Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

“Nobody should be killed for their political beliefs” vs “every child in Gaza is potentially a terrorist” is a fun contrast

They'll celebrate the biggest genetic freak of a man who dominates a sport/athletic event, but women's events are honestly considered the runner ups. The losers bracket. Even naturally occurring differences in cis women are regulated. Have to thread the needle between winning, but not that hard

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Samosas are delicious

"...we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass..." MUSCLE MASS CHANGES WITH HORMONE THERAPY! Please learn something, anything, just the most basic things about trans people before weighing in on these "concerns" or you just end up looking like an easily duped fool at best.

Maybe I'm stupid, but I have no plans to leave this country. Fuck them

I don't think I've gotten seriously ill in over 5 years. I've masked since the start of COVID.

Like, I get that taking a popular TV host off the air is hugely representative of the problems right now, but the censorious efforts of Republicans are literally trying to get trans people's existence labelled as pornography and punishable by 20+ years and $100K fines for literally existing online.

This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

If you're still pretending that the Republican Party has the slightest interest in democracy, or the Constitution, you're either a complete imbecile or you're working with them.

Absolutely fucking insane

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Anyone that honestly believes these people have ever cared about free speech are the biggest dumb asses alive

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

What a relief that we've spent the past decade wringing our hands about censorious leftist college students

Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer. www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...

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Every day is waking up to news that things people were saying even just a few years ago would never happen happening.

This would make it illegal for any site that has trans content--not just porn, but everything from trans people posting selfies to essays to comics and stories featuring trans characters--illegal in the state. You've seen how fast the Age Restriction shit spread. Don't pretend this isn't possible

The indignity of living under these people that are equally stupid and evil 🙃

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Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

This is horrific and dangerous.

This is where we are now. Blatant lies intended to foment hatred against trans people is allowed, but if we dare speak too rudely to those who push for our destruction we're the ones who face consequences @moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

If you hire a trans person known for their spicy takes, it's somewhat implied you don't view that as disqualifying behavior. When you then fire that same person for similar spicy takes in a moment when trans people are being demonized to an unprecedented degree, it does uh... Not feel good

For years, if not decades, voices demanding gun reform have been accused of “politicizing” violence—and of casting blame “too soon” in the wake of tragedy. When it wasn’t gun rights but trans people on the line, that rhetoric went out the window.

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I think this same argument applies to so-called "cancel culture," where established pundits decry students & activists (read: non-elites) who merely express our own views as being "censorious," while ignoring countless attempts by elites (politicians, administrations, media) to literally censor us

civility is when a white guy calls for minorities to be eliminated in a calm voice while wearing an expensive suit

There's clear evidence now that online conservatives launched a doxxing, harassment and mass-firing campaign on anyone who they decided wasn't sufficiently devasted by the news of Charlie Kirk's death. I hope employers realize they can course-correct on decisions made in the heat of the moment 👀

You give people like this (who've been, day and night, looking for excuses to attack Felker-Martin) an inch and they'll take a mile. This makes every marginalized creator a target for this kind of attack.

Meant to share this link to help Gretchen and the lost revenue from losing her book.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

When you thought he was trans, it was proof all trans people were scum. Now that he’s cis, he gets to be the victim of the murder he committed.

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

like it's actually insane that he went around saying things like "im a white nationalist" and if you say "charlie kirk was a white nationalist" YOU will get in trouble

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

And you're punished more severely for saying "this sucks, actually"

This country is such a joke. We tolerated all these ghouls behavior to the point it's normal and "friendly debate" and put them into the highest positions of power. They preach and enact violence on us every day. How many lives have they ruined and/or ended? How many do they inspire to do the same?

Spewing vile hatred has become so normalized, it's inescapable. Every comments section, social media, even our elected officials. Everyday, these people dehumanize us and call for our destruction, pass laws to crush us, but don't you dare be rude when one less of them is breathing down your neck

There are people dedicated to our extermination, in their own words, and we don't owe them anything.

While you weren't looking, *seventeen* House Democrats just voted to strip basic rights from trans members of the military and helped the GOP pass their far-right version of the NDAA, similar to what we reported on. This is the most Dems voting for anti-trans legislation in Congress this year.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing