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families of queer people, meanwhile: www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...

"Take the phone away" is the first item on the list of action recommended by anti-trans parents' orgs.

There's a tendency in trans people's parents, when they are accepting, to still want an exaggerate amount of control on their kid's life. I'm not talking about the regular amount of oversight any young person requires, in fact most of the cases I am thinking about right now concern people over 20.

People also take offence when told that their child has a right to privacy, and in some cases, that their child's carer, in the case of a therapist or a doctor for instance, has a confidentiality duty with their patients. You can't go about demanding summaries of your kid's therapy sessions.

Accepting parents are great, better than non-accepting ones for sure, but they are still themselves and they can very easily slip into a "Let's tolerate minimal change until my child wakes up from this delusion" mentality.

they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!

SNAP benefits and health insurance wouldn't even need to exist at all if people got paid livable wages and health care was 100% free. They're functionally duct tape for holding a broken system in place and the GOP wants to peel off said tape.

Brianna Ghey was not murdered for being Esther Ghey's daughter, and Esther locating the problem of her daughter being murdered by radicalised cis kids in her daughter being trans is a result of her class loyalty. She simply wants to prevent kids from being trans. She gets no more grace from me.

The parents of trans people are notoriously unreliable figures in our lives. The phrase "deadname" arises from our communal knowledge that our own parents will erase our transition and very lives for their own narrative convenience when the world conspired to kill us before our own parents die.

Esther Ghey is of this parental decision, and her decision to bemoan her daughter's ability to be trans, befriend the family of her murderers, and deadname her throughout a book is because she's a fucking ghoul of a transphobe. She grieved the loss of her son, not daughter, let's be real.

Anti trans radicals have long targeted parents because they know parents are the most potent figures of authoritarian violence against queer kids. Esther Ghey is merely their latest weapon.

tbh, the US supreme court not budging on gay marriage is great, but also this happening while codifying anti-abortion and anti-trans laws is either strategic in the face of opposition or an example of the project of homonationalist integration, at a time where fascist parties have cis LGB leaders

Trans Women in Sport: What Does the Science Say? Research suggests trans women have minimal to no performance advantage over cisgender women.

The disparities are controlled by hormone levels and not puberty.

Current evidence suggests any physical performance advantages trans women have do not fall outside the range observed among cis women after 1-2 years of testosterone suppression.

www.transresearch.org.au/post/trans-w...

IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.

www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.

We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.

how much of this is legal weed states pissed about it cutting into official dispensaries, i wonder

regardless: fucking lmao. firmly committed to not giving you the bread OR the circuses

[an electoral map from 2024 showing like a ton of red in the middle of the country and blue only in cities] robbybobby271: remember kids, the areas in red provide about 85% of the food you eat. and we're required to share it with the blue parts. we just do it to be nice.

remember kids, the areas in red provide about 85% of all federally-owned land that we put oil pipelines on

Lol Labour toooooooo

this is literally never not accurate

interesting to note that the only ppl desperate to save the bbc are 'centrists' and absolutely nobody else cares bcos they made this bed themselves

it's the same with the labour party. both abandoned the left to pander to the right and now the right is eating them they have very few supporters left

anyway

As a parent, I know the unbearable pain of losing a child - so this is hard to say

But truth matters

Brianna's mother had the opportunity and the moral authority
to stand up for young Trans+ people, in her daughter’s memory

Public evidence suggests she’s chosen not to

It’s deeply upsetting

Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men: “If the rule you followed brought you to this... you to this...of what use was the rule?”

The point of transition isn’t to become an uwu beautiful uwu lady or hunk of a man (it’s nice if that happens tho). The life of an ugly and Whole woman is worth living. It is misogyny to believe that only the life of a beautiful woman is worth living. You have to become Whole.

pls donate? NO health care!! ONLY donate

no money for politicians

I’ve been working since 15. I’ve been lucky enough to not have had to go to the hospital for anything but one blood pressure issue in my 30s. It was minor. Went to urgent care at 42, that alone would’ve hit me for thousands even with my ACA health plan. They found cancer. That’s close to $500k.

As others have said, we all need to be clear on the fact that what is happening in Chicago is a preview of what they are planning for all blue cities.

Especially as midterms approach.

They will tear gas us at the polls and say, oh, this isn't voter suppression. It's just business as usual.

The Democratic Party is so committed to mistrusting and de-emphasizing grassroots swells of support that they legitimately believe “issues” are a thing that they direct and control, rather than things that they respond to and capitalize on. It makes me feel insane.

The last few years of getting a zillion "great" offers for "we know what's holding you back on youtube book a meeting now" or "do a video and we'll give you $2 every time someone installs raid shadow legends" has led me to a single finding: anyone with a .gg domain is probably running scams.