Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️‍⚧️

Now I have this mental picture of buff Jesus and the ten commandments being about lifting weights.

The Scion was wrecked twice, has lasting issues from both crashes. I'm chasing an issue with the headlight circuit dying, rough idle, and intermittent gas pedal failure. I replaced the coils, plugs, and the pedal, and it's still wonky. It currently gets 23 mpg and I'm still figuring that problem out

Thank you! My favorite is my 1976 Suzuki RE-5 Rotary. Sounds like a billion buzzing bees, is as smooth as a turbine.

Birdy Tuvok says thank you! 🩷

I am happy that these tiny cars are cheap and tiny. Otherwise this would be a terrible habit. 😅

Omg, it's the legendary Gamecat! That's a name I haven't seen in a hot minute. Thank you so much for the kind words! 🩷

I love you, babe! 😘♥️

Confession: I'm not hate-watching it. This show is so bad that I actually enjoy it. 😅

While I think meeting allies where they are is reasonable, this is not that. This is meeting people who aren't really allies in hopes it'll win the next election. As if we didn't recently watch the Harris campaign parade around a bunch of Republicans and still lose, but sure.

Yep. Keep in mind that she's advocating for the arrest of any trans person who uses the bathroom without proof of medical transition. She's someone using her platform to discredit trans men and enbies.

We should absolutely call out toxicity, especially when it only serves the people erasing us!

ChatGPT cannot get its facts straight when I ask it a simple question about a pickup truck that has an easily verifiable answer. I cannot even begin to imagine a bot attempting to understand the nuance and context of a genocide.

Research is great, but researching via a chatbot is not.

Respectfully, your "talk" with ChatGPT could not have produced any reliable information on such a sensitive subject. These programs do awful research and have been proven to just make things up.

If I ever submit an article for publishing citing ChatGPT I hope my editor would fire me on the spot.

Might want to reconsider that screen name...

I'm not sure that chick is capable of answering questions. The logic is all over the place.

I sure did, unless you somehow meant something else:

Ah my bad, I misunderstood you. It seems you believe the *entire* trans flag doesn't represent binary trans women.

Yet you still still fly the flag you hate in your name. So confusing. 🤷‍♀️

mercedes@theautopian.com

(My work is public so my email isn't a big deal)

Are all of your takes done without a moment of introspection? You say white doesn't belong in the trans flag and that the flag doesn't represent real trans women.

Yet, you're still flying the flag in your name. By your own logic you must not be a real trans woman.

Hi! I do! I'm selling a VW and am trying to replace it with an Audi A2. I would love to know how much different importing from Europe is.

Wow! That's honestly impressive. I was going to ask about why a MAGA dude was even in a site like this unless it was in bad faith to begin with.

And yet, after over a century of research, nobody has found a solution to easing dysphoria that has a better hit rate. That includes whatever you're suggesting. My wife's been through conversion therapy, it didn't work.

I'm more than a decade into my "new" life. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Transitioning has never been a cure-all. If you were depressed for a reason that didn't have to do with dysphoria, fixing the dysphoria will not fix that. Further, a lot of trans people are depressed because, frankly, people like you try to tell us how to exist. Or they're alienated by family.

Identifying as another gender has not been considered to be a mental illness since the publishing of the DSM-V in 2013. Gender dysphoria is related to the physical and/or societal distress experienced by a trans person, not the identity.

The recommended resolution for dysphoria is transition.

An error according to whom? The majority of the medical and science fields have come to the conclusion that the gender is more of a spectrum than a binary.

I wish people understood that the conservatives aren't interested in compromises. Brianna Wu keeps pitching them and conservatives still hate her. They don't want compromise, so why should we volunteer it?

I transitioned over a decade ago on self-ID. People act like it's a crazy new radical thing.

It was good while it lasted. The Social Security Administration is now under orders to stop processing gender marker changes. If you're trans and you didn't update your social security information, it appears the window closed.

Please update every other document you can while you still have time!

Is that the best you got? I've heard better insults from 5-year-olds. They also had better punctuation, too.

That's not what your mom said last night.

Cry harder.

Sadly, it's being reported that the government has already stopped processing passport applications and updates from trans people.

Talk online seems to indicate that I'm not the only one who has been able to update their social security card. I was shocked since I live in a conservative county.