Everyone who tried to hand it to her for making some vague anti-Trump noises can go jump in a lake

This is really important and also please remember "trans" is an adjective not a noun. Whenever I see someone saying "I support trans" (as opposed to "I support trans people") the next word is always "but".

The Twelve Days of Christmas is so funny. "Here's four days of birds. Oh you don't want birds? Okay here's five gold rings. PSYCH! Two more days of birds! Okay seriously, I hear you, no more birds. You know what's EVEN BETTER than birds?"

Me living an unexamined life: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me living an examined life: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck

(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee

It's me, I'm dumbarses (guy who loves both these songs)

When I was in high school my dad made me memorize the definition of fascism from the back of my history textbook and I was like "why, there's not going to be a test on this" but I was wrong, I just didn't expect it to be a practical exam.

This is so real, I'm scared of bathrooms because of transphobes who actually do attack and accost people, they're scared of bathrooms because of something they made up

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.

I'm sorry but cis people are also going to have to suffer. Banning trans people, quarantining the harm to only hit trans people in order to save the organization- in order to preserve its value to cis people, in order to spare cis people- is simply transphobia, is treating us as disposable.

Speaking as the president of an NGO and as a trans woman: when orgs decide to abandon a group, to sacrifice them, it is not that group’s job to “understand how hard it would have been to fight.” If trans people hope to survive, it is our job to make that abandonment costly as hell. Make them hurt.

I think it's neat how both transphobes who wish us harm and "allies" who reluctantly sacrifice us to save their institutions are upset when we're vocal about it. You can't make those choices and also have trans people like you, sorry you have to deal with people being mad at you! Must be tough.

The more cis people I see defending the Girl Guides and the Women's Institute by saying things like "if they shut down they won't be able to serve people" the more I become the Joker. If they kick out trans women they're already not serving people! Why should they even exist at that point?

Not a fully-formed thought but British institutions caving at the threat of lawsuits has the same energy as Democrats caving at the threat of a filibuster. Fucking make them do it! Make them stand up for their shitty beliefs and actually defend the people you're supposed to defend!

I'm sick of being seen and heard, I want material support

my favorite thing about statements saying that they "stand with you and support you" is that the people issuing the statements generally do this after explicitly *not* standing with you, supporting you, or even occasionally just watching from the sidelines hi northwestern, women's institute, etc…

AN OCTOPUS FABERGÉ EGG?

These lawsuits, or the threat of them, are an existential threat to organizations but they're also an existential threat to (trans) people and I think that's more important. Every trans kid being excluded is more important than the existence of the organization itself and I don't say that lightly.

Whilst it is absolutely true that the lawfare deployed against charities in particular, but also many other businesses, is an existential threat to them, I think it is also fair for us to be furious that the choice is always "fuck them trannies" and continued existence.

Does anyone know what I should get my cousin's kids (seven and nine) for Christmas? Historically I've gotten a board game (Catan Junior, Forbidden Island, Horrified: Greek Monsters) and that's gone over well but I'm out of ideas

Harbor Sweets December 2nd 2025 Advent calendar spoiler alert Today I got a SWEET SLOOP! Calloo callay!

I guess the last person missed the directions on the back of the airplane seat

I listened to this song a lot while my daughter was gestating and I was temping and we had no money. And I listened to it in an intensive inpatient psych program when they had us play music for each other. And things did get easier, and they did get brighter, and I have to hope they will again.

mom can u pick me up the AI freaks invented a reverse Voight Kampff

I totally get this choice and also I wish someone would actually say they refuse to abandon trans kids even if it means the end of their organization. I wish people would fight for us.

I have extremely fond memories of walking to the Red Derby on an evening when the snow had started and hearing different groups of people cheer as they got texts saying work was cancelled the next day

I think it rules actually when someone says something anti-trans and, when called on it, smirks and says "I'm obviously a huge supporter of the trans community, I think my record speaks for itself".

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

Does anyone have a cookie recipe that is impressive but doesn't take too long that they absolutely love? I would do linzer cookies but I'm trying to avoid nuts and they do take a really long time.

You know it sucks that people think I'm a disgusting freak because I'm trans, a perfectly innocuous characteristic, and not because of my horrible personality

I'm a transgender Christian and anyone who calls trans people "demonic" and treats us accordingly better hope God will forgive them because I won't

I know I'm talking a lot about this but it also really, really sucks that this poor instructor is almost certainly going to be the target of harassment and bigotry and disgusting threats but if I, or anyone else trans, wrote a mildly critical letter to this young woman we'd be the big scary bad guys

This really accords with my experience -- the number of times I've been chided to "assume positive intent" from cis people doing shitty stuff, especially at work, is so upsetting.

one of the things about transphobia that grinds you down on a daily basis is not the active stuff that happens to you, but the knowledge that you're almost destined to lose whatever social conflict you might have with a cis person

This response to that young woman's "essay" is so thoughtful and more than she deserved. It seems like both of the people grading put in more thought responding than she did writing the paper. It's wild that she actually believes she completed the assignment.

I may be old and crazy, but at least I’m a

Why do I do myself psychic damage by reading "cis is a slur" pseudo-discourse from people who are both weird* and dumb? It's such a bad use of my time, and yet *Derogatory

Absolutely crushed a nine year old at Catopoly this afternoon

I guess the last person missed the directions on the back of the airplane seat

When people ask me, as they occasionally do, what advice I would give young trans people who are struggling I'm going to start saying "take care of your teeth". It's a way to show yourself you're worth caring for, a way to remind yourself that you have a future, and you'll be glad you did.

Why is it so hard to find GOOD CROCHET CARDIGAN/SWEATER BOOKS WITH PATTERNS FOR MEN AND CHILDREN!!! It's like 85% knitting books and the crochet books are mostly introduction/tutorial books or like sweaters and accessories for women. I am exaggerating and I have a Ravelry account but I want books.

I went to several explicitly queer and trans friendly haircut places when I first came out. I got misgendered at all of them, the vibes were weird, and they were very expensive. Now I just go to Supercuts, it's cheaper and my expectations aren't high.

It’s fine to see something and think “Carville may have a point”, but you gotta push through it because he never does.

Having a cis person tell you that you don't need to transition to be trans feels like a rich person saying that you don't need material possessions to be happy.

I'm a sucker for this

Something I like to do is when someone uses the wrong pronouns for a trans woman say "[NAME] is a woman" and when someone uses the wrong pronouns for a cis woman (usually based on her name) say "[NAME] uses she/her pronouns".

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

goddamn it, no, this is not a "christmas manicure", i just thought it would be fun to have green on my starboard side and red on my port side like an airplane or a boat