There's a lot of distance between "SCOTUS would have ruled against trans people no matter what, so the arguments don't matter in the slightest" and "We should keep conceding that trans women are immutably biologically Male and only seek protections based on nebulous notions of gender expression".

The term "transmedicalism" needs to be put on a high shelf until people learn the difference between a random trans person being mean online and a hegemonic power structure restricting your bodily autonomy.

Dass die demokratischen Parteien CDSU & SPD so geschlossen auf das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz losgehen, ist in gewisser Weise ja auch eine Anerkennung der Arbeit investigativer & gründlich recherchierender Journalist*innen. Sowas tut also, im Gegensatz zum Kommentar- & Leitartikel-Schwall-ins-All,

Give a trans butch money today if you hate this country 🫶

being in a fan space that doesn't insist upon "you should care about this [Male Character]" every other week is healing

hell fucking yes

Hot take of the day: We understand that not hiring women of child bearing age because they are likely to get pregnant is a kind of sex discrimination. Following the same logic, we should also understand that refusing to hire older people/mandatory retirement is a form of disability discrimination.

No I’m not going to America’s birthday party because for me July 4th will forever be the day I stood in that house for the last time

maybe I’m being petty here but letting dudebro Redditor types use the word “terf” was a massive, massive mistake because they just use it to shoot down any woman saying anything feminist at all, all while parroting rhetoric indistinguishable from genuine TERFs

Cis weirdos will contrive "well what if there's a nuclear bomb that detonates if I don't misgender this trans person" hypotheticals as if there isn't a well-understood scenario where you have to misgender trans people already: they're closeted and outing them would put them at risk.

I can guarantee that if one of these same chuds had to *not* misgender someone in order to prevent a nuclear bomb from going off that they would do it anyway because they care more about harming a trans person than anything else.

"I said at Sinai: do not murder and spill blood, And they in Zion, their hands are filled with blood. I said at Sinai: do not covet fields and houses, And they in Zion, they coveted fields and stole houses." - circa 6th century Piyyut (poem) for today, found in the Cairo Geniza 1/8

I’m more and more convinced that questions in this vein are basically variations on ‘why even have sex in the first place if there’s no penis?’ Like, this is the root of people’s befuddlement and disgust when it comes to lesbian sex.

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I do not understand the "fairness in sports" thing, in part because it isn't a thing, but also "fair to who" is always the question. People who are taller have an advantage in basketball. Does that mean we ban tall people? Why would THAT be fair?

For years, one of the arguments against desegregating Black people from sports is that they were naturally more physical (gross racism) and if you let them in they would dominate everything. But like, so what?

Even assuming the premise is true (and it is highly dubious), do you get to ban people from sports who are good at sports and for simply for no other reason?

I don't actually really think it matters whether trans people would dominate in sports if they were allowed to play (even though I think there's a lot of evidence that this would not happen). Why the fuck CAN'T a trans woman win at sports? Are they not allowed?

"But then a cis women wouldn't win" Yeah, that's what sports IS. When one person wins another person doesn't. Grow the fuck up and stop being a sore loser about it.

The reason it's wrong to discriminate against queer people is because there's nothing wrong with being queer. Whether or not it's chosen or fluid is irrelevant. Also, pick me gays are insufferable. Just admit that you find other queers icky and get over yourself. Truly, fuck off.

If you're a trans woman, post your fundraiser here, I'll repost.

Originalism can mean whatever you want if you’re bad enough at history.

With only an hour left, have the brave integerists been bested by the diabolical decimalists? Or is there still some courageous hero that can put the total back to its rightful integer state? itch.io/b/3691/pride...

When I still did club photography around the London trans scene I was kind of amazed how much people liked my work, I didn't think I was very good and couldn't figure it out. But then I realised it's because I photograph trans women so they look as feminine as possible, instead of the opposite.

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Cass has this tendency to be both a massive transphobe, then counter with something that vaguely supports trans people. What a lot of people don’t understand is, doctors often aren’t that bright. It’s an assumption, that because you need good grades for med school we’re all geniuses. We’re not.

The only argument for our royal family I hear is: “But tourism! They bring in millions a year! Far more than they cost us!" I dunno, last I heard people still visited the pyramids and they haven’t had pharaohs in Egypt for ages.

there is for sure an essay somewhere in the venn diagram between romantasy, the ambiguously brown male romance novel love interest, wuthering heights and sheikh romances - but writing it would be like handling a lit fuse

I really shouldn’t try to discourse here, my bad. But yes, I get angry when people post lies and other people here repost them here from Twitter without even a surface investigation.

Going to the bank today to demand they put more money into my account - I think no one told them about trans lesbians being bourgeois, and once I clear that up I'm sure they'll just hand the money over.

‘History marches on because we are a thoughtful, intelligent, people and not in the habit of listening to the passions and exhortations of those mad people that have a momentary impulse in the self-righteous certitude that they are correct and no one else is.’ … Have they heard of the Prohibition?

The thing that baffles me in the wake of the newest NBTK scandal is that the researchers being allowed to continue working with trans patients is up for consideration at all. "1700 minors victimized" isn't something you regain trust from. Working with any patients after this is suspect.

There's no coming back from this! Even right now, the researchers maintain that the verdict isn't in the patients' best interest, demonstrating clearly that they will keep trying to do shit like this if at all possible. They need to be removed.

It truly is quite weird how much some medical researchers have successfully promulgated an attitude to human subject research that acts like Helsinki Declaration are somehow The Man getting in the way of Science rather than it being responding to dehumanising & unscientific conduct in the mid 20thC

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad lost their license to practice medicine—which they were using to help trans people access care—over "poor journal keeping." Compare that with the NBTK research ethics scandal and it's clear that the rules are different if you're doing it to harm trans people.

The idea of excluding conversion therapy by licensed professionals is so absurd given how studies show that around half of all conversion therapy is done by them—likely even more in the UK.

just gonna tap this sign again in that passive aggressive way that’s less passive and more aggressive, you know what i mean?

As someone who has been working on the issues of trans death certificates for years, I am very relieved by the outcome in this case. Huge thanks to Leigh Day and my colleague Cat Knight who have done most of the hard work on this case. Proud to work alongside them.

As someone who has extensively researched conversion therapy promoters operating in the UK I have been raising alarms about the uselessness of the UK corporate charity sector in addressing the practical realities of it for several years now and unfortunately I was fucking right.

Straight up "we can torture the trans kids tho" provision. Evil government.

This episode will be public in a day or two, by the way...

INTEGER VICTORY

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When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

I’ll be waiting on the official apology for McCarthyism. And every university better hire trans professors right now.

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‘People will die but have you considered that some will lose weight and also work attendance will go up?’ Incredible they’re not embarrassed to publish this. And I’m still being too generous in my paraphrase because they don’t list people dying as a con but they do not being able to drink alcohol…

Fundamentally the purpose of the puberty blocker ban was never to *just* prevent trans youth from accessing them but to prevent them from accessing transition outside of NHS control. To assert state and psychiatric authority over the bodies of trans youth.

“If you’re gay or trans in Palestine they’ll kill you.” okay so you think the USA and all its citizens should be bombed out of existence, too? you think america should be genocided