Hey there! If you could help me with my Facial Feminization Expenses I would appreciate it a lot! No need to donate necessarily, feel free to share my fundraiser as well! gogetfunding.com/anto-facial-...

By 2021, Orbán had already implemented every anti-LGBTQ+ ban now sweeping the US. In 2023, he said of this: "Hungary is actually an incubator where experiments are done on the future of conservative policies." This was clearly true. May his 2026 loss tomorrow continue to prefigure fascism's future.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

One of the telling things for me is how consistent the messaging has been over the years that affecting cis women should be the motivator to oppose these policies, and yet trans women being fully pushed out of sports has been almost ignored as an injustice.

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

Any policy that intends to discriminate against transgender athletes also harms intersex women. This is a devastating day for all women athletes, who deserve to play the sport they love free from invasive sex testing, discrimination, and public scrutiny. interactadvocates.org/interact-res...

For me, the biggest takeaway is that many people in charge of trans healthcare view transition as harm, as a failure, as an unfavourable outcome to avoid. They fundamentally conceive of trans existence as a disease to cure, and feel themselves righteous advocating for our eradication.

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

"Transition is bourgeois decadence" said about a population that is frequently disowned, rendered houseless, discriminated against in workplaces and hiring, disproportionately represented in survival sex work, disproportionately subject to CSA and sexual violence, and frequently brutalised. Cool.

I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children. They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.

If "female socialization" is your shorthand for being treated like whipped dogs who never learn to act right, that is something that applies to queer kids pretty intensely! Heck, call it "queer socialization". The universial experience of society attempting to beat us into the closet or the grave.

Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction. And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake. Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...

Someday I'll have more to say, but for now it suffices that no queer person alive will be surprised by this. www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

“if you don’t placate men with sex, they’re going to destroy everything“ so women are correct to cut them out of their lives as much as possible?

this idea that men are violent because they cant fuck or find long term commitment is so tiring and just false. women shouldnt go low just so a man wont shoot up a school. how does that not sound insane? lord have mercy i pray for straight women

Childbearing is physically dangerous & painful for women; childrearing is an exhausting, degraded, isolating, and impoverishing endeavor that annihilates women’s other opportunities & goals. When women are free, they choose fewer children. There is no way to make them have more that is not violent.

It really cannot be overstated how this type of traditionalist propaganda has worked its way into liberal and radical spaces through transphobic feminism. It's the same rhetorical trick--not accepting 'womanhood' (defined as reproductive capacity, naturalized as neutral) is 'misogyny.'

100,000 People Marched at London Trans+ Pride. The Transphobic UK Media Ignored It.

"Taking rape from the realm of the sexual, placing it in the realm of the violent, allows one to be against it without raising questions about the extent to which the institution of heterosexuality has defined force as a normal part of [sex]." Catharine MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment of Working Women

Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador www.yahoo.com/news/article...

the synonymization of 'non-binary' with 'non-transitioning' is honestly ahistorical. people may not have always used that term, but 'transsexual who doesn't fit into a clean gender category' has been a thing for about as long as transition as been a thing (which is longer than cis people think)

The tepid, conflict-averse choice feminism of the 90s and aughts—which insisted on legitimizing women’s cooperation with patriarchy rather than challenging it—made room for the rise of tradwives by abandoning the principles that would have made a movement capable of coherently opposing them.

regular reminder that this violent rage at trans rights is in part about maintaining rich men's access to a class of sexually exploitable gender-marginalized nameless street youth who have few choices but engaging in survival sex in exchange for living expenses

Ideologically, the reactionary has always been eugenical, natalist, heterosexualist: His ideal world is one where his chosen hegemonic demographic not just rules, but outbreeds all those peoples, cultures, and demographics he considers lesser and unworthy of sharing the bounty he is entitled to.

Hello, Bluesky liberals! We need you to get better arguments than "communism no food". Even if you ignore all those who starve under capitalist regimes, the greenery of your "greatest countries" is watered with the blood of my people. Produce your own shit or stop being capital fangirls. 🫶

Okay. I'm going to talk about transmascs. When we eventually look back on the decade of feminist mismanagement since the 'transgender tipping point', we will judge its single greatest crime the utter refusal to reckon with transmasc oppression a) seriously, and b) as a distinct form of violence.

A trans woman was just sentenced to 15 years in prison for defending herself from an attacker. She wanted no part in the fight and witnesses described her actions as self-defense. With right-wing media constantly portraying her as "evil" since the incident, the trial was over before it began.

Patriarchy is a system of power, control, and sexual exploitation. It's sustained deliberately, systematically. It's not about lack of cultural imagination, or rigid-but-sincere assumptions about nature. It's not an accident. It can't be merely educated away.

Ended up against my will discussing trans rights again recently. I pointed out that there was broad cross partisan support for trans inclusion only a decade ago, that Donald Trump and the leader of the UK conservative party were simultaneously endorsing trans inclusion measures but this closed...

I am so over the "Western binary". I am so over how people consistently, ignorantly, and frankly embarrassingly insist that the "gender binary" is so particularly Western and colonial and recent. It's a complete failure to juxtapose rhetoric on gender with how it actually, materially operates.

Ok, holy shit, there is a LOT more to this story than was initially reported. Joss wasn't shot in a "dispute between neighbors": he was shot *saving his newlywed husband* from a *premeditated murder* that was actually a follow-up to an act of arson earlier this year. Both homophobic hate crimes.

There is a specific kind of "worthlessness" ascribed to those penetrable subjects who cannot be reproductively exploited.

Delighted to see our #NION letter gaining traction at 13.5k signatures. 25k by Monday? I want to address a question/criticism I've seen about our wording. To women upset that we describe ourselves as cis women and refusing to sign on that basis I ask you to reconsider. Please read on...

In the 8 years between 2017 and 2024, The Mail, Telegraph, Guardian, Observer, Mirror, Express, and Star have printed a total of 10, 430 articles about trans people. Ten thousand, four hundred and thirty.

perfect microcosm of this entire debate: 1) cis ppl convinced GAC is harmful, call for more research, 2) research comes back showing GAC is safe and saves lives, 3) cis ppl ban GAC anyway...

Detransitioners are not all grifters for TERF hate factories. Most are simply people who need access to the same kind of care that trans people need. Everyone - everyone - deserves total bodily sovereignty.

A quasi-religious move by a nation so captured by cultural feminist ideas that it thinks rape is stored in the balls. Human rights? What are those! Let's keep rape decriminalised but put on a show about how big and tough and evil we are!

Arguably, under a society where personhood is conditional on meeting certain standards of labor, trans liberation is indelibly and inseparably wrapped up with disability justice. Funny how this essay keeps being ominously relevant.

If your "this will hurt cis people too" talk about the medicare bill isn't about how you're pushing for serious political consequences for the cis people who collaborated on it, then shush. The bill will hurt trans people, that is objectionable enough.

"They'll be fine without hormones!" No, they won't. Many trans people can no longer produce their own sex hormones and will develop significant and costly health problems, up to and including premature osteoporosis. The rest will be tortured by the resurgence of the wrong hormones in their blood.

Precisely. Third-sexing trans people is a dehumanizing act, a shunting of us outside of the cissexist conception of humanity and a denial of our identity dignity. It is not a recognition of us as "non-binary", but a relegation of us to an underclass, undeserving of shared space with cis people.

It's super cool that men would rather destroy the ecosystem than be perceived as effeminate in any way!