Hey, look! It's John Lithgow!

Okay, here’s one for the Southern Californians on BlueSky. Trying to pin down the location of this slide. Taken sometime between 1947 or do, and 1960. Trying to figure out an approximate date and location. Any ideas?

Billy Porter says work is drying up for Black & queer artists in Trump's America www.advocate.com/new... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

It’s not an “underground trans mafia,” it’s the trans illuminati. Oh no. I’ve said too much!

Iran is winning the war

Just a reminder that they still intend to do this, dont let the backlash die down, keep cancelling your subscription.

It is a completely false narrative on behalf of a complicit narrative that Rahm Emanuel has any say about anything. Don't fall for it.

This probably isn't going to change people's minds, but sometimes it is easier to evoke sympathy for dogs than it is to evoke sympathy for trans folks. Giving money to J.K.Rowling is the same as giving money to eradicate transgender people.

no one: no one, anywhere: not a single soul: the opposition party™: "well, he's not doing nazi salutes and not looking like a nazi the way trumpers do. sure they might not have nazi tattoos but he's got a D next to his name; stop with the purity tests! you gotta compromise to win, you know"

The anti-trans side has spent years building up propaganda claiming this doesn't happen and I need you all to know they are lying.

ive been seeing this story abt chappell's security upsetting the kid of a footballer and i usually dont comment on celebrity bullshit but this is so obvious. shes a woman whos not playing ball anymore so she must be swiftly punished. dont buy any of the bullshit theyre peddling

I just have to chuckle because so many people will tell you they’re not racists of course they just oppose “identity politics” because it’s “co-opted” by elites, like this “working class” framing for reactionary politics hasn’t been going on for decades.

Hey, this stupid war was a really dumb fucking idea and it’s only going to get worse. Be sure to take notes on the clowns cheering it on right now, so you can remember to disregard their takes on foreign policy later.

translation: my white straight middle-class unmarked perspective is universal, but marked perspectives (from ppl who are POC, LGBTQ, poor, etc.) do not count & must be rejected...

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Bill Maher & Stephen A. Smith:

California voters? A tobacco tax voted in a few years ago & directed to Medi-Cal dental care has made a HUGE difference for good in the health/lives of millions. Now, legislators want to redirect that money. It's a short term fix in the budget but bad medicine. Read on. Don't let it happen!

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

Please stop spreading this rage bait. The quote everyone's angry about, about "crappy identity politics," is not from Weir.

Minnesota, for example, has had trans anti-discrimination protections for 30 years without the dreaded "men in the ladies room" problem. The degree to which this fear has surged into the public consciousness demonstrates it is a moral panic.

transmisogyny is just misogyny with extra steps. it was always about controlling how we define women so that they fit a profile consistent with cishetero men's desires and "gender critical" feminists played right into it. now any woman who doesn't look "feminine enough" is in the crosshairs.

anyone else tired of being a rhetorical object for cis ppls' theories of everything in which they occupy the center of the universe

A Bush in the Middle East? What could go wrong!

So Dr. Oz tried to force them to change policy, and when they didn’t the NYT just said they did. What a crazy, random happenstance!

I think the best thing advocates for trans rights can do right now is to tie the current coordinated transphobia machine to Epstein's inner circle as tightly as possible By that I mean "continually point out how many people funding transphobic policy lobbying are in the files"

My heart breaks for Trans and Gender Diverse people in my former home state of Idaho.

Transphobia cooks your brain. You spend years screaming "everyone fits neatly into two sexes!" and then reality hands you Khelif or Caster Semenya and you can't adjust. You can't say "this is more complicated than I thought." You just call her a man, because the framework demands it. Fundamentalism.

I agree, but with the caveat that they'll find a way to allow the hypothetical blonde white woman to participate, but not others. I expect this rule to end up being used to exclude those they want to exclude, but not those they want to have.

It's just one of those days where I want to crawl into a dark corner and listen to Maggot Brain all day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn...

it’s so cool to be preemptively blamed for a ‘28 election loss when trans people vote at notably higher rates than the general populace, and voted <10% republican compared to ~60% of cis whites who voted republican in ‘24

Quick reminder: the test that the IOC reintroduced yesterday is the exact same test they were forced to abolish in June 1999

“we here at the olympics recognize that some states protect their women citizens from invasive phrenological efforts to discover which of them are filthy lying Biological Males. luckily, we can bring them to countries that dont protect them from our abuses and abuse them there”

Well, that aged phenomenally.

Hey, you should read this @parkermolloy.com piece on the collapsing of what is largely an intersex/DSD story into an anti-trans culture war frame. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

The ingratitude from centrist Democrats talking down to us, when we are core to their coalition, has been repulsive and has pushed many trans people away from Democrats. Even though until now, trans and LGBT people voted for Democrats at rates similar to that of Black voters.

The stark contrast between how fast Gaiman fans kicked him to the curb and Rowling stans. Gaiman wrote some of my favorite stories, but I had no problem tossing his works into my recycling bin.

Literally no one says *anything*. It’s really hard to take, like we are being shredded piece by piece and nobody cares.

Sure, there's only one transfeminine olympian, but there are countless trans women around the world who need to be reminded they are not welcome in any communal space where authority on gender is officialized and policed, and that's the real point of these bans.

Violence comes so easily to some without even fazing others.

There’s this mythic idea that if trans women are treated as women in certain areas of society (prisons, identification and how they’re referred to in casual speech) but as men in other areas (sports, medicine and bathrooms) then they’ll be magically accepted by everyone as people. This is delusional

The (heinous) International Olympic Committee has just (fucking) formally banned trans participation in sport. stillmed.olympics.com/media/Docume...

The show I won't name because I don't want to feed the SEO results cannot be watched ethically. The author actively uses her resources to harm trans people, pushing for legislation that makes their lives far, far more difficult. Human decency is worth more than a tv show. #TransIsBeautiful

We were able to donate over $19,000 to the Trans Continental Pipeline from our Bandcamp Friday fundraiser earlier this month. Thank you all, so much! 🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥

it's especially infuriating because Ds don't need any help! they're winning specials with 20 and 30 point swings! they look like they might really win TX Sen! it's not november 2024; Ds electoral problems have been solved by trump being terrible! 1

Thread: About a decade ago, I had an in-person pitch meeting with HBO's Casey Bloys before the Harry Potter reboot greenlight. There's a massive system of cis gatekeepers in Hollywood willing to extract value from any IP. They simply see Rowling's anti-trans activism as a PR matter to be handled.

My more nuanced take is FUCK J.K. Rowling. Our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings need our love and support more than we need another Harry Potter. Read and adapt books by better humans. Especially trans ones.

11:11. Wish. ✨

Your Wizard School dollars at work.