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I think you're being very generous attributing this sentiment solely to cis people!

No, taking oestrogen does not make you More Truly Trans and trying to establish standards of legitimacy always ends up at the Harry Benjamin Fan Club.

At the same time, we are swamped with transer-than-thou sentiment from the other end, where people cite non-transition as a mark of enlightenment.

This is the clear and unambiguous goal of the "gender critical" movement, and if you are at all ignorant of this, please understand that this is where compromising with genocidal fascists on human rights will lead you. This is what you are co-signing when you concede to their "concerns"

The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination. It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected.

It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service users. "A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex:

“A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.”
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These narratives also tend to ignore that there are some of us who Always Knew but couldn't get HRT. I wasn't more enlightened for not transitioning earlier, I was fucking afraid for my life. And I certainly didn't become More Trans after taking my first E pill.

It happened again

whenever I wind up as the target of transmisogynistic harassment online, a not-infrequent part of my professional life, I think about the trans women who aren't spiteful cockroach queers like I am, who crumple when attacked, who flee creative scenes, who never make anything again.

Huh maybe if they weren't kicking all the Palestinians off the app there would be more users

Maybe if they didn't welcome Jesse Singal there would be more users

Oh and let us use said medallions on the conclave because you currently can't iirc

I'm ultimately hoping that either they do something to revive the 1999 pvp (I have no hope for conclave itself ever being relivable), give the non pvp version of that 1999 mission conclave standing as a reward, or add a half decent way to grind universal medallions

The pvp is deeply frustrating to me, I have very nearly collected and maxed everything in the game (outside of paid cosmetics), but the pvp is just there with way too many mods and cosmetics and no good way to grind it because nobody plays pvp so you can't earn standings at any real rate

Sureeeeeee

The reasonable centrist liberal parties are officially to the right of the fascists on trans rights in the UK.

This does not make any of them good. It makes the entire circus a fucking farce, a worthless mockery of politics and sound governance, because it's all just bigots barking at each other.

Labour officially sprinted so far right on this issue that Reform can exploit a "populist" stance based on appearing "reasonable" by comparison.

And like ... Anne Widdecombe, who supported section 28, has now opposed Kami Badenoch and said (some) "trans women have no place in male prisons".

To make something clear: The fascist UK party are opportunists and liars. Their promises mean NOTHING.

However, what we're seeing is that transphobia has become synonymous with elite institutions in the UK.

And so, Reform is taking a "sensible", "commonsense", "anti-elite" stance against it.

I deleted a post yesterday because a few folks were concerned about "Reform is less transphobic than Labour" being press narrativization, and I did not want to make a definitive statement based on noncommittal waffling.

Today, Labour is calling Reform "Woke" pejoratively.

That said you should treat eggs more like a silk worm/moth and its cocoon: proper gentle care and nurturing will usually ensure a safe emergence but sometimes you'll have to cut an opening in that cocoon because the moth can't get out on its own without either seriously hurting itself or at all

So I've been seeing chatter about the egg prime directive pop up again recently, some in favor of it and a good bit against it. Thought I might as well say my simplified thoughts regarding it: The egg prime directive is cissexist hogwash and has been since day one.

the small group of cis authors use the correct terminology too.

why can't you guys?

why is transmisogyny diluted to amab femininity?

I'm so tired of the ignorance of how some of you talk about transfem kids. They are girls. We were girls. We deserve better than being constantly lumped in with our biggest persecutors.

since evan is saying shit things again, I’d like to remind everyone that he has a history of being transmisogynist so him saying “actually we have too many trans women writers” should be contextualized with that

Current stage of Norwegian trans rights debate: Journalists have a responsibility to know Basic Fucking Facts about the stuff they report on Vs no they don't

People who think ChatGPT and it's ilk are becoming sentient must lose their fucking MINDS when they meet a previously owned parrot

trans woman: btw if you have a big meltdown confessing that you were trans in your past life before being murdered and reincarnated as a girl, dont try suggesting to your bestie that youre “kinda cis now!” bc she will go straight into industrial brain dewormer mode for *weeks*

The popularization of "transwoman" and "transman" instead of "trans woman" and "trans man" is a devastating loss. Language matters.

"How can I be a good man?" was a question I was stuck on for ages before realizing that "man" was simply not something I could be.

Transfems all grapple with the existential terror of being shaped into a Man, whether by testosterone or by the sociocultural norms of hegemonic manhood.

Walk with me.

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

There Is No Such Thing As A Grungler.

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I don't care how much of a smol bean Itch is, this is not a viable platform.

You can still make artisan sourdough for cheaper than wonder bread too!