*very serious gender and sexuality studies academic who just published a 300pg book on trans people in oceania without running it by a single one of them voice* the real colonialism is thinking you, a filthy white transsexual, have anything in common with the noble [local word meaning trannyfaggot]

Okay but a trans woman that reacts poorly gets to make a post with 10 upvotes or so; a cis woman that reacts poorly gets to socially murder you. That's where the symmetry breaks.

the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making. 1. user makes [xyz claim] 2. another user corrects them 3. blocked, hidden it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead

Oh look, more fifth-columnism from our very valid allies at Pride[.]com >Wanting to pass is pornographic misogynistic eurocentrism

Yes it’s that. The biggest voice on the online left spent 2024 convincing his audience the election made no difference. So now he has to defend that record with this sophistry.

"Deceptive trade practices" is the latest end-run around the First Amendment. It's being used arbitrarily to target platforms that allow disfavored speech, by finding some statement or policy — either a TOS or interview — and then citing an example where it was violated.

Ken Paxton’s plan

anyone who tries to start or keep going bullshit like "i as a white trans woman know that white trans woman racism is a problem we must ritually denounce constantly" right now is a collaborator while bourgeois cisoids purge our black brothers and sisters for speaking up against hypocrisy and abuse.

"You must dox yourself to use the internet" is dystopia shit, and everybody's just going along with it.

I fucking hate this dynamic with transfems when whenver one of us is like "I would not like to lose the rights I currently have", we get attacked by other people for having "got our bag"

maybe controversial, but im not convinced that performative wokeness actually does much to help marginalized groups get treated as more human it just enables people to give themselves a gold star for pretending the zoo animals are human when others are watching

All decentralization is not created equal either. AT Protocol works quite a bit differently than Mastodon. The decentralization is at the user account level. The way Mastodon is setup creates UX nightmares and leaves room for a lot of petty tyrants.

More generally I think a big problem with left & trans activism is that stretched truths / white lies / inspirational narratives are promoted with the same unquestionable seriousness as the actually important, actually true things. And so the uninformed fence-sitter just assumes that even (1/)

More generally I think a big problem with left & trans activism is that stretched truths / white lies / inspirational narratives are promoted with the same unquestionable seriousness as the actually important, actually true things. And so the uninformed fence-sitter just assumes that even (1/)

I am tired of hearing assertions that Democrats "threw trans people under the bus" in 2024 from people whose primary interest in the trans community is as cannon fodder for their revolutionary pipe dreams

One of the many problems with left-liberal deontology is that it blinds people to the reality that, even in a relatively functional democracy, you likely have to convince people of your preferred policy if you want it to happen

no you don't understand we have to coddle the feelings of the superposition between most brainwormed transmasc ever/most attention whoring cis woman ever. dolphindiaries feelings are the most important thing in the world that's why we can't say detransitioners are cis. kiss my ass

i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc it's fucking trans healthcare.

They would offer you testosterone, and they would treat your inevitable refusal to go on it in the same way that they would treat any refusal of life-critical medication for any other medical condition. Which is why I never use this argument. It's a monkey's paw.

But this is also the messaging/framing that the trans community has chosen to talk about this issue. It's never/rarely >Let private sports leagues decide for themselves It's always >Trans women deserve to play because <reasons, or worse, emotional appeal>

honestly being separatist shouldn't be seen as such a bad thing, ppl just try to use it as an anti-feminist slur. acknowledging the material conditions within which we're forced to operate, in which we are already separated, is good. and ppl saying it's bad usually just want access to us to harm us

I suspect even if you as a voter hate trans people, the fact that someone like Kamala Harris has so perceptibly turned the transphobia knob back and forth while looking to the audience for approval, showing she does not actually believe in anything, is way more offputting than the supposed wokeness

Ahh yes to regulate fascism we simply need to obliterate civil liberties and usher in more fascism and authoritarianism, but with our side in charge. Surely these laws will never be misused and we will always remain in power! 😵‍💫

Their "theory" is a process starting with an axiom that "radical inclusion Of everyone's self-reported identity justifies making up logic to validate them, and justifies silencing criticism." Which might be well intended, But it's not defensible.

I need every one of these “leftist” journalists arguing in favor of authoritarian top down censorship and the mass expansion of the surveillance state to go back to civics 101

>enrage and entrap you [...] that they can arrest you for Sadly I'm afraid this will be relatively easy. The queer/online left is so used to fedposting/bragging about hypothetical violent uprisings. "Punching nazis & firebombing walmarts are key prerequisites to achieving a Proletarian revolution"

I don't think cis people, even "queer" cis people, really get how common it is for trans men and other AFAB trans people to degender themselves to female whenever it suits their social, political, or sexual interests. The transmisogyny is neverending.

If you're a trans person, you should prepare for the possibility that every groupchat and gathering is compromised by FBI informants attempting to enrage and entrap you into doing something incredibly stupid that they can arrest you for.

it feels a little strange imo to assign a rightward political characteristic to acknowledging transsexual people as an interest group when right wingers explicitly deny our existence.

no human being is "LGBTQ+", they are some subset of those things. transsexuals are the only people who get gerrymandered even when people are trying to defend them. transphobia is not just more specific homophobia. they hate transsexuals. they want excuses to take it out on trans people specifically

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

Evangelicals are panicking about video games and South Park. Welcome back, 2003.

Funny etymology aside, this is part of the ongoing effort to remove any reference to womanhood/femininity/feminization when it comes to trans women and our transitions. Their final end goal is mainstreaming "AMABs" (or similar "TIM"-like terms) as the standard way of saying "trans women".

Funny etymology aside, this is part of the ongoing effort to remove any reference to womanhood/femininity/feminization when it comes to trans women and our transitions. Their final end goal is mainstreaming "AMABs" (or similar "TIM"-like terms) as the standard way of saying "trans women".

Also baffling how many on the left constantly hide behind a plausibly deniable/ambiguous "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" Conseqs. like *other* people's speech/criticism/disassociation from you? Ofc not. Conseqs. like the govt coming after you? Gosh I really hope so!

Hating the first baeddels in 2025 requires you to trust only its detractors and to believe we had an orthodoxy. Which is to say you have trust the voices of trans mascs and trans men more when it comes to this experiences of trans women and trans femmes. The exact transmisogyny we railed against.

PSA: "Oppression" is not simply the lack of constant validation for your every thought, word, and action.

RT @mayaofspring.bsky.social

This, from @erininthemorning.com's latest piece about Gavin Newsom helps explain why Newsom-loving libs' "erm, then enjoy Trump again!!!" stuff doesn't work on trans people who've been paying attention. www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...

Increased discussion of transmisogyny and anti-transsexuality (rather than the usual, queer-approved "binary is le bad" of the last decade) really touched a nerve, so they're in panic node. They're trying 2 different approaches to undo that: 1) TMA/TME is divisive 2) actually transmascs too are TMA

Tbh it's not great when trans people tend to coalesce / monopolize towards certain positions ("guns le bad", in this case) just because it's seen as "the ontologically correct opinion to hold, for a proper leftist/trans person"

My employer once invited a literal bearded non-transitioner to speak at a *specifically trans* DEI educational event. When you see me joking about "TEDx theymabs", this is the real-world inspiration behind that expression that I sometimes use.

Let's not pretend it doesn't exist. It might not exist physically as a single trans organization, but the party-approved talking points are almost universally agreed upon.

Post-Obergefell mainstream trans rights movements have concerned themselves on purging dissidents, rather than convincing them.

>Firefighters don’t get a free pass for letting a house burn down just because fire is inevitable While it's right wingers that are actively dismantling trans rights, our activism seems to have gone above and beyond to willingly lose appeal & to be as ineffective as possible in changing ppl's minds