I cannot say what should happen to influencers or I will be banned

"Why do Americans (Burgers) have such silly ideas about 🅱️ommunism?"

Well, you see, mateys, it's like this. Burgers were forced to read very silly books as part of their school curriculum, in which it was said that Joseph Stalin would spank you on the butt very hard if you said the word 'Jesus'.

If your partner has a pit fetish and you wear a tank top when you're hanging out with them at the park are you engaging in kink in public?

this is very important to do this work and expose bad science, but i don't want us to get trapped on a losing battlefield

the issue here isn't scientific at all

it is not a matter of medical evidence

there is no "correct" way to do this sort of reviews

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The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

One of the excluded systematic reviews is the York systematic reviews commissioned as part of the Cass Review itself. NHS England excluded from its evidence review a systematic review produced for the very process this evidence review is supposed to implement. It's a joke.

I think political influence of the far right former Tory administration is the main thing that created that situation for trans people originally.

I think we need fundamental reform of the NHS to take it out of the hands of politicians so that kicking minorities isn't something they can use it for

Do you reckon the burden of child rearing disproportionately falls on women, and this might affect their willingness to have kids? What a novel insight.

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.

Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

I ran a project with over 2,000 new mums. I can tell you, the core experience of heterosexual motherhood is being being absolutely knackered all the time, and incandescently pissed off at your husband/boyfriend about the unequal distribution of parental labour.

I'm gonna be super tight this week while waiting on some stuff to come through. Please give me a hand if you can

I do appreciate cis advocates of trans healthcare, especially in these times, but I do wish more of them would let go of the "experts know best" framing. I'm aware it's safe, palatable, sellable, but there's a century of "experts" torturing, converting, and sexually abusing trans people. So.

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

The one silver lining of all of this is how it's shown that the idea of US military supremacy is complete security theatre. It's smoke and mirrors all the way down.

Moaning "step-oomf" and looking at Keir starmer for approval

it's really cool how "you don't 'have' a sex you are weighed against [the structure] sex" is the last and ultimate piece of the puzzle that truly allows being nonbinary to "click" and feel meaningful. like wow sex is not "a feature of you" it's something imposed on diverse & complex individuals??

linux heads were always right. time to sit my dumbass down and learn

Got a cool new tat today 😁❤️

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

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!

It's kind of crazy to what extent The Atlantic is at the forefront of the far-right culture wars.

Anyway here's a picture of The Atlantic's owner, Laurene Powell Jobs, with Ghislaine Maxwell, completely unrelated.

quake 3 excellent symbol on back of hand

fresh ink, gang gang!

Doctors fear young at risk from ‘black-market trans hormones’ Medics call for an urgent investigation into trans community groups offering support on accessing supplies for self-medication

Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.

What did you think would happen?

Many transition via DIY resources. I've never seen an endocrinologist or a psych because I don't want to go through a combative and adversarial diagnostic process to access what I need.

The healthcare risks are along the lines of "increased risk of breast cancer because I have breasts now."

look, i think a random ass trans woman can make an angry post without it turning into a Thing and if you’re trying to make it a Thing you have completely lost all perspective on what is important

The Cass Review says gender dysphoria is just a phase, the Cass Review says ban puberty blockers, the Cass Review says my kids should call more.

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com Follow Add alt text Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.

"why don't trans people ever go after other NYT journalists"

we do actually

thinking of all the heroic members of the whermacht serving in these operations. they courageously go wherever in the world duty calls, from the forests of the argonne, to the deserts of afrika, to the snows of the soviet union. their sacrifices represent the best of the german spirit.

transgener is pretty cool

We live in a stupid, reactionary dystopia obsessed with the aesthetic of moral purity whilst the people in charge buddy up to pedophile sex traffickers and panopticon-obsessed demons wearing human skin