Physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women is comparable, current evidence suggests.

new girl behind the bar, smiling with teeth. "you got your ID on you", she asks, which is fair. how could she recognize you. she takes the license, reading it carefully. "you like this name", she asks, returning it. you aren't sure how to respond, you're noncommittal. "that wasn't very enthusiastic"

What's so insidious about this is that it's cloaked in the language of reestablishing academic rigor and standards even as they do not feel beholden to these things. Is their report peer-reviewed? No. Is it rigorously factual? Also no. Are its methods clear and accessible? Haha. No.

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

I… don’t know I’ve seen many mainstream white politicians ignore the conventions of conciliatory civil war memorialization like this, and I like it.

Trying to more concretely plan a possible Minneapolis visit. Twin cities people, what are your recommendations of things to do and see for a couple of queer weirdos who like riding bikes?

I'm alarmed at the suggestion here that part of the solution is for public defenders to handle bigger caseloads. A much better idea would be to examine how prosecutors can focus on the most serious crimes and bring fewer low-level cases to court.

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

that there is what we call a "risk shift."

it is fascists who argue that they represent the dispossessed and that they are fighting for the most crushed to bring about fairness. this is a fascist lie. I would urge people not to spread fascist lies.

fascism is not the result of a failure of neoliberal economics and people being unable to get ahead. fascism is a backlash to left movements devoted to preventing certain people from getting ahead. 1

california high speed rail is literally the best example of the state not giving its biggest projects enough state capacity

past a certain point it’s not wealth it’s power and the number is a power value of ownership of numbers people and industries on multiple continents in those countries

oh shit it's Loving Day hooray for Loving v. Virginia, my marriage, and inclusive constitutionalism, and fuck originalism forever tinyurl.com/originalismt...

being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating

The number is actually 97.1% if you include the little shuffling around between nonbinary and binary identities that happened, but it is *remarkable* how rock-steady at 97-98% youth trans self-identification is. Believe kids when they tell you they're trans!!

Zero (0) of Epstein's victims had the ability to self-fund litigation against Epstein or anyone like him. The only way they had any chance is through contingency fee representation. Everyone in Big Law knows that, they sneer at it anyway because they know it's morally superior to their work.

patreon request of Denise Bryson 🏳️‍⚧️ happy pride!

listen to me as a trans woman and huge DC fangirl, seeing this in a DC book means EVERYTHING to me as a trans writer, seeing an editor and major publisher supporting this kind of surface discussion of actual trans issues is… almost unheard of this book is REVOLUTIONARY

one of the problems with nominating a person who has been credibly accused of lying/abusive behavior by numerous women is that it creates powerful partisan incentives for people to denigrate and harass women who come forward.

In 1999, the small town of Tulia, Texas, arrested 10% of its Black population for cocaine trafficking based on one undercover cop, Tom Coleman (below). He had zero audio, video, or paperwork. It was a total fabrication. The governor later pardoned 35 people.(cont) www.cbsnews.com/news/targete...

But what was the ultimate line for her that prompted her to come forward was how pundits and social media and the public have treated and spoken about the other women who came forward before her.

This woman explicitly said that she isn’t coming forward with the aim of destroying Platner or his campaign. She doesn’t think this will, because she sadly understands very clearly exactly how much leeway men are given for mistreating women.

It's always wild to find out that an author of transhuman sci-fi is an outspoken transmisogynist. Like, pump the brakes, buddy – you think personhood is mutable but gender is innate?

if you see boob, post boob

“Who is called a 'wise person'?” [The sages] responded, “The person who sees the consequence of their action.” (Talmud Tamid 32a)

Another case today of someone who was frequently in the US rejected at the border on arbitrary grounds & having that rejection permanently making travel to the US hard/impossible for the rest of their life. I can't stress this enough: do not travel to the US. It wouldn't happen to you until it has.

This is very nearly always the idea being invoked whenever anyone even vaguely conservative says that, and realizing that is what caused me to start identifying as a radical feminist.

When a politician walks back a promise in an attempt to appease the right, constituents can count on two things: 1. More concessions are coming. 2. Any pushback is met with a deluge of people explaining how no one should have expected them to do something as unrealistic as exactly what they said.

the two flanks of leftist politics are communism and anarchism. communists want to relitigate tiananmen square and anarchists truly believe that the world wants a vegan bookstore collective. I will die for either group before I lift a finger to help the volkisch-left DC pundit dipshits

I don't post much anymore but I found out a few hours ago that the wonderful Emi Koyama died, I'm away from home, and I'm so very sad about it. I would like to share that grief together with others on here who are indebted to Emi (which is: all of us feminist queers against cisness). Rest in power.

Remember: Ms Maus is a Unitarian Universalist. And she did not use the encyclical as support for her case. A deeply held conviction is available to everyone, INCLUDING NON-THEISTS. Look at her reasoning, it’s universally applicable.

‘It’s about our right to fundamentally exist’: Local bodybuilder takes his fight to BC Human Rights Tribunal thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...

I suspect most people who are aware of Ben's behavior do see it that way, they just don't say anything to him because they don't care enough about the victims/are too afraid of sounding woke.

trans people are commonly seen as inherently, bodily "political" and thus fair game for most anything

It’s a threat. It’s “I know where you work,” mixed with “I want to speak to your manager.” Ben Ryan constantly mentions her employer because he wants to show his power over her, and his ability to threaten her employment. It’s stalker behavior, abuser behavior.

Sarah McBride (ordained Presbyterian elder) and Raphael Warnock (Baptist pastor with a PhD from seminary school) are both considered less "Christian" than Donald freaking Trump.

Black and queer Christianity are unfortunately both considered fundamentally "fake" in American politics.

Not lost on me that we never see any articles about how a Mamdani or a Hamawy or an El Sayed represent a kind of positive reinforcement of masculinity and masculine presence

For the like 4 of you that understand the stuff around what I work on (sorry to the rest of you) … I discovered that cross-compiling Linux kernel modules for Intel on an Apple Silicon Mac will give me a speedup from like 15 minutes to 90 seconds. And that’s intel server hardware vs a Mac laptop.

yeah, I'm pretty much calling the Boston Pride event a LGB event. nobody trans-inclusive is letting Seth Moulton and Fenway Health march. fuck 'em, next year I won't waste my time and energy

Wanna talk about parental rights? Let's talk about the rights of Black parents disproportionately targeted by the family policing system. The rights of disabled parents. The rights of immigrant parents.

Any time someone starts going off about parental rights, ask them about the rights of queer and trans parents.

They say the children's gender service will provide 'psychological support'. Plus discussion of any concerns about a child's physical health in relation to any medication received. They argue that access to blockers/HRT has been an act of medical harm. That it is an act of 'safety' to remove it.

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Because of racism. Once Black folks could use them they suddenly stopped being a priority for municipalities all over the country. I am not exaggerating.

Ectopic pregnancies literally cannot result in a birth; the embryo will die every time. This doctor attempted to murder this poor woman, and should be charged accordingly.

This is a meme I can get behind. What will *your* Liberal Currents article be about, Bluesky Poster?

“We can’t have people who went thorough male puberty playing women‘s sports!“ “Then get them on blockers so they don’t go through it.“ “We can’t do that because they might regret it.” “Then let them have the resources to make an informed decision.” “We can’t have that in libraries because it’s

this is probably a very Water Is Wet kind of take in the circles I run in but I think anyone should be allowed to terminate their own pregnancy if they choose for any reason and it's ok if the reason is simply "I don't want a kid"