i'd like to get another client in today so i can cover a new hairpiece to relieve some dysphoria

who the fuck said Jubilee sucks point me to them I will fuck them up

"You should stop HRT eventually--" No. Fuck you.

I've been out since 2016 (and have been embedded in the community since ~2008-2009, yeah I was the stereotypical over-enthusiastic ally before I came out), and I can completely concur. Things are MUCH more rough then they were 2 years ago (let alone 5, or 10 years ago).

Kind of crazy that little ol’ me is in an issue with She’s Green and Glixen. The interview we did will eventually make its way to the blog, but Kamola puts a ton of work into the digital magazine edition that’s out today.

If you’re in PDX and are interested in playing in an unapologetically queer shoegaze band with aspects of doom, post-metal/rock, and trip-hop, shoot me a message.

I’ve been out since 2012. It’s never been as difficult, as stressful, or as dangerous as it is now. Never. And as far as I can tell, we’re the only ones who even notice.

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

15 Democrats voted YES to detransition people:

ICYMI Missouri very quietly passed into law the forced detransition of prison inmates as part of a Department of Corrections budget change in HB 2009. forcing someone to detransition is torture at best and murder at worst. guillotines.

without HRT trans women develop holes in our bones, severe mental distress & mutilation of our transitioned bodies. we're being force-detransitioned, endlessly raped in male prisons & cut off from medicine we need to live, & all liberals can say is "but what if they DO have an advantage in sports??"

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

I’ve been listening to this all morning. Highly recommended if you’re looking to while away your work day.

“Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

My release pick for the day - well worth your time!

One time on my newsletter I compared Chuck Schumer to a slug

My latest over at Public Notice, thanks to @atrupar.com for letting me guest write again. Democratic leadership needs to read the room, and give their constituents what they want, otherwise their constituents will find someone who does. www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic...

hey! @brandtandstein.com liked JUST ANOTHER SUMMER, maybe you will too! A queer trans YA romcom graphic novel, out Aug 4 from @maverickogn.bsky.social @madcavestudios.com! Pre-orders open now! tinyurl.com/JASvol1

If you're in the UK and consider yourself an ally to trans people, please sign.

"Because it's the right thing to do", "Because human rights are not negotiable" and "Fuck you, make me" all cut right through the noise and yet so many find them impossible to say

With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a

Kind of crazy that little ol’ me is in an issue with She’s Green and Glixen. The interview we did will eventually make its way to the blog, but Kamola puts a ton of work into the digital magazine edition that’s out today.

Probably my favorite insult word.

This is cool (the first one especially)

@gluesenkampperez.house.gov believes "you don't get good policy like from the feds." I'll say that's true while she is there not pushing for good policy. She also says "the rush to moralize is not necessarily effective." I'll say to that, I'll take my moral advice from someone who seems to have some

Thinking about Knowles’ speech at CPAC 2023 where he declared that “transgenderism must be eradicated” and how people dogpiled trans people who called it what it was. Even then, people were out in droves to tell us it was hyperbolic metaphor.

The use of the word “eliminate” in this context should really freak out more than just those of us he’s seeking to remove, to be honest. This should be a red flag so big that it’s visible from space.

YOUR REGULAR REMINDER THAT THE UN DEFINES GENOCIDE AS "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a group... [including] Causing serious bodily or mental harm.. .. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part..." Yes.

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

Yell at your electeds and everyone who wants your vote all the goddamn time and tell them to fight for trans rights with everything they have. And find your local trans rights groups and support the hell out of them. And help get money/jobs to trans people who need help in your community.

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

well that's fucking amazing. good lord, lmao, thank god this comedian pulled it out of the fire.

I have been thinking about adding a 4th member to the band. Specifically someone to fill out lead lines & textures on our newer material & reinterpret some of our back catalog into something darker/heavier. That could be someone on synths or possibly guitar.

Me explaining to all the grungegaze kids how popular nu-metal was in the 00s.

Couldn't be prouder of the five we made, but I had at least two seasons more in me. Wanted to hit up the Delta and Gamma quadrants. One more Vindicta holodeck movie. Meet a weirdly nice leftover Weyoun, more stories with the whales and Kayshon, T'Lyn and Ensign Olly. Lots of stuff.

‘trans girls do not morally deserve a college education’

This framework, in which trans girls "don't count" and are "invaders" is one you have to occupy to believe there's something wrong with a trans girl getting a scholarship a cis girl vied for. If we belong there, it's just competition, and the best wins, right? Nothing to be concerned about.

it's the exact same framework in both cases, utilizing white cis kids as the prop to make you angry at the imagined invaders "stealing" advantages from the deserving

HR 822 requires trusted adults (school employees, counselors, coaches as well as doctors & other health workers) to monitor children for signs of gender stereotype non-conformance and report them. Non-compliance results in steep fines and criminal punishment. This goes into effect in Idaho today.

I have been thinking about adding a 4th member to the band. Specifically someone to fill out lead lines & textures on our newer material & reinterpret some of our back catalog into something darker/heavier. That could be someone on synths or possibly guitar.

No cis friends have reached out to me, no.

"The ruling essentially defines trans women and girls as men and boys under Title IX law. Even the liberal judges conceded that Title IX sex protections are based on 'biological sex,' a recently invented political term that seeks to create legitimacy for people’s assigned sex at birth.

I don't actually really think it matters whether trans people would dominate in sports if they were allowed to play (even though I think there's a lot of evidence that this would not happen). Why the fuck CAN'T a trans woman win at sports? Are they not allowed?

This is cope. It was, in fact, *incredibly* radical and subversive to be an out gay person for most of American history. Casting yourself as a pick-me and publicly shaming other LGBT people for Doing Activism Wrong is not going to make the bigots like you. You are doing the bigots' work for them.

With the talk of the #Bandcamp layoffs and that not really painting them in a good light, let me offer you a piece of advice If you have bought my #music from there but not downloaded it for yourself, *download* it! I am migrating to Subvert and if Bandcamp were to utterly collapse

In Glusenkamp-Perez's world, trans girls don't deserve scholarships? Trans girls whose parents drive them to practice for the last 12 years don't deserve a shot? Because I can tell you this much, trans girls aren't getting scholarships from programs for boys.

In this framework, trans girls are viewed as illicit usurpers and invaders who OF COURSE do not deserve to compete for scholarships and college. The framework itself - "sympathy for these mothers of cis daughters, who might lose an opportunity!" seeks to de-legitimize trans girls, to other them.

New black kid stole my spot at harvard just dropped bsky.app/profile/atru...