A few years ago, I got in a guy's face at a bar, because he was loudly talking shit about BLM while wearing a Confederate flag tee. When he swelled up on me, it was a guy who didn't say all the right things about trans people who put his body on the line and defended me. 🧵
Within just a few hours of this morning's genocide warning from the Lemkin Institute, the 4th Circuit ruled that trans adults can have our care banned and be forced by any means to "appreciate our sex", and Iowa made it ILLEGAL to protect trans people.
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I came out in 2010, and couldn't count how many times I got asked about "the surgery."
The weirdest thing was a guy stopping me when I was leaving a restaurant, making a show of staring at my crotch, then saying "just trying to figure out if I should hold the door for you."
I think the In This House signs are a net positive. I think people explicitly affirming trans identity is a net positive, even when it's cringe or whatever.
The issue is people who believe that investing in that kind of sloganeering is enough when we're about to get punched.
I don't know if that guy at the bar, whose name I can't remember, was any kind of trans ally, but I do know that he wasn't going to sit by with the vocal "allies" while some failure of Reconstruction decked a woman.
I was a regular at this place. All the people who knew me, the people who told me I was so brave, and that they "hold space for me" just sat there. It took a guy who said shit like "he identifies as a woman" to keep me from getting curb stomped by racist scum.
A few years ago, I got in a guy's face at a bar, because he was loudly talking shit about BLM while wearing a Confederate flag tee. When he swelled up on me, it was a guy who didn't say all the right things about trans people who put his body on the line and defended me. 🧵
i am in Kansas, drinking at a bar owned by a transfemme,
about a tenth of u out there get it. you know. we are everywhere and everywhere is our home
but: we're out here in ways some of you cant conceive, because u think us flyovers are living and loving in either 1980 or 1880
Imagining how much food I could buy my family if I picked myself up by Les Wexner's bootstraps.
The idea that it isn't discriminatory because cis people are also denied treatment based on a diagnosis of gender dysphoria is such obvious horseshit.
The only shelter near where I live requires church attendance as a condition of staying there.
The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.
I mean, sure, they deserve credit individually, but the Democratic party as an organization still failed trans people here, and they deserve to be criticized for it collectively.
Whether or not those Dems had bigotry in their heart, the outcome is still entrenched bigotry against trans people in federal law. Even if it was primaruly done out of political calculus, that calculus determined that sacrificing trans rights was worth it to fund Trump's war machine.
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
there is literally nothing wrong with being trans and anyone who says otherwise is a fascist who would kill and/or enslave your entire family at a moment's notice
Gavin Newsom is the butt in everything.
An off the cuff claim that social transition is dangerous and irreversible can make it halfway around the world while 3 decades worth of research is putting on its shoes.
I already said I'd never vote for Newsom. You don't need to sell it to me.
Anyway, sorry a trans person was rude to you 15 years ago. I'm sure that was a lot to deal with, too!
I can't tell you how many times someone has been totally normal with me, right up to the point that something tips them off that I'm trans, and then they'll scowl and forcefully call me "sir." I lost most of my friends and family when I came out.
I had 2 separate jobs where I was hired, and then not scheduled after I showed my old ID during onboarding. I lost count of the number of times strangers grabbed my breasts to "see if they are real." I reported it once at a restaurant job I worked, and management thought it was hilarious.
After I first came out, people would regularly stop me in the grocery, while I had my kid with me, to quote scripture and tell me I should be ashamed of myself. When I worked retail, I had a man who came in almost every day to tell me he would "make a man out of" me.
People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
