"I loved the books as a child, and I’d say their message of friendship, courage, and imagination is more relevant than ever—please treat this as my official stance and disregard any contradictory statements I’ve made on social media, at least until my accounts are deleted."

Here is whatever a "trust editor" is at the New York Times saying the quiet part out loud and openly saying that they don't think the New York Times should adopt an "advocacy position" in favor of trans rights. Of course, the NYT engages in pro-trans genocide advocacy all the time.

It’s an argument that should be persuasive - our cities should be designed so that young people and elders can still be active members of the community without being chauffeured around. A 10 year old and an 80 year old should be able to enjoy their community without access to a car. 1/3

Either you believe the self is an untethered soul-thing that exists outside of biology (and can thus be anything) or *all* mental processes, self-conception, etc. are biological. There is no third "in their head" thing. Either my soul is a woman, or my brain is that of a biological woman. Or both.

You know Musk is insane when he thinks you can build a tunnel underneath New Orleans. You, know the place where there are beautiful above-ground tombs b/c the coffins used to float away. The place with no bedrock.

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.

My new essay is about the situation where there is no right way to be a woman. And how, in the end, accepting this really does set you free. open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Without minimizing misogyny in medicine, I have to point out that the “not until 1995" is untrue. I still have my anatomy textbooks from 1993, and the female reproductive anatomy is fully present. We even had a disembodied clitoris/hood on an Anatomy practical exam. Nobody used Gray’s, though.

It’s ironic that the Third Way guys are desperately trying to make the Democratic party like the pre-MAGA GOP, and the Never Trump Republicans like the folks at the Bulwark were probably at No Kings.

I think of say, an ad campaign showing awesome trans people doing amazing things contrasting against the depravity of christian pedophiles. Trans physicians, teachers, pilots, nurses, musicians, parents and then just a rogues gallery of pedophile pastors. Or similar. 1/2

It's beyond frustrating that we *know* how to do things well: how to build beautiful cities, how to provide basic needs for a society, how to build a representative political system, how to mitigate climate change, how to do basic science, how to work to mitigate bigotry, (etc.) and we don't do it.

Microscopically niche opinion: "Fortress Around Your Heart" could have been a great Police song rather than a mediocre Sting song. It has the bones of a great rock song, but its too laden with Sting's Adult Contemporariness. Stuart and Andy would have made it kick ass.

I think we need to go on the legal, political, & rhetorical offensive and that the offensive should be crafted to do maximal damage to the anti-trans position; we've been on defense for so long, fighting on their chosen terrain, taking damage. We need to figure out how to put them on their heels.

This is what I feel like even the supportive cis people in my life don't really understand.

I often cast a, dare I say, jaundiced eye at fellow Gen Xers posturing, but at the very least, we can say that we were able to spend our entire childhoods and 20s without Harry fucking Potter.

I am strongly anti-LLM/AI, but I will not cry when it takes the jobs of the reporters at the NYT and The Atlantic. Their snide anti-trans opinion draped with a haughty and thin facade of 'reporting' should embarrass their J-School professors.

Feel like I'm close to coming up with a replacement for "cis" that is something like Chromosome Uterus Non-Trans.

Doesn't it ever bother the "protect women's sports" women that their entire basis for demanding 'protection' is a fervent belief that women cannot possibly beat or even compete with men? That they take as axiomatic that women are athletically inferior to men? It just reeks of rank misogyny.

It's always a losing strategy to try to interpret reactionary arguments as though they were good faith statements. Focus on the rhetorical function of what they are saying. What do they *gain* from making this argument? Why did they chose this framing, this narrative?

Arguing over “bad person” isn’t useful. But, if you financially support Harry Potter/JKR, who funds anti-trans groups and puts hateful rhetoric in the world, you’ve prioritized your consumptive pleasure over my safety & I regard you as my mortal enemy. Buy used, write FF, just don’t give her money.

I loved this thread and memories of so many amazing Onion articles. I swear it's been the voice of sanity for decades.

My local-ish newspaper (McClatchy-owned) is just a collection of clickbait-style "This one weird trick..." headlines now. "You'll Never Guess Where..." "Why is this man's mother is being sent to jail...", etc.

I am continually surprised at how little the normie ilberal cishet people in my general sphere have any clue what is actually going on in the world right now. It's not that we have any significant ideological difference-they simply are mostly unaware of anything but the broadest brushstrokes.

According to Christian Nationalists, doesn't 'ensoulment' happen at conception? Before any embryological sexual differentiation? Why, according to Christians, couldn't God decide to ensoul my body with a ~woman's soul? Are chromosomes >> God?

Among ever-changing rationales for hate, anti-trans people think the ongoing presence of a prostate in trans women is a big gotcha. That screening for prostate CA is a big humiliation, and some kind of 'proof' of our man-ness. But cis women have a 'prostate' that we call Skene's glands and they..1/

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market and polymarket (et al) are just gambling. The fact that the stock market has some veneer of business respectability is just good PR. The dum-dums running this joint actually think that vibes and emotions propping up stocks is the economy.

Yup, states are now passing bills to make public lists of trans people, home addresses, etc. I wonder what the purpose of that would be?

Do Christians really believe that sex=gender in heaven? Like do they believe that they they have sexed bodies in heaven? If so, what age is that body? Does it age? Or do they believe we are free-floating souls in heaven, and do those souls retain gender? Further, if God creates a soul before God..1/

These dumb states are making the repercussions for using the 'wrong' bathroom orders of magnitude more severe than the penalties for public urination.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

Making stories about the plucky college dropout upstarts who made things happen in silicon valley has gone from a “look at the nerds triumph” narrative to comic book villain origin stories. It’s the “once they were good until horrific events twisted their minds and souls” narrative.

When was in residency, there was a fervent advocacy/belief among the staff re: evidence-based medicine. Everything should be tested if possible with a RCT, things like listening to heart sounds could be parsed as odds ratios and likelihood ratios to derive probabiility->diagnosis. 1/

Ideally, I'd really like to live without knowing the full details of candidates/elections in places where I don't live and can't vote.

Anti-trans stuff is MAHA for centrists who think they're immune to conspiracy theory.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Nobody is more thrilled than MAGA/Christian Nationalists that some women felt the energy of #MeToo against toxic masculinity and manosphere misogyny and decided to turn every ounce of their righteous anger towards...persecuting trans people—rather than dismantling the patriarchy pedophile ring.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fBhGGt

Look, I get that you’re desperately trying to get attention to get someone to click so you can make money, but I cannot remember the last time someone wrote that news was “shocking” and I was the least bit shocked.

The best quote I’ve heard about AI: AI gives the wealthy access to creativity while denying the creators access to wealth.

I mean, Page is another far right guy, but if I can't make the smug smirks on the faces of the dogebros and Bondi go away, I can at least revel in a little sad frown on Berger's face, which used to have that same perpetual smug smirk. #schadenfreude

I will not calm down.

I think we might be in the shitty afterlife from Wristcutters.

The early internet was once fun, almost totally non-commercial, spam/bot/AI-free; you emailed/chatted with your friends and played games. People were still dinks, arguing abt sports and mac vs pc, but you had to seek that out. Most webpages were made by nerds about some subject they adored.

It seems telling to me that they could have used AI to make web searching good, or to make SIri functional, or to make automated phone trees less dumb/maddening, but instead they want it to replace human creativity, human ability to research, human writing ability, etc.

You’ve gone too far, Cis-You-Are. I will not appreciate my sex I can not will not appreciate my sex Will not appreciate it in a tie Will not appreciate it til I die I will not appreciate my sex, Cis-You-Are.

Just a reminder that there have always been bigoted women who claimed the mantle of feminism - and perhaps even advanced the rights of some women - while aggressively trampling on others that seemed to them to be impediments to white cishet women's power.

Few things are more affirming to me that I was never a man than the interactions I have with cis men on dating apps.

Trans people have been *screaming* for *years* this was coming. And here we are.