Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'. One wonders what *would*.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

More rights for a mobile phone than an actual human being. There is a very serious problem with the courts in this country.

Burn it all down

gender affirming care is life saving care. isn't it time to call the purposeful denial of care for political reasons what it is - murder

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

I'm no artist, but as a big-time AI hater, the Frieren thing is interesting to me because there is no parallel to this meme in AI "art" circles. They jealously guard their prompts, because to share is to admit that they have no talent: all they did was discover a Game Shark code before anyone else.

Without downloading any new pics describe your gender

Who was it that used to refer to the RW masses as "programmable meatbags"? They were told inflation is the Most Important Thing, so they dutifully echoed that back. Then they were told immigration is the Most Important Thing, so they swung that way, like a school of fish.

From A.R. Moxon's blog "So Shines a Good Deed in a Weary World"

this is some DC comics villain shit

I won’t say what I want to say but this is unethical. You don’t put 7.3% of cancer patients on a treatment and leave the rest to see how they get on. Trans healthcare is the only branch where this is allowed to happen. Puberty blockers were the compromise and they’ve taken that away.

Give us our roses while we're still alive.

a lot of, most of, the current anti-LGBT and particularly transphobia is just off label antisemitism, the idea of a vast conspiracy, corrupting your children and society more generally to destroy the traditional way of life is classic antisemitism just being retooled to target trans people.

Elon Musk has made an entire life out of choosing the wire monkey in the cage and then screaming at everyone that it's actually better than the soft monkey and it loves him more.

it's because there is a presumption that a child has a moral responsibility to be what their parent imagines them to be. parents don't imagine their children taking medication, thus a child who needs medication is actually breaching this contract with their parent to be Normal and deserves suffering

This was always where this was going. Meeting bigots halfway and giving in to what sounds like reasonable demands ("Kamala Harris wants to let people be trans in prison!") has a human cost when it's applied. People who hate trans people aren't asking for anything that is good for them.

I've been saying for a while; argue long enough with a right winger and it becomes clear they aren't ignorant. They know more about us than the vast majority of liberals. They put on that front but then will respond to specific arguments with the correct counter. They are malicious.

More needs to be done to call out "social conservatism" as the misogyny and bigotry towards LGBT people it is. It shouldn't be seen an acceptable position to hold in society.

Food colonizer discourse is the worst of both food and colonizer discourse, topics where even one for two would pretty fucking impressive.

No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...

This is part of the problem - zero pushback. Because as soon as someone says something that stupid, there should be a microphone in their face going "Explain, in detail, how you think that works. Because what you said is biologically impossible and completely untrue."

TERFs, given the opportunity, would literally exterminate trans people. They are now and have always been Nazis. The original nazis killed trans people first as well, and also promoted “traditional gender roles”. TERFs being giddy about suffering is no shock. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein. It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.

if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.

The Tories admitted to parachuting people into institutional positions of power in order to work as insider ‘agents’ pushing political/ ideological agenda. They did it to attack trans people. What makes you think they weren’t also pushing other agendas???

They should have Werner Herzog voice Yoshi in the next Mario movie, even if he only ever says “yoshi”

Each new law against trans people in society will just become the platform for the next law restricting someone else. Possibly you. Dont fall for it.

What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

The RW obsession with "compelled speech" is as baffling as it is disingenuous. Our speech is compelled each and every day by myriad^2 factors. They're just SO mad they (and no one else) can't call everyone they don't like a fucking slur at all hours of the day until they go blue in the face.

I swear, libertarianism really is “You’re not my dad, you can’t tell me what to do!” as a political ideology.

Notable that FIRE (@thefireorg.bsky.social) filed an amicus in support of bullying trans youth. This is why trans people don't trust your transphobic organization, @aricohn.com. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

That’s just what deep diving into transphobia does to you. Her case of tranny madness is actually pretty mild, all things considered. The worst cases of it result in middle aged women becoming absolutely convinced that nearly every single person around them is secretly trans.

So like, do the people against "gender ideology" even recognize the concept of an egg? Because they seem to conflate transness as a state of being with the act of transitioning, so I don't know how there can be space in their worldview for people who are trans but don't know it.

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

Are there any sex acts that are safe, consensual and insane?

I see people respond to stuff like this with 'so you put your community's rights above all others???' type attempts to rebut and, uh, yea. Like, yea, that's not even a question? The safety of my community is issue one, if you're sacrificing that we are not together.

Area party upset to discover that years of sadistic, violent rhetoric and actions critically eroded political norms they forgot that they also relied on, news at 11

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It's really depressing to see that even the reputation of journalism is being ruined. By the journalists themselves.

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

lesbian thought of the day: plane tickets should be free if you really want to make out with a woman who lives on the other side of the world

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

I also wonder if the fact that puberty blockers prevent so many invasive and expensive procedures and medicines in the future has anything to do with why puberty blockers are banned for trans kids, so they can be sold the then to be necessary expensive treatments when they are trans adults?