Let’s stop softening the language. The pregnant detainees in the Texas ICE camp are children. They are not “young women.” They are minors. If pregnancies occurred while they were detained, every ICE officer must be investigated for child sexual assault. These children must be freed.

Democrats: [Do not in fact do X to any significant degree.] Republicans: "Democrats are doing X. They must be stopped." Reactionary centrist pundits: "Why are democrats alienating Normal Americans by doing X?" Democratic strategists: "We lost because we did X. To win, we must stop doing X."

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

Just a reminder of that time Gene Roddenberry said that he wished he had had gay sex, believed everyone was on some level bisexual, wanted LGBT rep on Trek & hoped he was “not male or female”, aka nonbinary in modern parlance. Anyways, tell me how Roddenberry would consider a gay Klingon bad?

Seeing anti-AI discourse combine the seemingly incompatible assertions "there should be a duty to disclose!" and "we can always tell!" makes me uncomfortable, partly because of where I otherwise saw it. (Just realized it also fits the "enemy is at once too strong and too weak" ur-fascism pattern.)

I bet any counterfeit apks used by "law enforcement" for domestic surveillance will have invisible auto-approval status from their app store. Assuming this is the case, the worst malicious use is not prevented at all by this, it only lulls users into not suspecting it.

I need to underscore this. Those "concerned" people manufacturing anti-trans sentiment and policy *will* target other civil rights sooner or later. This is true whether they present as "enlightened centrists", alleged feminists, "evidence-based medicine" proponents, Christians, or literal Nazis.

For years now trans woman have warned that the "gender critical" (anti-women) are rolling back the rights of ALL WOMEN!! ALL WOMEN need to RESIST this!! www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/e...

I've taught on and off at BU for 10 years. I'm a BUSPH alum. As the first out trans woman faculty member at SSW, this is a punch in the face. Taking this down says my life and that of my students matters less to you than appeasing those who would shutter BU forever in an instant if they could.

Every day I feel this keenly. That said, I remember now noting the same thing back in the early 00s at least. My resolution back then was to be the bridging factor I wanted to see in the world, and I suppose I still am resolved to.

Just days ago, Witkoff told us on @cnbc.com that Putin said he WASN'T sharing intel and that we had to "take him at his word."

sounds like what karoline leavitt's brother did to his ex

Patriarchy is an essential component of fascism. Any person worried about (white, in-group) birth rates carries it.

The state of Tennessee is moving towards creating a full registry of trans people by requiring medical providers to report all of their personal health information to the state department of health.

Mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxqy...

Same.

1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom. It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states. It now moves to the Senate.

I didn't believe this so I looked it up and holy shit, it's true. There is a literal pathway to life imprisonment if a trans person uses the bathroom 4 times in Idaho, if this bill fully passes.

This is correct. The Idaho bathroom ban could technically result in a life sentence for trans people with prior felony convictions.

Trans people erased. Families banned. Discrimination made constitutional. This cannot stand. 👇👇

Buttigieg: "We lived through a war that was sold to us on false pretenses when I was younger. This war has not been sold on any pretense. The president just went ahead and did it."

I am genuinely considering writing a letter to the editor to a local newspaper to lay out my argument But I'm scared of the backlash from toxic Katty Bros That in itself is a red flag. My elected reps shouldn't create an environment where I'm afraid to speak my political opinion

This.

the ultimate example of this is, of course, the Debian Estrogen

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

a few random google searches later and I came across this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4e...

Thread: Way to call me out like that. :p Software, memeware and wetware all are areas where personal choice improves meaningful quality of life, my highest utility subregion of their state space is not that which marketing assumes holds for everyone, and that assumption vexes my systematization.

I know some disagree but someone like Stephen Fry changing his mind and doing a complete 180 after supporting She Who Must Not Be Named, is a good thing and is evidence that attitudes are changing.

It is so hard to be trans right now, y’all. Like, I can’t speak for everyone but I’m white-knuckling it pretty much constantly at this point. I hope cis people are understanding how much is at stake for us in this moment: It’s literally our right to exist as ourselves that is being stripped away.

"While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to push for better quality evidence & ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language & ritual as a costume"

Breaking NYT: The Trump admin just lifted sanctions on Russian oil currently at sea — allowing it to be shipped to buyers around the world as Trump scrambles to contain soaring energy prices because of his war with Iran. The admin claims the move is temporary.

Trump Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans Under a new rule, the State Dept will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally. transitics.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

He's outright admitting Ellison bought CNN to turn it into a propaganda outlet for the regime.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

This is bad. This is not something to take lightly. AND the FDA receives a lot of absolutely unhinged citizens petitions that often just go nowhere. However, there is a real point to be that this administration could be the one to use this mechanism to effectuate its transphobic goals.

... he seems to be about twelve years old? :o

"Land of the free." Removing elected officials for representing their electorates. How is this compatible with democracy?

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

This is huge! The European Court of Justice, the top EU court, has ruled that EU member states must provide a process to change gender markers on identity documents for trans people. sofiaglobe.com/2026/03/12/e...

Yes, the decision to do this thing now and in this way probably is an attempt to draw our attention away from something else. Yes, it is still worthy of some significant amount of our attention. No, these are not incompatible things. 4/4

Hawley has been one of the biggest boosters of a “study” from the Ethics and Public Policy Center—a group funded by far-right billionaire Leonard Leo—that claims to show mifepristone is dangerous.

The New York Times coverage of trans issues has repeatedly resulted in experts and others complaining that their words were twisted and misrepresented... but only those quoted from on trans supportive side have that complaint. Coincidence or eliminationism? @billiejsweeney.bsky.social dives in.

If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide

The first state in the US to remove statutory protections for an entire class, gender identity, has just enacted a bill preventing local municipalities from having their own protections for trans people. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

Supremely flawed, ideologically motivated study; a failure of peer review most likely if proposed co-ideologists were selected exclusively. Should be retracted unless "confounder" control is reported in full with alternate (part of same outcome) interpretations discussed extensively.

Please read this.

This 100 percent. It's why it's so hard to place trans stories in many outlets that never took the NYT/Atlantic hard right turn. They don't want to actively contribute to sacrificing us, but they quietly want to see us sacrificed bc they think it will keep them safe.

While there are a bunch of transphobic liberals I think a lot of them are less "we must exterminate the trannies" and more "if we allow/help the conservatives to exterminate these weirdos they will lose them as a weapon against us and we can get back to normal politics" and they're just as dangerous

there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*