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Even if you think it’s funny that in death Kirk is so thoroughly reaping what he sowed — and I do! — the fact that you could notice the dissonance in the first place is indicative of that underlying empathy. Republicans quite likely do not emotionally perceive anything wrong with their actions

If you have looked at anything about Kirk’s funerary rites and gone “Christ, he was a Nazi but that’s a bit inhuman even applied to him” then you have more compassion and empathy than any single one of his followers, down to the rank and file

Kirk was only relevant to them as long as he was alive. Chances are we will remember him for longer and more respectfully than his supporters, and we fucking hate his ass

And like... we know this. Forced haircuts as a child when wanting long hair are a classic transfem trauma, where pressure to keep it short overrides long-term work to grow it out in MINUTES.

And yet, HRT is treated as this ridiculously impactful thing, because the long-term effects of continuing to choose it for months, then years, are significant. It's a choice of priorities that should be easy to ascribe a motive to.

here's a blistering hot take: as much as we joke about "detransitioning from a haircut," cutting your hair short is a significantly more irreversible (in the short term) process than taking hormones for a month. You're not getting the hair back without time, but stopping a short HRT regimen? Easy.

Transphobes were gathering signatures for an anti-trans petition at my local Walmart. Multiple people complained to management, who acknowledged many complaints, but refused to remove them. Folks set up a pro-trans table outside to counter the bigots and Walmart made only them leave.

another trans woman who needs help

"Is this good trans rep?" isn't a very productive question when every book has trans characters by default. It's just trans - the real question you want to ask is "Is this a good book? Does it succeed as literature? What are its politics? What were the material conditions of its creation?"

Perhaps more to the point: Unlike trans characters, which are fictional and do not exist, trans authors are very much real people who need to pay their bills and eat three times a day. I'd much rather talk about author representation, especially since it demonstrably leads to character rep.

me: “makes a joke about being jewish to atheists getting a bit weird with it.” them: “all religion. ifs a fairy tale.” me: “just be normal about marginalized faiths.” them: “one of the BIG THREE isn’t marginalized! LMAO.” i fucking hate people

The Western mind cannot conceive of a middle ground between "perfect society" and "deserves to be bombed to rubble".

This is massive! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlib... 145 Nations voted to hear from the State of Palestine remotely, as the host country (USA) denied visas and entry to the Palestinian Delegation to be present at the UN Assembly.

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Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

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.

Tris works very hard and is a great writer! Let’s makes her debut a big smash!

there's also the thing where people use religion as a synecdoche for evangelical and dominionist Christianity but aren't really explicit about that for my own part I'll stick to my polytheism

maybe you would not go to a Trans Folx 4 Harris zoom if they put out the flyer on the left instead of the flyer on the right! is that a good reason to mislead you about what she thinks of you? obviously, i do not think that it is! i think that is the exact opposite of what we need, actually!

if you aren't willing to get shot before your neighbors maybe don't step up to represent your neighbors, dogs. idk what to tell you. caring more about your neighbors than yourself is supposed to be why you ran for office.

This is my chief worry

liberals are finding new ways to be abnormal about transness and i'm so flummoxed

what the fuck

Also, women's rights are trans rights. As logos go, the Venn diagram on this one is a lot closer to the London Underground than MasterCard

"THE TRANS ARE EXCLUDING US FROM OUR OWN SPACES" yeah loser and i'm gonna keep doing it cry more

I'm so tired of the pretense that gender-critical gay people are "the silent majority" instead of fucking weirdos who weren't doing any better in putatively cis-only spaces and who just latched onto a fucking excuse to blame their own off-putting non-appealing personalities on I'm so fucking sorry

my cisgender wife isn't letting me walk to the 24/7 conveniece store for spicy ramin chat is this a transmisogynistic hate crime

"I LIVED BITCH"

like yeah i do this for a living but this is not exactly complex analysis, is it? am i nuts? i don't think so! i am pretty sure this is exactly as obvious as it looks on policy side and that any disagreement over meaning is either coming from somewhere unrelated to trans policy or just disingenuous

getting multiple mad dem stans. here's my official position for y'all - dems are just as bad as republicans, they just take longer to do the same things and do it with a nice enough face so upper middle class gentry fucks can feel okay about ignoring societal ills + dislike every politician

My own favourites: — a list blocking me for being an annoying American (I'm Australian) — "Anti-[person] Fan Club," maintained by [person] — a list of "those who abuse others with false paedophilia slurs," maintained by the Prostasia guy — "Bæddels and other queer intersexists" (I'm intersex)

MASS EFFECT was right about journalists with "reasonable concerns" and the surname Jilani

As a big butch dyke, if someone refers to me as a "dude" they are getting a drink thrown in their face at a minimum. I have self-respect and do not have the same internalized misogyny that so many of my fellow butches have built their identities around.

The thing that really sucks about the AI bubble is that when it collapses they'll shut down perfectly useable datacenters that could be used to run real algorithms instead of Glorified High Dimensional Curve Fitting

I'm gonna say it

I don't remember the article, I just remember being a young queer person during the bugchaser moral panic and yes it's the exact same thing.

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

Allowing platforms to ban content is how the wheel of fascism keeps turning. Appeals to puritanism and shame and "protecting women/children" are the brainworms they feed you to keep you reactionary and not literate. Remember: Porn today, war footage tomorrow.

the notion that trans women have an advantage in sports is entirely made up and has no basis in science. it's based on the notion that trans women are cross-dressing cis men what little peer reviewed science that has been done shows that, if anything, trans women have a disadvantage over cis women

one explanation is that while working for the lgbtq orgs i developed mystical entrail-reading skills unrivaled in the universe. another is that they know all the same shit i do but obstruct community education and organizing because their priorities are whack and their incentives are turbofucked

It's amazing how doctors can just "choose" not to believe in the unanimous evidentiary consensus based on, you know, vibes

here comes the cereal airplane buzzing towards your face again to feed you another spoonful of Oops! Always Right

(ron howard voice) "in fact, all of harris's staff had already done their own books and podcast circuits and hit pieces about how absolutely certain they all were and how much deliberation went into deciding specifically NOT to respond to trump's attacks"

Reading Trans/Rad/Fem by @taliabhatt.itch.io aloud with my momma, and she remarked that she is really able to understand what she’s getting at, despite her not being super well versed in feminist theory. A testament to how good a communicator Talia is!

Wife swap but instead it's two trans girls swapping their unsupportive mom for the other's supportive mom

my sister informed me that during pride apparently my mother, who is estranged from both of us, was giving out free mom hugs. there is so much psychology going on here oh my godddddddddd