Yep. The mystery of love and longing always has this chosen/unchosen, the heart wants what it wants quality to me, whether it's directed towards the divine or the human. We should have been saying this all along, but we can always start now. Sacred, protected choices.

a) "It's not a sin to have gay thoughts but it is a sin to act on it" is a form of conversion therapy rhetoric that accepts queerness as something inborn that can't be helped b) Religious beliefs aren't inborn. There's still legislation to protect people against religious discrimination, Reverend.

I would choose my life again and again too. I'm far more suspicious of the cishet world that punishes anyone who doesn't live exactly as they are told to do.

Heterosexual society does not want queerness to be a choice for everyone. It is a coercive, violent, conformist regime that will target your ability to live outside of heterosexual strictures no matter what rationale you provide. That's not because of queers. It's because of patriarchy.

"Born this way" rhetoric isn't as effective as everyone thinks it is because if we can't be any other way then reactionaries would prefer us dead. Or at the very least, repressed and miserable and closeted, unable to live freely because it's been made impossible for us to do so.

I'm about as malleable in my sexuality as a tungsten rod, but who gives a fuck if it is chosen? I don't subscribe to the idea that queerness is something wrong or shameful (read: sinful) that no one would ever choose for themselves. I would choose this. In every life, in every universe.

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dear god. I, a cis woman, would have fallen foul of laws like these so many times in my life! Why are we LITERALLY policing how women and girls perform femininity? It's almost as though this isn't about trans folks at all, but about controlling women... if only someone could have predicted this...

I need to raise 350 by the 14th

Don't listen to those haters that tell you to hydrate Mr president. They want you to look weak and feminine.

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

Pay the Darling Darkling

Reposting because of the recent supreme court rulling.

Stuck at $69/$1000 for 69 hours! Not very sexy though when you consider I have been asking for help to get a PO box for weeks and my needs related to this move are weighing on me! 💕💸

Currently going mad viral on TikTok

I meant it and I am straight up sickos.jpg that it is working

Support, in many forms, is worthwhile and not something I would ever shove aside. But we are so far beyond the "love my trans homies" being enough stage for cis folks. You gotta do what you can, however you can. If that's just solidarity then that's okay, but if you can do more? Do more.

While everyone's "all the love to trans folks" posts are nice and it is good to see support We have been getting them for a decade now. If you want to support trans folks, hire us. Support GFMs and asks for mutual aid. Put yourself between trans folks in public if you see harassment.

comedy is legal again

Kavanaugh's decision on trans people in sports contains a footnote saying it applies only to trans women, by the way. So trans women can be legally segregated (and his reasoning isn't limited to sports), but he explicitly says it doesn't apply to trans men in any gendered spaces at all.

We invited Historian, YouTuber, and all around Doll @transgenderhistory.bsky.social into the Basement Lab and possibly a Time Machine and learn just HOW Queer the Ancient world really was and more importantly how it is indeed ALL WRESTLING. Grab yer neighbors Gladius* we are off to the Fights!

"You're just virtue signaling!" Yes. Yes we fucking are. And?

It's why I try to wear a protect trans lives button every day -- to help make it clear we're the normal ones and they're the weirdos trying to stop people from peeing or playing games with friends.

Picking the right door as a young Black person can be a matter of life or death. A lower-stakes example: I tell people who are nervous about canvassing their neighborhood to start with the people who have signs indicating similar values. Gestures matter if they help us find each other.

If I saw both, I'd personally feel safe! The love is love sign outweighs the American flag because it IS OUR FLAG; it's just that most houses that wave it these days are not safe people.

I rebuke the idea that they’re the “silent majority.” And I want them to know it too. They do not have consensus, they do not have a mandate, and I want them uncomfortable.

We have a Black Lives Matter one and a banner saying Abolish ICE, as well as a plethora of bumper stickers on our car. And sure, they’re not going to accomplish much on their own, but they did mean some kids could knock on our door at 10 PM and feel safe

Two things— credit where it’s due, first. It was my wife @tekla.bsky.social who answered the door and who wound up driving the kids home. Second— the other reason we put up signs and bumper stickers is because without them, other white people are free to assume all of us secretly agree with them

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

This is a reminder that some schools have already begun closing girls’ athletics teams because the requirement to verify gender was too onerous. Even just a form signed by a parent confirming their child’s gender identity is a barrier beyond what boys are required to do to play sports.

I think the greatest mistake in passing the KOSA bill, is politicians who think they are immune from scrutiny. Just tell your senator about the freedom of information act, meaning ALL members of this country can look up a politician's online activity. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

if we want to fight the anti-trans and anti-abortion movement we have to think about something scary. we talk about abortion and trans rights being linked at the bodily autonomy layer, but we don't often discuss why our opposition actually thinks the same. 🧵

by the way, cis women, we will fight just as hard for your autonomy as we do for ours, because they're fundamentally the same. you want us in the tent.

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The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

We’re currently fighting an initiative in Washington State that has genital exams as part of the enforcement mechanism. www.kuow.org/stories/tran...

No future without trans people. No future without immigrants. No future without strangers who become loved ones.

3) when the better athletes are inevitably pushed out, it will be used as an excuse to cut funding to all women's and girls sports. Itll be- The athletes aren't performing the way they used to, so why should we fund this?

between SFPD storming the trans march on friday and bringing out a whole riot team to violently assault trans people out clubbing on saturday (ZERO articles about this), the brutality during pride weekend is unconscionable. please support everyone who was arrested. if you wanna be an ally, chip in:

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Same here.

“Fundamental science, the argument goes, is a luxury that becomes dispensable when budgets are tight. This premise is wrong, and the consequences of acting on it are already visible.” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.

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Normande.

What we know about the sex trafficking that Andrew Tate is involved in is every bit as horrific and evil as the abuse that Jeffrey Epstein committed, and Tate is actually still alive, and yet there are a lot more conspiracy theories about the "Epstein class."

I’m a trans teacher fleeing Florida with my wife. I’m literally on the road north as I type this. It feels even more urgent today.