That makes about as much sense as saying national openSUSE communities shouldn't use their countries' flag because there are some people doing bad things in the name of nationalism. People do bad things in the name of X, so we won't associate with X just isn't feasible, because that leaves us without nothing to associate with. By that same logic we would have to take issue with anyone wishing "Merry Christmas" because the list of atrocities committed in the name of Christianity isn't exactly short.

Also I want to call you out for very intentionally misgendering trans people. The bbc article you linked talked about cis- and trans-women, not about men, but you still went out of your way to misgender here.

So together with your over the top stramanning wrt to HRT I'm gonna make a bold guess here and assume that your problem with the pride flag isn't that it's somehow an unsuitable symbol for supporting minorities, but rather that it also includes a minority group, you don't seem to have a whole lot of respect for and take issue with. Which just makes raising that flag seem all the more necessary.

On June 4, 2023 12:17:21 PM GMT+02:00, SingletonW Lernais <sngltnw@gmail.com> wrote:

100% agree.

Also to come back to the issue raised in this post: there's nothing wrong with supporting vulnerable minorities. The problem is that the flag we are talking about goes much further than that. It's been waived by queer theory activists promoting an agenda based on ideology and quite remote from its origins in human rights, mostly in the context of gender dysphoria:
- promoting the use of hormon blockers and surgery to "help" allegedly dysphoric minors modify their body -- almost always rendering them infertile;
- refusing the acknowledge evidence that gender dysphoria might admit of a variety of treatments -- not just surgery and hormon blockers (context: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230208-sweden-puts-brakes-on-treatments-for-trans-minors)
- bullying lesbians into have relationships with men (context: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385)

Because of this I'd argue that the flag is as tainted politically as the Confederate flag in the U.S, and thus no longer a suitable symbol for expressing solidarity with vulnerable minorities.