CW: CW: Transphobia, intersexphobia, police violence, healthcare
The Berlin police raid a community-organised health centre for trans and intersex people for allegedly distributing “prescription drugs”. You know, mostly hormones. The things people need when a healthcare system that supposedly serves them keeps failing them.
A centre that exists because trans and intersex people have learned, through repeated experience, that the German healthcare system does not reliably meet their needs.
And the cishet commentariat cheers on the police, naturally. Because apparently, when the system fails you, the correct response is to sit quietly, suffer respectably, and wait for permission to exist in your own body.
God forbid people organise. God forbid they help each other. God forbid marginalised people develop the expertise, networks and solidarity required to survive institutional neglect.
And then come the familiar little thank-you notes to the cops for protecting us from ourselves. How very considerate. Nothing says care quite like threatening the people who have built the support structures you couldn't be bothered to provide.
Here is what we learn, yet again:
ACAB. Solidarity is not a crime. And the state is not your friend merely because it claims to know what is best for your body.
We also learn that a considerable part of cishet society has absolutely no idea what trans and intersex life actually looks like, what it costs, what it requires, or what people have to do when the supposedly responsible institutions leave them stranded.
They don't know. They don't ask. They don't listen.
But by all means, they have opinions about our hormones.
Funny how the people least affected by a system's failures are so often the most enthusiastic about enforcing them.
Solidarity with trans and intersex people. Solidarity with community healthcare. And a heartfelt fuck off to anyone who mistakes obedience for safety and institutional violence for care.
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