Also curious what that was about.
I like to describe my career as "eclectic" 😂 I've worked for seven 121 carriers (flew for four), seven 135 operators, and have ten type ratings with largest the B767 and smallest the King Air. I think I've flown to 40 countries? It's been a time! I still enjoy it but glad to be home most nights now!
The first state in the US to remove statutory protections for an entire class, gender identity, has just enacted a bill preventing local municipalities from having their own protections for trans people.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
I was flying for Airborne Express when DHL bought the business, and the on time performance plummeted. The in house joke was DHL meant "Day and a Half Late." You're right though, overseas they seemed to be much better, in fact not many years ago they were still the world's largest express shipper.
Lots of states already ban or limit coverage of gender-affirming care for people on Medicaid, in fact. Just like the Hyde amendment made abortion inaccessible for poor people long before Roe was overturned
Eventually I just came out anyway, right where I was, and after a while it seems that everyone around me has forgotten I was once someone else. Which is fine.
But the religious right orgs and the statehouse who would dictate to all of us who we are and how we must live Will. Not. Leave. Me. Alone.
I had my dreams of running away to NYC, cause it was clearly a much more inclusive place than the world I lived in. But I wasn't Holly from Miami, the woman I most wanted to be was Renee Richards, moving to California and starting over where no one knew her. Just quietly living a life.
This could get me in big trouble, but... Lou Reed. I LOVE Lou's music and as a teen in the 70's I thought he was marvelously transgressive. But I think it's very revealing that he fought Rachel Humphreys over her desire for surgery. I adore "Walk On The Wild Side," but it was never exactly me.
It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.
“Trans people in America live inside the persecuted order. Our documents can be revoked. Our healthcare can be criminalized. Our right to exist in public space can be legislated away.”
House Judiciary discussing whether I should be a felon for using the restroom. “Details at 11.”
Seriously, thank you for watching, listening, and reporting, Tiffani 🙏
I think every single day about “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
I’ve been intending to learn! Winter was hard, I’m hoping this spring life will give me time to make it to one of the beginner classes 😊
I’d say what does the Labour gov think is gonna happen with trans people when you ban HRT but I reckon they genuinely do not think about it and just think we’ll drop this whole “being trans“ thing and see they’re doing it for our own good
like yes, the way transphobia manifests is definitely intertwined with the cisheteropatriarchal christofascist project's other pet bugaboos, but we're not coming out as some radical act against said project? we're coming out because that's just how we are man
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BREAKING: A judge refused to block a Kansas law that invalidates the driver’s licenses of transgender people and allows trans people to be sued for using public restrooms.
This isn't the final say, and we will keep fighting in court to stop this discriminatory law.
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
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Makes me feel nostalgic 😊
This is how I access Bluesky
I will never have empathy for the parents pushing these bills. If my child ever felt like he couldn’t confide in me, that failure would be mine.
Ruining the lives of others through lawmaking because you cannot love your child for who they are is not the solution.
/endrant. Great article.
Boise Treefort experts, if I only want to see one band (@ekkoastral.bsky.social) at Neurolux, how best to go about that? Is it possible? I’ve never been to a Treefort and the whole ticket thing looks kind of overwhelming!
Just channeling Scrooge 😉
I certainly know I think I should be, but I always kind of thought economists agreed I should get on with dying, and decrease the surplus population?
I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.
The idea that opposing and rolling back trans rights is good for cis women and girls is ludicrous on every level and absolutely enraging when applied in legislation and policy that obviously limits and rolls backs rights for ALL women and girls
And I also loved the convenience of not having to drive when I worked in cities with good public transit like Chicago, Portland, or any of the larger cities in Canada.
I would definitely take the train whenever possible, I agree it’s a much better experience than airlines. I rode the train a lot when I was working in Japan, Europe, and the UK.
