I work in IT and every single day I have to explain to people of all ages stuff like "where the wifi button is" or "if you click that fifty times it won't make it open any faster" or "no, it's not normal for your laptop battery to be swelling up like that".

One day a journo is gonna ask why it’s acceptable to raise taxes on EVERYONE except the top 1-2%. Not today tho. Probably not tomorrow either. But one day. I have hope.

*trans girl*: "so not only is a concept of gender as complex and diverse important, at a young age this can help develop theory of mind earlier and with increased empathy. The world would be a kinder place if we simply accepted that people are who they say they are." *cis person*: "as a Hufflepuff

Okay my big old person gripe is that no one knows what a URL is anymore. The number of times at work I give someone a website address and they just google keywords from it and act like I've done something wrong when they go to the wrong site is MADDENING

Peppermint Patty once got caught up in #RAPTURE talk at a summer camp she and Marcie attended. It got intense for her, even with level-headed Marcie trying to help her not fear tomorrow since "it was already tomorrow in Australia."

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If autism is going to be described as a "problem", we should specify who autism is a problem FOR. The problem isn't autism. The problem is a society that treats autism like a problem to solve instead of adapting to the reality that neurodiversity is normal.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Being autistic is a good thing, actually, just like being trans is a good thing, just like how whatever kind of person you are is probably a good thing. There are just lots of kinds of people, and that doesn't require explanation or justification

IT WOULD BE FUCKEN GREAT IF THE SCEPTICISM THAT THE NZ MEDIA HAS SHOWN TO "TYLENOL CAUSES AUTISM" COULD BE APPLIED TO "GENDER AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE IS BAD" BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH FUCKING LIES SPREAD BY THE FAR RIGHT

it’s very not new & surprise is not a prerequisite to disgust & i welcome folks telling them “eat shit” over the latest thing & love cancelled subscriptions but i *do* think if you cancel you should also bring up the time they yanked a cartoon about anti trans bigotry before trump even took office.

Oh great, Baby Yoda wisecracks now. That'll distract from the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement

In my job I meet people from a very diverse range of cultures and honestly the notion that any particular group uniformly hold transphobic views just does not make sense to me. The majority of people, of any background, seem fine with talking with me! Strange but true!

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.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

The same in New Zealand, though it's pretty clear that the infantile reaction of some people to being asked to do something they didn't want to do has been relentlessly encouraged by bad actors. I don't think things would have been nearly as bad if certain grifters hadn't seen an opportunity.

"[P]olice have charged more than 10 people" - in a very marginally better world, this would include Winston Peters for incitement to violence.

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LRP, with British media trying so hard to make it seem like Charlie Kirk matered over here, we should be glad the most recent season of Who didn't air later in the year, the BBC would absolutely have pulled the Conrad episodes if it was going out now.

Absolutely zero reflection from Harris on how this exact centrist vacillating over peoples' fundamental rights made her a weak candidate and a poor defender of American democracy. Even now, as her country crumbles, she feels the need to wibble over trans girls playing tennis or whatever

I definitely have done. For quite a while there I was writing a lot of shy, closeted queer girls. Can't imagine why. I've branched out a bit lately, I think the characters in the thing I'm working on now are not quite like anything I've done before (okay they're still queer).

Once again, Jesus Christ, if your own policy would ban, like, The Handmaid's Tale, The Colour Purple, One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Clockwork Orange, Blood Meridian, Measure For Measure, like.... what are we doing here. What is this for

When a character has a strong set of convictions that underpin everything they do and then is, over the course of the story, convincingly motivated to act against them, that's memorable.

Now is a great time to back up those “Trans Rights!” statements by hiring trans people so they have the ability to afford to live.

How many headlines now have started with "Chris Hipkins stops short of" do you think

Surely some of these media companies are gonna figure out that everything they produce that people actually watch is vulnerable to these manufactured moral panics. What are they gonna make if the only audience they're allowed to appeal to is MAGA? And will it be in any way profitable?

Trans rights are human rights, but the bad news is people also hate human rights.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

BBC news showing the Trump protest in London, Sylvester McCoy has just appeared on a vox pop.

I had a music teacher at Intermediate who told us she thought there was something unnatural about homosexuality, a topic she segued to from talking about Robbie Williams who she thought was gay because a song of his featured a slang term for cigarettes.

every trans person needs to be on the side of every other trans person right now. even the ones you hate. even the ones you think arent as trans as you. even the ones who are bitches, or jackoffs, or assholes. If they are willing to fight for me, I am willing to fight for them.

How about tackling the rising tide of transphobia, Wes? You know, the thing you have enthusiastically supported and indulged in. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is true of every mainstream outlet at the moment, while it's clearly being pushed by some of the nastiest far right people in NZ. You have to ask what the level of coordination is, especially as some of these people have historically, & recently, been given columns or pride of place for comment

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Jesus Christ, Ryan Murphy, is now really the time for a crossdressing serial killer show?

I dunno, felt cute

This is very good advice I will never ever listen to.

the shooter was just a cis dude but even if he was the most trans person to ever trans it wouldnt justify rounding up all the trans people for crimes they didnt commit, really wish people in positions of power would be saying this

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

Boy, they really want to kill us all right now, don't they? They're utterly determined that this will be the thing that gets trans genocide going properly.

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Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

Yeah, I have loads of stuff worked out about characters I've written that I have found no room for in the actual text. But hey, that's sequel material!

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

literally debunked from the early hours of this morning, why is nz journalism

DC comics planting their flag on the moral high ground on the side of a white nationalist, transphobe while dutifully carrying on his rotten work in the firing of Gretchen Felker-Martin. The characters of the DC universe would find this despicable.