Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

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So half a percent of the population is insignificant and not representative in Episcopalian faith terms, but a huge and menacing threat in trans terms?

Self-care in its radical sense: not isolated individual activities, but sustaining community wellness to aid activism and prosper resistance, preservation of identity under attack. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare” (Lorde)

In the same way that people needing an abortion don’t have to have a ‘good reason’, then trans people don’t need an origin story of childhood trauma.

In the same way that people needing an abortion don’t have to have a ‘good reason’, then trans people don’t need an origin story of childhood trauma.

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When my trans teens came out, I thought if I just used the right words to explain it to family members (chromosomes, prenatal exposure to hormones, brain difference) that they would affirm them. But it’s never been my (or anyone else’s) place to make my sons’ transness palatable to cis het people.

In shocking news Keir Starmer not only has heard of the UN Convention on Child Rights, but recognises the UK government's legal responsibilities to abide by it. It confirms why the UK government refuse to recognise the existence of trans children. Trans children have rights under UNCRC.

We don't know who Trump will turn out to be but his sidekick is doing Nazi salutes and, my God, you have to be pretty sure of your privilege to be complacent.

Queer joy is intrinsically defiant. Celebrate your own blessed queerness.

’tis true that we are in great danger, The greater therefore should our courage be.

See all the ick right wing conservative American posts and comments like ‘Daddy is home, ready to discipline us’ (there are plenty). Seems they self justify (I’d go as far as to say glorify) both the use of force as necessary, and the abuse meted out.

To white evangelicals, the problem with mercy is not that it is Christlike (which it is), it is that it is ‘undeserved favour’. They see the minorities under their attack (trans people, immigrants, etc) as unworthy of mercy - and they see themselves as above questioning (especially by a woman).

As someone who was raised in an evangelical home (with a father who both beat, and abused, his wife and children) I cannot stress how much this disciplinarian adultist ‘while you’re under my roof’ worldview links both evangelical religious beliefs and right wing conservative traditional politics.

Really interesting and informative thread on the history of the American church. TIL that Episcopalians are Anglicans (and how/why that came about). I am fascinated with how specific strains of both politics and religious belief are bedmates in the US.

What is revealed, which is what the trans community have been saying all along, is that there is absolutely no legitimate basis from a medical standpoint for the puberty blocker ban. As Giordano said (paraphrasing) the ban is peculiar because it bans the use of PBs, not the drug. 3/

I was on local BBC Radio on Tuesday talking about That Executive Order. Hard to clip it to under 50 seconds for BlueSky but here’s a taster of the conversation.

‘The Holy Land’ acts in a similar way for evangelicals. It’s important to go ‘on pilgrimage’ there, and be moved and changed by the experience (but not in your morals, or reckoning with the geopolitical issues of the area). The ecstatic transformation is actually meaningless outside posturing.

I was on BBC Radio Solent earlier talking to Lucy Ambache about Trump’s ‘only 2 genders’ speech. That he issued an XO titled DeFeNdInG wOmEn FrOm GeNdEr IdEoLoGy ExTrEmIsM that discussed their ‘dignity, safety and wellbeing’ - when sexually abusive men grabbing 🐱 are who we need defending from 🤡

So I was waiting to see how many rakes they step on. The biggest one, IMO, is they specifically defined sex at conception. Therefore, admin has just declared every person female. The "default" blueprint is female. The differentiation kicks in at 6-8 weeks. At conception, that hasn't taken effect.

Yeah, I'm gonna need cis people to step up. We will lose if we fight this alone.

I am not a man. Evan Urquhart is not a woman. No matter what Trump's government said. So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in. So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so.

I’m reminded of the time I took one of my trans teens to the GP. We were told: • your gender is your biological gender • when it actually comes to your gender, what you were actually born with, I can’t change that because unfortunately it’s a fact 1/4

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

It would not have been legal to publish the Cass Review in the United States. It fails basic scientific procedures because it is not peer-reviewed. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Been thinking about this specifically, and among all the dress/penis jokes on the show, this one hits different. A-man-duh is a sly wink to the notion that trans women are just men playing dress up, and that they are trying to play a trick by hiding in plain sight. It really is toxic transmisogyny.

“The UK won't give up on Cass for a generation.” But the UK won’t give up on a generation of trans young people. They exist, they belong, they have a future and a right to grow old.

Accepting Christ is the internal personal event that cannot be questioned; other people’s internal personal gender identity is up for scrutiny, mockery, and abuse.

Parents have responsibilities, not rights over their children. Parents are responsible for the care (physical, emotional, social, mental) of their children. Children have rights to be looked after, nurtured, and kept safe from harm.

It’s okay if you feel sad, unmoored, disconcerted, furious, all of it at once. The point of interacting with art is the feeling, and inevitably that’s projected on creators. But please give more than a passing thought to survivors as you unpack and introspect.

I’m sure there’s a gap in the market for a ripoff British version - overpriced awkward queuing feels very on brand (2025’s Willy’s Chocolate Experience?)

1 Making it harder for kids and young people to see trans people on social media (by banning TikTok) won’t stop kids from being trans, or from coming out. It might stop them from feeling seen, understood and safe, and prevent them from having the words to know themselves.

Non-winery people also exist!

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Exclusion is not only banishment. Exclusion is being denied ministries and relationships, being shamed or shunned, conversion therapy (legal in UK), it is “in love” suggestions, “lifestyle” or sin/sinner comments - even being ‘accepted’ but not affirmed. Queer people are sacred and beloved!

"2025 Resolution: Fight Fascism" Banner seen in Brooklyn, NY

Nothing will make conservatives more angry than seeing trans people thrive. You are so incredibly valid, you threaten those with power. Your joy is subversive. Your life has more meaning than they could ever imagine.

"We MUST refer to Air Force One as Con Air for the next 4 yrs🫡" (via @plantyplantsplus on Threads) Let's make sure this happens.

If it was actually feminism, the most misogynistic men wouldn't agree with you. But they do.

Evangelicalism (certainly in UK) is conservative, patriarchal & anti-trans. To uphold the complementarian (equal but different) hierarchy, everyone must align with gender at birth. If people can transition to different genders it threatens the hierarchy. Then what would ‘Daddy Dearest’ (God) say?

To state the obvious, the vast majority of Americans and human beings in general don't care. They live and let live. The issue is just a way of stoking fear, fostering division, and getting votes.

Also, even if this were the case: women are not required to not reject men to prevent them from ‘becoming’ misogynistic.

Kemi Badenoch has brain worms. She's claiming we are living in Jemermy Corbyn's dream and that the trade unions are now running Britain. We know none of this is true because things wouldn't be anywhere near this shit if that was the case.

What’s a lyric that defined you for a portion of your life? I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor Illusion never changed into something real I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn You're a little late, I'm already torn

"First, they came for the queers, but nobody knows that because we're not in the fucking poem" stuck with me and is rattling around my head this week a lot louder than normal.

IN for 2025 ✌🏻💕💫

I do hope they limbered up before taking that huge leap from “arrests” to “commit sex crimes” of the headline