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OXNARD PRESS-COURIER Woman Hicks, Says: "I Will Die Courtrom expressions of Luey Hicks_are revealed in theic twn pictures, taken hy The Press-Courier at the_per. jury trial in Ventura on Wed. neslay. Answering the charge of masquerading as a woman, Iucy said toray: "I defy any doctor in the worl to prove that 1 am not a womaan. I have lived, dressed, |acted just what 1 am. a woman. It's onlypetty mallclousness that is trying to cause me heart- ache and harm. If they would devote the same amount of enerey to local problems that are hurting the community Rt would be much better. I have lived a_good life_and a Christian life and though I am a Christian - reverence all religious faiths, I have lived a good eitizen for many years in this town and am guing to die a good citizen, but 1 am going to die a woman. Lucy o

Lucy Hicks Anderson was born in 1886. Vocal about her gender from an early age, she left home in 1901 and transitioned at 15. In 1945, she was successfully prosecuted for "masquerading as a woman."

The image is a screenshot of an article headline with the title: "You Had a Hysterectomy. What Did the Doctor Leave Behind?" Below the title, it mentions the author, Simone Noronha, with a subheading that reads: "Patients often are in the dark about which organs remain and which were removed — particularly the ovaries, which profoundly influence lifelong health." The article is written by Rachel E. Gross, published on December 2, 2024, and updated on December 6, 2024. It also provides an option to listen to the article with a runtime of 16 minutes and 11 seconds.

You didn't think they were gonna stop this fertility moral panic at trans people did you? Next step is scandalizing voluntary hysterectomies to help push bans against that as well.

One of the NYPD brass said “this isn’t blue bloods” when explaining they can’t just immediately find the guy and I like that years of copaganda have set standards cops can’t meet and might be contributing to people’s correct perception that cops don’t effectively stop crime or find killers.

may every prison burn

Once again, cis liberals make it abundantly clear that any attempts by trans people to assert ourselves as worthy of dignity and to voice any critiques of their comfort with institutional transphobia will not merely be silenced, but met with gleeful fantasies of violence against us.

Here we see the Heritage Foundation explicitly accusing Jewish Voice for Peace and many other Jewish people of being "antisemitic."

They want Jewish people to be harassed and terrorized as "antisemites" if they don't participate in the Christian Nationalist project represented by gentile Zionism.

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

I already have all my letters, waited a year before I could even submit for coverage, got approved after having to argue with BCBS, and have gone through 22 hours of painful electrolysis. 🙃

Unless my surgeons can do me the coolest solid ever, it feel like my SRS isn't happening before Trump makes it legal for BCBS to withdraw coverage. ☹️

Top of the agenda is to go after providers of gender affirming care, including for adults. The FTC could also go after online platforms for displaying LGBTQ content which would be supercharged under KOSA.

This is catastrophically bad.

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on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things

CNN convened a panel of transgender youth to get their thoughts on the Supreme Court and the 2024 election.

10-year-old Violet: "My self is not an opinion. It is a fact."

Oregon Prison Limits Solitary to 90 Days. This BLM Protester Has Been in the Hole for 250. Oregon prisons limit solitary confinement to 90 days, but Black Lives Matter protester Malik Muhammad has been in the hole for some 250 days.

Anarchist and disabled Army veteran Malik Muhammad, who "received the harshest federal sentence [following the] 2020 protests," launched a hunger-strike in protest of being in solitary confinement for more than 250 days after being beaten by guards. theintercept.com/2024/12/05/b...

Anarchism in Health and Healthcare We begin our discussion about the intersections of anarchism and health in the UK, which today has a centralized, top-down, healthcare service, the National Health Service (NHS). The NHS was introduced in 1948. Prior to this and without the state, the working class often took healthcare into their own hands, through grassroots self-help and mutual aid. This was particularly exemplified by the Friendly Societies in the UK, which first took shape in the 1600s. Friendly Societies were mutual aid/insurance associations, often built around a workplace, industry, or community. Healthcare was one of their main functions, providing medical insurance with independent doctors and hospitals employed by societies. Throughout the late 1700s and early 1800s, Friendly Societies resisted attempts at government regulation, recognizing this would be the end of self-governance. For similar reasons, Friendly Societies were often opposed by the medical establishment, including the British Medical Association (BMA), which ran campaigns against Friendly Societies, as they saw them “as an ‘appalling’ example of doctors being told what to do by their ‘social inferiors’ as well as a brake on their incomes.”Footnote 17

How did insurance companies become so hated?

Insurance has its origins in mutual aid programs such as the "Friendly Societies" in which workers pooled their resources to take care of each other. Insurance only became a racket after this model was captured by the state and for-profit corporations.
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Hardly fair 💁‍♀️

I feel like today is not the smartest day for health insurance companies to announce policy changes like this?

I'm saddened to report that Alberta has passed a gender affirming care ban for under 16s, which would ban puberty blockers and HRT way past the age most experience puberty.

globalnews.ca/news/1090042...

I've been hating on that tankie skank for years 😭

The greater far-right groups with ties to Speaker Mike Johnson just launched a similar bullshit lawsuit in Riverside, CA. 2 girls demanding the right to wear anti-trans shirts to bully a trans teammate. This is a national pattern - coordinated at a national level.

rewatching The Sound of Music and damned if every little boy in this movie doesn't have resting "bled out from a Cossack's saber in some nameless steppe village"-face

The Real Story Of Thanksgiving "Learning" about Thanksgiving in our school system for some of us may be the first time we are even told about indigenous nations and people, but it is a false history. Learning about the realities of...

"The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre." itsgoingdown.org/real-story-t...

Post by Musk: Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty

Elon Musk thinks HE won the election and gets to be the autocrat. Fascist and delusional to the core.

RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.

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Something that always falls flat with "civil unions were a stepping stone to marriage" stuff is that A) most places didn't have civil unions legal (only 3 by 2006), and B) Anti-gay laws proliferated after the first two states recognized them.

They didn't "help earn marriage equality" at all.

Trump’s Defense secretary nominee has close ties to Idaho Christian nationalists • Idaho Capital Sun Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church.

This story from the Idaho Capital Sun seems significant: "Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church that aims to turn America into a theocracy."

If you voted out the incumbent because you thought housing prices were too high, got more bad news from you.
We import $105B in cement/lime/minerals and $28B in lumber/paper from Canada. We also *already* tariff that lumber to death
Expect construction costs to go through the roof (so to speak)

Hi, my grandmother has been making za’atar before Israel was even a thing. Fuck off.