Whenever right wingers talk about "protecting" women or children it is *always* from a property rights perspective. The reason they say their anti trans crusade is about "protecting" women, is because they are protecting men's ability to legally define a type of property, thats it.

Sorry, I have this condition where if I hear you refer to women as "females" I actually cant not see a fedora on your head.

Ngl, I don't think I will ever understand the styles popularized by gen z. Its giving 1890s lesbian somehow?

One type of content that will forever be top tier, is people responding to invasive questions with invasive answers

Amazing that the country is being run by crypto bros right at the time a lot of our infrastructure is reaching its shelf life

being a woman online is so much fun because half your replies look like this

Kids these days will never understand the joy of actually being able to just buy a video game and fully own the ability to play every single part of it

"AI schoolteachers" should be pretty immediately disregarded as equivalent to simply replacing teachers with tiktok and Ipads.

The AP's story on the IOC's new policy mentions that it "also restricts" athletes like two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya. That word "also" is doing a lot of work. New piece on who this policy is actually about: www.readtpa.com/p/the-iocs-n...

Actual scientists: if anything trans women are at a disadvantage in sports Sports leagues: a penis is a high powered performance enhancing instrument beyond any other form of biological variance

I get that the Olympics committee is doing this unhinged gender testing thing but why are they re-announcing it like every 6 weeks? Feels like a dead horse we're getting beat with

Intentionally ignoring spelling and grammar so everyone knows im not AI

I think the most annoying thing about research about trans people is that for the past 100+ years its always been something "new" mainly because so much of the earlier work is blatantly offensive and unscientific. But then again, a lot of the "new" stuff also is, so every decade its all "new" again

If you woulda told me 10 years ago that Iran was gonna launch an AI Lego diss track music video about Trump tbh I would have been very confused. "Also its a bop" What even is real life anymore lmao

In my own delusion I will simply make up a Pokémon fan theory to make the ending of Pokopia slightly less sad 1. Jesse's mom is still the leader of a secret faction of team rocket (she's still alive) 2. Jesse's and James aren't wrong about team rockets motto, thats the one Jesse's mom taught her...

Just saw a tiktok explaining the plot of Pokopia and I was not ready

Me: hmm I really wanna play magic, maybe I'll open Arena Arena: yeah so I know we *say* this is magic, but actually its just watching a robot play a deck perfectly tailored against yours while you draw nothing. Me: But what if I change my deck? A: We'll just change the decks you're against

tragic that men who never take estrogen will never find out their genetically encoded cup size

With what we know now, 2015 in context looks sooooo much worse. Like "oh we know he's a pedophile, but we have to let him run for president so we dont hurt people's feelings" And that was under Obama.

"You can't change your sex" Maybe YOU can't, but that sounds like a skill issue to me.

What are the odds that they just say "fuck it" and finally get rid of TSA altogether

One of the deeper bits of conditioning on “common sense” that took me ages to unlearn was this assumption that sex is something so deeply innate and unmovable that any intervention is temporary or aesthetic. It’s political horseshit fabricated to control reproduction, alas. No science to it.

I need you to know that literally no one defined sex this way until people were trying to find ways to justify transphobia

Perfect example of how people are commonly ignorant to the science here. No very often you won't "revert back" without intervention. At a certain point to detransition you would need the support of HTT in the other direction. Maybe learn some science

A ban on HRT would by itself meet the UN definition of genocide if only the UN were to recognize trans people as a legitimate type of person. Its also worth noting that disabled people also are not afforded protected status under the genocide convention.

I honestly dont think people should need a reason to change their sex. Like of course inform people what the impact is, but also, if someone is like "i just think it'd be fun" then like... its their body, so like here's a heads up but okay.

Anyone’s sex can change based on the sex hormones they have Your body is more like a computer than can run either Linux or Windows. Even though it might’ve shipped as a Windows-intended PC, all you need to do is change the OS and now it’s a Linux PC Same deal with hormones

Climate activists: Use less gas, use air travel less, stop buying so many things trump: okay bet

I wish ppl had more science literacy because I feel like too many people accept at face value the idea that "oh but your chromosomes never change" it really underplays the way that they meaningfully do we ALL have BOTH male & female 'DNA'; hormones change the structure to manifest one or the other.

Nothing like sitting down to watch Bridgerton after a few years only to realize you forgot that its like 90% smut

"What is a woman" A woman is whatever she wants to be

hot take, I genuinely believe all trans women should get free manicures for life

Seeing tons of comments on tiktok celebrating a 12 year old getting 13 years in prison is so nauseating. People really need to understand that it is possible for consequences to exist that aren't being put into a torture factory for decades. Its sad how common cruelty is.

New quantum leap just dropped

If you think about it, this graph really suggests that Americans dont really know how to reason about morality outside of the lens of property rights tbh

Paul Atredies: "im just like hitler" "I will start a horrible war in my name" "I will bring destruction to the galaxy" Random viewers: "hmm, I can really relate to Paul, and rather than reflecting on why that might be, I will simply say the story is bad for making me relate to space hitler"

There's a big difference between using space adderal to fly better vs. Seeing 1000 years into the future

Frank Herbert was explicit that there was no magic in Dune The Benne gesserit were basically just really good mentalists The prophecy was literally planted by the bene gesserit specifically so that someone like Paul could easily fill that role It was all a scam & Paul got high on his own supply

"But its the only way" Ok how do you know this "Space Hitler said so" And how does he know that? "He can see the future" Im gonna hold your hand when I say this... no he cant

Frank Herbert: Paul Atredies is space Hitler, and Im gonna have it pointed out every stepnof the way how bad he is and he will even point this out explicitly, also the love of his life thinks this too. Tons of fans: omg Paul is such a relatable tragic hero

I think "cringe" in the modern sense is a psychological defense mechanism against anything that might be construed as culture in any meaningful way tbh. If there is one thing capitalism did efficiently its strip culture from its own substance

If you think about it, this graph really suggests that Americans dont really know how to reason about morality outside of the lens of property rights tbh

Wow like how is having an affair the most morally wrong thing the death penalty less immoral than just fucking someone??? Spanking children???? more think it's worse to be gay than the fucking death penalty and like the quoted tweet said, actual literal child abuse?? OR BEING EXTREMELY RICH

Its so truly unhinged that Americans collectively view simply being gay as less morally acceptable than literal child abuse.

Amazing

Its honestly amazing how ignorant allies and TRRFs somehow accidentally teamed up to move society backwards so far so fast It used to be penis=man ; vagina=woman; that had its problems, but its better than "sex and gender are different but sex is immutable" Definitions changing, changes the law.

I honestly think that trans people, intersex people, and allies, should collectively police the norm that cis people are not allowed to abbreviate "Assigned sex/gender at birth". They use the abbreviation wrong, as an identity label, rather than an action that happened *to* someone. Its offensive.

Yes omg, I have to stress this all the time. I am strongly of the opinion that cis people should not be allowed to use the abbreviated term tbh, because they dont know how to use it properly. It is a *past tense* *verb* it was an action that was done to someone. Not a definition of who someone is.

Nothing is more deeply annoying to me than when someone takes either research or an observation that is gendered but instead of using "man" or "woman" they use "amab" or "afab" Yall know you can usually assume trans people have roughly the same experiences as cis people of their gender right?