someone recently resurfaced this one for me.

My inbox blew up overnight after publishing this. Faculty at Angelo State are NOT happy.

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

2/ “Gender critical” is a sanitised label chosen by those opposing trans rights. It makes a political project that restricts healthcare & legal protections sound like harmless “critical thinking.”

3/ “Trans activist,” meanwhile, reduces trans people & allies to agitators. It ignores that trans people are simply fighting for dignity & safety, not pushing an ideology. One side gets intellectual respectability. The other gets pathologised.

We don’t talk enough about the seething resentment many terfs harbour for younger women and feminists.

Everyone always leaves the “and all the Jewish people die or convert” part out of the rapture discussion.

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

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?

Some populations are much more likely to take Tylenol during pregnancy than others. These rates also change over time. If Tylenol caused autism not only would the evidence make it obvious, you would be reading about it in a peer-reviewed journal, not hearing it from a far-right anti-vaxx crank.

FELLOW CANADIANS REMEMBER TO SIGN THIS PLEASE IT IS VERY MUCH WORTH YOUR TIME. In case you need any convincing, I've got a small thread about it

Abolish ICE

centrist: come on. we need to work together on this! no. actually. we don't. i want to replace you with a government that is actually useful. all my life we've done things the 'centrist' way and it doesn't work. it hasn't achieved anything worthwhile and everyone is suffering for it.

The most insane “anti-porn” bill I’ve seen yet The “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act” would criminalize visual, audio, or written depictions of “sex acts,” with language broad enough to ban distribution of When Harry Met Sally & romance novels .. and that's not even the worst of it 🧵

This is dangerous and not unsurprising in the UK today!

I don't think a lot of younger folks realize what a bfd #MeToo was, and the deep resentment and anger felt by a certain segment of powerful men at the very idea that they shouldn't have the privilege of abusing and taking advantage of women that they'd always felt entitled to.

White nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has never been more popular, and he has a plan in place to leverage that popularity to infiltrate all aspects of US society to spread his racist, antisemitic worldview. And it's already happening... www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

As expected of the Lib Dems tbh. More wishful thinking trying to converse and reason with those who want us eliminated from public life🤦‍♀️. Its clear the Lib Dems are not going to be the party of trans liberation, and anyone pretending they are needs to open their eyes and reconsider the green party.

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

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

This would carry more weight if you hadn't spent the last year cheerleading for the Cass Report

My step-mother, in the context of the SC ruling fallout, told me earlier this year she's "not an activist" so wouldn't write to her MP, but she wanted me to know she's praying for me. So now I know what she would've been doing had she lived in 1930s Germany, as her non-Aryan neighbours vanished...

"don't even take my word for it, as a politician, listen to British doctors, British scientists" says Wes Streeting about paracetamol. Never heard him say that once about trans healthcare.

It is hardly the point but a) trans people existed in Medieval Europe, b) lots of currencies were used in Medieval Europe, not just gold, which was in fact uncommon, c) alchemy was a lot more common in early modern Europe, d) women are not a commodity you absolute weapons????

Let's look at how Trans+ kids' voices were sidelined in new sex ed 'Section 28 2.0' rules over: 🔴 Sex Matters 🔴 Transgender Trend 🔴 Safe Schools Alliance 🔴 Bayswater Support Group “It was still clear that they valued other viewpoints (specifically transphobic viewpoints) above ours." 🧵

I've always said that in the UK you're more likely to get into trouble for calling someone a bigot than you are for being a bigot. People have this unrealistic notion that all bigots are loud and angry, so when they meet a quiet and polite bigot, they're completely disarmed and unprepared.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

These people are REALLY weird, obsessing about trans women in prison in NI when there are no trans women in prison NI.

a much smarter, less white person than I once described dystopias as "what if it happened to white people"

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Buddy, nobody's saying they want you and Chuck to put your heads together and cook up a plan. Nobody's saying that because no one's thickheaded enough to waste their breath wishing for something that won't happen and wouldn't work. They're saying it's time to go now.

We had the "goodwill and common sense" compromise in sports. Conservatives lied repeatedly about it. No one bothered to look into whether they were telling the truth, and now we're here. Same exact thing happened with youth gender care.

It’s easy to condemn a resistance born from oppression when you’re looking through the lens of a free and fair society. How privileged we are to wag our fingers at people fighting for survival while their people are massacred and starved

Errr... Trump has been saying EXACTLY the same things as Streeting when it comes to trans children's healthcare.

Our director, @evangreer.bsky.social discusses the QueersAgainstCensorship.com campaign with Jim + Margery on Boston Public Radio, calling on @edmarkey.bsky.social + @warren.senate.gov to oppose dangerous censorship legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA).youtu.be/7MvXU1Fy7bE

"Protesters took to squares, streets, transport hubs, ports, university campuses, and other spaces in more than 75 cities and towns, rallying under the call to “Block Everything.” Places including schools, train stations, and retail stores were shut for the day."

"Italian labor unions led a massive 24-hour general strike on Monday to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, with estimates of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallying in dozens of cities across Italy."

it's incredibly irresponsible and grotesque, and the editors absolutely understand the dynamic all the way to the bank.

like, if you gave Julia Serano that platform, she would explain that trans people threaten no one and then why would scared cis parents buy the magazine?!

and it's depressing because...like, the reason he gets these gigs is that the number of trans people is very small, but the number of cis parents is large, and moral panics aimed at parents are a surefire way to get clicks.

it is so fucking depressing that the go to author on trans issues is the guy who (a) is not trans, (b) has no real expertise, and (c) frames trans issues as a moral panic for cis parents. 1

Like I said: they are MURDERING random brown people in boats simply because they want to. Caracalla in Alexandria levels of sadistic psychopathy.

When we came out as trans we suddenly stopped being invited to the thanksgiving and christmas dinners we were going to for 8ish years 🙃

There is a deep reluctance on the part of Western populations and their politicians to accept that "mass immigration" is just how the global economy unavoidably works now.

Hey, if you're pissed about the terrible moderation and increasingly unsafe environment for marginalized people, why not leave a review saying so? That'll probably have more impact than a tiny portion of people leaving, especially considering they don't want us here anyway I just did this

DO NOT go back to twitter that is the hitler site. i am dead serious with this shit. its main role as a de-facto organ of the trump admin is to facilitate nazi propaganda. you cannot be posting your doodles on the "euthanize all trans people" forum just because they still allow pornography

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Everfuckinggreen There's a decent paycheck waiting for any cis writer who wants to write chin-stroking articles about trans 'issues,' but a couple of quarters and a cigarette butt for the trans writers standing on the media corner with the sign reading "Will write about my people for food."

what if trans people were worth as much as a talk show host, collectively if not individually, as a treat

to put capitalistic institutions' crusade against NSFW content (including female nipples) in perspective for those of who you are thinking "but I don't consume NSFW content, so why would this affect me?"