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I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant.

It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated.

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I have touched on this topic in passing multiple times! For a time I felt like a full essay might not be entirely necessary, but I changed my mind

pweeease just a little lawsuit

Indeed, even Abigail Shrier makes this point. In Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Me Personally, Shrier features multiple stories of

The Sex Triangle

i promise it's a more serious essay than some snippets would have you believe

Does the Patriarchy Transition Women? …what if they’re butch? What about feminine men? And what does it mean to be non-binary? In March 2026, The Atlantic published an article by Ben Appel titled In Defense of Effeminate Boys. Subtitle: “If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.” As one might surmise, Ben Appel (clearly and brazenly plagiarising my latest essay’s title format, for which I will be suing him presently) makes the case that the advancement in trans care is pushing feminine boys and men to identify as transgender women instead, because it denaturalises feminine expressions of manhood. In other words, the elevation of the trans woman to the status of normalcy makes the feminine man more aberrant. Ben says, “But I didn’t know to feel this type of shame [for being mistaken for a girl]. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian community called the Lamb of God, and—perhaps surprising—no one seemed to care about my flamboyance. What mattered was that my heart was on fire for the Lord.” “Perhaps surprising,” indeed.

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Then those few cases will DEFINITELY receive all the resources and accommodations everyone else is greedily snatching up.

Right?

The idea of asking for better, for more training or more funding or more resource for schools, is of course preposterous. So the criteria for autism must simply shrink until applies only to those few 'extreme' cases the doctors deem are sufficiently disabling.

You guessed it: Because more kids are asking for accommodations, and of course, this puts a strain on the school system, and there is simply no way to give all these entitled children faking a condition to get treats that are now being taken away from deserving, actually disabled kids.

The thing about autism diagnoses is that there's no blood draw or sample you can test. It's a matter of evaluation and inherently places a lot of power in the hands of the medical 'experts'.

Frith essentially says that listening to people more and having less rigid criteria is bad, because...?

So let's look at the rhetorical similarity with a transphobic canard used by GC ideologues, "We're all non-binary".

It's a bit rooted in truth, but it's deployed to say that deviation that is not "extreme enough" is meaningless. Effectively, it insists on a rigid medicalized diagnostic criteria.

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...for those who haven't seen the Atlantic article in question, this 🧵 provides a good breakdown, along with this excellent one-sentence synopsis: "If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals!"
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Transgender People, “Gay Conversion,” and “Lesbian Extinction”: What the Data Show A couple days ago (on Christmas, actually), The Telegraph ran a piece with the provocative title: “Lesbians facing ‘extinction’ as…

since The Atlantic is apparently reviving the "a was a feminine gay child, but if I was a kid today they would have 'transed' me" trope, here's an essay I wrote back in 2020 explaining why this is not true & there is no evidence to support it: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...

I MADE AN ENTIRE NONFICTION CAREER OUT OF THIS AND HE JUST TWEETED IT OUT

We must not allow the manufacturing of conse--wait hold on! MY TROOPS!!!

It's basically identical to the behaviour of any citizen of an imperial country, if it helps

"Tell when you were in as much danger as a reluctant US soldier" Is this a joke? Is this a dare?

Arguably the first impact Americans felt were the tariffs, stupid as those were, and it inspired no particular surge of empathy

What about the poor people who are the ones getting bombed. I will accept the whinging about the poor American recruits if you give every third-worlder a button that gives them 50k dollars when pressed while killing a random American

This spells out what we've always known about institutional and community contempt for trans people in death, and elaborates on how that is intensified by anti-Blackness and transmisogyny.

Transmisogynoir means Black trans women's deaths are dismissed, lied about, and not investigated.

She explained that a family cannot argue bias until they have first overturned an existing official classification; a high bar, made higher by the investigative failures that produced the classification in the first place. “It’s like taking a bad photograph,” Jefferson said, recounting what an FBI agent once told her. “If you mess it up in the beginning, there’s really no way to go back and fix it.” The landscape these claims enter is genuinely complicated. A 2025 commentary in Mental Health Science by researchers at George Washington University found that 59 percent of Black transgender and nonbinary youth reported active suicidal ideation in 2023, and 26 percent reported a past-year attempt — rates significantly higher than among their cisgender Black LGBTQ+ peers. The authors link these disparities to compounding stressors like racism, discrimination, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, violence, and inadequate mental health infrastructure for this population. Jefferson does not dispute any of that. Her argument is narrower: that documented vulnerability should not be used as a substitute for actual investigation. “You still have the situation where there is this deliberate effort to find another reason, other than the obvious

What this means that the disproportionately high rates of violence trans women, particularly trans women of colour, particularly Black trans women experience, are still very much under-reported and under-estimated.

Jefferson describes a spectrum of institutional failure across the cases she has reviewed: incompetence at the scene, indifference at the precinct, and, at the prosecutorial level, what she characterizes as harder to excuse. “I have sat with DAs,” she said, “and I’ve given them evidence that shows this was not a suicide, this was a lynching, and they will still refuse to press charges.” Her policy prescriptions are specific. She wants the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act amended to create a separate federal cause of action for lynching, with life imprisonment as a potential penalty. She wants independent federal prosecutors assigned to these cases, removing them from local authorities, whom she argues are compromised by community relationships and personal bias. And she points to the qualification standards for coroners in states like Mississippi — a high school diploma and a passed test — as a systemic vulnerability that no one has adequately addressed. “I could be a coroner right now,” she said, “and I have absolutely no medical training.”

It seems like the prevalent practice is to use our high rates of suicidality as a demographic to refuse to investigate our deaths, ignoring that the high rate of suicidality is caused by hostility, impoverishment, and vulnerability to violence and exploitation.

seriously: Muhammad Ali was willing to go to prison to avoid the military; the least you can do is tell the recruiter to shove that gi bill up his ass

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between this and how americans behaved during the greenland threats, you get a picture of a people who consider themselves exceptional in this sense: there is no justifiable reason for them to ever feel inconvienced or criticised, let alone endangered for a just cause. history's special babies

Do not beg the people you wrong for forgiveness, you miserably Christian ghouls.