Really do thing Sex Change fell out of fashion cause cishet society didn’t like it rather than any trans people being offended by it. It was always cis society offended at the idea of changing sex and the crudeness of the term to prefer the more euphemistic “gender affirmation”

"Sex is immutable" isn't an observation of reality, because it's obviously false, it's an assertion of power. It's no different as an argument from "marriage is between a man and a woman". Its just bigotry asserting its own power over people demanding equal rights

Sex is both mutable and socially constructed. Trans people change sex. This change comes in a wide variety of forms, social, medical, legal, etc. Trans liberation hinges on the rights to enact and shape these changes, and protections against discrimination for doing so.

I believe that we should all have the right to change sex, freedom from discrimination for changing sex, and access to the means of changing sex socially, bodily, and legally, without being subject to pathologizing regulatory regimes enforcing patriarchal law and mandatory heterosexuality.

I have suggested the "stereotypes" arguments around sex discrimination in the past, but I just re-read the details of the argument and I don't agree with myself anymore. Anti-trans discrimination is discrimination by the discriminator lying about our sex, not on the basis of our sex.

It’s amazing how transphobic family members never see us as women (women), but they always see us as women (derogatory, caretakers).

So, riding a motorcycle back and forth halfway across Texas is not as much fun as I thought it would be. I'm sore, I got caught in a downpour, and I basically only had my helmet adjusted correctly for the last hour. That said, I have no idea what happened today and that's wonderful.

Y'all, are the $47/30 demon guard bandaids worth it for the bit if I use them for my estrogen injections?

I was deeply disappointed to discover that these SSPX guys only have 3 spots in all of Illinois. The pope has not set himself up with good options to make Blues Brothers riffs.

The whole court is rotten.

It doesn’t matter how much evidence there is, they are going to keep lying about it and saying it’s “far from settled” because they don’t like the answer they keep getting!

If the Matrix films were made today Elie for sure would be included on Zions high council!!!

This is the only cis writer in a big publication I have seen who grasps the big picture of the court's BPJ decision. The court packaged this so that 95% of people are blind to what the decision actually means: trans women have NO protections under Title IX & Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amnd.

I promise I have laughed harder than someone doing the bare minimum at their job.

This is the best normal article on this decision that I have seen so far. It treats everything very seriously and wonderfully. I realize now that Clarence Thomas's hateful screed gave Kavanaugh cover to be hateful but seem less bad in comparison. Their conspiracy is so many levels of gross.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

This is really good, the only problem is that 99% of people are emotionally incapable of learning what “social construct” means.

The point is not that biology is immaterial. It's that the division of human bodies into binary "sex categories" based on biological clustering is a social construct on at least two levels of analysis, and that, per Butler, our very sex categories were "gender all along".

as always one must understand that when they say "women's safety" or "children's safety," they mean "protecting cis men's property from contamination or property damage." they mean "asset safety."

Yesterday we had the supreme court issue an opinion with some of the most bigoted language on the planet about trans people, almost finish wiping their asses with the constitution, and all the discourse today is about how the gay rights movement did everything wrong while winning the right to marry.

i'm turning the supreme court green

Even if we're going to be ruled by cis men who refuse to acknowledge this fact, I need every cis person who wants to support us to say the truth of the matter loudly and often: Sex (yes, SEX) is neither immutable nor binary. Reality will not change just because cis ppl disgusted by us demands it

You can change your sex.

oh will this hurt cis people? cis people are making their bed, they can fucking lay in it. protect trans girls.

My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.

I can apparently no longer use this app without a VPN because it can’t be used in Texas.

I am blasting all of my hottest takes all over the place today. I'm not that interesting, but I am frustrated.

So, I know a lot of people hate her right now, but Jules Gill-Peterson had that article about a trans woman being heard during testimony that lead to the 14th amendment and I think someone else revisiting that could be useful going forwards.

I’m sorry, but I have to circle back to this. Kavanaugh repeatedly cites weight as an “enduring” sex trait. At what weight do we distinguish between male and female???

tapping the sign

Any judge who allows someone to cite Kavanaugh without holding them in contempt should be removed from the bench. The same should be true for the other 3 who refuse to acknowledge the constitution.

I am not heartened to see that the big gay orgs are pretending today’s decision was only about trans kids and not trans people in general.

This is because taking hormones changes sex traits, even if SCOTUS is too ignorant to read a single study on any of this.

If it was so self-evident and unassailable there wouldn't be sweeping authoritarian bans on changing sex.

Even the liberal justices toe the line on sex as an immutable essence, as though the unquantifiable "male advantage" will forever persist in the face of interventions up to and including the very prevention of a male puberty. This is why liberal defences of trans people fail. Y'all fucking suck.

The best thing about commenting under a @katie.bzky.team post is that she’ll like your reply even if she likely has no idea what you’re talking about!

Hey, if you're a sober girl like me, this shit is really hard right now. Anyway, don't break sobriety. It's hell right now but drinking or drugs won't make it better. I promise. The world is dark and scary but no matter what we stay sober. Okay?

If sex is immutable, someone please explain how I managed to grow a beard

feels like people moved too quickly past the period where emails were coming out from the exact kinds of people making these decisions being like "haha yeah trans women are uniquely abusable sex toys and trans men are ruined breeding stock" and back to just accepting the projection as sincere

Clarence Thomas is not a biology expert Sex is bimodal - it's why intersex people exist Sex is mutable - it's why HRT works Transness is innate - it's why we have existed throughout human history and across cultures He and the court are the ones who lie

I am Lance. do you see that I am your friend? can you see that you will always be my friend?

"The differences include, among other things, height, weight, strength, speed, endurance, and jumping ability." Hormones literally change EVER SINGLE ONE OF THESE. Not only did the guy who say the 14th doesn't protect us, he also says it doesn't protect birthright citizen ship.

Today does show, especially the 5-4 birthright citizen case, that there is not a single redeemable person on this court. Packing it isn't the answer, rebuilding it from the ground up, is!

I’m avoiding too much fear by daydreaming about what would happen if the scotus conservatives had staffers who were literate and could read medical journals.

At this point I'm wondering if I have an opinion or physical characteristic that DOESN'T make assholes call me a terrorist.

"Trans people always knew they were trans" My family went to GREAT lengths to hide it from me, but looking back it was so obvious that if I had only had an idea it was a possibility the pieces would have fallen in to place perfectly. Instead it took 30 years.

I’m not really loving the thing today where all of the trannies who got bashed by the cops are getting called Nazis.

I have been re-reading @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's report from the SCOTUS arguments and it has been helping me with the doomed feelings I have been having about this case. The anti-trans sentiment and cooption that have occurred this month have made me extra scared and I shouldn't let them.

WTF? FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! I was not expecting this one either, just due to my general pessimism. Love to see Carpenter get stronger/survive.

Wow, that is a federal judge explicitly accusing the federal government of setting out to commit genocide, unless this has an implicit "Plaintiffs allege that" that I'm missing?