Chrissplains Nonbinary Advocacy to Cisgender People, topic: Do something for trans kids with as much conviction as you came for ed sheeran for Doing nothing. (Text)

By Chris Talbot, communications professional and educomics creator

Go back to the educomic via this link

CW: This post deals with transphobia, transphobic legislation, and Palestine, and may be triggering to some readers. Please proceed with caution. If you need immediate assistance, please follow this link to International Suicide Hotlines. If you need help specific to your identity, there is Trans Lifeline (877-565-8860 for trans folks), The Trevor Project (866-488-7386 for LGBTQ youth ages 13-24).

Introduction

The header says “Chrissplains nonbinary advocacy to cisgender people.” Story and art by: by Chris Talbot. Topic: Do something for trans kids with as much conviction as you came for Ed Sheeran for doing nothing.

First Section

There are illustrations of Harry Potter and Ed Sheeran with a body made of spaghetti. Text says For years folks have told us it was too difficult, unnecessary, or would be a useless action to put pressure on their fave. While it’s amazing to see people turn out en masse in support of Palestine (finally), by pulling away from and hitting a fave in the pocketbook, it also proves that They could always do it and they always understood the importance of doing so. They just didn’t care enough about Trans people To do it for us. Shrugging emoji. But they could, and that’s the work now as elections come. Next to Ed’s spaghetti body, it says I can’t remember where I first heard it, but someone said Ed Sheeran’s morals had the structural integrity of cooked spaghetti. This is now what he looks like in my mind. 

Second Section

In the next cell, text says I’m not comparing apples to oranges… There’s an illustration of someone holding an orange with an apple balanced on top of it. Text says I want to acknowledge that all the major modern social justice leaders have done an enormous amount of labor to help people understand the connections between what Zionists are doing to Palestinians and all the other major social justice battles of our time. They have taught the general public, over the last three years, all the fights are all interrelated and what they do in Palestine eventually comes home. most of those folks have also made the connection to the current attempted eradication of trans people, and folks really need to listen better. never again means never again. And none of us are free until all of us are free means all of us. 

Below that is a screenshot of a report on The Heritage Foundation website. Text says In July, Scott Yenor published a report for The Heritage Foundation—the same entity that created the terrifying Project 2025—titled Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why accommodating sex differences beats engineered parity.

Title IX, for folks who are unaware, prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools that receive funding from the federal government, and it includes a prohibition against sex-based generalization and stereotype. Beneath that, are two bathroom symbols for women’s and men’s. Text says The most common talking points out today (thanks to rhetoric from TERFs, incels, manosphere influencers, and the ultra-right, like The Heritage Foundation, being repeated unchallenged in news outlets) are that trans people are the bogeyman and grooming kids to be trans, men are strong, women are weak, and sex-based generalizations, stereotypes, and differences are true. 

There are screenshots of multiple article titles that have contributed to the demonizing of trans people. Beneath that, it says The Title IX’s Failed Experiment report goes further to say that therefore sex anti-discrimination laws, like Title IX, allowed women to enter “assertive athletics” that led to “producing a new woman who would be more aggressive, assertive, dominant, and less deferential, less graceful, and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional feminine graces,” and suggests that all of this goes against nature, what cisgender women would want to do naturally, and prevent them from being fertile. 

Third Section

In this cell, text says The report concludes, therefore: There’s a screenshot of the report with point 2 of the Key Takeaways highlighted. The takeaway says Equality under Title IX requires opportunity rooted in human nature that will reveal genuine differences between the sexes, not the erasure of differences. Text below that says. And remember, the human nature they’ve convinced a lot of people to spout, liberal and conservative alike, is men strong, women weak. Men capable, women incapable. It’s important to look at the goal of Project 2025:

There’s an illustration of Trump. Next to his face is a list of goals of Project 2025:

1. A limit on reproductive rights and penalization of unmarried cisgender women;
2. Attacks on protections against sex discrimination and other efforts to expand gender equity;
3. Attacks on queer people;
4. Gutting DEI efforts and other social justice protections;
5. etc.

Text says and we need to look at Yenor’s beliefs themselves to understand that the moment that trans activists have been warning about—what they do to us, will impact you—is here. So, are you going to recognize that all of our liberations are as interrelated as our modern social justice leaders have been saying (regarding Palestinian liberation and trans rights) and not give an inch to the TERFs, incels, manosphere influencers, and the ultra-right this November when you see anti-trans propositions on your ballot? Or are you going to continue to advance the talking points of Yenor, who during a speech at a Trad Dad Conference, Yenor stated that:

There’s an illustration of Yenor with word bubbles that say, “The gays…the feminist ideology…the transgender ideologies…all of these ideologies…comprise family formation…the ideologies can only grow if reality is a little sick. So, I consider feminism to be kind of an ideology of decadence.” Text says The choice is yours.

Fourth Section

In this cell, text says In Colorado you can:
Vote no on Proposition 134, which is an anti-trans sports bill that is written so broadly, all the major civil rights organizations warn that it would subject cisgender girls to invasive scrutiny and “gender checks,” as well as discriminate against trans kids. And if you’re still on the fence, still not convinced, hop on over to ballotpedia to see who initiated the proposition and who supports it, and see if that’s who you want to align yourself with morally and politically…

There’s a screenshot from Ballotpedia for Colorado Proposition 134, Sex Requirement for School and College Sports Initiative (2026), showing the supporters are Colorado Catholic Conference and Focus on the Family.

Text says Focus on the Family – the same “nonprofit” listed as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the SPLC. The same org that has spent its hoards of wealth trying to eliminate reproductive choice, get abstinence only “education” in schoools, prevent marriage equality, convince people that queer people can’t be proper parents, and supported a 1992 amendment to the Colorado constitution which stopped laws that allowed for protections from anti-LGBTQ discrimination, etc.

Beneath that is an illustration of James Dobson preaching. Text says In their own words: Being queer is a “particularly evil lie of satan.”

Text says And all of the statements from supporters of the proposition repeat the dangerous language that women are inferior to men that we discussed:

There’s a screenshot of the supporter statements, which include:

• Colleen Enos, Christian Home Educators of Colorado: “To allow males to compete against females when they are physically advantaged in muscle mass, bone density, and muscle capacity makes a mockery out of Title IX protections for girls.”
• Protect Kids Colorado: “It’s not fair – It’s not safe. Bigger, stronger biological males are invading girls’ sports in Colorado, taking away our girls’ dignity, safety, and opportunity. Our ballot measure ensures girls’ sports are protected, requiring sports leagues and teams be specifically designated male, female, or co-ed. Because girls’ sports in Colorado should be for girls. That’s it.”
• Colorado Catholic Conference: “School and athletic organization policies that undermine the biological reality of a person’s body as male or female deny human dignity and are abusive to minors. Policies that allow biological men to participate in women’s sports promote the unfair treatment of women and pose potentially dangerous and inappropriate situations for young women, including sharing bathrooms and locker rooms with biological men.”

Text says Also, Vote no on Proposition 135, which would affect access to medically necessary care for youth with a variety of health conditions, as well as take away life saving care to trans children. If you can’t do it because it’s the right thing to do for trans people, do it because it will have unintended consequences for all the children and families in Colorado.

Below is a screenshot of Colorado Proposition 135, Prohibit surgeries for treatment in response to minors’ perception of sex or gender measure (2026) showing the supporters are former state senator Kevin Lundberg, Colorado Catholic Conference, and Focus on the Family.

Text says So, if you live in a state with anti-trans ballot measures, it’s your time to decide if you are Robert Kraft, Ed Sheeran, and Pink or Macklemore, Boega, Aaron Rowe, and Lukas Graham. Are you aligning yourself with Focus on the Family, Scott Yenor, and Project 2025? Or are you going to recognize that trans liberation is inextricably tied to all other fights for liberation you support? are you going to do what’s right, vote down anti-trans ballot measures and ensure others know and do as well, supporting your trans siblings? The Choice is yours.