They hate us more than they love being alive. This is why they will lose.

This is going around on X, a new study by SEGM member Riittakerttu Kaltiala (the abusive head of a clinic in Finland) is getting picked up as proof that gender-affirming care doesn't work. The data actually shows something very different from what the authors claim. It's purposefully distorted. 🧵

“It’s easier to get something published in JAMA if it supports gender-affirming care…” Here, let me fix that: “it’s easier to get published when your work affirms/promotes a person’s health rather than destroying it.”

At the New York Times, It's just this, all day long.

Under Kansas law, he must use the women's bathroom or be subjected to criminal charges in government owned buildings or $1000 vigilante lawsuits in public spaces. I think everyone can understand why this is absurd and causes more problems than it was ever intended to fix.

This is what being "more culturally normal" actually looks like.

It must be exhausting to be this unwell. :( Drive-thru: "Hi, welcome to Taco Bell, may I take your or—" Mace: "WHAT IS A WOMAN!?" Drive-thru: "W...what!? Do you w-want to try a crunchwrap?" Mace: "WHAT WOMAN!? WOMAN WHAT!?" Drive-thru: "Ma'am, are you having a medical emergency?" Mace: "WOMB-ARM!"

TERFS and Evangelical extremists have centered transphobia on the argument of the "true biological female." One thinks they're 'protecting women & girls' while yoking themselves to patriarchy & a 1950s cocktail dress. The other thinks they'll bring heathens to Jesus. Both just haaaaate trans people.

Gender Criticalism was always only a men’s rights movement in drag.

The ‘gender critical’ movement, just like anti-vaxxers and every other conspiracist community, thrives on generating smoke. “This report was suppressed!” “This agency released a statement!” “This doctor was fired for speaking out!” They drown you in this shit because they can’t win on the merits.

Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim* If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.

When the time to tally what has happened and who was harmed comes to pass, "I was just following orders" and "We were just following the science" will be held in equal regards.

So SEGM is discredited by Guyatt himself, the architect of GRADE, and now, "DIAG" pops up in the same area, fundraising from the same people, with the same tactic of legitimacy. Anti-trans orgs are like Superman and Clark Kent—they can never been in the same room together for a reason.

A Poem About Incrementalism. "It's About You, Really" (In the alt text of the image) From kintsugighost.substack.com/p/its-about-...

Exactly. It’s always the same pick mes, many of whom made our erasure their career. Especially since anti-trans detransitioners get so much more money from the far right, including those who “turn to Christ.“ They conveniently omit most detransitioners supporting us and identifying as queer.

A new post about medication management, the outrage economy, fear, why hate movements hold together seemingly disparate factions to do their work. kintsugighost.substack.com/p/the-body-p...

Tracing through Cass’s sole citation on this is very informative about the (lack of) quality of evidence that she relies on

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

I come back to is harm reduction. OK, hypothetically, there's another cure for GD. It's an invasive brain surgery. How's that any less invasive than reassignment surgery. Okay, there's another "cure." ECT therapy. How is that "humane" compared to surgery? Daily pill? How's that different from HRT?

The least invasive treatment for GD known starts with social transition and acceptance. No body modification and when it's proposed, the gencrits still pass bans and demonize it. Picture the sweaty-hero-2-buttons meme but it's Rowling hesitating over choices of "let them wear skirts" and "lobotomy."

this of course puts JKR and her fellow anti-trans crowd into the same category as the Creationists. They simultaneously want us to believe the evidence is on *their* side, and that *we're* the irrational ones. But if they had evidence, they wouldn't need to lie and make shit up.

The latest piece: The Conservative Outrage machine and Ulterior Motives.

Oh look at that, another well-funded, poorly-named anti-trans group conveniently pushes a proposal that supports what the feds are doing by classifying trans people as extremists, as they try to frame CK's assassin as trans, at the same time as Heritage puts out the TIVE nonsense. *COINCIDENCES*

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization. archive.ph/yA2Wh

- The roommate loved bagels, which are just TRANSGENDER DONUTS. - Elon demands that all Dunkin' and Einstein locations sell masculine bearclaws. - Fox & Friends films a segment discussing the evil of TRANS DONUT IDEOLOGY while a chef makes "Patriot Crepes" off camera. All possible now.

You can take my hormones from my cold dead hands you ketamine addled man child.

You've got at least 115 Democratic Party members in the House still pumping that "bipartisan solutions" bullshit when the people on the other side of the aisle are standing there with gas cans and zippo lighters, and the entire government on fire behind them.

Has anyone covered how the US right wing has been performing a psychological warfare campaign against trans and intersex people? That it's no coincidence when these people use the same words over and over, the same specific phrases, the same exact framing and the same exact vectors of attack?

Everyone asking how this could be consitutional and part of the answer is that SCOTUS in Skrmetti basically made discrimination against trans people legal so long as the pretext is based on diagnosis. So they'll target diagnosis and say it's not based on trans status or sex in court like Skrmetti.

Right now, anti-trans and anti-intersex bigotry is being promoted with a three-legged system of attack, with each leg feeding into the others: 1.) Accuse people with biological/identity differences of being "delusional" or use narratives to implicate degeneracy, cherry pick data proving claims.

Here at Mex Matters, we are not saying to ban all Mexican food. We're just saying that any other cuisine is bad and wrong and evil. When you hear about us spitting at people who eat tacos, and chastising those that empathize with the employees, just remember, we're a legally registered UK charity.

5.) bsky.app/profile/kate... In the same span of time where a federal bathroom ban is being applied via legal pressure on private businesses, the UK is implementing a defacto bathroom ban. 'A global conspiracy to silence and erase trans people, spanning the ocean' sounds ridiculous, but it's real.

The paradox of trauma visibility: If you're honest, you're too intense. If you're silent, you're still too weird. If you're open, they recoil. If you're closed off, they don't try.

While social gender authenticity and freedom in personal clothing choice are fundamental human rights and should not be classed as "treatments" or MH "services," Ohio HB96 could be interpreted to limit all mental health care to disaffirming providers who misgender their TGD patients.

I have no words for the dissonance I feel. On the same week as the NYT runs cover for the terrible Skrmetti decision by claiming trans people "reached too far" for rights. And now this regime is banning trans people from fertility treatments. Tell me it's not a genocide.

I have a huge request for my readers: Trump's tax and spending bill will be moving through the Senate. Senators can invoke the Byrd Rule to try to remove the anti-trans Medicaid ban and EHB changes. You can find and call your senator here and ask them to do that. Please share as well.

The thing I wish I could explain to more people is that the damage done to the federal government will take decades to undo. All of the experts fired and dismissed from agencies will move on, scientists will emigrate, people will disperse, institutional knowledge will be lost, yes.

“I wish ministers would stop staying it brings ‘clarity’, because it doesn’t,” one MP said. “It just opens up a huge legal can of worms. And then the EHRC just put rocket boosters under the uncertainty… …There appears to be limited confidence in the organisation and its chair from some MPs”

It's messy, it's furious, it's hand-scrawled on a forgotten prescription pad. It's also scripture for this moment. Trans and intersex medical care. "The Big Beautiful Bill." The Good Samaritan. Republican Jesus. open.substack.com/pub/kintsugi...

UK Supreme Court Definition of "Woman" Does Not Alter Irish Position. Ireland has a different legislative regime to the United Kingdom, both in the context of equality legislation and gender recognition legislation. “A "one size fits all" approach to DEI may give rise to legal risk”

Reposting this with some edits. I took out the phrasing that upset folks and added a note about the weight of certain words in scripture. Thanks to those who spoke. I hope this version keeps the point clear and the conversation open. kintsugighost.substack.com/p/please-all...

1. I reach a lot of readers from a big variety of political backgrounds... and one of the most common points of contention I see centers around transgender sports bans. In my latest story, I make the moderate case against such bans. Subscribe to support my journalism.

The Trump HHS approach to transgender youth is not "greater emphasis on psychtherapy." It is "ONLY psychotherapy," with the explicit goal of making trans youth no longer transgender. It IS conversion therapy. Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.

This sermon was recorded in exile. It contains one testimony in the face of rising darkness. It is not fiction. It is prophecy. May those with ears hear it. May those with power feel it. May those with faith know what silence costs. open.substack.com/pub/kintsugi...

I use apostate the way it feels in exile—not as a rejection of God, but as a reflection of how I’ve been treated by the Church. I didn’t renounce the faith. The faith tried to renounce me.

Sometimes people won’t hear you—not because you were unclear, but because your collar, your tradition, or your history says “harm” before your words can say “healing.” That’s part of preaching. And part of carrying the weight of the Church’s past while trying to shape its future.

Humiliating and cruel attacks on trans people is central to Trump's admin, and it's even worse for vulnerable trans people who are in prisons. "All people in custody have a constitutional right to basic health care, including trans people.” www.dallasobserver.com/news/north-t...