one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

Keep that shit away from Indigenous people too. Thx.

LBR, the UK state wants conversion practices mandatory, not just legal

There's no getting around the fact that the UK state wants to keep conversion practices for trans people legal.

I agree. Any serious attempt to ban conversion practices in the UK would have to confront the fact that it is now NHS policy for trans youth thanks to this government.

The christofascists over in the US will say some shit like "real god-fearing christians hate functioning infrastructure" and then the pope will go "actually with infrastructure you can go get catholic guilt in church more easily" and a bunch of people will go "wow. the pope is so good" like no.

Can y'all keep your fucking Pope knobslobbing where decent trannies can't see it

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

There's always a flood of these articles/posts after each revelation of men's systemic sexual violence. A rape academy was revealed so now we have to be subjected to a bunch of inane "but actually women" reactions, a further indignity in our rape culture that centers the comforts of men.

Privilege has been re-defined into a concept similar to original sin and the Calvinistic idea of antithesis, with solidarity being effectively deemed impossible because the nature of the privileged are too different from the marginalized to comprehend them at a fundamental level.

About 15% of all U.S. hospitals are Catholic and their current policy is to provide zero trans healthcare including to adults. There have also been multiple accounts of trans people being turned away entirely for unrelated issues because of who they are. So suck the Pope off harder please

As a trans person who comes from a high income bracket family, that bludgeon has always existed and it’s about damn time for that framework to be exploded. Anyway, great essay.

I have just read that last sentence for the first time and I think I’m going to spend the rest of the day screaming into a toilet bowl

What are we even doing here, like Fuckin hell Same energy as when USians say that protesting is a privilege that the French lord over their poor Yankee asses

This is the third op-ed I've seen this week, where some fuckwit pearl-clutches about how women are worse than the manosphere. Where was all this animosity and outrage at the increasing radicalisation of men? At the discovery of massive social networks where they encourage each other to rape?

Isaac's deconstruction of the 'privilege' framework here is desperately vital because it's no longer used as a tool to name and identify vectors of oppression, but rather a competitive bludgeon through which we assert why others don't have it as bad as we do. It has become anti-solidarity.

wow she looks happy! luckily rcbg is a story where things go well for cute women who cook for their partners.

/r/asktransgender continues to be "what if the RCBG accord server members were real?"

Reiteration of the standard right wing fantasy, all of them jerking off to turning a blue-haired socialist barista into a tradwife

killing myself on leftie island

i do not believe she knows a 'millennial socialist'.

Rowan Pelling's prescription for happiness: Parenthood is blessed and lefty women just need to get laid by a burly marine. Real Maga Hat Romance stuff.

probably one of the most disgusting things ive read in a while. heteronormativity is such a disease. a dangerous one

The telegraph going full breeder cult again with some more nonsense

She gets remarkably close to just saying that women need the feminism fucked out of them because she's an insane natalist patriarchal ghoul.

I wonder if some leftists and liberals will pay attention to this. I've seen folks overly praise Rightwing organizing as if it is not subject to the same social forces and interpersonal dynamics as Left organizing. In fact it is: we often just don't have the same visibility into their groups.

And that's a wrap! Out early on Patreon, Talia and Emma look back on the first season of Cracked Ivory, discuss what's in store for the next season, and answer listener questions and feedback! www.patreon.com/posts/season...

Dignified segregation 😌 famously all trans people want is their own segregation

Oh no, young women are responding to reactionary male grievance politics and global fascism by making their feminism about more than just aesthetics. Whatever will we dooooooooooooooooo

Today marks a year since the Supreme Court decision. We now know a revised version of the draft statutory guidance is due in May. We need to act fast to make sure it explains how trans people can still be included. Write to your MP to tell them what they need to do, using our quick and easy tool 👇

if an emergency room doctor finds out you're trans it's about a 50/50 shot they're going to blame your hormones for the problem without investigating the issue further.

ken bone-ass doordash grandma has better trans politics than half the democratic party

Everyone knows the economy is doing great. I dont know why homelessness is up and a record number of people are working 2 jobs, but that has nothing to do with the economy. The economy is a chart with a line going up, not that other shit. Grow up

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Cw sexual assault There are so many haunting parts of this study but the part that's carved into my brain is that the most common reason for targeting a woman was that the man thought she was hot and he was horny and most of them never experienced any concequences Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

As soon as you don't conform: your mental health, your gender, your race, your disability, your class, your age, your queerness, your partners, you find the medical profession has a lot of power and control of your body.

Yep. Bodily autonomy for all. I was coerced to have an IUD inserted into my uterus (despite being a sexual abuse survivor) because a psych felt I was too promiscuous to be trusted with BCP and my (teratogenic) bipolar meds. In the last decade. Docs and lawmakers hold a lot of power over our bodies.

And they were roommates!

jfc it's like a super-rushed Cass Report that reads like “an anti-trans fever dream”

yeah what does bodily autonomy have to do with abortion

The Third World is not real to Westerners

Beth and I were discussing this and we accidentally gave ourselves psychic damage working out the details. This happens a lot.

Estro Junkies: like rcbg but everyone is worse

Excellent to see a sober assessment of how the decoupling of the fronts in MENA is actually counterproductive to peacemaking. It was a mistake in 2024 and would be even worse today. Also appreciate the mention of European leverage not yet used and the endorsement of The Block The Bombs Act.

"Estro Junkies" is (partly) a heartwarming story of a small-town queer boy* hopelessly falling in love with a desi man* in an arranged marriage. ... It starts off rough. *CONDITIONS APPLY. Author is not responsible for any shifts in identity and experience due to queer self-discovery.

Using rough calculations, LGBTQ+ people of voting age make up a proportion of the population 8-10x larger than that by which Harris lost in 2024 in the popular vote— approximately 2.3 million. Trans people alone account for nearly half of that 2.3M margin. We’re worth the “risk.”

Imagine a study that found kids with ADHD have more visits to doctors than kids without ADHD — and used that finding to suggest ADHD treatment doesn't work. That's the standard of evidence the anti-trans braintrust is willing to accept.

Finished reading Imago last night. It was steamy in a nice way, and I definitely dig the inherent tragedy it digs at on the topic of needing to sometimes destroy information due to your government being unwilling to use it ethically in any way. Will add that it was nice to get some butch4butch yuri.