I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop.
www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
What's so insidious about this particular line is that it sets a framework for courts to bless any number of coercive measures by state and federal governments to get people to not transition. It establishes coercing people not to transition as a legitimate government interest.
This is the court endorsing coercive practices by the state to force trans people not to exist. "It is not irrational for a legislature to encourage citizens to appreciate their sex and not become disdainful of their sex by refusing to fund experimental procedures that may have the opposite effect"
A 4th circuit panel of Republican appointees has ruled that Medicaid coverage bans on gender affirming care for adults are not unconstitutional. They cited Skrmetti 70 times in the decision. The en banc circuit court previously found it unconstitutional.
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As I have said repeatedly, the only move the anti-trans side has is pretending that they've found a scandal, then describe the way medicine (or medical research) works in every other field but trans care in breathless, scandalized tones.
Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com
Last man on earth did it first
Denver, Colorado is in the mountain time zone
how about listening to the people who have seen his rise from lowly San Francisco Parking and Traffic Commissioner to the highest elected office in CA and understanding that our hate for him is pure and based on his actions and statements since those days
A 150-foot-long Boeing E-6B Mercury, colloquially known as the “Doomsday Plane,” was seen flying low over California this past weekend amid the escalating war between the U.S. and Iran.
So please, if you can, I’d love to have this thread list pro-Trans everything. Creators, craftspeople, writers, artists, activists…if you or someone you know deserves some celebrating, bring it the fuck on, okay?
Post links if you can.
Buy stuff if you can.
They hate when people stand up.
No one cares what a comic book writer thinks but if we all stand up and say this is wrong, we have seen that elections can be won, and a lot of people are fed up with Transphobes.
So please, let’s do that and not just shrug this off as another shitty thing in a long parade of shitty things.
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Even worse, a lot of Trans people are not in a position to leave financially and otherwise.
I would rather be talking about happy things. But this is an insidious campaign of misinformation and cruelty, it has no other point except distraction from the actual criminals.
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I never thought I would see this. States are legislating unenforceable laws that violate privacy and decency and basic human dignity, targeting Trans people over a bunch of horseshit lies and ignorance.
So some of the best people are leaving because of the worst, and the silence of the rest.
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Three different Trans friends, all creatives, productive, well-loved people with years in our communities told me they feel they have no choice but to leave the USA for their safety.
They have to start again because of bigot scum, the worst people in our country.
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ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.
But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.
But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.
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Poob has it for you
There's nothing wrong with choosing to be your assigned gender, and choosing to use Windows.
But both should be a choice, not just a default you stick with because it's the most common. Make an informed decision about your gender and your computing needs!
Atlanta, Georgia is in the eastern time zone
you draw up that ad for amtrak?
sure did boss, diarrhea money shot just like you asked
Jake Lang, sending texts to literal children like
when the most prominent meme about a minority is that the attempted suicide rate approaches half of the *surviving* population of that minority, yeah, they know what they’re doing when they target us.
every trans crackdown is an attempted mass murder.
I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.
these kids are making Ferrari money telling people to use their app in order to stop watching porn, but they exposed their most intimate data and then lied to me about it www.404media.co/viral-quittr...
what do you do when your desired outcome (banning gender-affirming care) goes against the medical consensus? easy: simply exclude 97% of the relevant medical studies from your review...
Claude cannot actually feel, it can't think, it doesn't have opinions, it isn't self aware, it doesn't have context outside the immediate window you are using it with. By asking for its comment on war crimes you are legitimizing the idea that it can be used autonomously or for war at all. Stop it.
I’ve never known anyone using “NuTrek” unironically to have an opinion I cared about
AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?
