too many people in media are coming to this realization late

I received a PR invite to a forthcoming panel on "Fair Play: Fair Play: Transgender Athletes and the Future of Sports." After looking at the panelists, frustration from weeks of watching the trans community be villainized kicked in. I decided I would respond. www.92ny.org/event/fair-p...

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I was thrilled to help @thefrankiedlc.news with this and as always, my services are available if you're trying to leave substack. If you are queer and trans, I will help you do it free of charge. GTFO Substack! Also, a little about this experience in 🧵

Virgin Active call themselves an LGBTQ+ ally, but decided to ban trans people from using their changing rooms and bathrooms... so we created a new slogan for them 👀 We need to make make as much noise as possible and make Virgin Active feel the pressure. Will you join us? 👇 goodlaw.social/d922

“…when trans people come together to learn and talk about our history, it can become a basis for thinking beyond lobbying the state for rights.” Trans joy and trans-ness beyond the medical model are essential to trans survival in the currenr context.

I want to scream. Instead I'm going to get changed and go for a walk, but I haven't ruled out screaming later.

"Nigel Farage has refused to rule out a link between paracetamol and autism" is the lead item on LBC News. Why? Why? He's not a doctor, he's not an expert, he's not a Minister, he's not the PM, he's not the opposition. Why is his bullshit the most important item on the news? Why?

don’t make me tap the sign

A lot of this is what's being discussed by authors in my circle. Glad that, unlike so many other articles on the fandom to trad pub pipeline, it acknowledges that fandom is a deeply queer space but trad pub isn't interested in that part of it. at all.

also the way they talk about your kid being trans or autistic (or both) as some kind of profound loss whereas your kid's just there and, like, *fucking happy*

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

Excited to have done some nice delftware pots again

The Trans Agenda - Wes Streeting wants to be friends with trans people www.patreon.com/posts/wes-st...

I am a stuck and broken record but every time it's true: scratch a terf, sniff a racist.

Anyone who can’t see through the “free speech!” “Cancel culture!” Bullshit now - the whole project has been about amplifying bigotry & shutting up criticism, is utterly complicit - Gervais, Carr & all- the reason they have far right fans is not the quality of jokes but the quality of propaganda

we're in a national crisis because everyone hates conservatives so much nobody will date them and their families refuse to talk to them; but also we're in a national crisis because our institutions are liberals who don't realize how out of touch they are with the overwhelmingly conservative public

🚨 NEW STORY 🚨 In response to a ban on HRT for trans adults, Trans Income Project launched a 1st in the US initiative, and will pay for HRT for low income Medicaid enrolled trans Louisianans. I had the honor of interviewing the director of TIP! antigravitymagazine.com/feature/find...

"It is easy to say I love my transness, that I would choose it every time. It is harder to say I love my masculinity, because how can I love something that’s responsible for so much pain and hatred and violence?" www.genderbent.co.uk/loving-mascu...

"Meet the support group for gender-critical gay men: ‘We gather in secret’ "The Edinburgh chapter of Human Gay Male welcomes those who feel that pressure to accept trans men is a just a modern incarnation of old-school homophobia" [Times] archive.ph/VF3rK

Back in the day, Rush Limbaugh would read names of gay men who died of AIDS while playing circus music.

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.

UN commission finds what we all already knew but we keep being told not to say. Israel is committing genocide in Palestine. Who in Britain will answer for our complicity in this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Once again it’s not that conservatives deny the existence of racism, they merely deny the existence of racism against minorities.

GICs routinely purge years-long waiting lists to mask how badly they fail Trans+ patients Now, anti-trans political activists like Wes Streeting may possibly be poised to make it even easier to hide the suffering of Trans+ people simply trying to exist and thrive as they know themselves to be

Whooohoo theyre improving the quality of wait again whooo also offering “mental health support“ yass queen give us nothing sad about the wait times but not because you think we should be able to transition you craven weasel

I HAVE BEEN WAITING LITERALLY NINE YEARS SINCE ACTUAL REFERRAL ROFL screw you Wes. 8 years isn't the half of it. And it's not for new referrals. I can't even SPEAK to the GIC about it, and my GPs are powerless

Stop asking Labour to show some 'values'. They are showing their values clearly.

"It is easy to say I love my transness, that I would choose it every time. It is harder to say I love my masculinity, because how can I love something that’s responsible for so much pain and hatred and violence?" www.genderbent.co.uk/loving-mascu...

It's really impossible to explain how overwhelmingly terrifying it is being a trans person right now. They are looking for any and every excuse to come after us.

I imagine Keir Starmer and his pals will also point to today as a reason to adopt ever-more racist policies, but many more trans people and allies protesting is of course *not* a reason to stop the EHRC's transphobic guidance.

I feel it is my responsibility as your mainstream comic book friend to further explain that what dc is doing to Gretchen is unprecedented They haven’t only cancelled the series, they are refunding the comics that are already created and recalling the issue that is already sold.

This article is swiftly turning into the next "No Way to Prevent This..." in terms of how often it's relevant.

this case was devised in a lab to reveal the hypocrisy of both the “free speech on campus” and the “cancel culture” grifters simultaneously

Can cis people please have the decency to do the tiniest modicum of research before writing about trans people?

Lil Nas X faces felony charges of "battery" against an officer from an arrest during a mental health crisis in late August. I wrote about my family member's experience with police being sent during mental health episodes—still common for wellness checks—and how it ruined their life. @teenvogue.com

"Stepping into my masculinity and giving myself permission to exist in my gender is aligned with my queer, radical politics, not a betrayal of them. I wasn’t abandoning bisexual woman; I had been a faggot the whole time." New newsletter! www.genderbent.co.uk/loving-mascu...

It makes me mad that youtube buried our last episode of cancel me daddy because we dared talk about NSFW topics. it was in no way salacious and it was a frank and needed conversation about government policy. and yet it is the least viewed episode in months. youtu.be/lwRGW0Jb9TI?...

this is such an important secondary message 1. trans kids get to see their idol using her platform to celebrate and advocate for them 2. cis kids see their idol declaring that the presence of trans people makes your life better and cooler and more joyful and that that's a world worth fighting for

And that's the core of it.

news just in via field reporter carpenter: supporting trans people is hot af

A thoughtful, well-written piece that provides a perspective that I'd not previously seen. I highly recommend giving it a read.

This was a wonderful Monday morning listen, and has made me even MORE excited to watch the upcoming series (impressive, because I was already very excited). Disappointed the episode wasn't called 'bisexual meat-eater' though!

Ok the two types of misandry are the Carrie Underwood version of “this man cheated on me so I ruined his life,” & the Sabrina Carpenter version which feels like the things women say about men before they come out as a lesbian in 3-7 years.

an underdiscussed danger of polyamory is how quickly you get used to having threesomes

"Stepping into my masculinity and giving myself permission to exist in my gender is aligned with my queer, radical politics, not a betrayal of them. I wasn’t abandoning bisexual woman; I had been a faggot the whole time." New newsletter! www.genderbent.co.uk/loving-mascu...

I wrote this in a bit of a rage at 3.00am last week 🤗 Love to you all xx

Attacks on human rights laws impact everyone. The excuses always target minority groups and they’re always lies. Every single example I can think of follows this pattern… …and solidarity is the answer. Not racism. Not transphobia. Not ableism.