The US government - is run by a man found civilly liable for rape and accused of MANY others - wages war on cis women's reproductive rights and trans women's existence - is run by men - and influenced by other men - who ultimately want women to be franchiseless, subservient baby cannons SO...NO.

Yknow they very much tried to get me fired from being technician on the throwdown on telly i know they wrote to channel 4 and such and every year were outraged i was still allowed on screen for the crime of being trans

When the shit hit the fan, both Girl Guides and the Women's Institute pushed their trans members' faces into it. We'll remember.

LEARN ONE THING

Yeah this is very much the case and I hate it. I fundamentally want all trans people to be safe and it boggles my mind how casually some in our communities call for other people to take unnecessary, pointless risks.

Yeah, the actual principles they have are all oriented around in-group and out-group formation. Members of the in-group can have any sin of theirs excused so long as they do not commit the cardinal transgression of sympathizing with, assisting, or somehow *becoming* one of the out-group.

Telling a trans man he is "female" and must use the women's restroom, then attacking him for doing so is a mirror of the 'logic' applied to arrest a trans woman for being topless and then put her in a men's prison. Our sex can be whatever is most rhetorically convenient for cis people to punish.

The rules are there to put trans people in impossible situations because the aim is to punish us for existing as trans people in the world. The logical contradictions and impracticalities are the point.

Had fun muting and blocking a bunch of people who’s only response to the transmisogynistic WI is “trans men should join up en masse, that’ll show them” No it won’t, you clown. You put your body on the line, stop offering up mine for a humiliation ritual that will do nothing for trans women

As Dave Foley once told me, and anyone in ear shot (repeatedly), “that man is an idiot”

court challenges going on, and such. But goddamn. That can't be the solution because they're putting structures into place to fuck people for the next century, and typically that doesn't get torn the fuck down as it should, which is why REALLY evil people are backing this admin with billions.

It is so sad to see new exclusionary policies from Girlguiding, where trans girls had been so included before. The Woodcraft Folk is a brilliant, inclusive, non-segregated alternative for young people seeking fun, adventure and community! woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers. Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:

Very simple rule of thumb here… if Trump thinks you are rich, crooked and he can make you owe him a favor, you’re gonna get your pardon.

When will those Labour MPs who don't support the exclusion of trans people from society get together and tell the Cabinet 'Not In Our Name'? Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som

"It's too costly to stand up for you, but we pinky promise we have solidarity with you" is bullshit. "We have no choice but to discriminate against you" is bullshit. They could use their platform to spotlight Gender-Conservative hatred, or demonstrate actual commitment to their stated principles.

Telling a targeted, hyperscrutinized, vilified population that you have no choice but to comply with mulching us is not a praiseworthy stance!!!!

Eduroam is really pretty amazing. I don't know if there have been downsides; surely yes! But the ability for me to go onto nearly any college campus in the US and connect instantly to the internet is great.

Like, it's still complying in advance! It's a legal threat from a parent, but not a legal ruling from a judge, y'know?

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I’ve got a friend who’s 65 y.o., lives in a mobile home home in a rural area. She has Parkinson’s and is on home Hospice. Went to visit her. She has NO HEAT, it was so cold in her home. Due to shutdown, no HEAP assistance until January. I will get her a months worth of oil. How cruel the Rs are.

Venmo is (@)anna-pancake, paypal.me/Starbroken and cashapp is $critterscrazy I'm "only" 192 short of getting a cord of wood brought in. I used to be able to get it cheaper because I could split and stack it myself but I've lost that ability this year. It's humbling.

like most center-right folks they believe that government regulation is inherently and innately bad. They don't want to talk about the reasons U.S. regulation usually sucks; it's directly crafted by the extraction class through a grotesquely corrupted congress and revolving door regulators.

like the "abundance" folks, this guy goes out of his way to pretend that U.S. government dysfunction is just born from an innate love of pointless bureaucracy, and isn't a direct, intentional byproduct of America's top problem: corruption and unchecked corporate power

oh wow you mean rounding up day laborers outside home depot or extorting universities into donating to his library hasnt improved your material conditions? what about how trans kids cant play jv volleyball anymore, did that help you at all? who could have known

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This was my sports experience as a trans girl: I played basketball and football in high school. I played on boys’ teams as I was pre transition and was still desperately trying to prove myself as “man enough” for my male classmates. Obviously I was never going to accomplish that.

"Listen- we're kicking you out. We don't need to. We could fight, but we don't want to. So you can't be in our group anymore. But I hope you don't see this betrayal as a betrayal. I hope when you aren't mad anymore, you see that we are standing with you by excluding you. Because that makes sense."

"For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.”"

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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

This is something it's hard to explain to people (and I didn't have room to get into in the article) - that even the most loving, caring relationships can still be experienced as abusive simply because of the power dynamics of disability in a capitalist world.

1802) Transwrongsbot. Listen, validation and love is all very well, but at some point things get bad enough that action is required as a matter of simple survival. It's time to protect trans rights by doing some trans wrongs.

it is no end of appalling to me that we're in this situation. the unsafe people are not who are getting targeted here, they are simply being made *more unsafe* in a way that protects the actual dangers

im so sick to my stomach of nobody every standing up to 'gender critical'. they're very clearly a far right hate movement that has nothing to do with feminism. this country is a rancid shithole being run by the most privileged, entitled, and excruciatingly thick ppl in the entire uk.

When the right lost the presidency in France in 1981, they left the buildings empty. They cut the phone lines. You should take some inspiration.

So far the worst I can manage is “Make America Trickle Down Again”

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Besides redundancies, Southend's town centre will now have several large buildings that are empty with no other viable tenants, its short term rental market will collapse and lots of businesses will miss the purchasing power of all those students! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not to sound like a stuck record, but '400 jobs to be lost in city as car plant/steel works/aerospace facility closes' would be treated somewhat differently, I suspect.

If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator... ...then you are still a collaborator.

I would like any of these orgs to display an ounce of the courage that it takes any ordinary trans person to keep showing up in work and civil society every day in the midst of All This.

Whilst it is absolutely true that the lawfare deployed against charities in particular, but also many other businesses, is an existential threat to them, I think it is also fair for us to be furious that the choice is always "fuck them trannies" and continued existence.

This is why I do not want the Right To Die right now. I want people to have the right to live, not the right to be pressured into death by an ableist government.

I’m confused, why aren’t media outlets still focused on that vital issue of urgent social importance, Zohran referring to a family member as an Auntie? Isn’t this something they assured us was essential to cover for the public good? How come they’re not following up on this issue of public safety?

UP TO 4M LONG. ONLY USUALLY FOUND IN WATERS MORE THAN 500M DEEP. Turns out The Meg 2: The Trench was set in the wrong place - although I suspect there'd be slightly fewer people need saving from near-shore leisure facilities in this version.

"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.” What does this do for women's rights?

Once more preaching to the choir (I hope): If GC people were really concerned about women's safety and rights, they'd be focusing on this, not persecuting a minority in an effort to scrub them from existence.

Stop capitulating you craven fucking cowards!