As someone who lived through the Bush years I'm surprised that so many leftists have a warped memory of his presidency. Yes, he was absolutely awful as a leader, but he never would have done the things Trump is doing, and there were numerous real checks on his power.

That's basically a description of Donald Trump

One of the things that brings me life in these dark times is imagining some socially maladjusted TERF writing "A MAN CANT BE A WOMAN!!!1!" in a mumsnet forum while I'm out in Brazil having the time of my life

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

It's really amazing that I went from the most privileged identity (white male hetero) to one of the least (trans female queer) and now I function so much better, am so much happier, make lots more money, am so much more loved and successful

Every now and again, some idiot juvenile hall warden comes up with the idea of injecting cis male inmates with estrogen to keep them calm, and that is widely seen as a crime against humanity. That is exactly what trans people are going through when you force them through an unwanted puberty.

Hard to capture the horror of trans people who had our childhoods taken away now seeing this happen to another generation because hateful and ignorant cis politicians think it will help their polling numbers

The bigots are so certain of their truth that they hide behind fake names and only link to 2 pre-approved (and widely discredited) sources.

Funny that they didn't write the same article, but instead questioned if espousing neo-Nazi ideology could have been the reason.

Let's be real, the "risks" of social transition are that you might like it and end up realizing you're actually trans. Which is basically something Labour is trying to make impossible. It's so sad that they're basically condemning trans kids to a torturous adolescence that they could have avoided.

She's totally become the legend and Nicki has put herself into the trash. It's been a while since I've seen this degree of self-destructiveness from someone who was once so major and beloved.

The framing of transgender existence as ideology is unscientific and bigoted. Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral. They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.

We'll eventually need to criminally prosecute everyone involved in this. Once the nation isn't run by Nazis.

It's unbelievable that pollsters would use anti-trans slurs in their own polls of beliefs about trans people. Of course that's going to completely bias the results, and also continue to promulgate harmful falsehoods about trans people.

This is so much better than Simone Biles, who gave in to Riley Gaines after so little pushback. GOATs don't give into bigots and bullies.

These people are pathetic. They're going after trans reporters who dare to question their objectivity, when the truth is that they've probably done more than any other legacy media outfit to harm trans people.

Is there any conspiracy that's too paranoid for these people? They probably want to formally investigate their shadows . . .

All I have is a Bachelor's in Econ but I could have told you that sucking tens of thousands of laborers out of the workforce per month would deliver a pretty big hit to GDP. Plus the effects of completely cratering government spending in key areas . . .

It's nice that Bloomberg points out that this is blatantly illegal and part of an overall strategy to persecute trans people, and that the FTC has already been illegally weaponized against other groups. I expect that the inevitable NYT story will be quite different in tone.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9. web.archive.org/web/20250908...

If this is really what the AMA source said, then I cringe at just how poorly this medical doctor understands trans people. In all my years of working with trans youth, I've never seen a case where a kid wanted surgery and there wasn't "serious need."

This is so horrifying that words simply can't express

I've noticed this, they're just inventing terms to make medical care for trans people sound harmful. Nothing about GAC is "sex-rejecting" any more than a diabetic taking insulin is "hormone-rejecting" or getting eyeglasses is "sight-rejecting."

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

Your Sunday morning long read ⬇️ If you’re not trans and you think trans people protest too much… I’m the mother of Alice a trans woman who died by suicide… this stuff matters…mainstream media isn’t reporting it because they’re complicit in it… Here’s why trans people and allies alike protest…

Nice to see him showing up for abortion rights, but he's already helping criminalize healthcare for trans youth

In the States, Therapy First is also pushing falsehoods about suicide among trans youth, and being permitted to teach these lies in continuing education to therapists www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Hillary Cass is killing children

Amazing work. We should make all 42 of them feel ashamed of themselves.

How does this inform anyone or make anything better? Newspapers aren't simply microphones. They have a responsibility to contextualize the people they platform, especially when they say things that are patently false.

Yay, AI has reached the point of reproducing creepy sci-fi book covers from the 1950s

Violence against animals is a well-known predictor of DV and many other awful anti-social behaviors

Truly amazing to watch the oligarchs resist the release of the Epstein files with all their might, and when it became impossible to stop their release, transitioning to "yeah, of course I'm in the files, it's the best place to be"

Modern conservatism is just a philosophy of winners and losers and doing whatever it takes to be a part of the in-group and to hurt the out-groups. That's not winning. That's just making yourself miserable and making the world a worse place. People like this will never understand that.

Where do you even start with something like this?

Why do the Democrats find it so hard to just say that conservatives are anti-science know-nothings?

We threaten the patriarchy because we choose to be women or men and can be. It was always about strictly defining gender roles based on biology in order to subordinate anyone who isn't a straight white cis male. Being a pick me TERF won't save any of these women.

Reading this fills me with so much hope and determination

I can't imagine any life more likely to bring about misery than to be an absolute gooberish asshole with skin the thickness of a fly's wings

1. I think most liberals are probably familiar with one part of what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank Wilhoit put it in 2018: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

This is the OG Cass Review. They tried this all before. They failed. This will fail. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluat...

A systematic review of 52 studies found that trans women don't have any advantage over cis women, but of course this will do nothing to stop the bigotry and exclusion being directed at trans women medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

The Republicans are the party of things that never happened

Totally normal to go off in a frothing rage over the word "cisgender." Incidentally, I'm not sure if this woman understands how language works, but all words are made up.

Speaking of a lack of evidence of any benefits, that's not deterring them from operating on cis teens. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

Wow, this is truly amazing cowardice and hypocrisy.

The media should really be reporting on this bill. Aside from being absurdly undemocratic, it is far far beyond the pale for how dehumanizing and harmful it is to trans people. It's really just meant to expose us to threat and make us want to die.

Being trans in a world of electronic databases is knowing that no matter what you do, how long you live with your legally changed name, how many locations you correct it in, someone will find a way to deadname you.