At root this is the most depraved thing about right wing evangelical Christianity: asking god for forgiveness is about meaning it and proving through your actions that you mean it, not “God whispered to me that I’m all good so shut the fuck up about it already lol”

Senate war powers vote fails 52-48. Funny how they always have just enough votes to stop these things!

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jesse singal suggesting that someone else has a professional stake in this is wild since it's the only story he's written in a decade

Love Alyssa Liu, but it feels weird to see anything from zombie Teen Vogue

He's useful as a weathervane but there's absolutely nothing to trust in this. He'll flip back to AIPAC in a second if it wins him another vote.

Yknow whenever its gay people saying this shit with “i mightve been transed“ its really just them bargaining that Their Type of queerness is okay actually unlike this other type of queerness thats more dirty and coercive somehow and pls dont hit me im just a little birthday gay u okay with us rite

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

In the Venn diagram of "People who are against trans women" and "People who are genuinely OK with femme-presenting and -acting men", the overlap requires a microscope to see.

Cis people never show the slightest love to effeminate men or butch women, except when someone wants to transition, and then suddenly they just love them.

As a lifelong effeminate boy I resent the notion that I need defending, the trans community has always supported me as I am.

No one before Ben has ever considered that trans women might actually be effeminate gay boys. No one has ever suggested such a thing to us, repeatedly, in a bid to prevent us from transitioning, or developed entire typologies around the idea, or reinforced it in multiple academic fields!

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

I’m actually fine with effeminate gay men staying that way. We really don’t need anymore catty bitchiness among our ranks, we’re pretty full up.

Eight times out of ten they target trans women for targeting with harassment. It's all part of the genocidal transphobic hate machine and a lot of liberals and journalists on this website gleefully participate in the exact same behavior too.

Babe, wake up. The Atlantic is doing the "they're transing the gays" conspiracy theory.

Kinda fucking wild that the whole "trans women are racist" discourse going around right now just flatly erases several trans women of color, with people hiding replies and detaching quotes to make it look like no trans women of color disagree with them.

I don't care if every cis connection I have on here hates me and socially punishes me for it, but I will be unapologetic about calling the insane levels of transphobia on here today. Cis liberals on here are finally showing us why trans people say we face so much transphobia in real life from them.

The way cis liberals talk about trans people they disagree with on this website when they think we aren't looking is very, very Hitlerite. Just saying. I have seen stuff that has made me regret thinking certain big names ok here were allies. For one, acting like every trans person here is white.

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OH MY G-D

everyone wants to use trans people as a fucking talking point but nobody wants to listen to what we have to fucking say

cis ppl shut the fuck up challenge

NEW: SCOTUS partially grants the request in Mirabelli v. Bonta, relating to California policies protecting against forced outing of trans students by teachers to parents, over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

We really gotta get locked accounts and group DMs on here ASAP, it’s not healthy for the Discourse that everyone on here can act like this in public and anybody can screenshot.

I think it's weird that there are a handful of Big Twitter Accounts™ that seem to lurk on Bluesky in search of Content™ they can share in the form of screenshots, tbh. Kind of pathetic, honestly.

This is why everything sucks. Everything else is a distraction. From hating people for where they were born to who they love it's all to make everyone poor fight each other instead of the billionaires killing us all

I have always suspected there are now many, many times more young people accessing gender-affirming healthcare than before Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban. I recently mentioned this to a feminist lawyer abroad who told me this is exactly what happens when governments ban abortion… 1/3

Until poverty is eliminated there is no "ethical world".

This is a policy of genocide.

what happened: - small trans account w/ ~200 followers makes a post critical of Bouie. does not tag him. - Trump begins bombing Iran. - Bouie name searches. Decides to use his platform to attack a trans woman instead of Trump. Also reposts conservatives. - Pundits dogpile & harass trans woman.

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THEY MURDERED 60 KIDS IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YOU FREAK

Starmer is a great example to Democrats--you'd better as hell stand for something and fight when you win in 28 or the fascist victory in the 30 midterms and 32 general will make Trump look like Gandhi

"fire tens of thousands of ICE agents" is the very definition of threatening me with a good time

to reiterate: it is not up to trans ppl to "vote blue no matter who" it is up to *cisgender Dems* to decide whether you want us in your coalition or not (see 🧵 below for why the latter would be bad for *all of us*)

These Democrats are voting for Trump's agenda while going on TV to insist they actually oppose it. We need to believe their actions, not their words.

What happened in Kansas is *exactly* why you need to get rid of Newsom at the primary. He will not protect trans people. He will not protect homeless people. He will not protect anyone.He considers outside of the cultural norm. ... that's Republican shit.

remember in school when we learned about monopolies lol so quaint

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

it's the way lawmakers with an actual strategy could move at lightspeed to abolish and liquidate the republican party without compromise if the political will actually existed

very silly how the nytimes the wapost and the bbc have all gone from being vaguely centre or centre-left to being the rags of polite conservatives and epstein acolytes

just to summarize trans people are in imminent danger and the US has ensured that we are chronically disenfranchised both medically and financially, making it almost impossible to leave due to the vast resources required because most immigration policies still views the US as super safe cool cool

wow we are so fucking hot that our mere existence is sexually explicit. me walking down the street needs a big ol censor bar. i'm so sexy it should be illegal.

what the fuck this really seems like another case of them going after someone prominent to send a “nobody is safe” message and what’s actually going to happen is continuing to polarize everyone but the worst of the worst against them because how the fuck is this kid a threat to anything

A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas. This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people. This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.