I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions

Can we finally acknowledge that we're in an honest-to-god class war and start treating our politicians, bosses, companies, and celebrities accordingly? Endless waves of layoffs and ballooning prices justified by AI spend that nobody wants can't possibly be sustainable. Everything is dogshit now, man

America loves Nazis.

"Why did the casting of a Black actress cause so much controversy?" because small gangs of slobbering gutter racists aided by an unprincipled media landscape in the business of selling outrage have been allowed to run wild. there is literally nothing else to discuss.

Makes me feel insane how many people are like “here’s how this will affect cis people” as if the suffering of trans women, the actual target of this hate campaign and legislative oppression, is just an afterthought

"this was never about trans women, it's about policing gender standards" i mean clarence thomas wrote more or less that trans women are mentally ill men who believe themselves to be women so idk it kinda seems like this might be about trans women

I hate it when people try to tell us to stop being so angry! On social media! It's essentially a demand that trans people just shut up everywhere public not just about our politics, but our experiences, our anger at our oppression, at making our public expression anything other than a PR shtick.

'trans ppl need to stop being mean to allies' okay but telling an ally they're wrong isn't being mean.

Proposing “sex change is a right” as a slogan All aboard the Bring Back Sex Change train choo choo

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Because you’re lying

it's incredible to me how liberal lawyer types still believe that the Supreme Court is (or ever was) about Correct Arguments and Clever Legal Tricks, when it literally has always just been the personal opinions of 5/9 people in robes. They use whatever they need to justify the outcome.

This Court is an openly political body, and by attempting to maintain that fiction, she's lending it additional credibility in its decisions to bring material harm to trans people trying to live their lives. To kids who want to hang out with their friends, denied the opportunity, unanimously.

So upsetting

underappreciated that the racist and lawless position adopted by 4 justices in the birthright citizenship case a few days ago was considered and rejected by justices in *1898* who were like oh woof that's too racist and lawless even for us ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

Every trans adult I've spoken to has thought seriously about the question 'If I had to flee the country, what would I do and where would I go?' As a Jew born in the 1980s, I didn't think this was ever going to be a regular thing in my social circle.

I really can’t get over what the FTC did last night, even for this administration. Here’s the opening of WPATH’s emergency motion to Boasberg last night in response: www.lawdork.com/p/ftc-wpath-...

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.

FUCKING YES This is it. I don't have the vocabulary to express how much this kind of thing matters not in fiction but in the fucking real world. Don't let the colonial-corporate propaganda like this dehumanize ANYONE, it's a seed planted last century that's already starting to sprout.

My life has changed from what it was before Trump took office. Being in Massachusetts is protective, but not perfectly. And the biggest mindfuck is that other Americans don't seem to know it. My sky has fallen and they tappa-tap on their keyboards like "Why is Erin Reed making trans people panic?"

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

It's a hate symbol WITHIN THE USA as well, it's just that no one wants to admit it. When someone rolls up carrying one or on their car or whatever it says a lot, even to other USians, about what that person believes (they are almost always rancid bigots)

how deep did they have to dig to exhume this dead fuckin horse and who in christ's name did they pay to beat it? fuck this respectability bullshit

tap tap

I saw this coming when I realized people were being detained rather than being deported and ties were being severed between parents and children. Don’t call slavery “America’s dark past”

The use of “biological [male | female]” is HIGHLY correlate (~0.86 iirc) with violent hate crimes targeting gender non-conforming people. bsky.app/profile/skyw...

Seems relevant somehow, almost as if "this marginalized group dominates sports!" is part of how right wing bigots operate to generate prejudice. time.com/archive/6881...

"West Virginia v. BPJ thus sends a grim message: Government actors can pass laws that single out trans people for disfavored treatment, and the Court will accept just about any excuse to uphold them."

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

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.

Liberals: well there were valid concerns about trans people but now the case is decided, the fight is over, and that's that The Trump regime:

In 2004 voters in seven states enacted gay marriage bans, some of which are still on the books, and yet every compare/contrast with trans rights is like "look how flawless and careful the gay marriage movement was"

It’s always interesting when I get to explain to a cis person that the current anti-trans hysteria is not only 100% astroturfed, it’s 180° opposite of the initial popular reaction to public medical transition. People thought it was cool! Look what modern medicine can do! She’s a bombshell!

Okay, but she does make one unintentional good point when she tell us that "'Queer' carries an adversarial charge that 'gay' does not, and that charge has a specific intellectual lineage" YES, HONEY, THAT'S WHY WE'RE QUEER⚡💫💋🌺🎉💥

Oh, Poly Pride BTW. I know there are some people who think it's weird to have Pride in this, but frankly? Poly people of all stripes get shit on by society too often for having unconventional relationships and I think that sucks.

"If we do unambiguously good, necessary things that could inspire resentment in assholes" sounds to me like a bonus, not a reason against doing it

Kavanaugh's decision on trans people in sports contains a footnote saying it applies only to trans women, by the way. So trans women can be legally segregated (and his reasoning isn't limited to sports), but he explicitly says it doesn't apply to trans men in any gendered spaces at all.

Whoever wrote this slop article for the NYT today is a bootlicking worm. I’m Queer, Not Gay. It Matters. Liberation Not Assimilation.

I am Queer with a capital Fuck You and Your Respectability Politics.

Ending the Pride month strong, New York Times!

liberals are still doing this today and only talking about how this decision will affect cis girls and not about how the supreme court just made discrimination against an entire group legal

you don't need to see hundreds of dead canaries to do something. you're supposed to do something when you see even one die. you can stop this. you can help us. we need you to help us. we're in this mine with you, you can carry us out with you. we can all escape this mine together.

i need allies to stop looking at the ongoing horrors that trans people are facing and responding with "wow imagine what will happen when this comes for [others]" yeah that'll suck, can we talk about it happening to us RIGHT NOW? we're more than the canary in the coal mine. we deserve to live too.

If you think you are reasonably informed from media coverage and you think the sports bans are fine and fair,I'm sorry to say but nearly everything you've heard on this issue from the anti side has been a complete lie. Yes even about Lia Thomas, the most lied about woman in America.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

Abortion access is an issue of bodily autonomy. Sexual health and education is too. They do not want anyone to have autonomy and self determination. They want to control who you are, what you are. Don't let them.

between SFPD storming the trans march on friday and bringing out a whole riot team to violently assault trans people out clubbing on saturday (ZERO articles about this), the brutality during pride weekend is unconscionable. please support everyone who was arrested. if you wanna be an ally, chip in:

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

I'm so sad. No one should be forced to remain closeted in order to meaningfully participate in the sports they love. That's what I was forced to do and no one should experience that.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...