Thread. I think a lot of my fellow cis people fail to see the "death by a thousand cuts" to trans rights as well as general threats that disproportionately affect trans folks (like free speech issues @evanurquhart.bsky.social talks about). The alarms are sounding. Are we cis folks listening?

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

one of the things that's made me so angry at the labour party is their science denialism i used to think that in the uk most politicians would just follow the science on these things @darrenpjones.bsky.social and his mates have spent 18 months telling me they don't care about science or evidence

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I hope Leo gets a taste for pressing the excommunication button and just goes apeshit with it

If your worldview is that the American free market's natural tendencies are towards maximalist extraction then you are going to love learning about American health care

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Given trans people are less than 1% of the population, getting it wrong 4% of the time means you are 4x as likely to misgender a cis woman than spot someone is trans. This is without accounting for the effects of hormones, surgery etc. Absolute madness from the EHRC chair. A "human rights" body.

My (wonderful) editor at the Atlantic reached out to me last year asking if I wanted to write about the trans community. I said I would do it if I could begin with Singal's Atlantic article. It does not seem that I will be writing for them again.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

the president of mexico has a phd in climate science. the u.s.president has felony convictions.

1/ Ok, what just happened with USMCA: USMCA (NAFTA 2.0: EV Boogaloo) included a 'review' provision that said that by July 1st, Mexico, Canada and the US could either: a) Agree to extend it as is b) Keep it in place but begin up to 10 years of negotiations on a revised version Trump just chose b.

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.

The Supreme Court's first decisions are the trans athlete cases. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that Title IX and the equal protection clause do NOT stop states from excluding trans women and girls from female sports teams. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This is so incredibly cruel and gratuitous bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Once again, there is no gender equality without our trans community. There is no feminism without our trans community.

I understand the tactic of "this hurts cis people too" being one that tries to appeal to the crowd that don't give a shit about us, but I would really like to see more "but it hurting trans people should be enough". Why are cis people being centered in laws that target us?

My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

Hi Bylines, can you explain why you have commissioned this person to write an article about Pride for you? Here they are repeatedly misgendering a murdered trans child.

Oh wow – I just realised that North West Bylines have asked *this person* to write an article about Pride for them.

The reason we still need pride is to combat institutional homophobia and transphobia. Such as that exhibited by the author who was forced to resign for transphobia for misgendering a murdered school kid. ashleeee.substack.com/p/senior-mag...

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the extremists have won you dumbass.

no a peep about the global fascist assault on trans people? the whole republic is hanging by a thread, 5-4, and you're calling it a win, because anything else would require you to actually do something? classic jeffries

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Hey @democrats.org how are you going to do this without A) Fucking over queer kids, and B) Giving massive amounts of personal data to companies I wouldn't trust to paint a parking lot

this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion

I have - personally - played bigger crowds during my brief tenure as a punk band bassist.

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

every picture of this guy he has fucking black orbs where his eyes should be and I think we should talk about that

Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.

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8. He compares gender-affirming care to smoking and alcoholism. He appears to endorse conversion therapy, writing that “children deserve time, guidance, and real psychological support.” And he even says that his opposition to trans people is "why [he has] chosen to step into the political arena."

1. On Tuesday and with Trump's backing, Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino won a competitive New York House primary—and likely a seat in Congress—after running on "aggressively detransitioning America." His extreme rhetoric must be a warning to us all.

I hate gerontocracy so much

keir starmer failed bcos he's a rancid, corrupt, authoritarian bigot who spent his entire time in office persecuting vulnerable ppl. andy burnham will do the same and he will also fail.

it's kind of weird how much homophobia is weirdly alive and well within trans spaces. like the specific oppression that opposite gender-attracted trans ppl experience makes some of them think that it's like free range to talk about how much gay trans men & trans lesbians are suspect

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

Relevant for the astrosci feed ☄️ Tl;dr: you need to disclose AI use if it's anything beyond basic language improvements, search, or coding when submitting to @aanda-journal.bsky.social

There’s something deeply funny and sad about this administration saying what the US should have said on oct 8 but not because of civilians slaughtered but because the boss is bored and wants a nap now

I'm in community with enough trans lesbians (and ace girls if we talk about lack of "attraction to men") that I definitely would have noticed any class stability/upward mobility among them if you know. it was EVER a real privilege among this demographic lmao

great news for people who don't eat food

Trump has spent the last 15 years, and will spend the rest of his life, trying to overcome the humiliation that Obama inflicted upon him at that White House Correspondents Dinner

they're now being housed in concentration camps instead.

Birmingham Community Mourns Kalena “Peaches” Croskey, Trans Woman Found Dead in City Jail Cell www.them.us/story/kalena...

At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.