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She wasn’t attracted to the right by the romanticized aesthetic of “traditional America” — big beautiful houses and bread-making and families with half a dozen children. Rather, she says, “I was in love with the frisson of transgression.” The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.” After college, in the waning years of Trump’s first term, Anna wrote for popular right-wing outlets, worked for conservative institutions, and attended movement conferences. She fell in socially with the young firebrands of the New Right; she remembers it as partially happenstance. “You kind of meet people and proceed on and then suddenly you find yourself being a part of this thing,” she tells me. A portion of her early writing was about feminism and gender: “I was doing the typical right-wing female thing where all these men will kind of pat you on your head for saying the edgy thing — about women, as a woman — and they need you to be their mouthpiece.”

Usually, she silently endured her peers’ soliloquies on women’s deviance and the urgent need to curtail their rights. When she did manage a retort, it was not well received. On one occasion, at a professional dinner, a male acquaintance spewed out some “really gross” things about women (she declines to share details for fear of being identified), and she gently pushed back. “He freaked out,” she says. “He was banging on the table, screaming at me, saying, ‘Nobody cares what you think, woman’ — using the word woman as an invective.” She worried he would become violent. No one at the table came to her defense, men or women. “You almost don’t realize what’s happening until five years later,” Anna says, “when you look back and you’re like, Oh gosh, I was being used.” She also blames herself: “I was too frivolous with ideas.”

More seriously: when you get people who speak honestly -- as I do think this person is doing -- what you see is that a lot of the people who get involved with this stuff really do so for basically frivolous reasons. it's a game, then it's a livelihood, then suddenly it's Real and not funny anymore

I'm hearing this now for the first time

This, to me, is the root of it: the left is always going to be more stuffy, constrained and dogmatic because *the left believes that oppression exists and matters.* This is a turnoff to a certain sort of person who does not wish to believe this. But reality wins eventually.

The single and only reason democrats dont want universal Healthcare is because if you start going in that direction you realize that nearly half of all employment in the US is due to what are essentially just scams.

1970s: this fridge will last 100 years and survive a nuclear blast.

2026: a software update will lock you out of your fridge in 3 years but until then it has Twitter and will spy on you and your family.

There’s something about the constant stream of anti-trans news designed to psychically harm us being about our access to HRT and surgeries, and then when we freak out online about it, having ostensible trans people show up to remind us “not every trans person transitions” that feels fake as hell

It's not cowardice - it's gleefully embrace

“'Intersex people in the U.S. are extremely worried' that they will become bigger targets."

Any policy that advocates ripping away essential healthcare and enforcing a strict and unscientific sex binary also harms all intersex people. Where do we fit in this agenda?

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

Also in my specific case, because of my intersex variation *and* because I'm trans, I get to experience both ends of the spectrum of human sexual anatomy. I have all the sex organs. Once I get bottom surgery I'll essentially be a cis woman for medical purposes. It feels insanely lucky to get this.

share something thats good about being trans!!! the world is scary but ive found that trans resilience always shines beautifully

I'm both intersex and trans and one thing I love about both is just the depths of curiosity I'm compelled to dive into as a condition of living, having to manage so much myself. I love learning, and I love being my own research subject, figuring out how I work in a way most don't get to.

in some ways i see the world the way i do because i want humanity to have a future that is better than this one. in this future everyone gets to be more like us, whether or not they transition. it seems to me we get through the world's hatred by being too alive to give up

we live intentionally and on purpose and by choice in a way most never do. in some ways, the things people label as "common eccentricities" of trans people, to me, are instead examples of our explicit humanity in action

so like, what's exactly the situation here. there's no way for the US to exit the war unless they entirely pull out of west asia and israel absolutely will fight the US if they attempt this. the longer the strait of hormuz is blocked the longer the global economy gets crunched. so like,

If you're a therapist how do you deal with everyone coming in telling you they're in a bad mood because of the government every day

the targeting of any art that is "obscene" (terms of obscenity always to be decided at a whim) is fascistic yes but also how the only kinds of art that tends to be penalized is the individual/independent creators isn't lost on me. a patreon TOS would reject anything that can be streamed on netflix.

The world sucks shit for trannies but don’t worry, Bsky is here to make sure we don’t have a place to vent about it

We fucking built this site in 2023, and they made sure to build a bus with special spikes on the underside to throw us under.

judges ruled today that blocking our access to medicine doesnt violate equal protection. not even slightly coincidentally, the blue check liberals here decided to make an example of a trans woman who was tired of empty slogans standing in for real support. these are the walls we're crushed between

this is what being on hrt but not being out at work feels like

fucking. idk man. embrace anger.

Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute

The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex".
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

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Dear fucking Goddess… Can we not conflate transsexual/transsex reclamation with transmedicalism? *Again*? For the umpteenth time?

What someone calls themself ≠≠≠ saying others shouldn't be allowed to transition unless they jump through cissexist hoops first.

Can we fucking not with this shit?

Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)

Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

Oh yeah, they were active on my campus when I was in college. I always thought of them as the "All Whites Anti-Racism Club". They're... something.

every time i talk about how chill my doc is about getting me HRT and i hear about non-Americans struggling to get access to basic shit this conversation always pops in my head

The people agree!

Video games make companies billions in profit yet we are still getting laid off at alarming rates. If this is a reality you know all too well and want to fight against, come find us at GDC!!

The image is a six panel black and white comic. Panel 1- A person stands, back to us. Someone off screen yells, "TEACHER!!" Panel 2- A kid behind the teacher points off screen, saying, "Kevin threw a rock at my head!" Panel 3- The teacher bends down to talk to the child, saying, "Aw, he's just doing that because he likes you!" Panel 4- The kid once again points off screen, bewildered, saying "But he- Wh-" Panel 5- The child stares at the teach in silence. Panel 6- The child, now completely flabbergasted, says "That is insane."

it's so crazy reading all these articles about the gender marker change/bathroom ban in kansas and all the interviews are done with my friends lol