways (no guns, no bombs…), but none of them men pretending to be women. I only know one personally who was held in the stadium, a professor of medicine in the University of Chile: he wasn’t tortured and was released after about a week, after which he went into exile in England. I know others who went into exile and others who stayed in Chile refraining from collaborating, one the editor-in-chief of the Jesuit magazine Mensaje, almost the only opposition magazine that published throughout the dictatorship (with short breaks). It published an article abut Sheila Cassidy (the English nurse who was tortured for treating a revolutionary) during my first visit to Chile in 1978. I bought a copy from a news stand. My Spanish was almost non-existent at that time, but one didn’t need much Spanish to understand words and phrases like vagina and tortura eléctrica. The editor-in-chief was briefly imprisoned (but not tortured) for allowing articles like that to appear in Mensaje. (It’s worth noting that in general the Roman Catholic church (led by Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez, archbishop of Santiago) behaved very well during the dictatorship in Chile and did all it could to uphold human rights. This was in sharp contrast to its abject behaviour in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.)