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never voting for this fucking rat. ever.

Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question: Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers? Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’ expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important, the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception of se…

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

this is a relatively new and bizarre argument in the history of book bans btw—conservatives have rarely if ever operated from the position that libraries are “government speech” (?) they’ve almost always argued on the grounds of obscenity and the public good

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night.

All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

trans friends in academia:

how do you even apply for jobs? I get so anxious looking at some of these places, and I feel like it's impossible to balance safety and access to healthcare and community with the availability and expectations of jobs.

i'd appreciate any insight anyone has on this.

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

rock hard caucus is an anti-Rob Sand op

The lesson is not that trans liberation is a matter of linguistic “inclusion,” as even trans philosophers now seem to think. It’s how little you need to have such that the word ‘daughter’ stands out as the greatest gift from cis parents.

Anyway, read @autoanon.bsky.social ’s riveting new novel!!

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

i would rather vote for Jon Green than Rob Sand.

one day we'll talk about how the presence of ultraviolence in games relative to the constant controversy and repression of queer & trans life (and also like, women) is in part because simulations of killing guys is the most reliable sublimated fantasy to distance from the feminization of intimacy

Wednesday, September 24 5:45 'Autism Doesn't Need a Cure' The Trump administration's unproven claims of a link between Tylenol and autism has sown deep mistrust among those living with the disability.

The way the NYT covers this, while they helped to create a similar moral panic that preceded Skrmetti, might be the thing that drives me mad.

putting she/her/hers in a job application so they think i'm cis

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.

screenshot of a The Economist post that reads: "A recent study found that children who transitioned young retained stable gender identities over time. But the fact that nearly a fifth of those in the group did not ought to give advocates of irreversible medical interventions pause". the byline of the linked to article says "a study finds that one in five who switch gender change their mind"

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

shoutout to being trans, if i was cis i'd just be a bisexual woman with a boyfriend, and i know i'd be awful about it.

there is actually a job opening in my field! (🥰)

it's in florida (🫠)

it's so interesting to me that cis men from every single demographic, ethnicity, class relation, and political machine are coming together in a temporary fraternity to collectively destroy the political power and public presence of women & trans people by any means necessary

The only thing Sarah McBride truly proves is that trans people can be spineless politicians who do nothing but enable fascism too. Trans people can be anything just like you I guess - even extreme disappointments.

Page 1: Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

Page 2: Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

Page 3: Flyer continues with questions about Antifa and FBI terrorism classifications. States that Antifa and TIVE are separate categories. Lists ways the FBI classifies domestic terrorism and identifies typical characteristics of “TIVEs,” such as targeting Christians, mental illness, and online radicalization. Includes images: a “Trans Antifa” logo, a pink-blue-white-striped slogan image reading “Protect Their Right to Exist,” a photo of Audrey Hale with a firearm, and a close-up of a magazine with the words “Where is your God?”

Page 4: Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

Donate to mutual funds. Take a first aid course. Offer to help others with yard work or errands. Check in on your friends, family & vulnerable community members. Contact your senator. Help out at a food bank. Do not give up. The road is long & small positive actions ripple outward.

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every trans person i know: i’d plan for canada but no one will hire me and i’m actively being watched by feds, and my healthcare’s gonna end. regardless of my feelings i should buy a gun

every cis person i know: it’s not technically a recession yet. Just wait until midterms! Mayor Pete in 2028 😻😻😻

the "trans panic" defense but for everything, always, forever

me getting hit by that cop was political violence, but some of the [weird iowa politics blog redacted] folks are sure sharing that video again saying i was violent for standing in a street. be serious.

They're turning this into their Reichstag fire and they're openly admitting it.

so ICE murdered a father in cold blood from a routine traffic stop, we're murdering random Venezuelans in foreign waters, we're shackling S. Koreans for building the factories we need to keep the southern economy alive, and we have a majority party trying to tie passport status to political views

EAT SHIT MOTHERFUCKER AARON RODGERS GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE THIS LEAGUE YOU TRANSPHOBE MOTHERFUCKER. MAYBE IF YOU GOT VAXXED YOU COULD TELL WHICH TEAM YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO THROW THE BALL TO

MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED