Yeah, the trans community (especially the trans feminine community) have been feeling the Cassandra thing hard for the last decade. And the warnings keep being ignored or made light of. And the fascism keeps coming.

if you do not emphatically support healthcare for trans children: not only are you going against the advice of every major medical organization on earth, you are inherently supporting a genocide.

listen im not very well spoken on this stuff we need help. the time for silence from supposed allies has long since passed and they are pushing things that will directly harm trans kids. they seek our elimination because we embody everything they want to take from everyone. freedom. choice. hope.

They couldn’t even wait to see if it would pass the Senate. 🤦‍♀️ This feels like the response planned if MTG’s House bill failed to pass, but they pulled the trigger anyway. This is dictator shit. This is petulant manchild who can’t get his way, so tries to pull an end run around the process.

This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands. If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!

This is why "vote blue no matter who" is bullshit. It absolutely matters "who."

It fucking passed! 🤬🤯🤬 This should not have even been an option. The six “democrats” who refused to stand against genocide should be held accountable for attempted murder. There will be no consequences from this. I know that. There should be, but there won’t. Too few care if we even exist.

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

Transphobes also understand that the point is not "fairness in girls' sports" or whatever: the point is to establish that trans women are not *really* women. Once you've conceded that, they've won.

Please take a moment to watch this, and then, if you’re cis, take a moment to share the message. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yFsRwa/

I see why Newsom wants to be identified with Reagan, because just like Reagan, he’s abandoning LGBTQ people. Also he’s a neoliberal enabler of capitalist domination and control.

Gender critical types like to claim science supports them, but by "science" they mean "high school science" (and usually from a good twenty years ago.) 🧵 1/6 #TransRightsAreHumanRights #trans #gender #science

In conclusion: gender critical people are basing their arguments on deeply flawed understandings of science. But the ignorance involved runs so deep that even our leading politicians think it's "common sense". I don't know how we can combat this, other than continuing to defend truth. 6/6

This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people

Repressing is what led to my divorce. It may well have destroyed the possibility of friendship with my ex as well. Sometimes the “what-if”s hurt more than anything else.

me as a child: "i have no idea what transgender means" me making my first hrt appointment: "i know exactly what transgender means" me after enduring four years worth of online trans discourse: "i have no idea what transgender means"

yes hi hello it’s this easy thanks

For anyone not paying attention, this is continued denial of due process. Without due process for everyone, all other assumed “rights”, of citizens and visitors alike, are null and void. bsky.app/profile/jdst...

Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.

Repealing Section 230 would chill free speech by allowing platforms, not users, to be held responsible for what its users say. Platforms will become much more censorious over what its users can post. This is extremely bad They're trying to rush it. Call your reps, don't let them

This is because this regime’s concept of “the economy” is corporate profits, not the wellbeing of residents. Unfortunately current corporate profits are being driven by price gouging and underpaid labor.

This is going to be a litmus test for our elected representatives. Pay attention to who is willing to throw us under the bus. Make sure they don’t have a political future. Even if this bill fails (as it is likely to do), it is important to watch the debate and see who’s going to be dangerous.

I really wish more people would listen to this sentiment and understand. Trans people did not get the childhood and “socialization” of their AGAB. We got trauma instead. It was never a privilege.

transphobia must be eradicated from public life entirely

There are too many people willing to pull that lever. Conservatives actively trying to eliminate trans people from society, centrists thinking that agreeing with them to get more power, and everyone else who just doesn’t care. We need more people willing to keep that lever from being pulled.

So much for retiring because the rhetoric had gotten too hostile and we all needed to be kinder to marginalized communities. This is exactly what I had expected.

I need #Democrats to understand THIS why I will NOT vote for California's Trump. he is vile, disgusting and not a good fit for America just like Trump.

I wasn't socialized to be male. I was forced to try to be male against every instinct I had in me. I was forced to try to fit in with boys though we all knew I didn't and I was bullied, beat up because I didn't. I hated it and grew to hate myself. Fuck off with your "male socialization".

The sooner we accept that this is Hitler Youth for 21st Century America, the better. This is how you indoctrinate people.

Makes us even.

I’ve been steeping in trans music lately, and felt like sharing some of my favorites. So, for those who care, (in no particular order) here’s a 🧵:

The do this, and yet they want us to call it the Gulf of America. Pick a lane. You cannot have it both ways.

For those that keep up with the annual music app metrics and my posts here, this should be unsurprising. Top Artist: Sherry CD-ROM (2,462 minutes) Top Song: Kaiju (250 plays) Thank you @sherrycdrom.bsky.social and @progesteronipizza.bsky.social for creating some excellent experiences this year.

The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

This is the sort of thing one does when one is planning to enact or incite sexual violence.

According to this Supreme Court: ❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot ✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps ✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones The only consistency is white supremacy.

The problem here is that the usual answer was basically “we don’t care, it’s just a vocal minority”, but the ones who “don’t care” are still willing to vote against our human rights. Which amounts to saying, “I don’t hate you, I just don’t care if you live or die.” They’re still ok with killing us.

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Emphatically this. Materially and directly harming a group of people and expecting them to be cool with it is madness at best and white supremacy at worst. Being an ally means getting hit with the same blows we do *and standing strong*. Running means you were never an ally, just an opportunist.

This! This is the point. This is the continuation of the movement expressed by Michael Knowles at CPAC 2023. This isn’t new, this isn’t some one-off outlier. This is intent. This is a pattern and a product of hatred. This is our future if cis people don’t get off of their asses and stand up.

CW: Heavy, suicide I am heartbroken at how many folks in trans communities contemplate or attempt to take their own life in face of despair, lack of support or outright hostility. I wish I knew how to make it better for each one and for us all. Please reach out if you need to, hey? You matter.

If you see all the Gemini commercials showing examples of how it "helps" with work, it is people going "oh shit I forgot about this presentation/report, Gemini! Make it for me real quick!" And that undoubtedly error fueled mess would get an employee fired but an executive can just shrug it off fine

Tilly's saying something really important here, so: I'm one of the gals for whom the xmas season is really hard. Right now, to be totally honest, I've been caught up by the seasonal malaise. You're not broken or wrong for hurting this time of year, or for not liking it. I'm right there with you.

Are you fucking kidding me?! Indigenous badass Elaine Miles?! Fuck these people indeed.

I really admire Samus Aran, because sometimes I too deal with challenges by curling up into a ball.

Once again the current regime is showing with actions that they idolize Reagan. But even Reagan, by the end of his tenure (and the death of Rock Hudson), had changed his tune. This is 1985 levels of ignorance and malice. The world knows better, Trump doesn’t.

this is what it's like, yeah.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune Feeling like we could really use a Butlerian Jihad right about now.