A relentless desire to keep dreaming

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

You see more trans women in online spaces specifically because we have been forced out of every other venue. We have to build our own networks online where the tools to build a platform are slightly more accessible than the ones held by traditional media gatekeepers.

It's so fucked that people view trans people being murdered as just a 'fact of life'. The sun sets in the east. And trans people get stabbed to death. Should we make a society where people don't murder trans people? Nay, let's just get rid of trans people instead.

"cancelled for our views on biological sex" is a code phrase that means "given extreme lenience for actual crimes while continuing to be treated as relevant experts despite our demonstrable lack of competence"

Have any of the infamous TERFs ever come out and explicitly stated what the end goal is? Like where they would stop and say mission accomplished?

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

I really don't understand why we still entertain debate with conservatives. There are TONS of countries globally that have enacted socially progressive policies and laws that they claim will be the downfall of civilization and it hasn't caused problems a single time.

LITERALLY PUBERTY BLOCKERS ALREADY *WERE* THE COMPROMISE YOU WEIRD ASS LOSERS. TRANS PEOPLE SHOULD GET TO GO THROUGH THE CORRECT PUBERTY AT THE SAME TIME AS THEIR PEERS

"there just needs to be an open discussion and nuance" Okay cis person who has only just heard about trans people. WE HAVE ALREADY HAD THE NUANCED DISCUSSION! FOR DECADES! We have already figured these issues out. You needing 'nuance' is just wanting to say something bigoted without pushback.

Great research article debunking the more common anti-trans arguments.

God the LNP suck so hard. "Whatever Labor do were gonna undo!" Okay but do you have any of your own ideas? "....."

The common one-dimensional portrayal of women as harmless victims reinforces outdated gender stereotypes. This keeps us from seeing women as complex human beings, able to wield power, even in misguided or violent ways. x.com/kirstimiller...

Trans girl gets murdered by classmates who specifically mention doing so because she's trans - must have been the phones that did it. I actually can't with this universe anymore.

Assuming trans people's physiology based on our birth certificates is potentially unsafe

Every time you hear the term "gender ideology" the one spouting it is the one adhering to ideology. I hope people are able to see that for the hypocrisy it is.

The next time a woman's assault by a hate-filled man manages to get widespread coverage in the press, and the story sets out all the warning signs that were ignored, the free speech warriors can pat themselves on the back saying "We did that so that Graham Linehan could abuse trans kids on Twitter."

“Loving families who are struggling to keep their children alive are being hounded by social services… the NHS, and in some cases, also being hounded by the police.” Devastating comments by @goodlawproject.org in the podcast on “Fighting Britain’s Bathroom Ban” 😢 👉 soundcloud.com/toby-buckle-...

Melbourne: ever helpful

I really wish we could live in a world where we wouldn't have to argue that XYZ wasn't a choice ergo people who have said trait deserve rights. People should have the right to make that kind of choice and to have that choice respected. I genuinely cannot fathom how that's controversial.

New York Times Opinion: Why Is It Never a Some Kings Protest?

Trans rights are human rights means trans people can have shit takes without getting raked over the coals and becoming pariahs.

In my experience there are two flavours of trans allies that actual nail being an ally. 1. The lesbians who forgot your trans and 2. People who don't know your trans Everyone else occasionally fucks up. Which isn't a problem just be graceful when I point it out.

The Commissioner for Human Rights has written to the UK – warning that trans people's human rights are at risk. www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

My entire childhood my family called me weird, effeminate, girly, too sensitive and more behind my back. The second I come out suddenly "there were no signs" Like excuse me y'all *were* the signs. Like what do you even want?

One of my favourite things about transitioning is how much more emotionally available I am. Before I could only really talk to people if there was a point. Otherwise I didn't have the capacity. Now it's like I just call my friends to check in and hear about their day. It's the best.

If EVERYTHING you think you know about trans people has been learnt from social and mainstream media over the past 10 years, and not an actual trans person, it's probably 80% garbage. Talk to a real trans person. Read a book published before 2015. We are anything but new, and We. Are. Going. Nowhere

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024. Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

I swear to god these people have shower arguments with their imagined idea of an uppity tranny and then go online and think we are all just figments of their head canon.

#UK #TransRights Excellent article which uses the Cass review as an example of how the term "evidence-based practices" can be easily weaponized into policy defining outcomes while essentially not providing with evidence to support those policies. www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/false-p...

I just want all the Americans on here to know that whenever you say "what are we North Korea?" Incredulously, we say that same phrase but with America.

In every country where trans women can legally use the right restroom there is no increase to violence on cis women. In every country where trans women are prevented from using them there is a 4x increase of violence towards trans women. My safety is less valuable than your comfort.

A lot of our political discourse boils down to "I have the RIGHT to say that I don't believe you are a person, and if me saying so results in you suffering the harms of non-personhood, that's not my fault, and if you try to stop me from dehumanizing you, you are discriminating against me."

"we can have meaningful conversations about immigration without being called racist" Can you actually though? Can you do it? Without being racist about it?

Ok, we “saved” Jimmy Kimmel. Now can we bring that same energy to migrants, trans people, BIPOC and women? Or are we just reserving that for rich white guys?

I wish I could get cis people who see how rightfully terrified people are of what is being said about autistic people, and what will come next, is the fear trans people have been living with for a decade. You understand this, why not that?

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Why are we not seeing articles like "4/5 patients who receive chemotherapy recover from [specific type of cancer] but the fact that 20% don't should give doctors pause about administering chemotherapy"? It really gives away the ruse that this is the only kind of healthcare discussed like this.

Developing a scale for determining how bad the news is for trans people based on the number of cis people in my life who reach out to check if I'm okay. 0 - Very Bad (Ignorable) 1 - Very Bad (feat. on Daily Show) 2 - Oh fuck we're all going to die 3 - hahahahha "3" what would that even be like?

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

Turns out conservatives are the special snowflakes. Cancel culture is WOKE! F*CK YOUR FEELINGS cuntservative losers.