Winter 🏳️‍⚧️

help there's a person next to me on the bus drinking something with the slurpiest mouth sounds a human has ever created I'm going to die

oh no I'm like five days late, surely it's still Sunday

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

Double majoring in queer theory and mathematics so I can revolutionize both fields by proving that B≠NB

the real crime is that brianna ghey was a trans girl. everyone agrees she was the perpetrator and aggressor. had she simply not been brianna then there would have been no crime, because being trans is criminal and sinful and evil. im surprised they imprisoned her killers at all.

She forgives Brianna's killers but I guess doesn't forgive Brianna for being online a lot because being trans is fucking isolating and difficult.

And that's a wrap

Long ago in the pre-sideshave days, @laurenshippen.com & I met on a fun D&D webseries. Lauren went on to create thrilling, heartfelt (queer!) stories in podcast, novels, & self-produced indie art I fell in love with.

Now we’re reunited! I’m proud to be Cal in Phantom Pulse. Please check it out! 🎸🖤

Asking for a friend, what would you call non-criminal e-levels? Or at least small fine level. Non-moving traffic violation even.

Fowmew vice pwesident Dick Cheney, one of the chief awchitects of the waw on tewwow, has died at his home at the age of 84.

[looking at the broken statue of ozymandias in the desert] estrogen could have saved her

basically. if u want to be cool with the dolls. u are going to have to make decisions that are political. that might get you in trouble. theres no way to be cool with the dolls and also perpetuate the status quo

Pinknews: In a post on Truth Social earlier this month, the president demanded that Democrats support provisions in an appropriations bill which would ban federal funding for any hospital or medical facility that provided gender-affirming care, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT), to a patient of any age.

At a minimum, anxious Democrats and advocates believe that party leaders will capitulate on trans health care coverage in federal funding negotiations on the margins, allowing language that bans government-backed insurance plans from covering these services.

oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy.

as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

A therapist who doesn't respect your pronouns has someone else as a client; they are serving an interest that is not yours and you shouldn't participate.

Do you ever think about how the people who control what airs on Fox News are currently running the country in a very direct sense?

Braids are a great way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when ICE teargasses you.

Also they don’t get caught in a respirator. 10/10 would recommend.

they hate to see the doll. but they will get over it, as long as she isn't winning. as long as she isn't happy. as long as she is broke. as long as she is sick. as long as she is dependent. as long as they can point to her and warn their son away

what they really hate most is to see the doll win

anyway,, , no one is born cis

when I wrote Girlmode, I felt good about the future of trans folk, especially young people, in the United States, and that there was no need to spend the book exploring the quotidian humiliations of transphobia, because what I was interested in was showing how a trans girl is a girl.

whelp.

Serano has a really good piece on this behavior

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

30 the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified aim of excluding males who identify as female in par- ticular. Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move- ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche- mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though many others are not. This difference in attitudes starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche- mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind lingering doubts about the possibility of converting iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac- cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi- cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men Warning: This story contains descriptions of violence. “Go to Pony, go to Pony, go to Pony—there’s more people there,” said a frantic woman as she approached Madison Carstens and her friends next to t...

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood.

According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker?

www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

the big red button you can push in the classic “if you could wake up tomorrow as the other sex” hypothetical? it’s real and it’s called children’s tylenol.

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

seeing a lot of takes alleging that kirk's death is what is specifically going to trigger a civil war.

and, no, i have to say as my official opinion as not only a politics journalist but someone whose been in leftist activist spaces for nearly a decade. it is not what will trigger it specifically 🧵

charlie kirk died for what he believed in. in a very literal sense: he believed in a world where gun deaths are inevitable and the solution to problems is violence. he excused his own death years before it happened. and if anyone else had been killed he'd already be weaponizing and relativizing it.