LGBT News Trans* Women Arrested (And Detained) For No Reason - Greece

Religion Corrupted the Greek People.
I feel sorry for the Transgender Ladies and Lads in greece.

 

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I don't even know what to say. It was bad down in Greece but it didn't hit me until I read this. My blood's literally boiling.

I'll do what I can to spread the news.

 

I thought my life had enough stress and bigotry, until I read this. The fact that there's homophobia in the world is bad enough, but arbitrarily arresting people because they're transgender?! Greece needs to get a grip and realize that in most developed countries, people are accepted for who they are, not arrested just because they're a different sex than what's assigned on your birth certificate.

I feel so bad for these people. Stuff like this shouldn't happen, but it does anyway, because sometimes society can throw you in the dumpster.

 

Greece is super homophobic/transphobic. So not really a surprise.

 

WTF... That's mest up,

 

Well considering how Greece's third largest party is an openly neo-nazi ethnic supremacist one with ties to the members of the old military junta, the Church and the police, I don't find it very surprising.

Seriously, their election motto was "to cleanse this land of filth". If African and Central Asian immigrants and workers can't escape persecution from these monsters, I highly doubt a trans person could.

 

I already hate Greece for doing this, but when I read that they told them to "turn back to normal" I just lost it there and thought to myself, "I'm never going to Greece.".

 

I wouldn't say that a god-forsaken political party is reason enough to write off such a rich land as Greece, but yeah they need to get their shit together before I'd consider going also.

 

I don't understand why Grecian society is so homophobic anyway. It's a well known fact that in ancient Greece homosexuality was very common, especially among philosophers and war heroes. LGBT issues are a part of their history, so you'd think they'd be one of the most accepting places.

 

It's also a well known fact that Greece was for a long time the centerpiece of the heavily catholic Byzantine Empire, over which the Pope ruled supreme.

Ancient Egypt was also very accepting of LGBT relationships as well (there are paintings of gay orgies in some of the old cities lol), but then came the (Christian) Greek and later Muslim conquests - both with religions at their had which believed that homosexuality was akin to being a part of a satanist cult.

 

"It was the transgender people who caused the entire collapse of the world and money and taxes and money, lock them away!"

Fascism is almost like a game of Blankety Blank, just take out certain words and you could have all sorts of options. Sad to see fascism on the rise in Europe, especially when we're looked to in the cases of rational sane open-minded political debates.

 

Not the easiest life to have, being trans, it's sick when people are immediately disgusted at our presence, even more so when the police aren't there to help. Female to Male Transsexuals don't have it as bad as Male to Female Transsexuals. If I wear masculine clothes "she's fighting female stereotypes, she's a feminist" if my girlfriend wears a skirt "some perverted guy in a skirt". It's not equal. It's not fair.

-Charlie

 

Okay, feel like crying now.

 

Well, there's the Golden Dawn in Greece, which is a fascist movement and has a lot more sympathy with the people than it deserves.

One of the things they said what "after the immigrants, you're next." The "you're" in this is referring to us, the queer community.

 

Umm... not to sound pretentious, but the (Eastern) Roman Empire was not Catholic. At all. The Romanoi were heavily Greek Orthodox, and the Pope had little to no influence on them.

 

It chillingly echos this poem from Nazi Germany

People should NEVER forget the mistakes of the past, they should remember the pain and suffering to millions facism has cost Europe (even the Greeks). Golden Dawn are a worry to the West, they are influencing a resurgence of the far right Europe wide (Including the UK) .

If I was LGBT and lived in a certain part of Greece then I would be terrified.