From 9935e176dbb040cb14338026ef160b57cd0f160a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Correl <correl@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:41:54 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos --- blog.org | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog.org b/blog.org index 8583865..0d89552 100644 --- a/blog.org +++ b/blog.org @@ -3143,7 +3143,7 @@ Most of these bills aren't even getting much news coverage, and [[https://www.te often aren't in our favor]], framing the issues as [[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43255878][divisive]] or [[https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-speaks-scrutiny-controversy-rcna18503][controversial]]. Even Florida's so-called [[https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557]["Don't Say Gay" bill]] is framed first and foremost as an attack on gay rights (which it certainly is), but leaving the very deliberate -targetting of trans kids out of the discussion. Florida governor Ron DeSantis +targeting of trans kids out of the discussion. Florida governor Ron DeSantis certainly didn't hide it, [[https://www.axios.com/dont-say-gay-bill-desantis-578593fc-5d6e-4098-b69a-c838b017ce24.html][claiming its intent is to squash so-called "woke gender ideology"]] and [[https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2022/03/29/grooming-the-buzzword-in-lgbtq-school-debate-including-in-florida/][pointing @@ -3152,15 +3152,15 @@ signing the bill. It's hard, as a trans person watching all of this, seeing these kids, their parents, and ourselves under such constant and cruel attack. It's hard hearing -only the faintest murmors of "we've got your back" from the White House as the +only the faintest murmurs of "we've got your back" from the White House as the Equality Act continues to languish, stalled in Congress. It is hard seeing so few people outside of the transgender community, traumatized so much by it as it is, raising any awareness of what's going on. Each year we endure so much. We watch public figures tell people we're perverts and predators. We watch where we -go and what we do in public, lest we inadverently draw anyone's ire. We watch as -some trans folks do succeed, and celebrate them, but also see all the nastiness -directed at them in the media and in strangers' comments on social media. All of -this is so, so traumatizing. +go and what we do in public, lest we inadvertently draw anyone's ire. We watch +as some trans folks do succeed, and celebrate them, but also see all the +nastiness directed at them in the media and in strangers' comments on social +media. All of this is so, so traumatizing. Ours is a community molded by trauma and loss. Our history, vibrant as it is, has been largely [[https://historycollection.com/16-remarkable-historical-figures-who-were-transgender/][hidden from us]] or [[https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis][outright destroyed]]. Nearly an entire