Reading excerpts from yet another book discussing how transition positions "biomedical intervention as necessary" and makes trans people "cathect hope on a for-profit medical industry" and I am done. I am fucking done. This is fucking out of touch with reality and yet rife in trans scholarship.

This is great, because I've been meaning to discuss the various fallacies and pitfalls that come with lumping together these things cis people do with trans healthcare and calling it all "gender-affirming". Starting with the idea that "it's okay when cis people do it but not trans people".

If humanity ends because of a reduction in rape and an increase in women's autonomy then let it fucking choke in the dirt for all I care.

stores make your jacket sleeves longer pls thank u bye

One of the greatest headlines ever made

basically, when you ask a leading, transphobic question, you get horrendous results, but when you simply ask "which party do you think is better on transgender issues?" voters go "oh, the Democrats, the Republicans are fucking weird"

não, bsky brasil, vocês não precisam aplaudir um nazista por ter chamado outro nazista de nazista. noticia velha ainda. vsf

why do trans mascs obsess over rates of sexual victimization as a political gotcha? i have some thoughts thetransdandy.substack.com/p/suffer-the...

chappell roan is afab trans woman (socially ostracised). sabrina carpenter is afab trans woman (agp pervert).

I don't think it's useful to point out hypocrisy when the hypocritical person is mostly correct

Feliz dia do auautismo para os cachorros auautistas

The sort of women into tradwifery are into it because they believe womanhood to be a competition for the favor of the most powerful man they can attract, who may hate and revile and even abuse them but will provide for and shelter them from the abuses of the wider world.

"Actually, the AMA is wrong about their own stance, fuck you"

This coming Trans Day of Visibility, consider reading work by trans women! I'm hosting the bundle but not contributing, so 100% of the proceeds go to them. Get hit sci-fi horror Kimmy by @badambulist.bsky.social, award winner Rotten Girl from @jemma.bsky.social, and more! itch.io/b/3594/tdov-...

The AP's story on the IOC's new policy mentions that it "also restricts" athletes like two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya. That word "also" is doing a lot of work. New piece on who this policy is actually about: www.readtpa.com/p/the-iocs-n...

Interesting how the Trump administration has the same sense of humour as the average Bsky Democrat generating AI images of Trump in drag, or kissing Elon. I wonder if this fixation on manhood as power, and this bipartisan discrediting of the powerful through effeminization, says anything...

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

This one hits hard bc it's a shitpost but it's also a low-key brutal critique of utilitarian philosophy. Kant could never

Volfem. It's like forcefem but you, like, choose to be feminized. Hahaha

Yknow just say you think its okay for cis people to play trans and stand by it dont go and try and find nuanced scenarios where its okay kinda gives the game away that you are actually bargaining with cis supremacy rather than actually have a real principled stance

Não precisa me dizer que a chappell mandou um segurança assediar a esposa de um jogador do flamengo. Eu já gosto dela.

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more. I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’ This is your history.

The emotional awareness of 3ish years HRT + ADHD meds is, uh, interesting. I'm definitely fine

It's a pyramid scheme where men allow themselves to be exploited and submit to the authority of more powerful men in exchange for getting to exploit those who aren't men. The modern male grievance movement makes the most sense when you see them as outraged over this implicit contract being broken.

i love that mitski song where she keeps saying that "the steaks are gay". so true!!

I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant. It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated.

Quite literally just saw an argument that the military represents an opportunity for the marginalised to climb out of poverty as if the choice to secure your future by serving the empire that oppresses you and yours, at the expense of the colonised, is in any way morally exculpatory.

It drives me mad that third world women are such a fucking prop to Westerners. Your bloodthirsty warmongers paid lip service to 'liberation' once or twice and now every sin of the imperialist regime is laid at the feet of "feminists" as though feminists direct the US army. Have some shame.

this gonzo text fits right into the trump 2024 campaign. tikttok-left americopessimism is broadly compatible with the doomer talking points of both the trump movement and elite liberals. it's an unfalsifiable Weimar-esque narrative that has absorbed the US's political spectrum

...if *your rights* were on the chopping block, how would you feel if ppl who *wouldn't be affected* by said proposals came into your mentions framing them as "pet issues" or "favorite unicorns"? when a political party rolls back *your rights*, they're telling you that YOU'RE NOT IN THEIR COALITION

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

The big difference between the US and Brazilian/Korean case isn't that voters care less about democracy. It's that American elites basically did not care about it after two weeks

Interesting cycle where the signifiers of non-normative gender are vilified by patriarchal society, and so people push for "reclamation" but in this selective way where those signifiers become a symbol, a literal fetish for progressive politics rather than understood as an actual experience.

One of the really consistent themes of postmodern fascism is an arrangement of very old recognisable forms of fascist movement connected through a bunch of people making economic and political moves that don't make sense or look foolish because the incentive structure of the fascist isn't the usual.

every day there’s a new cis person to learn about

the non-anglosphere parts of the West use almost entirely test-based admin criteria, but that idea is a non-starter in the US, where colleges effectively decide on vibes, which is obviously fairer

It sucks that of Democrats who have moved right on trans issues, at least two are clearly positioning themselves for the presidential primary. There are a few others from conservative states who moved right as well. But the mass abandonment didn't happen! It just didn't.

"uk is the venezuela of europe" theory is doing very well today

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

ok

Must have been the phones.

imagine if, as a trans woman, I had to be able to see myself in a piece of media to get something out of it

I love trans people

Yeah, this is really it for me. This really sums up everything about the fascist death drive, the utter illiteracy of conservatives driven by nothing but aesthetic, and the unthinking masculinist bravado underlying it all. The male urge to fucking die in a frozen wasteland to own the libs.

Died 1924, reborn 1984. Welcome back Vladimir Lenin

Everything is about Race except for Race, which is about Gender.

Do the non-transfem "queer" autistics who with casually drop "it's easy for AMABs to get diagnosed as children" have a brain. Do they have neurons. A spinal cord. A pre-frontal cortex. Whichever part is responsible for basic empathy. Please let me know!!

Depois dos 3 primeiros, são todos ligados ao mesmo serviço da mesma empresa, no decurso de meses. No direito a gnt chama isso de dolo eventual