Jesse Thorn

I feel like maybe two out of three is but I guess that’s why I’m not a poetess

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I figured out how to fit a week's clothes for cold, wet New York into a 32L backpack so I could roll a 50-pound electric blue checked bag full of merch and stagecraft onto the Long Island Railroad, so I hope if you are in Brooklyn you are coming to @judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social at the Bell House.

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my interview with Jesse Thorn on Bullseye

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The honest truth is that given the best evidence, given a child with consistent and persistent gender difference and the consistent and persistent desire for medical intervention, the conservative path is to offer care. The radical choice is to deny it, based on ideology or stubbornness or cruelty.

To offer gender-affirming care or to deny care are both serious, permanent choices. There is no avoiding the choice. The question is whether the choice respects the life and health of the human being involved, or an imagined world where they are someone else.

This so much. All choices carry consequences, no choice is certain. No medical intervention of any kind is perfectly safe or perfectly effective. But gender-affirming care works. It is a caring choice by committed caregivers who listen to and respect the humanity of kids.

He once posted a similar sort of flight of fancy imagination (not labeled as such) about my family on Twitter, after a tweet I wrote about having a trans kid went viral. It really sucked. He deleted it after a while but never acknowledged it or apologized.

Get ready NYC I have a new light sweater for flights

Get ready NYC I have a new light sweater for flights

Huh

Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.

I’m headed to NYC today to prep for Judge John Hodgman: Night Court at the Bell House. Friday and Saturday night! Special guests, games, humor jokes. I hope you’re coming.

Bit.ly/JJHOBELL for tickets im def going

I guess it's back to the A's for 2018 first round pick Kyler Murray.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAMER

One more from our most recent episode, on Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

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Routes my whole morning through the dollar store and despite an extended helium balloon inflation delay at the counter have managed to secure safe, Berryful passage to NYC. See you Friday and Saturday at the Bell House.

I really can’t emphasize enough that the queer community in this country stands so emphatically with the trans people among them. Institutionally. Personally. Collectively. At every turn I have felt active support from cis queer people. Nobody is buying this bullshit except opinion editors.

I have a lot of sympathy for folks, especially older ones, who lived in times when sexuality and gender identity were so tied up in culture they suffered traumatically. And the thread above addresses that illuminatingly.

But in addition: most folks who went through that came out MORE empathetic.

My gay, cis aunt is 83 years old and she is fighting for trans people every day. My gay, cis Godfather is 86 years old and he is fighting for trans people every day. They suffered unfathomable pain and trauma. They let it fuel the fire of their love for others.

Every time we were on the street in front of Children’s Hospital parents were outnumbered ten to one by adult members of the queer community. Many trans, many cis. Folks who were fighting for kids. For our family to be included in Pride (the abstract) is an extraordinary gift for us and the kids.

Literally every homosexual, young or old, man or woman, in my life is supportive of my trans kids, and I am grateful to them. Queerness is a common cause and as a straight cis dude I am so grateful for the community’s work on behalf of my kids. This LGB without the T dopes can suck a lemon.

IDEAS

fuck you

JFC

A delay in the shipping of a bag of Haribo Berries has thrown my trip to New York into disarray. Not sure how/if I will get on plane without Berries. More updates as circumstances merit.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

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Anyway, wishing Campbell the best on this tough journey. We are so lucky to have him.