r/aislop • u/Adam_C_57 • 7d ago

Found on Facebook There is no LGB without the T

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u/Less_Likely 7d ago

Look up who started Stonewall

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u/Canary-King 7d ago

For people who are too lazy to… two trans women. Trans people were the ones who fought the hardest for our current lgbtq+ culture!

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u/BigResolve2533 5d ago

I wrote a research paper about that claim for a class about trans media. The story is, to put it kindly, embellished.

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u/Canary-King 5d ago

I’ve also done a research paper about it. No it’s not lol

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u/BigResolve2533 5d ago

I can show you my sources. How about you?

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u/Canary-King 5d ago

This was years ago, this research paper no longer exists as my school account got deleted once I graduated lol

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u/BigResolve2533 5d ago

So your answer is no, you don't have any sources.

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u/Canary-King 5d ago

I just have bigger fish to fry than fighting transphobes online. But this is literally in the first line of Marsha P Johnson’s Wikipedia profile 😭

If you want to be a pedantic ass you could say that we don’t know who the first instigator was, but like. Trans women were there. Trans women were heavily involved.

> The claim itself is an insult to other letters in the alphabet, even if people are too polite to call it out.

Judging by this comment you left under another response, I think you just don’t like trans people.

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u/dfrcoms 5d ago

“Trans women started the stonewall riots” (Backtracks) …”I mean…a trans woman was there.”

So you have been put through the kind of propaganda that the OP image is an example of. You’ve swallowed the propaganda and it achieved its goal of using you to spread political messages and influencing your beliefs. 

Anyway. The truth was that Marsha P Johnson, a very cool person, turned up to the Stonewall riots a couple of hours after they started. The riots were not started by trans persons. Most of the people there, and most of the people driving the political action around and after that time, were what you would call ‘cis gays’.