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Been on fediverse/mastodon for 7 years, fine, go on bluesky, within a week I'm suffering the exact same kind of mental health stress as I used to have on twitter

This is, of course, the point.

If you are a trans person being harassed at work, you will see Beth Upton and ask yourself whether it could ever be worth it to mention it to your boss.

Because if action is taken against your harasser, you might just be inviting the dedicated harassment of an entire hate movement instead.

It's worth noting that Dr Beth Upton will never be able to have a normal life again. She will forever be a target for the relentless harassment campaigns. She will become a character to be whipped out and a frenzy spun about whenever the GCs see fit.

“UK must respect Trump’s mandate” - he has no mandate in Gaza. He has no mandate here, either, and the UK govt isn’t fucking obligated to go along with any of his whims.

The most malicious line in this segment is actually “rapidly changing understanding of gender”, implying the root of the problem is speed and not bigotry/conservatism, as it this was not a millenia-old battle.
The author is either misinformed, a coward or both

The first puberty blockers were prescribed to trans kids 40 years ago. They came into routine use in the early 90s. The fact that they call nearly “half a century” rapidly shifting is laughable. Then again, it’s an intentional anti-trans framing of the issue.

Rapidly shifting? People have been getting gender-affirming care in the country longer than NASA has been training astronauts, it’s not “rapidly shifting” if some white cisgender podcaster made you aware of it last Tuesday.

It makes as much sense to have a public debate about trans healthcare as it does to have a public debate about hip replacements. You almost certainly know nothing about it and so you should shut up. The government knows nothing about it and should leave it to the experts

Everything I have learned about Nancy Mace has been completely against my will.

She does this so we all share it to make fun of her

The second half of this section should raise the reddest of flags. Sec 1(A)2:

"...or intent to guide, instruct, or raise a child consistent with those beliefs, regarding sexual orientation or gender identity."

Outside of legislation, ADF, BFRL and several other far-right legal orgs have filed suits in district courts challenging local laws. At least one is likely to go before SCOTUS and has already petitioned— which could preempt legal challenges to bills like these, given the current court makeup.

The strategy itself is multifaceted and got huge momentum behind it after Fulton v Philadelphia in 2021, which allows religious social service agencies with gov't contracts to ignore non-discrimination clauses. After Fulton, religious groups set their sights on individual prospective caregivers.

The actual words of the agreement to respect sexuality or gender aren't specific to SOGI, and actually grew out of efforts to prevent culture loss following ICWA. SOGI is just one of a long list of things parents agree to respect like religion and cultural heritage.

This comes after Trump already rescinded 2023 Biden HHS guidance prohibiting conversion of children in adoption and foster care via initial executive order his first day in office, and is likely to be the subject of a future order after being alluded to in EO 14187.

STATE OF OKLAHOMA 2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 3 SENATE BILL 658 By: Daniels 4 5 9 AS INTRODUCED An Act relating to the Oklahoma Children's Code; prohibiting certain actions by the Department of Human Services in relation to adoptive and foster parents; providing certain construction; providing for codification; and providing an effective date 8 9 10 11 12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 13 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified 14 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-8-113 of Title 10A, unless 15 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 16 A. The Department of Human Services shall not: 17 1. Require any current or prospective adoptive or foster parent 18 to affirm, accept, or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs as a condition for eligibility to adopt or foster; Deny a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent any authorization necessary to be eligible to adopt or foster based, in whole or in part, upon the parent's sincerely held religious or Req. No. 189

consistent with those beliefs, regarding sexual orientation or gender identity; or Establish or enforce any standard, rule, or policy that precludes consideration of a current or prospective adoptive or foster parent for any particular placement based, in whole or in part, upon the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs 8 regarding sexual orientation or gender identity, 9 Nothing in this section shall: 10 1. Preclude the Department from taking into account th religious or moral beliefs of a particular adoptive or foster child, or his or her family of origin including, but not limited to, child's or family's views regarding sexual orientation and gender 14 identity, considered in relation to the religious or moral beliefs of a prospective adoptive or foster parent when determining which placement is in the best interest of the child; or 2. Be construed to prohibit or relieve the Department of its duty to make each placement consistent with the best interests of the child as otherwise required by law SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025. 60-1-189 DC 1/19/2025 5:40:51

Introduced 2/3 and passed out of HHS committee today in OK, bill prevents the state from requiring adoptive and foster parents to agree they would support a child who came out as gay or trans if such objection is based on a "sincerely held" religious belief.
www3.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-...

They are simply taking back the jobs, homes, and livelihoods that were stolen from them. And when you take an actual Latin American history course, you quickly find out that it's basically a tour of one western-backed coup after another.

Liberals are quick to mount the "kindness" argument on immigration, and then they say our economy depends on them. It's none of that. Our government spent the last 100 years sabotaging their democracies, stealing their resources, and destroying their environment. They have every right to be here.

Hard for me to worship Shai Hulud as a god when he can be fooled by walking a bit silly

These are the people we were told to vote for purely on the basis they aren't Tories? And then they go do yet more fucked up stuff, again, like cuddling up to transphobic groups, and Trump, and THIS

Took me a minute to realise this was about the game series

whenever you hear a "gender-critical" person say something abhorrent (which is almost every time you hear a "GC" person say anything at all), do keep in mind that the labour party chose to side with them over trans people.

YouTube video by LucyDacusVEVO Lucy Dacus - Best Guess (Official Music Video)

HOLY SHIT www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90_...

This isn’t “preventing crime”—it’s automating injustice.
Ask yourself: Who benefits from this tech? And who gets trapped by it?” 🍄

Labeling people as “high risk” based on opaque, unchallengeable algorithms. Over-policing of marginalized areas: Because AI treats arrest data as crime data, even when no crime occurred.
Self-fulfilling prophecy: More police presence = more arrests = more “predicted crime” = more police presence.

An AI predicting crime before it happens? We’ve seen this movie—literally (it always ends in authoritarian etc) AI doesn’t “predict” crime—it amplifies historical bias in law enforcement data…past policing disproportionately targeted specific communities, guess where this model will predict crime?

The UK Police claimed to have that decades ago.

It turns out it's incredibly easy to teach a computer to emulate human bigotry.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus