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No one “suggested to me” that I might be a girl. Nobody sent me a pamphlet, invited me to a meeting, slipped something into my drink. I actually came to that conclusion very much on my own, in defiance of a wall of propaganda screaming at me not to, and only after overcoming my own skepticism.
I'm not saying you're wrong to not want to scare your suburban mum audience, but sooner or later, we do actually have to reckon with the cops in lab coats asking trans adults and minors alike about our masturbation habits to make sure we're Good Suffering Transes and not fetishists creeps like them.
Every "they're transing the gay kids" article inevitably boils down to "the hormones are making the kids I want to fuck less attractive to me personally", and this one is unusually transparent about it
Blood on your hands.
The NYT is not responsible for the opinions it publishes.
US soldiers are not responsible for the deaths of the children it kills.
The Empire is not responsible for its actions.
The Empire's citizens are not responsible for supporting imperial institutions.
It drives me mad that third world women are such a fucking prop to Westerners. Your bloodthirsty warmongers paid lip service to 'liberation' once or twice and now every sin of the imperialist regime is laid at the feet of "feminists" as though feminists direct the US army.
Have some shame.
Being Iranian is funny because you get selective sympathy from the right and the left based on who’s putting your family in danger at any given moment
Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.
A significant part of this whole fascist coup thing America is currently doing is simply about the fact that, for a hot minute more than a decade ago, it became ever so slightly difficult for mediocre wealthy white male failuppers to be completely immune from criticism for being sexual predators.
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.
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
Its a joke, yeah, but it does accidentally sum up how misogynist men are "Okay" with lesbians in media: They're okay with lesbian sex scenes, but anything about queer women's lives, interiority or, God forbid, that implies we won't be sexually available to men? Get that shit out of here.
The entire political spectrum has gotten substantially more antisemitic in the last half decade and a lot of leftists either think they're immune to it or that any discussion of it is an Israeli plot to discredit the pro-Palestine movement and it's getting Real Bad
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Signifiers of transfemininity often don't serve us, especially transsexual women who want to be perceived simply as "a woman." They're not for us, not in relationship with how we perceive ourselves or want others to perceive us. They are to separate us from "a woman". They are "a woman + signifier."
Anti-feminism is the collective cultural temper tantrum at the temerity of women who ask if we can be more than exploitable sex objects.
super interesting way to describe people who've been abused and oppressed by the church and its teachings. you're "not running cover," but if anyone is critical of your framing or acknowledges the patriarchal nature of the institution then you'll sneeringly dismiss them as online edgelords
pretty clear that people truly believe patriarchy need not be seen as intrinsically reactionary and shouldn't be criticized if it's a gentle, "progressive" patriarchy
solidarity w/ the people of iran against both an uncaring state that seeks to kill them to protect its own decaying patron-client pyramid scheme and a US genocidal imperialist war machine that seeks to kill them to fuel momentum for the barracks-state israel's genocide of palestine. hands off iran.
Your regular reminder that Palantir started out as a way to expose sex workers to police violence, then expanded to allow cops to spy on anyone they pointed at while barfing out the word "gang".
Fascists *created* Palantir, but useful idiots approved of everything done to grow it.
It's not about sports. It's not about "fairness." I wish the people pushing this line - and the press who echo it - would just be honest about it. So why are states introducing bills that would force the girls and women in the above examples to either compete against boys or not compete at all? Because it's not about sports and it's not about fairness. I say this with absolute certainty: if someone offered a compromise that would outright ban trans women who've gone through a testosterone-driven puberty from competing in college, professional, and Olympic sports in exchange for social acceptance and legal protections in education, employment, housing, public accommodations, health care, etc., the people currently yelling for trans people to be banned from sports would reject it outright. No such compromise exists, nor is it likely that it ever would, but if this was truly about saving women's sports and ensuring fairness, it'd be something the anti-trans activists would jump at. But they wouldn't. Just look to the states.
Freedom For All Americans has a tracker on its website listing every active anti-trans bill making its way through dozens of state legislatures right now. There'll usually be something with a name like "the Save Women's Sports Act," introduced as though necessary to, well, "save women's sports" by banning trans girls from participating in school sports (Here's Oklahoma's version of it, but near identical bills are in various stages of passage across the country)... while also making it illegal for trans people to update their birth certificates (the author of the Oklahoma bill is the same guy who authored the sports bill), making it illegal for trans people under the age of 21 to access medically-necessary transition-related health care (again, Oklahoma), banning trans students from using school restrooms (Oklahoma's bill), and banning trans people of all ages from using public restrooms anywhere in the state (again, Oklahoma's bill). What part of this combination makes you think that this is about "saving women's sports" and not just making it impossible for trans people to exist in the state?
I could go through highlighting some of the egregious bills around the country and how they've been paired with other bills aimed at "saving women's sports," but it'd get a bit repetitive since all the states are pulling from the same playbook. But here's something from an AP article about Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) signing the state's ban on trans athletes: "No amount of talent, training or effort can make up for the natural physical advantages males have over females. It's simply a reality of human biology," Reynolds said. "Forcing females to compete against males is the opposite of inclusivity and it's absolutely unfair." Carlisle High School Senior Ainsley Erzen, who set the state 800-meter track record and has appeared at committee meetings to support the bill, said the law will protect female athletes. "Iowa girls today and every generation to come will be able to pursue the things they love to the best of their abilities," Erzen said. "Whether that's chasing titles, records, scholarships or earning a starting position on a team. No girl will be sidelined in their own sport.
When a reporter asked Reynolds to give an example of a girl outperformed by a transgender athlete, the governor didn't offer a specific case but maintained the restrictions were needed. That bill, like others, was given an "emergency" designation, meaning it was to be immediately implemented even though Reynolds couldn't cite a single example of trans athletes winning anything in the state. This is common among anti-trans lawmakers. Meanwhile, Iowa is currently/recently considering bills that would also ban trans students from using restrooms (even single-occupancy restrooms), remove "gender identity" as a protected class under state law, and a bill to make it illegal for trans people to use restrooms anywhere in the state. Sure seems like this is about way more than "fairness in women's sports." It's not hyperbole to say that these bills are part of a larger attempt to drive trans people out of public life. I've written about this before.
Me, March 2022:
i really am so sick of this whole “fascists are just poorly educated and we can win by showing them our humanity.” shit.
here’s the thing, right? it shouldn’t matter if some asshole is transphobic because they have been brainwashed by the media… the levers of power shouldn’t exist to enable them
a trans woman i know is being deported back to the USA due to the Home Office messing up paperwork.
her wife is desperately trying to raise the funds to prevent this. they have 48 hours before she’s put on a plane and might never be able to return.
please, help if you can. they’re both terrified.
You think I'm cringe?
Yea
I wouldn't bet on the UK but plz prove me wrong for once, it would be so funny
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
tbh, when a state attempts to police and ban transition care, any Response that comes down to "well we don't need that and can still be trans", while formally true, is a very conservative one that implicitly gives consent to the state to take away your bodily autonomy & mould you into cisness - bad!
"When my daughter defied the Correct Natural Trajectory I laid before her, I 'corrected' her sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from keeping our daughter on the Correct Natural Trajectory, I 'corrected' her."
Thinking more about the bizarre non-logic deployed in things like "transphobia began with colonization" (wife showed me an annoying TikTok video when I got back from the bar).
And like, so let's assume the genesis of transphobia was, say, British colonization in non-Western nations. Fine.
