No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.

I hit three years on HRT yesterday. And despite the world - - I am happier, healthier, and so much more alive than I have ever been.. It's been worth it all.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

*inventing Bluetooth* Well, it works about 60% of the time. That’ll probably be good enough forever.

Why do we expect trans folks to know that they were trans at the youngest possible ages--4 or 5 or even younger--when we know so many of us take so much longer to figure it out? It's time to talk about The Story, as Stained Glass Woman returns with a mega-sized, 5,000-word article!

This. PLEASE. Especially if you consume a lot of news these days. The actual, literal objective of the firehose of terror they're drowning us in is to put as many people as possible into limbic system burnout. They need us to feel vulnerable all the time. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29175078/

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

This is what I use to call senators and house reps during this important time. I actually learned about it thru Bluesky so thanks for that. Don’t stop, keep going. 5calls.org

Can anyone recommend me accounts to follow that are just plain joyful or nerdy or delightful? I wanna change up my feed some.

Happy 72nd birthday, Singer, Songwriter, and Actress Cyndi Lauper. 🎂

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

I could have told you people using chatgpt are stupid, but it's cool you've got data on it

It's not a one in a million shot. Not even a one in ten million shot. For a sense of perspective, finding each detransitioner who turned out to be cis, unaided, is harder than finding one specific person in New York City without a photo, name, or contact info. Like, think about the scale of that.

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

fun fact, "opening your heart" and "engaging your core" is just yoga speak for sticking your tits out and sucking in your tummy

I finished a book. The first of this year. In 2025 I took my pea sized, phone-rotted, attention spanless brain and finished a bloody book. I'm unstoppable.

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

1. A landmark study has found major flaws in the Cass Review. Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal. This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I cannot believe that 1) my wedding is in the New York Times 2) they didn't mention the many Star Trek references at my wedding Ya girl walked down the aisle as a string quartet played the DS9 theme 😁 and they did the TNG theme when we recessed as husband & wife! 🥰 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/s...

LIf it wasn't for the fact that the Pope, his employees and some of his customers, especially the US franchise, has a bug up their ass about me, I'd blissfully live my life entirely uncaring of Papal business. And also they'd need to stop with the kiddie fucking and general abuse.

When Tom Holland appears on my TL, I'm contractually obligated to share this joy

When things are actually brutal for someone or some group, you don't have to invent injuries and insults. "It's so brutal that, to demonstrate it, I'm going to invent someone saying something mean to them". And that when making it up, he choose mean words. How lucky are you to think that's brutal?

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

SURPRISING: we interviewed a hundred women and this is apparently the ideal male body type!

To celebrate my second anniversary here on Bluesky, I've made a donation to Trans Lifeline, because, right from the start, Bluesky wouldn't be Bluesky without its trans folks. translifeline.org

I tried pinapple on a pizza and I am suffused with regret that I have wasted so much of my life thinking pineapple was a subpar pizza topping.

Your hostess with the mostest has logged on.

I am amazed at how many people are clearly using chatGPT to handle all their communication with potential dates. I just want to ask one "what's your plan for the actual date, when you have to open your mouth and come up with your own words"?

Illegal lesbians

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

I'm a simple girl. Every time I see a thread posted with Unknown Number, I stop to read the entire thing

How you immediately know it's a good bar

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

"What's the reason for living? In this dark time what makes you move forward?" My family. The people I love can bring me hope and joy even when I worry there's nothing left.

In this op-ed, Stacey Monroe, a co-lead with the Trans Empowerment Collective, reflects on experiencing anti-trans harassment, linking the policing of bodies with increased violence ⤵️

Anytime I encounter one of the "XX and XY only" crowd, I dust off my favorite graphic for them and watch their eyes slowly glaze over.

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

You probably saw this one already

it also includes snacks and cuddles