It's been over a week and this horrific news has been met by Democrats, the media and cis people in general with a collective shrug.

Yes! You can never appease right wing outrage merchants because they MUST sell grievance. It’s why fascism is self-defeating, it will always make an enemy. This is why we should stop seeking to homogenize art and instead make it queerer, more BIPOC, more feminine & just more perspectives generally.

Americans may insist that they dont have concentration camps But remember Germans said the same thing

Everyone who has ever spent time in the IDF should, at minimum, spend 25x that amount of time in a re-education facility learning basic morality and ways to contribute to humanity.

"If socialization really worked the way that some people imply when they wield “male socialization” against trans female/feminine people, then gender conversion therapy would work every single time."

if an employer insisted on calling a cis employee by the wrong pronouns we’d immediately and correctly recognize it as sexual harassment

A trans woman is murdered. Her name isn't released because her *family* wouldn't be safe if it was. Her memorial is literally erased at the university she attended. This is what it is like to be trans in America. We're not allowed to exist in public.

My (trans) girlfriend has just been suspended on Bluesky for mocking the moderators by stating a fact. It's a "serious violation" Fucking hell

gwen's reporting is great as always and also, as you may know, i am bound by contract to emphasize how low the bar is for being "safe." every location mentioned as a destination for fleeing trans people is still shutting down clinics (no room for nyc but you already know)

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

It's lonely, isolated, and not an experience I'd wish on anyone. Something I would really like to impress upon cis people is that for a lot of us, when we do come out, when we finally stop suppressing ourselves and open up, we are often asserting ourselves for the very first time in our lives.

Adding to the discussion, since it's the latest discourse for some reason (my guess is some cis chud said something somewhere again). So frequently I was told not to do X because "boys don't do X". I was also ostracized and bullied for being "weird."

Trans women aren't cis men before we transition, and so any analysis that says "cis men do/experience X and therefore so do trans women" is frankly juvenile and does not hold up to scrutiny.

If it helps, imagine that a cis girl was forced to join boy's sports teams and use the boy's locker room and endure bullying that was tacitly encouraged by adults to "toughen her up" How much do you think she benefited from this "male socialization"?

if you're a trans girl who thinks she grew up with "male socialization" i'm sorry that people who were supposed to be your friends and allies wokely misgendered you into hating yourself like this

jfc i'm begging TERFy, self-hating pickmes to learn about the sexual abuse rates of closeted trans women growing up we weren't male-socialized, we were often violently "corrected" for stepping out of the role we never inhabited in the first place because they could smell the faggot on us pathetic.

has there been any talk of how the “if you don’t use AI you’ll get left behind” line is ripped straight from evangelical christianity or nah

I'm reluctant to speak up on trans topics these days because it's often not worth the pain caused, so I'm probably going to regret this, but disappointingly a lot of people need to hear this. Accusing trans women of "male socialization" is an astonishingly cruel, callous, and spiteful thing to say.

Girlfriends

male socialisation is when they hold you down and [cut footage of trans girl’s entire childhood and teen years] and after a while you stop even crying because what would be the point

144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to vote for this bill which gives DHS and ICE new powers to collect personal information of both migrants and American citizens

"trans women spent time as a dude" is like "gay men used to be straight" or "you were neurotypical before your diagnosis"

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

“why are trans people so aggressive and annoying” idk man probably because you keep saying shit like that and whenever we tell you to stop everyone goes “wow you were right, they ARE aggressive and annoying”

there's an internal refugee crisis of trans people who've had to abandon their lives and move cross country to flee overwhelming persecution, and our "allies" are having debates about whether or not our "male brains" make us too disruptive to tolerate in spaces, but, y'know, wokely

It is said, by liberals and conservatives alike, that communism is just as bad as capitalism. This is intellectual dishonesty. Justice requires violence because injustice requires violence, not because justice itself requires violence. Do not confuse a strike with a parry.

Trans women don't owe you timidity

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Spanish citizen Saif Abukeshek, an activist of Palestinian origin, speaks with Democracy Now! about spending 10 days in Israeli detention after he was abducted in international waters.

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The US state department is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism globally.

I find it weird when cis people become the arbiters of what is and isn’t transphobia

Democracy is when a majority of voters agree to something and a majority of their elected representatives agree to the same thing, but then it doesn't happen because not enough of the nine unelected and unaccountable to public review or recall lifetime appointees agreed to the thing

The victim was a 19 year old transgender woman. She was stabbed to death in the laundry room of her student apartment complex. Seattle police just released these pictures of the suspect. If you know who he is, you can call the tip line at 206-233-5000.

This is insane. This single data center is twice the size of Manhattan, and takes up more power than Utah CURRENTLY MAKES. This single data center WOULD BE SEEN FROM SPACE if built. UTAH, DO NOT LET THEM BUILD THIS THING.

Chauvinist liberals that defend Western foreign policy often brand themselves as defenders of "civilization" and preservers of legacies of order and sovereignty, it's all hypocrisy. They simply refuse to believe that those they violate and destroy have such things.

"Welcome to White PaganCon, a place for spirituality & exploration of the sacred & esoteric! Please enjoy our keynote speaker, a middle-aged man with a ponytail and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. You'll love his presentation on the spiritualities of several cultures he is not a part of!"

That was the goal

The DOJ, in its investigation of gender affirming care providers, has been caught in a blatant lie in sworn documents to the court. Two published documents today shows DOJ attorneys misrepresenting material facts regarding patient record de-identification to the NDTX to obtain orders to compel.

Good riddance.

I need everyone to stop insisting it can't happen here when it is absolutely happening and it's progressing the same obvious way it always does. I know acknowledging the horror effects the comfort of cis people but I need y'all to buck the fuck up and HELP US.

So there's a recent quisling contingent trying to downplay the "counter-terrorism" file that's been released. Don't do that. The image that quotes the relevant segments is the SparkNotes version, highlighting the important, concerning details.

Liberals have been conditioned for so long to demand nothing from their representatives that there's some kind of complex happening where they now get upset at the mere notion of candidates earning votes or elected officials doing the bare minimum in their very easy jobs.

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Members of our collective, and more than 20 others who turned out against surveillance, weren't allowed to speak at tonight's city council meeting. Here are the unheard remarks one of us had prepared.

US internal trans refugee crisis cons: rapidly increasing threat of mass persecution, erosion or outright stripping of personhood, disruption of life, poverty from moving costs, displacement of families, endless communal trauma, decreasing number of safe areas, etc pros: yay my friends live closer

I feel like "adapt or die" is what was yelled at me to try and force me into heterosexuality & cisnormativity, white supremacy & ableism. "Everyone is doing it, it's the norm, you'll be left behind." A stark sign that techbros know & intend LLMs as a social technology for reinforcing oppression.