Bonnie

Notice how thats not at all what I said though.

Genuinely amazing how you brought yourself here tbh.

Btw this is just transphobia that you are doing right now.

Genuinely amazing how you brought yourself here tbh.

Btw this is just transphobia that you are doing right now.

Not really

What do you think 'split the baby' meant?

What about the 'could you imagine someone saying this to a cis kid'

What do you think that was saying?

If the obvious alternative isnt "of course just hrt right away so they can go through puberty with their peers" then that says more abt u

I didn't paint with a broad brush. You misunderstood what I wrote.

Being a parent of a trans kid doesnt even necessarily make you an ally, plenty of parents of trans people are their first bully in life.

Maybe take a beat to listen to what trans people are saying before getting defensive

You cant convince me that Love is Blind isnt very overt right wing propaganda meant to push specific social narratives through a seemingly apolitical show.

Trans kids should be able to go through the right puberty at the same age as their peers.

The reason puberty blockers are being pushed as the default (instead of as an option for when there is genuine uncertainty) is a compromise made largely to appease cis people who are uncomfortable w trans ppl

Just give them hormones!! Why do we have to make trans kids wait half of their teenage years to grow up the way they want!!

"Trans kids need puberty blockers so they can go through the right puberty when theyre old enough"

Is easily one of the most annoying ally 'split the baby' talking points.

Imagine if someone said that about a cis kid.

Back in my day people would argue online the old fashioned way, by making up stuff all on their own.

These days people just have chat gpt write an essay and put it in the comments somewhere. Unreal.

Truly!!! I have been thinking about this a lot lately tbh

I wish more people payed attention to the fact that while efforts have definitely been made to pass bills, the biggest changes TERFs have made to laws has been through changing the meaning of words in popular understanding.

This is why its so important to not adopt their language

Informal community knowledge is not the same as "anecdotal evidence"

A) there have been other studies that showed this
B) trans women's experience *is* evidence
C) this has been known in the context of basic biology for a bit

Also, is there *any* evidence to support an assumption that estrogen should work differently than any other med re:uptake?

Like every 2 months there's a new study presented in the press like its brand new that HRT improves trans people's mental health

Can we stop acting like every bit of research about trans people is entirely new?

The study they are referencing suggests that injections are more effective and that Spiro sucks... which like... thats been known for a long time

State AGs need to worry less about jurisdictional minutiea and more about finding any excuse to prosecute people in the epstien files

Everyonce in a while, I'm confronted with the fact that I often talk like an 18th century professor on stimulants and think "wow, I must be really annoying somtimes"

"hey why did you use that really technical word"

well you see, its actually because I don't know any other ones tbh

To be clear, there is a lot of blame to be put here on "allies" who refuse to listen to trans people and keep harping on the same harmful nonsense of centering puberty blockers "wait and see" approaches and shouting "surgeries dont happen under 18"

Wildly infuriating that the AMA decided to hedge on trans youth care like this.

Trans people deserve the right to bodily autonomy and to go through puberty at the same age as their peers.

Like I knew I was right, we didn't really need to get confirmation in this way

I know I've always said that conservatives' transphobia is mostly performative because they want to maintain a hyper-exploitable population of women, but its super fucked seeing it spelled out so explicitly in the epstien files along side him putting life support into 4chan.

My socialist pipe dream program is a govt agency that all you need is a letter from a doctor saying you have a disability and they just send cleaners to your house once a week

Democratic electeds going "there just nothing we can do 😔" while Mamdani is doing very many things in real time, sure is something to see

*return of the measels*
*secret police that target elementary schools*
*billionaire sex trafficking ring*

Republicans: this is fine, ideal actually

Trans person: *exists*

Republicans: won't somebody think of the children 😡😭

Very tired of democrats responding to everything trump does with "what Trump is doing is illegal, so we are passing a bill to make it double illegal"

I'm gonna miss this little guy so much ❤️

RIP Mr Crowley

Truly

"Oh but Bob overstayed his visa"

Like I couldn't possibly care less

I simply will never care about "illegal immigration" when most rape kits go unanalyzed and the president won't release the documents he is legally required to regarding the most high profile sex trafficking scheme in US history