Starting to believe Labour are pining after an election so bad because being in power has been so disastrous professionally and interpersonal for them that a lot of them just want it *over*

Advice to anyone injecting weekly who also works from home: take your E mid-afternoon on a Friday. It's the perfect way to mentally check out of work and start your weekend early on a high note.

Theres a few tbinfs to note here from Falkners quotes. Tge EHRCs main job is to provide a workable environment in regards to equality and human rights by providing a statutory code thats workable and legally compliant for businesses to follow. 1/

undercover

What they want is for every trans person to have to identify themselves as trans in every interaction with anyone, continuously outing yourself,(maybe even wearing a little symbol) in the deluded hope that it will make being trans in public so difficult that we will eventually melt into the shadows

The thing about this nonsense of a story is that it really shows the ideology behind the anti-trans movement, the "dress how you like" was always a lie. At the core these anti-trans activists are complaining about trans people, existing in society. Is this a "reasonable concern" about safety?

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To Be Hero X was fantastic in moments, but I feel like I just watched a full season of prologue and I'm concerned that's because the writers literally don't know how to conclude a storyline.

Sure you did. I'm sure the fact ppl weren't buying your grift and the GCs and TERFs were transphobic to you had nothing to do with it, and you meant to do all that in public, it was all 5D chess all along

lesbianism is beautiful, and that beauty must be shared. the girlies need more lesbian art, make it! find people who can help you make more of it! be gay, do art. (all art mediums welcome; writers, draftspeople, sculptors, voice actors, all of them.)

new language should have a purpose, should plug some kind of epistemic gap or otherwise convey some missing detail or nuance that is crucial to the conversation what does "trying to find the Most Polite Wording for the 1000th time" actually do

Important update: I have tried a pumpkin spiced latte for the first time; it was very good. I am now upset that misogyny has so thoroughly maligned this perfectly normal, tasty drink. Thank you for reading this very important update.

You know the logical conclusion to "only the majority deserves to have a voice" is that only cis people get to talk about gender care. You comprehend that, right? Blink twice if you comprehend that

Cowardly AND stupid--at the least pick one

Can pro-trans reporters FOR ONCE not agree with fucking Chloe Cole?? Do you think your argument of "ye she's right about ~her experience~, ye she's mutilated, but like, fuck those bitches amirite" is compelling?

Why do you say this as if you agree there actually exists a minority that is, as the QT'd article claims, 'disfigured' by transition. Do you realise how you sound? "Ya sure detransitioners are mutilated and disfigured--but look, they don't matter! Uno percent!!!"

And that's a key thing here. If a cis person gets misgendered, what's communicated afterwards is "you're wrong and this was awkward on your part" aimed at the misgenderer. If you cede ground and say "you're wrong but it's understandable, after all I am trans," it only enables more misgendering.

it's an interesting thread. it really highlights how these ppl seemingly don't understand that the labour party no longer exists. leave and go independent or join the greens. you cannot change the labour party from within. it's not possible.

Almost always, "hugboxing" just ends up meaning "I want to make people complicit in my emotional self-harm, but they won't let me". If you'd believe me when I insult you, you should believe me when I compliment you. Either you trust my opinion or you don't.

So I'm a fairly open-minded person. I've willingly spent time with ex-ultranationalists, ex-TERFs, former drug dealers convicted of manslaughter, all sorts. There's one group of ex's for whom I hold great contempt: ppl who leave the GC detrans grift when they realise they want to retransition.

I’m being kind of a crank but most AGP/HSTS joke questions are not funny because there’s a real answer to them and then it’s just depressing. Like. Yes, by this system, puppygirls and all such similar phenomena are AGP coded. Most of this stuff doesn’t do anything to “break” the typology.

Just finished the episode, and it turns out the homework this week is "go away and do some Thinking about the discussion of earning the right to live through suffering". Harder, but definitely more beneficial than reading another shit article.

Well okay, but I'm still not going to do more homework for this one. Unless there's something that seems reeeeeally interesting or stupid or both. Then maybe.

[taking notes] so my male socialization makes it so that I am overconfident in my understanding of issues that other people know better than me, is that correct? Interesting assessment, person who knows all the inner workings of my mind from a brief online conversation.

Look at this lil cute one

you are allowed to have insecurities, triggers, dysphoria - but you’re not allowed to weaponise them against others and make them feel bad about their happiness and bodies

Why do authors do the thing where they write a cliffhanger and then instead of following up on it, cut away to some random other thing? It's so frustrating, but also really common even in some otherwise really well-written media, so there must be a reason, right?

Donno I quite like ... ..."Today elements of the Provisional TRA ridiculed Glinner and peed in his lasagna for one"

No actual spoilers please, but can someone please confirm if To Be Hero X is just a full season of flashback character intros? Or does it get back to the main story and present day at some point? At episode 16 now and starting to lose hope that any of the cliffhangers will ever get picked up again.

I remember vividly this all happening, ALC hadn't even finished PhD and was being dragged by TSQ for just yknow. Calling out bullshit

You've been warned!

I repeat. I will NOT be using any trans segregated third spaces. 100% non-compliance. The EHRC can go to hell.

Female athletes have to go through SRY-gene testing before competing in the world championships next week. However, it turns out gene tests for sports purposes have been illegal in Norway since 1994. It's also illegal for sporting bodies to facilitate testing abroad... @kirstimiller30.bsky.social

I'd love to know how Ireland plan to take on New Zealand at the weekend given that they are attempting to score tries at different ends of the pitch?

"Biological" is a meaningless category wrt sex distinctions. Everyone is biological. "Woman" is not a biological category, but a social one.

Your Party should be considered DOA unless @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and @zarahsultana.bsky.social expel him. Homophobia orTransphobia is a red line.

do you think fascism is underpinned by a great scientific rationality or something

I always ask who the fuck people are talking about when they talk about transphobic self hating academics who try to queer theory trans people out of existence and then I remember Jack Halberstam exists

Let this be a lesson to all Cracked Ivory listeners who get tempted to read up on the episode topics: DO NOT DO THE HOMEWORK. This way lies madness. They are the Trans Academy Nostalgia Critics for a reason. They read it, so you don't have to. YOU DON'T HAVE TO. SAVE YOURSELF.

I have made a mistake. Listening to the @crackedivorypod.bsky.social episode on Jack Halberstam's "Female Masculinity", I heard a passing mention of an article, in which Halberstam had been "extremely normal" about Andrea Long Chu. And I thought to myself "Wonder what that's about?"

I am once again asking people to stop projecting so hard onto their favourite fictional characters that any acknowledgement of the character's complexity or, god forbid, wrongdoing becomes a personal attack

So pleased we made this happen. What's so striking, is that this 10-volume dossier represents just ❗0.73%❗of the 50,000+ responses the EHRC have received. The EHRC have been totally overwhelmed by the response. Huge, huge thanks to everyone who shared their submissions with us. More photos below! 1/

the murdering trannies with shovels plan will not work. the opposition party do not have the necessary experience of importing shovels, nor murdering logistics. vote labour.

Been in our new office space for just over an hour, and even though it's objectively way better than the old place, I'm already shaking and overwhelmed with sensory stuff. Too loud, too hot, chair is wrong, too cramped, wanna cry about it. Starting to suspect I might not be 100% neurotypical...

Trans people: “We won’t go to for someone who wants to kill us” Cis ‘allies’: “Right, that’s a step too far! I was all for working with you weirdoes to find a dignified way for you to piss yourselves in the street but now you’re just being unreasonable!”

i can't believe he didn't wait for the ppl to vote on this at the 'your party' convention. shocking stuff.

Watching @caelan.bsky.social's video on the direct harms caused by ai "therapy", and then seeing this article aimed specifically at vulnerable queer people is horrifying. Alexander Cheves and everyone else involved in this article's publication should be ashamed, and take it down immediately.

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Isn't it strange that trans people are, supposedly, such a tiny inconsequential minority that our rights simply must be sacrificed as a matter of electoral pragmatism, but at the same time Labour/Democrat wonks spend so much energy desperate to get us to vote for their preferred butcher anyway?

If you follow the trajectory of type theory over the years, you’ll see an interesting shift: from the prototypical AGP being a hypermasculine athlete toward being a delicate nerd. The concept gets refined in real time to “explain” available public images of trans women.