Reading excerpts from yet another book discussing how transition positions "biomedical intervention as necessary" and makes trans people "cathect hope on a for-profit medical industry" and I am done. I am fucking done. This is fucking out of touch with reality and yet rife in trans scholarship.

the NYT draws cis people like tme artists draw trans women

Cis people who avail of HRT and implants and so on "affirm" the right gender, the one they're supposed to, the role they have been charged with embodying all along. Trans people are trying to "affirm" the "wrong" gender. You can't compare these things so reductively, or you'll miss the point.

if he wins the candy desk is gonna look like a crayola box

now that republicans are just calling anybody trans as a slur i wonder which will be the first to use baeddel publicly. i'm waffling between rotten egg repper jd vance and debate pervert ted cruz

texas senate prediction: * R's keep calling talarico trans * he does the democrat thing where he ignores it or responds and implies being trans is insulting * he inevitably loses because Texas * 🌊 blame his loss on trans people: "trans people shackled him and made sure he couldn't respond!"

they're gonna just start calling every democrat trans and democrats need a better response than "ur ugly" or ignoring it

stephen miller: ur senate candidate is a tranny official dem response: ur ugly 🌊: LULZ i hate it here.

i think denying trans women hormones at all of the hospitals your institution runs is right wing.

i think i am starting to lose the lower part of my vocal range because i never really use it for long periods.

this is correct. i do think that how we commonly use the phrase "made up" as a synonym for "fake" gets in the way of many understanding the nuances though. yes, it is all made up but it's also very real. and real things, even made up things, take time and effort to dismantle or reconstruct.

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix. Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection. They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

i took time away from work and it gave me an even clearer perspective of how i hate my job, but unfortunately my family kinda needs the income.

okay, i must have missed something but how did arendelle get involved?

In order to advance ideological hegemony it's helpful that you can read or understand a newspaper - if you're capable of critically evaluating it the same object becomes fuel for a process of ideological development. The disdain a lot of liberal pundits express for social media speaks to this.

They find it inherently threatening to watch the punters participating in debate and argument, working from sources that aren't part of the liberal canon, developing their own concepts and positions to grapple with the world. You're not supposed to do that, you're supposed to be a consumer.

LLMs are the devil. boosters absolutely do not grapple with the large scale psychosocial effects of tech oligarchs shoving this tech into fucking everything. cognitive fucking asbestos.

i love the idea of being depicted as a faceless, emaciated roman centurion living through a false rendition of a past i actually fucking lived through as told by a non trans fem half my age.

nobody making art about trans women wants us to be women, even other trans people. they want us to be something pathetic and wrongly shaped, forever grasping for womanhood, forever failing. they want us to be the tragedy of gender made flesh.

there's a subset who read the cuck article and really went "i'm not a puritan, but the porn is the problem" no you fucking dolts, the anti-black, anti-trans, anti-woman culture is the issue. the porn is just an outlet/sublimation of the psychological conditions our culture manufacturers.

the fastest ive ever seen "male socialization" debunked was the time in a gender studies class three cis men argued if trans women had male privilege for like ten minutes while a trans girl sat patiently with her hand up the whole time

every day this year

how the fuck did i not realize playing bullet chess is just stimming.

starmer's labour is the closest any country has ever come to implementation of the policy of late 1980s "rad fem" cultural feminist policy and the result has been the systematic annihilation of women's spaces and the institution of draconian systems of misogynistic biopolitical control

Today @victoriascott.bsky.social writes about Juniper Blessing, a University of Washington student who was murdered last week, and worries about the potential loss of a better future for young trans people she had always hoped was coming. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-pain-ha...

Brianna Ghey is valuable and has great utility to the transphobes now that they've used her mom to rewrite the narrative from "Brianna was brutally murdered by transphobic classmates who pretended to be her friend" to "Brianna died because her phone convinced her to be trans"

This, from Amnesty International, tells you all you need to know about transphobic bias in UK mainstream media.

i am regularly malefailing in shorts and a crew neck. really need to start becoming more consistent with my voice. both for dysphoria and safety.

Eryka Caldwell and Juniper Blessing should both still be here. Good God what a miserable week.

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are you butch or are you a femme traumatized from when they tried to make you a boy?

i forgot how bad crowds are for my dysphoria, holy shit

if you dedicate thousands of words to complaining about uppity trans women but only a handful to mourning our murders, you're not an ally.

male socialization is when your parents give you all the love in the world but you still grow up with cpstd from neglect because the person they loved wasnt really you, just a shell you were puppeteering to make everyone happy except yourself

I'm not saying every guy with long hair is secretly an egg but it would probably be worthwhile for at least half of them to try estrogen

I'm reluctant to speak up on trans topics these days because it's often not worth the pain caused, so I'm probably going to regret this, but disappointingly a lot of people need to hear this. Accusing trans women of "male socialization" is an astonishingly cruel, callous, and spiteful thing to say.

flight attendant called me a lady and referred to me as dear :) boymode is basically dead for people who've never interacted with me.

i have now gotten a number of men doing double takes today. i'm pretty convinced now that the people around me, including myself, are just blind to slow changes.

i walked out of the men's room while boymoding and a guy was walking in and he definitely did a double take and checked the sign, lmao

gundam wing looks like a standard team mecha but it's actually a trans soap opera starring 5 traumatized eggs

i think "nonmaterial" is reducing material reality to a cost/wage ratio. if i enjoy an ice cream less today than a me would have in the 80's because of the very real, cumulative material impacts of how society is structured, independent of any cost/wage ratio, that is still a material explanation.

democrats do a thing. republicans say no. democrats go ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯. democrats get critiqued for ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯. democrat boosters go BUT THEY TRIED WHAT MORE DO U WANT repeat ad infinitum.

Other people designed the weapon, put it in my hand, and put me in a place to use it, but the primary person who hurt me was me.

oh goddamn it. the whole "hangover you don't deserve" album was a banger though.

Out in the sun getting that base freckle

this too explains the "what do you identify as" and "preferred pronouns" shit at their core, they think our very identities exist solely by virtue of *their grace and goodwill* rather than innately from within ourselves they "put up with" our charade but they don't believe we are who we say we are

A special Happy Mother's Day to all you out there with extra complicated feelings about your mother