Yeah, that tracks. “A bunch of people think this will happen so we’ll treat it as news” is a perfectly logical extension of the mainstream news media’s obsession with presenting conservative grievances as serious issues.

we actually life in hell

Important thing I like to remember in times like this is that regardless of what transphobic ghouls say their “valid concerns” with us existing in society is, that it really boils down to them finding us icky. Multiple countries are trying to exterminate us because they don’t like how we look.

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK. The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented. And the result is endless horror.

Cis men, you must do the same for your trans brothers. Solidarity with all is the only way out of this hellscape.

Not gonna lie lads, it’s fucking bleak over here. Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women. I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.

Just saw a porn video of a cis girl in which the last two words of the four-word title were "caged puppygirl" and I honestly think this counts as stolen valour at this point

"it's just been so hard to trust anyone since all this shit with trump" I mean sure, I get that - lord knows I feel the same way - but why was your first attempt to get back on the trusting-other-people horse a virtual casino where you gamble on imaginary land deeds

"I did everything right, anyone could have done the same" my friend, I understand you feel betrayed but I have never in my entire life been told, or had any reason to think, that a computer program can generate infinite money out of thin air by remixing Dreamworks cartoons for an audience of no one

if you want a picture of the future it's being held hostage to increasingly preposterous people saying "I couldn't have possibly known better" in more and more ridiculous situations

it's kind of a moral obligation to bully harry potter fans into making them feel insecure with themselves. you don't even have to mention rowling being a snivelling fascist. you can just point out every harry potter fan is a 12 year old who never grew up with poorly developed taste

"...when that anger subsides..." Bitch the anger you perceive is gonna subside because we'll be fucking dead. You just want us silent and obedient, but refuse to understand what that actually means is "dead and gone".

"My hope is that the message that the (insert minority) community gets from this is not one of betrayal, but is one of our desire to continue to maintain those friendships and that support,...when that anger subsides the (insert minority) community will know that we stand with them." Nope.

Cis privilege

What is especially galling is that, for WI and GG, this is a single decision. It's done and they can face fallout and go about their lives as if nothing happened. For trans people, there will be ANOTHER similar decision tomorrow, and the next day, ... And we're supposed to "be calm."

This is such patronizing "this is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you" bullshit. I hate bigot diplomacy speak.

It's just exhausting to see how many people will gladly parrot "trans rights are human rights" and "trans women are women" whilst still clearly believing neither of those things.

“Yeah we’re betraying you because our entire country has been ideologically captured by one castle dwelling billionaire’s recreational sadism hobby, but please don’t be mad at us. We can still be friends, you just have to accept being subhuman compared to us.”

"“My hope is that the message that the transgender community gets from this is not one of betrayal, but is one of our desire to continue to maintain those friendships and that support,...when that anger subsides the transgender community will know that we stand with them." Nope, it's betrayal.

'People love to act like Nazi Germany is some evil monolith, but the truth is that the vast majority of Nazi soldiers are decent people who reflect the society they come from.'

“All this is going to impact cis women too.” Y’know, what? Fucking Good! If continuing to enable conservatives’ genocidal obsession with us winds up hurting more and more people “real” people, then maybe that’s what needs to happen for things to change.

They are trying to drive us out of public life. They are trying to make us unemployable. Understand: this is an effort to exterminate us.

Whilst it is absolutely true that the lawfare deployed against charities in particular, but also many other businesses, is an existential threat to them, I think it is also fair for us to be furious that the choice is always "fuck them trannies" and continued existence.

You can choose to be a shield and champion, or you can choose to step aside and let the vulnerable die. If you choose the latter, we who are targeted owe you no leeway, latitude, nor empathy for your decision. We're under risk no matter what. We don't have the luxury to step aside.

just for anyone who lost track; The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.

You have the choice to sacrifice trans people. Perhaps it will save you. But you don't get to ask trans people to accept the role as sacrifice. You cannot expect understanding, acceptance, forgiveness, or respect. You made your choice.

The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival... ...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.

most of the time when i encounter a gloating transphobe on here it's a cis man. they rarely even hide behind a 'woman' sock account anymore.

Once more, I lament how deeply transphobic it is that we can’t shoot deadly lasers through the internet.

The whole point of the transphobic attacks is to weaken and destroy women's organizations and the solidarity among women All organizations that allow themselves to be one way or another coopted by that reactionary anti feminist, anti trans ideology, will eventually fail So divided they shall fall

I'm sorry family hiding in my attic, but I've had to betray you to the Gestapo because they threatened me with *checks notes* a single lawsuit I could well have won Sorry about that, love and kisses

Very telling they talk about ’trans anger’ but the terfs threatening to sue are never talked about in terms of having unreasonable anger they need to get over. They want to convince themselves this isn’t a betrayal. The Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association has done more to protect women

Being trans is awesome, you get thrown under the bus and if you're not happy about it, you get lectured about how cis people are more important than you

I made the unfortunate mistake of letting my girlfriend know about the Spongebob Burger King collab, which means we’re probably going to Burger King at some point.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

terfs back in the day: we don't want to strip trans ppl of their rights we just have concerns about self id terfs now: trans ppl don't exist and shouldn't be allowed to participate in society. anybody who disagrees will be subject to vexatious lawsuits @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social: sounds reasonable

This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.

Joanne will never run out of money because people keep buying her stuff, and so this will keep happening. SLAPP after SLAPP until trans people are completely drummed out of public existence and nobody will do a thing about it

please keep to heart that each and every one of these attempts to eradicate trans women from public life, from professors to girl guides, is a form of misogyny so efficient in how it keeps the regime of sexual difference intact that it smoothly undercuts everyone else's rights

the stranglehold of sex/gender frees itself just a bit and the collective response to this is to double down. nobody wants to be free, they just want to wear the boot. learned helplessness.

very funny to me that both liberal and radical feminist legal policy are complete and utter failures of projects because in response to a situation where "boys" want to play with girls and associate with girls the response by the state is to ban this to ensure it's either become a patriarch or die

boys being boys (being violent to girls & queer people & each other) is just normal and fine of course. that's the whole damn ruling class of [insert country here]. god forbid a "boy" exists who likes hanging out with girls and she herself is a girl who considers other girls her equals

what really sucks is this guy’s, like, 5% off from being a rad mf but boy howdy is that 5% a doozy

there is no debate to be had. its polemic. and it goes back to terfs kicking trans women out of lesbian conferences and turning around and insisting that their cis boyfriends were allies enough to be there in the 70s. i cant meet "you dont think im human" with logic.

its really really worth pointing out that when a transphobe calls a trans woman a man, they are NOT calling her a man under patriarchy, or telling her to get back into place. they are degendering her, they are dehumanizing her. the goal Is to say "look at that THING"

No joke, I was coming on here to post something NEARLY IDENTICAL but this says it even better. I'd love to just... Not be disabled. That'd be cool. It ain't in the cards, tho, so if people can stop being trash, that'd be cool.

I get the impression that this type of thing is supposed to scare me, but a side effect of treating white people as the default form of humanity is that some of them are going to feel a stronger connection to humanity as a whole than to whiteness specifically.

I’m drinking this giant purple ball of alcohol. And since this brand is women founded, doing that is an act of feminism.

Dan Houser of GTA fame lays down some truths.