Ukrainian Defense Ministry has responded to Russian media attacking Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a military servicewoman of Ukraineโs Territorial Defense Forces and U.S. journalist, over her transgender identity.
I have my twitter account temporarily deactivated, and I'm going to keep it that way until discourse over this dies down. I imagine the worst reactionaries are being absolutely insufferable over this.
Have a Twitter account since 2008, never used it, browsed my favorite tweets while clicking away 10,000 registration popups, only reactivated it now because I had to - and will delete soon because I hate the X bullshit
Yeah, I can imagine someone having a bad take and reluctantly supporting Ukraine because well, it's hard not to go all second international in these situations and support whatever shitty place you live.
But saying "Azov is good actually" removes the sympathy I might have had.
I'm sure the anti-globohomo "LGBT people are nazi!" reactionaries will have a field day with this. I also saw some libs who said they had mixed feelings, because they need Republican funding for the war, and this might jeopardize that. It's always nice to see how trans people are merely useful pawns to both libs and chuds.
a self-described communist guy named evan reif who used to post on /leftypol/ under the name "iron felix" wrote an exposรฉ of this woman in november of last year.
an excerpt from said article:
Sarah was seen as a unicorn because she is trans. For several years, she played up her status as a trans Republican to further her career, and the Nevada GOP was eager to use her as a token to give them the appearance of egalitarianism even as they enacted monstrous anti-trans laws which have led to death and suffering for people like Sarah.
also, tweets from ms. cirillo include the following:
She's an intelligence asset, expelled from the same DSA chapter as wasbappin, probably strapped to the same surgical chair at the same blacksite and force fed the same synthetic hallucinogens. They have the same brain
Is this the one that was getting hate crimed against in west Ukraine and then blamed it on Russians somehow? And was doing some kind of weird false flag operations as part of the Nevada Republican party?
As previously reported by Detector Media, Russian propagandists reacted rather hysterically
It's funny to me that this is what the headline is supposed to be about yet there are zero details given about who these Russian propagandists are or what their reactions were other than being hysterical. Like I don't doubt it but it's pretty sloppy writing when it could mean anything from official government sources to random telegram accounts saying literally anything so long as a journalist could read it as hysterical.
Friendly reminder that most Ukrainian trans women are not allowed to leave the country because the Ukrainian state does not recognize them as women, so they fall under the "all males between the age of 18 to 65 must stay and fight" rule.
But we're not supposed to talk about that because that makes you a Putin bot
You can point out the precedent of Ernst Rohm to these kinds of people and they'll should about how one data point doesn't make a trend right up until they're dragged off to the firing squad by her own side.