They are completely out of touch. All of the feedback I have seen from people involved, young and old has been extremely negative towards the decision this week. Girls literally don’t want this. They should have tried asking.

It's typical billionaire shit. NOBODY involved in guides wanted this, not even the girls, but the billionaire who isn't involved gets what she wants anyway.

The problem with reporting on KOSA is that I sound like a conspiracist for accurately reporting what I saw on a public live stream.

also, source from a thread summing up the meeting itself: bsky.app/profile/jane...

its hard not to harp on this without sounding like im wearing a tinfoil hat but all this "protect the children!" bullshit is literally lies, there is absolutely zero earnest interest in protecting children from anyone in positions of power, ANYWHERE

I feel it's worth noting that in tuesday's meeting in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce about a shitton of "protect the children!" internet bills, committee members advocated for leaving carve outs in their various censorship/surveillance bills for advertisers to keep advertising at kids

It’s not even the story. It’s a shitly framed gotcha article. They never said “trans boys welcome” they said “trans girls not welcome”. The upcoming guidance is clear that trans boys will be ostracised the moment someone takes an issue with them.

On behalf of trans men everywhere: This blows. It is much worse to be included as women than excluded from women-only things. None of us want this.

yeah I feel so much of the "I just don't know the right terms. It's all very confusing!" is just a thin cover for "I cannot be fucked to read or think about this for literally like 30 seconds"

The language our allies need to defend us out there can actually be this elegant all the time, as long as you know what you're saying 🏳️‍⚧️

I'd be more worried that having this policy leaves it open for trans boys who do not want to join but are being forced to by transphobic parents

And I very much doubt they would want to spend all their time with girls in a girl only group. These people just don’t understand, do they?

Somehow it was always above peoples minds what a "trans identity" is. They never understood it, so much are they cramped in by their social cis gender. This puts that brazenly clear. Well intended indeed...but because they don't see trans boys as boys. They see them as kids with vaginas.

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Hateful people when I was younger: You're a girl!! Me: Yes, I am a girl Hateful people: 😐😑😐 .... uh... uh.... you're a man!!

I don't know if people should be out there choosing their own genders. Call me old fashioned, but I believe that's something J. K. Rowling decides for you.

it drives me crazy that people don't immediately clock this as an attempt to preserve sexual access to children in the bodies that these transphobic freaks prefer them to have

I cannot emphasise enough the extent to which multiple Labour MPs' sneering at "student politics" is about them being repeatedly owned by students to their left throughout their embarrassing NUS careers.

Like LGB was a thing in the UK *very briefly* before basically everybody but the biggest dickheads decided that was silly in the late 90s and early 00s. damselindystopia.ghost.io/when-was-the...

Ah I see, yeah he was one of the people who wanted it to stay as "LGB" and lost. Like I was never into student politics so this is all second hand from pals who were.

It's more pathetic than that. He lost a vote on renaming the LGB campaign to the LGBT campaign in like 2004 and has stayed mad about it for 21 years.

An anonymous Japanese game studio is making applicants draw in front of them during interviews to prove they don't use generative AI 🎮 “Only human creators can produce compelling characters and graphics from scratch”

Monument Valley III is hitting me right where it matters.

“funny” thing about Streeting going after neurodivergence and mental health issues next is that’s just doubling and tripling down on trans people really. did he have a bad experience at uni, having to listen to a depressed trans girl talking about her special interest, is that what this is about.

looool i knew the canadian girl guides would have something to say about this and i am so glad it’s something good

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.

It's just bonkers, we should be able to say "No, that is simply false" and have that be the end of it. But since unfortunately they have the backing of our press and a plucky billionaire now all of society has to undo the arrangements we had settled into!

Yet the transphobes became obsessive about this issue upon trans people in general becoming more salient to them, and act as if _this thing that is already happening and manifestly not causing any great harm despite persisting for decades_ is on the verge of collapsing civilisation!

This element of the situation is so maddening because it adds this air of unreality to the transphobes statements - and yet they are taken totally seriously by our press and much of our political class. Very obviously people were muddling making accommodations and no great social crisis was caused!

It's fucking clear that all conservatives and liberals fucking hate how the free internet has basically made it impossible for them to control the narrative as they used to.

What a fucking insult to life itself to say the footage of mutilated children is "made up"

This is the real reason behind the internet censorship push. So they can murder people unencumbered. All the wealth and power in the world and even the "good ones" still need blood.

Transgender women have been playing women’s tennis in USTA for 50 years!

at some point you have to stand up and say "I think trannies are worth fighting for and deserve dignity" and that's the one thing no one wants to actually commit to

I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read the competition is strong but it's a real contender

the rich want us all to actually just live in complete hell

Happy Spotify Wrapped Day 🎉

Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know

You’ll Be OK

you fight transmisogyny by *fighting transmisogyny*, not by playing games with cis people’s colouring-book comprehension of sex and gender

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

you gotta remember that from a conservative perspective, these programs are a failure. they don't want to reduce homelessness, they want to punish homeless people. they'd pay 10x as much for that happily

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK. The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented. And the result is endless horror.

you can't "gotcha" "assigned sex" because sexing the body is deliberately arbitrary because it is an instrument of control. sex is an instrument of control. sexing the body is a (misogynistic, transphobic) instrument of control. kill the sexologist in your head bsky.app/profile/bloo...

you can't "look at the trans men" your way out of transmisogyny (opening up trans men to anti-transmasculine violence & humiliation). bigots do not operate on gotcha logic especially when they can just use michfest logic in response to keep trans women out anyway 😭

not only will this put trans men in danger, whether some trans men are accepted (misgendering) and others rejected based on transphobic criteria, trans women still are blanket banned from these places for being insufficiently woman. so like what do people expect to accomplish here. useless tactic

"We're throwing you under the bus and doing nothing as its wheels crush every bone in your body to dust, but we do it out of love. And maybe one day your mangled corpse can stand with us again."