Could you really not see signs someone was a trans woman? or did your ingrained transmisogyny lead you to see acts of feminine expression as social ineptitude instead of the expressions of identity by someone who trusted you?

every World Cup we get a crop of “awwwwwwww [East Asian nationality] discovered [something nice] isnt that adorableeee” posts and it gets kind of weird and racist every time

I think the problem is that cis people don't get how deranged transphobes are because all of their actual positions get spoken about entirely in euphemism by a political and journalistic class who share their goals but launder it through vaguespeak like "concerns" that never repeat the actual bile

for what it’s worth, trans women in a federal case I’m covering have been denied their hormones while being held in men’s facilities under federal charges. I feel like cis people don’t realize that this is happening at all

sister isnt responding to my messages re: getting our shit together for fathers day but she is quite literally saving an orphaned duckling so I can’t even be mad. what the hell

"Trump's secretly gay" exists solely as a way to Other him, to say "he's not one of us, he's one of THEM". It's a way to blame minorities for our own elimination. People have been saying Hitler was really gay or Jewish for 80 years. You're not clever. You're just saying queers deserve what we get.

As someone who does social media monitoring as part of his job I can tell you that “goyslop” is absolutely still an antisemitic dog whistle and the fact that the NYT ran this article with this sort of framing is not just insane but dangerous.

The New York Times is once again pushing the normalization of nazi terms This stuff has taken hold from conscious efforts to spread it to younger people BY NAZIS. Young conservatives are straight up ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’ types now! You cannot normalize this things are getting EXTREMELY BAD

and to be super fucking clear, this isnt “”female socialization””. I don’t fuck with the socialization theory. this is from being queer and trans specifically

I’m sure it’s out there but I wish there was more writing on how trans suffering is examined as a message in relation to literally anything before discussing the actual suffering. like my own depressive thoughts include how being depressed and trans is exploited for certain narratives

obviously reminding someone in a depressive state that there are people who’d celebrate their death is really shitty. UNLESS they’re a faggot transsexual, then you’re helping them Fight The Good Fight and you get a sticker for Mental Health Advocacy,

“Killing yourself is letting them win” really hurts to hear. When I am suicidal I’m in enough pain to die to get out and telling someone in that much pain that their life and humanity is still beholden to their oppressors. well. it doesn’t help

I think this is also why “don’t take bait, don’t fuel their persecution complex, feeling sad is letting them win” pisses me off so bad. I can’t even express pain without it being frowned upon as The Wrong Message, while pain is being unjustly inflicted on me. I am a human being.

I’m realizing maybe I’m so quiet and don’t express much outwardly bc being a trans guy feels like you’re in the fucking panopticon. everything we say and do and feel publicly is pathologized and picked apart and I have felt this way since childhood I think

Also I'll be real I don't think this shit is even some 5D chess grand ploy by cis men to gatekeep manhood from us. I think they just like fantasizing about correctively raping us. Yeah yeah they have a vested interest in keeping us from X and Y etc etc but also they just wanna rape us, simple as.

Esther Ghey hated her daughter and hated that she was trans. when she was murdered she empathised with her killers over the child she lost because she already felt she lost the child she actually cared about

if you're anti-transition-care for kids you're pro-child-abuse. there's no middle ground here. almost every single trans person's biggest regret is "I didn't get to transition earlier," myself included.

Isn't it crazy that "I'm afraid of being prosecuted by laws that don't exist" is always a valid excuse to illegally deny trans kids healthcare but "I'm afraid of prosecution under real civil rights laws" is never an excuse to provide the healthcare even under federal scrutiny?

FUCK THESE FUCKING PIGS!!!!!!

I'm sorry but this is cowardice and a violation of the Hippocratic oath, plain and simple. It is not and has never been illegal to provide trans kids with healthcare. They simply don't want to do it and would rather make kids suffer than follow their basic duties as medical professionals.

In regard to the LAPD murdering a homeowner’s dog, white people (including myself) should keep this energy when any black person is killed by the police. The police have killed 553 this year SO FAR. Black people are 2.8x times more likely to be killed by the police than white people.

Make no mistake; this is not an incidental feature of right wing ideology. It is built from the ground up to sustain the rape of women and girls

spent far too much money at the bookstore, eating cold pizza and pain au chocolat naked in front of a fan. life could be a lot worse

I am honestly disturbed by the swiftness with which "trans healthcare not available to anyone under 19" is going from being regarded, rightly, as collaboration with trans genocide and a fascist federal government to "the best we can expect" even among those who damn well know better...

My hot take is only going to media for escapism is starving yourself of so much good and necessary art. You cannot sustain yourself this way.

people will throw “pancakes waffles” at anyone having a discussion beyond the fourth-grade level gloss of a post and I’m tired of everyone being stupid and incurious on purpose

the only thing I have to add to the end it banana guy thing is that im confused as to why the show is in a school auditorium with the fluorescents all the way up

Following the shameful decision of NHS England to forcibly detransition trans kids under the care of Brighton WellBN Good Law Project is funding gender affirming private healthcare for at least 10 young trans people whose treatment has been withdrawn and whose financial need is greatest.

spirited away has to be one of the best movies of all time im sitting here tearing up at the polluted river spirit scene

yes but if they were actually concerned w the prospect of "irreversible" changes they would advocate to "safeguard" ALL puberties, not just transsexual ones. why dont they, do u think? it is because they believe that a transsexual body is a degenerate form of a cissexual body

This nyt is using the same playbook against women’s reproductive rights as it used against trans ppl. It also happens to be the same playbook promoted by MAGA-aligned, billionaire-backed groups like the Heritage Foundation

this is genocidal

does anybody have tips for literally waking up in the morning. I keep changing my phone alarm sounds. I got an analog alarm clock with the loud ass bells and I don’t even remember turning it off. I have ADHD and got reprimanded at work for being late again and feel really stupid right now

This is what actively perpetuating rape culture looks like. I refuse to believe someone who writes for a living doesn’t know that’s what he’s doing.

im watching footage of catfish hunting pigeons from the edge of the water and feeling genuine fear

im watching a documentary about catfish and they just dropped the bomb that scientists found pigeon feet in their stomachs the catfish eat pigeons

Many people will shout, "No one is seriously suggesting that young people be put on hormones!" and to be perfectly, 100% clear, trans people are seriously suggesting that. Trans people of all ages would prefer if young trans people had access to HRT instead of the compromise of puberty blockers.

Once you realize that the people trying to shift public opinion on this believe that being trans is something that can be cured or prevented you see everything they say in a whole different light.

the “”paper of record”” mulching trans people was handwaved away as a baseless conspiracy by anyone with an ounce of influence and now the same paper is publishing this evil shit. who could’ve seen this coming.

one thing i know about youth gender care is that i will always resent, to my dying breath, a world that denied me knowledge of the mutability of the body and the indeterminacy of sex and gender when it would have saved me a lifetime of pain

There is no law making this mandatory. And choosing 19 instead of 18 means they're capitulating to the Trump Administration's demands. Good to know that your human rights and dignity are nothing more than an afterthought.

Yesterday (2019) was actually rlly Kafka-esque when you think about it…a man becoming a Beatle and such…

It’s time to grab life by the horns

There is no winning politics when the -supposedly- left party takes a stance of unpersoning you. If they win, they say "see, tranny, you just need to accept you're not a person." And if they lose, they say "well, you didn't vote for me (even if you did) so your opinion can be discarded."

Unfortunately I ended up in the hospital again yesterday... Not ready to share details, but if you haven't shared or donated to my GoFundMe yet, I would appreciate the extra support right now Thank you to everyone helping me through this ordeal

and dont forget: the entire moral panic about gender affirming care for trans youth is just the grooming libel spouted over and over from increasingly mainstream sources, so when dems give rhetorical ground on this what theyre actually ceding is “trans kids are groomed into getting sex changes”

Already seeing cis "allies" saying "well it doesn't exist, so what harm does it do to say he's against it", like it doesn't show weakness and cede to Republican framing on the issue. Like we didn't see the GOP employ the exact same tactics on abortion, which Dems likewise ran from

just to be clear, this is the same as being against nose jobs for bears. it's something that isn't happening to begin with that doesn't need to be explicitly stated in any way. saying it is solely a statement against trans healthcare in general and that is the affect that statements like that create

ah, I was wondering why the NYT was having a panic attack yesterday lol

suddenly everyone’s like “I predicted the Old Ones blotting out the sun” Man shut up and help me shovel locusts